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The longform book reviews on bookscover2cover combine a narrative, descriptive, and analytical style to persuade readers to read the book.  The books are chosen for complexity, relevance, value, and style.

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The End of Your Life Book Club

  • Sandra Squire Fluck
  • January 12, 2017
There is great value in reading a book about books, and The End of Your Life Book Club is no exception. This book is different in one respect, however. It…
The Longest War
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The Longest War

  • Sandra Squire Fluck
  • December 30, 2016
Consider 9/11 and the Arab Spring of 2011 as opposing bookends to a decade of repression, fear, and fetishized violence. 9/11—the worst terrorist attack on United States soil—killed nearly 3,000…
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Creature

  • Sandra Squire Fluck
  • December 8, 2016
The mind—or body or self—is central to Amina Cain’s storytelling. This is the way it is with Creature, her collection of fourteen stories: elusive, introspective, intuitive. Stylistically, Cain absolves the…

The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban The Bomb

  • Sandra Squire Fluck
  • November 18, 2016
Unless you are a World War II history buff, you may have missed the fact that the island of Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands played an important role in…

My Beloved World

  • Sandra Squire Fluck
  • November 17, 2016
You would be remiss if you didn’t ask how Justice Sotomayor transcended the adversity of her childhood: dangerous neighborhoods, chronic poverty, an alcoholic father, an unhappy mother. Yet My Beloved World is a memoir suffused with gratitude, generosity, and love.

The Long Emancipation

  • Sandra Squire Fluck
  • October 22, 2016
As discussed by the scholar Ira Berlin in his monograph The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States, the struggle for freedom is, at its core, about…
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Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War

  • Sandra Squire Fluck
  • October 11, 2016
Matterhorn. An obelisk-shaped mountain in the Alps on the border between Switzerland and Italy rising nearly 14,700 feet. Also, a near perfect mountain to climb if you’re willing to challenge…
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  • 19 min

Frottage & Even As We Speak: Two Novellas

  • Sandra Squire Fluck
  • October 10, 2016
Ingeniously crafted and each uniquely their own, the two novellas in Mona Houghton's Frottage & Even As We Speak transport and transfix the reader through the emotional turmoil and change of their characters. Winner of the 2012 Gold Award (Book of the Year in Literary Fiction).
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God Help the Child

  • Sandra Squire Fluck
  • September 30, 2016
The reality and impact of child abuse rests uneasily, front and center, with the interwoven themes of love and transformation. Meticulously crafted, God Help the Child is a journey of souls and hearts, a must-read book.
Stanley Ann Dunham
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A Singular Woman

  • Sandra Squire Fluck
  • September 17, 2016
For many, Ann Dunham is known as the mother of the 44th U.S. president who happened to be white, and that’s just about all they know about her. In A Singular Woman, Janny Scott retrieves Dunham from the bin of misrepresentation and presents an accomplished woman.

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