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Things I’ve Said to My Children by Nathan Ripperger is an attractive gift book with lovely illustrations that will make a nice baby shower gift for some.

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“In this intricate and intimate journey Rita Gabis brings macrocosmic Holocaust horror into the microcosm of our dining rooms, kitchens, and bedrooms—a noble feat, one you will not soon for

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Here is another case of where the book needs to have a warning label stating that this book is meant for millennials or younger who are into fashion.

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“A beautiful and unstinting look at the inner thoughts and difficult choices made by writers who dig past the false self to confront a truer, more honest version of themselves.”

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Jane McGonigal has been acclaimed for decades for her theories in gaming and the value of games in relation to positive psychology and problem solving; however, it wasn’t until 2009, when she suffe

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Life can be very complicated, and we often seek answers to questions that may prove unanswerable. Facing the abiding mysteries of life and death may require enormous courage.

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his writing can be luxuriated in.

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G. Bruce Boyer has, in essence, created an encyclopedia of men’s fashion and style. True Style is the how, when, why and history, including origins, of all men’s fashion.

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What should occur to the more savvy reader is that Cintra Wilson has a very “Vreelandesque” way of looking at style and fashion and how they can be defined and explained.

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Brainy books aren’t for everyone, but if you’re one of those who love everything “brain” including how your brain works, how it perceives and relays those perceptions to you, and how—in many ways—i

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The plight of homeless LGBT youth seldom gets the attention it deserves. Ryan Berg’s book No House to Call My Home is one man’s attempt to remedy that situation.

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The indisputable observation that can be made after reading Amy Odell’s supposedly truthful parody is that this is the fashion business in the age of the Internet as seen by a millennial.

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Every corner of the world is now seemingly explored, mapped, photographed, and available for visiting on the Internet.

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In the preface of The Proof and the Pudding, author Jim Henle informs the reader, “[t]he goal of the book is to explore the two and to reveal their essential similarity.

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Libraries, books, writing, and writers as subjects are fascinating, even collectively.

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The first three paragraphs of the author’s note of David Plante’s new memoir, Worlds Apart come as something of a warning:

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This big biography of Philip Whalen (1923–2003) brings the man, his vision, and his writings up close.

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What is the reader’s take-away from The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty’s new biography of greatest-living-American-author Joan Didion?

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Americans remember George Washington for a great many things but not as one of the great lights among the intellectuals of the Enlightenment era and the American Revolution.

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“The history of America's most elite fighting force is told with panache and critical analysis . . .”

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“Sometimes it feels like Big Brother is watching—even when he’s not.”

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The early history of submarines is replete with examples of disasters, not terribly surprising given the limitations and newness of the technology.

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“Each of these moving poems is a metaphor of mutuality and mutability, of vulnerability and union.”

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In his debut collection of poems, acclaimed prose writer Colin Channer has set out to build multiple levels in the construct of a story—life as seen through layers of gauze, probing the complex fam

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“more educational and enlightening than it is entertaining.”

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