Story Circle Book Reviews

A Quiet Fear is fiction based on author Thia Keen’s own traumatic experiences of sexual, emotional and physical abuse as a child. The novel starts when Lily (the protagonist) attends her first session with her therapist for symptoms of severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, (PTSD). Lily’s anxiety is palpable […]

“There are just so many Holocaust memoirs out there,” author Beth Benedix warns Joe Koenig, the 81-year-old, Polish-born Holocaust survivor whose family is about to hire her to write his story. “If we want to market Joe’s story to a wide audience—and I know I do—I feel like […]

Readers of Stories from the tenth-Floor Clinic: A Nurse Practitioner Remembers will get a peek into the early 1980s, before gerontology was an established specialty in medicine and social services. An eye-opening read, especially for those of us not in the medical profession. The author did the best she could […]

Shades of Calamity Jane! Jocelyn Royal is a muleskinner! Well, not really. Jocelyn is a young woman adrift on her own in Kansas, back in the day when mules were common and had many uses. Her family dead, including her beloved but difficult grandmother, and the farm seized […]