Author Thu Vo recently answered our questions about the new book 'Daddy, Am I Beautiful?', the first book in the Apple Tart book series, where young girl name Annabelle who is teased at school for expressing herself in a princess costume then discusses her emotions with her father. 'Daddy, Am I Beautiful?' is now available on Amazon.com as an eBook for Kindle, Kindle Fire, and Kindle App.
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Book Review: ‘Rising Out of Hatred’ by Eli Saslow
'Rising Out of Hatred' by Eli Saslow shows the power of humanity and persistence in the face of one of the most powerful hate groups in the country.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Blue Mafia: Police Brutality and Consent Decrees in Ohio’ by Tim Tolka
'Blue Mafia' by Tim Tolka opens a window into a world of police brutality we all know exists, but most of us have not had the clarity to see how bad it really is.
Read More »Book Review: ‘The Comfort of People’ by Daniel Miller
In 'The Comfort of People' anthropologist Daniel Miller continues his book series about material culture in a unique study of society, science, and health focusing on caretakers and hospice patients dealing with some form of terminal or long-term illness.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Memory Warp: How the Myth of Repressed Memory Arose and Refuses to Die’
Science writer/scholar Mark Pendergrast continues on the tough subject of repressed memory in his book 'Memory Warp' (3.5 stars), which follows his 1995 book 'Victims of Memory.'
Read More »Book Review: ‘What Comes After Homo Sapiens? When and How Our Species Will Evolve into Another Species,’ by Don Simborg
Don Simborg's book, 'What Comes After Homo Sapiens?' is a fascinating and scary glimpse into the future of our species.
Read More »Book Review: ‘When Breath Becomes Air,’ by Paul Kalanithi
In "When Breath Becomes Air" Paul Kalanithi details his inability to take on the five stages of death: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance, until he decided to reverse them. Surely his medical training was an aid in tackling the diagnosis with a vengeance.
Read More »Book Review: ‘James Madison: A Life Reconsidered’ by Lynne Cheney
A reconsideration of one of the co-writers of the U.S. constitution reads like one of Gore Vidal's history-based novels.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Where You Go Is Not Who’ll You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania’ by Frank Bruni
Frank Bruni investigates the madness of the college admissions process, and offers a needed new perspective.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Stretch Marks: Essays for the Unfinished Woman’ by Joan Anderson
Anderson teaches us acceptance of bodies that change, and now must serve us in new ways.
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