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Dog Training the American Male: Is it Possible?

Dog Training the American Male: Is it Possible?

Laugh out loud funny! Dog Training the American Male: A Novel, by L.A. Knight will have you in stitches. The novel follows Dr. Nancy Beach, a relationship counselor and radio talk show host, who ironically is not able to make her own relationships work. So how is a relationship counselor able to help other people with their relationships when in fact […]

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How to Live a Happier Life in 52 Simple Ways

How to Live a Happier Life in 52 Simple Ways

The desire for happiness is universal: no matter what our differences are, we all want the same thing. Jim Ryan, a motivational coach and speaker, shares his message of living your best life in Simple Happiness: 52 Easy Ways to Lighten Up. Each chapter has a simple message that may seem obvious to many of us.  But even if we’ve all heard […]

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Dark Humor with Substance: The Exit Man

Dark Humor with Substance: The Exit Man

In literature, it can be very difficult to tackle a taboo subject and do it with finesse. Greg Levin does an amazing job covering the highly controversial topic of voluntary euthanasia in his novel The Exit Man. The book focuses on Eli Edelmann, otherwise known as ‘the exit man,’ who somehow finds himself with an unusual side job…helping those with terminal […]

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The Dollhouse Mirror: A Book Of Poems, A Book of Beauty And Pain

The Dollhouse Mirror: A Book Of Poems, A Book of Beauty And Pain

When I first opened the book of poetry titled The Dollhouse Mirror, the last thing I thought was that I was going to read it an additional six times immediately after finishing it. I had no doubt in my mind that I would like the work; I usually do enjoy poetry and from what I had researched about author Frank […]

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Ignite Calm: A Self Help Book to Stepping Out of Your Own Way

Ignite Calm: A Self Help Book to Stepping Out of Your Own Way

We all want to succeed in life and in our career but there are always obstacles that keep us from being the best person that we can be. There are times when we ourselves are actually one of those obstacles. So how exactly are we holding ourselves back? How can we change that? We have the power to change our […]

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Weathering the Storm

Weathering the Storm

At the bottom of Japan’s southern Fog Island Mountains is the small town of Komachi. Within the town there are several “storms” gathering.  Michelle Bailat-Jones’s Fog Island Mountains is about the initial grief one feels when confronted with devastating news. Jennifer Ikeda narrates Bailat-Jones’ novel in its moving audiobook version. Ikeda is an award-winning narrator of dozens of audiobooks and actor […]

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Stolen Girls: A Novel’s Look into a Grisly Culture

Stolen Girls: A Novel’s Look into a Grisly Culture

“On our mountain only boys were born, and some of them turned into girls around the age of eleven. Then these boys had to turn into ugly girls who sometimes had to hide in holes in the ground.” (4) In the mountains of Guerrero, Mexico, being a girl – especially a pretty one – is a dangerous thing.  For these […]

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A Gothic Horror

A Gothic Horror

Bethany Griffins’s The Fall is a retelling of Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, “The Fall of the House of Usher.”  Both tell of a doomed family, the Ushers, and a very creepy house. But while Poe’s tale, from the perspective of an unnamed narrator, focuses on sickly Roderick Usher, Griffin’s protagonist is Roderick’s twin sister, Madeline. The Fall is the story of […]

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A Lost Paradise

A Lost Paradise

Throughout Miranda Beverly-Whittemore’s Bittersweet, the protagonist is reading – or trying to read – John Milton’s Paradise Lost, the story of man’s fall from grace. While she may not succeed in finishing, the two stories are about the loss of innocence and the consequences we all face from our decisions, even those of our ancestors. Mabel Dagmar is a shy […]

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Matchmaker, Make Him a Match

Matchmaker, Make Him a Match

In the small town of Whitford, Maine, everyone knows each other’s business. Except for the mysterious Max Crawford, the titular character in Shannon Stacey’s Falling for Max. Max doesn’t like change, but he is about to make the biggest change of his life. While reading, I couldn’t help but compare Max to Criminal Minds’ adorable resident genius, Dr. Spencer Reid. […]

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