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Braided: A Journey of a Thousand Challahs

Beth Ricanati is impressive. An Ivy League graduate, a practicing medical doctor, a mother, a wife, a writer, a clinician at prestigious hospitals, she presents as super-woman. Even as she describes sneaking glances at her Blackberry at a mother-and-child Hebrew class, we know she has it all, right? […]

Reviewed by: D Ferrara
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My Name is Layla

My Name Is Layla is a layered and powerful story set in present day, small town America. The point of view narrator is Layla, thirteen years old and starting eighth grade. Her dad named her Layla–the only thing he gave her. People tell her Layla is a poetic […]

Reviewed by: Ann McCauley
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Fiction

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P.S. I Love You More than Tuna

When my partner Sarah and I moved across Canada, we brought our four cats along with us to live on Vancouver Island. All of them have passed on since the move fifteen years ago and yet we remember each of them with love. Each was unique, whether chatty […]

Reviewed by: Mary Ann Moore
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Poetry

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Driving through Paintings

We are all artists— casting spells here and there leaving a part of ourselves Somewhere…      -from the poem “Letter” With the collection of 39 poems in Driving through Paintings, writer and artist Leslie Klein invites us on a thoughtful, often intimate, journey through moments spanning her […]

Reviewed by: Tracie Nichols
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