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Where Yellow Flowers Bloom
In late 2017, when the massive Thomas fire raged in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, Kim Cantin and her family evacuated in response to several alerts issued by local authorities due to strong winds, but then returned home when the fires were contained and eventually extinguished. Later, in […]
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Fiction
Night Train to Odessa
Night Train to Odessa is a beautiful, moving, and insightful historical novel by Mary L. Grow. The author draws on her Ukrainian grandmother’s accounts of the harrowing times of Soviet revolution and the invasion of Ukraine by the Red Army and the ensuing war between the revolutionary forces […]
Kate’s War
As Kate Murphy, a twenty-year-old woman living on the outskirts of London with her family, begins to contemplate leaving home and launching herself into a singing career, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain declares war has begun with Germany. Although she recognizes the enormity of the moment and stands on […]
Reviewed by: Jane Ward
Memoir and Autobiography
Honeymoon at Sea
“Soon, Watchfire was struggling up each oncoming wave and plunging down the other side, only to head up again, moving forward but seemingly going nowhere. It was as if something unseen was pushing us backwards, like the house in the horror movie that says, ‘get out!'” Two months […]
Standing at Water’s Edge
Irony has a way of sometimes completely changing one’s trajectory. It was ironic that author Janice Post-White found herself deeply connected to cancer when Brennan, her four-year-old son, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Post-White, an oncology nurse and cancer educator, suddenly found herself as a fearful […]
Nonfiction
Fairy Wisdom for Daily Life: Creative Self-Care Through Fairy and Folk Tales
Most of us are familiar with the fairy tales recounted in Fairy Wisdom for Daily Life: Creative Self-Care Through Fairy and Folk Tales by Francesca Aniballi, Ph.D. Several of the nine tales were included in the Brothers Grimm collection of 1812. Others were created by Hans Christian Andersen, […]