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Book Review: My Father's Name Is War by Bauder

Book Review: The Rise and Fall of Miss Fannie's Biscuits by Wanda E. Brunstetter

Book Review - Christiane von Goethe: Her Vengeful Return by Gisela Fitzgerald

Book Review: Leo Gets His Nighttime ZZZs - Independent Book Review

Book Review: Ferren and the Invaders of Heaven by Richard Harland

Book Review: The Body Is a Temporary Gathering Place by Andrew Bertaina

STARRED Book Review: Fires Burning Underground by Nancy McCabe

Book Review: Songs My Mother Taught Me by Helen Winslow Black

Book Review: The Duty of Women by Caroline Willcocks

Book Review: A Tail Tale by Christine Kessides

Book Review: Hive (Madders of Time) by D.L. Orton

Book Review: Novelty by Leon Dermot - Independent Book Review

Book Review: The Gift by Evette Davis

Book Review: How to Explain by Louise Krug

Book Review: The Goddess In the Mountain (Millennium Man) by Sean DeLauder

Book Review: Poems Please by John Pare

Book Review: Moonset on Desert Sands by Sherri L. Dodd

STARRED Book Review: Boundless by Carolyn Dawn Flynn

Book Review: In the Name of Loyalty by Cynthia Coppola

Book Review: I Have Never Felt Alive by Christian Gilman Whitney

Book Review: Navigating With Nerve by Linton J. Khor

Book Review: Framed for Murder by Marla A. White

Book Review: 1949: Starlings of Peace by Catherine A. Deever

Book Review - Astral Seeds: Eclipse of the Celestial War by Jhani Mills

Book Review: An Ode to Poison by Lisa E. Betz

STARRED Book Review: Amok the Powerful by Alan Draven

Book Review: This Stops With Me by Louise Grayhurst

Book Review: The Third Estate (Secrets of the Manor) by D.R. Berlin

Book Review: Wild Forest Rose by Ken Fulmer

Book Review: UnVeiled Voices by Dr. Sandra Walton Wilson

Book Review: The Bundu Bunch Get a Surprise by Allan Low

Book Review: The Butcher and the Butterfly by Jim Antonini

Book Review: The Night Garden of My Mother by Sandra Tyler

Book Review: Songs of My Father and Other Essays by Gardner Landry

Book Review: The Silver Squad by Marty Essen

Book Review: Cake, Lemonade, and Sprinkles by Aishah Hight

Book Review: The Naked Sailor by Norman Coutts

Book Review: The Vault by Stuart Z. Goldstein

Book Review: Echoes of Destiny (Quantum Hearts) by Aries Mars Express

STARRED Book Review: Tennis Players As Works of Art by David Linebarger

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