Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
In 2006 Book Sense came up with a top ten list of Halloween books. One title on the list:THE MERCY OF THIN AIR: A Novel, by Ronlyn Domingue (Washington Square Press, $14 paper)"With a ghost who hangs around from 1920s New Orleans until today, Domingue's novel would make a great Halloween read for the gentler spirits whose interests run toward human inter-relationships." Read about another...
Love Undefiled (Free subscription) | 19/08/2009
Victor Frankl in man’s search for meaning notes the following: "Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete. The way in which a man accepts his fae and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity – even under the most difficult circumstance –...
Bookfoolery and Babble (Free subscription) | 13/10/2008
The Lost Diary of Don Juan by Douglas Carlton Abrams Copyright 2007 Washington Square Press - Historical Fiction 307 pages, including glossary & notes Lost Diary website In front of us the Arenal spread out like a dirt beach from the city walls to the river. It was a scene of chaos, people jostling with mules and carriages going nowhere. "Move out of the way!" a driver shouted vainly....
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Mexican Enough My Life Between the Borderlines By Stephanie Elizondo Griest Washington Square Press/Simon and Schuster; 336 pages; $14 paperback "What are you, Stephanie, Hispanic or White?" elementary school classmates would tease the young Griest in Corpus...
Smart. (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
Second Glance Jodi Picoult 2004 Washington Square Press Summary: When the patriarch of the Abenaki Indian tribe that was nearly eradicated by that state’s eugenics project in the 1930s encounters Ross Wakeman, the miraculous survivor of several attempted suicides who wants nothing more than to be reunited with the woman he loved and lost, they set in motion a chain [...]
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