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Gem

by michaeld | Jan 26, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's, Science & Technology

    Discovering Gems By Holly Hobbie Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $16.99, 32 pages Gem is an unusual children’s book. It has only two pages with the text: a letter from a grandmother to her granddaughter on the first and the child’s...

The Tiptoe Guide to Tracking Mermaids

by michaeld | Jan 14, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's

    Beach Bum Mermaids By Ammi-Joan Paquette, Illustrated by Marie Letourneau Tanglewood, $16.95, 32 pages “Mermaids live out in the ocean, but they like to come ashore to play. There are no mermaids here today. But… we can leave them a surprise for...

Kingfisher Readers: Ancient Egyptians

by michaeld | Nov 3, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Tweens

    Level Playing Field By Philip Steele Kingfisher 3.99 48 pages The Kingfisher series correlates approximately to the level of readers. The Level 1 and 2 books are full of lovely photographs and interesting educational subjects such as baby animals....

Senseless Confidential: An Absurdist Romp Through the Oregon Cascades

by michaeld | Oct 25, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction

Cascading Events By Martin Bannon Dinkus Books 14.99 301 pages The Oregon Cascades are a scenic, forested mountain range, but one that shelters an unusual assortment of people. Senseless Confidential takes us down logging roads and into the lives of some of those...

The Sushi King’s Daughter

by Site Owner | Oct 15, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction

        Fresh Catch By Larry Kronish Dymaxicon, 219 pages, $14.95 The Sushi King’s Daughter is a rock ‘em, sock ‘em tale of a mob enforcer who kidnaps a young woman to put pressure on her father, Hannami. He is the restaurateur known as Sushi...
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