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Icon book review: Fire Keeper's Daughter

A Reese's Book Club Young Adult Selection
Posted by admin on August 16, 2021 - 6:00am

Review by Robert McCool

Although this book, “Fire Keeper's Daughter” (Henry Holt and Co. ISBN: 978-1-250-76656-4) is presented as a Young Adult book written by Angeline Boulley, it has many lessons to teach us, in a head-first, nose-dive into the Ojibwa Native Culture. Written very much like Tony's, and then Ann Hillerman's Navajo series of books, it gives us insight into a complex culture older than ours but set in contemporary times.

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Icon author review: Chris Bohjalian

Posted by admin on August 5, 2021 - 6:00am

Review by Robert McCool

I recently discovered an author with a huge body of work, and a style that satisfies the soul which is searching for something, somehow, more than plain pop fiction. Chris Bohjalian has written twenty-two books, all based upon specific issues that are relatable to present times and circumstances. I read the first three that came to me through the library lending service.

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My favorite things to do in Ada, Ohio

Posted by admin on August 2, 2021 - 6:00am

By Amelia Alexander

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Icon book review: The Bookish Life Of Nina Hill

Posted by admin on July 21, 2021 - 6:00am

Review by Robert McCool

Enjoy a breezy read with Abbi Waxman's new novel- The Bookish Life Of Nina Hill(ISBN 9780451491879)

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My coping strategies

Posted by admin on July 21, 2021 - 6:00am

By Amelia Alexander

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Icon book review: The Plot

Posted by admin on July 15, 2021 - 6:00am

Review by Robert McCool

"The Plot" (ISBN 978-1250790767) is all about the extenuating circumstances of birth.

Jean Hanff Korelitz's ("The Devil and Webster") new novel is a book within a book. It is all about how mothers and daughters come to reckon with each other when the girl grows up and wants to leave the parent's home. It is all about the circumstances around babies not wished to be born. It's a scathing examination of a mother's, and daughter's, needs in life and how to get them.

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