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Reviewed by Kayo Chang Black
Have you ever tried to ignore the uncomfortable conversations about race that happen around you? Have you ever been angry ...
Reviewed by Richard Fluck
Native Country of the Heart was the right book at the right time. It read like a personal letter from Cherríe Moraga to me, ...
Reviewed by P. J. Lazos
Bryan Stevenson reminds me of Percy Jackson, the boy in those Rick Riordan novels, walking through life trying to fit in like ...
Reviewed by Jason Squire Fluck
Built on a mountain of historical insight and irrefutable evidence, White Rage provides a damning indictment of the United ...
Reviewed by Jason Squire Fluck
I read a solid amount. Some books are easier than others to review. I try to review the books in the order that I read them. ...
Reviewed by Richard Fluck
Sycophancy (ˈsikəˌfan(t)sē) is the phenomenon known to most of us by alternative words or phrases such as sucking up, ass ...
Reviewed by Jason Squire Fluck
Killers of the Flower Moon details one of the most heinous mass murders in American history that you’ve probably never heard ...
Reviewed by Jane M. McCabe
For veterans who have returned from war with PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder), it’s been found that writing about their ...
Reviewed by Maria Savva
I wasn't going to read this book because the idea of reading about execution methods seemed just a bit too dark (even for ...
Reviewed by P. J. Lazos
Dreamland, by Sam Quinones, is the story of a nation gone berserk, a harrowing, fear-inducing slog through the small towns ...
Reviewed by Jason Squire Fluck
The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right CITIZENS UNITED v. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION ...
Reviewed by Jason Squire Fluck
By junior high, I discovered that at least one research paper per year had become de rigeur and I found myself most ...
Reviewed by Richard Fluck
Volker Ullrich Translated from the German by Jefferson Chase As the son of a WW II veteran who fought in the Battle of the ...
Reviewed by Jason Squire Fluck
I don’t read books in any kind of order; I grab whatever piques my interest at the moment, though I do generally keep a ...
Reviewed by Sandra Fluck
The View From Lazy Point: A Natural Year In An Unnatural World by Carl Safina is a book about love. It is not your typical ...
Reviewed by Sandra Fluck
There is great value in reading a book about books, and The End of Your Life Book Club is no exception. This book is ...
Reviewed by P. J. Lazos
In an era of tell-all books and reality TV, it’s still unnerving for the average person to reveal too much about themselves, ...
Reviewed by Richard Fluck
Big Band music saved my sanity during an especially stressful time in my life. I was working long hours, seven days a week, ...
Reviewed by P. J. Lazos
Dinty W. Moore’s new book is a droll, delicious exposé of the inner workings of Moore’s mind. Oh, and it’s a writing tutorial ...
Reviewed by Richard Fluck
"I only liked Perestroika when it first started. If someone had told us back then that a KGB lieutenant colonel would end up ...
Reviewed by Richard Fluck
The millstone in The Grind is professional baseball. The grain it grinds are the men and women who either play the game, are ...
Reviewed by Donna Walker
After I read Ashley’s War by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, I found myself thinking about these women warriors during my workouts. ...
Reviewed by Ronne Troup
When I heard about this book, I made a note of it and carried that note with me for many months. It did not appear on the ...
Reviewed by P. J. Lazos
“I told the universe (and anyone who would listen) that I was committed to living a creative life not in order to save the ...
Reviewed by P. J. Lazos
You would be hard-pressed to find a more beautifully-appointed and significant book than The Hidden Messages in Water. For ...
Reviewed by Piper Templeton
The Secret of the Mantras is an exceptionally-written first-hand account of author Richard Blakely's three-month teacher ...
Reviewed by Jan McMillan
The Boys in the Boat shines the light on a dramatic point in American history—the time of Hitler's rise to power in Germany ...
Reviewed by Maren Morgan
This is a humorous diary in comic book form about the frustrations of a college grad who ends up living at home while writing ...
Reviewed by Leilani Squire
In 2005, the University of Hawaii at Manoa hosted a symposium honoring the forty-year anniversary of the Vietnam War. I went ...
Reviewed by Guest Writer
This novel is a finely drawn, simply worded tale told by the mature spirit of a deeply wounded boy caught between two worlds, ...
Reviewed by Donna Walker
Returning Soldiers Speak compiled by Leilani Squire is an anthology of prose and poetry written by veterans with whom Squire ...
Reviewed by Sibyl Seachrist
I used to work part time at the Demuth Foundation in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the home of Charles Demuth, internationally ...
Reviewed by Sandra Fluck
I didn’t catch onto Ted Kennedy while he was alive, not like I did his brothers Jack and Bobby. I admired President Kennedy, ...
Reviewed by Leilani Squire
This is how Rethinking Depression by Dr. Eric Maisel begins: “I have a beautiful story to tell you about how you can take a ...