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Cindi Brown
August 13, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Cindi Brown is a retired corporate marketing manager who spotlights creative people on her website (Cre8-space.org). Her books include the award-winning Poverty & Promise: One Volunteer’s Experience of Kenya, The giving Festival, and Understanding Grief: What You Can Expect After an Unexpected Loss. Cindi lives near her children and grandchildren in a small Georgia village […]
“Not Till We Are Lost” by William Homestead
August 12, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Not Till We Are Lost: Thoreau, Education, and Climate Crisis (Mercer University Press 2024) by William Homestead is a blend of memoir, philosophy, and literary analysis. It weaves together the author’s college teaching experiences, his personal journey of self-examination, and an academic exploration of Transcendentalist thought, drawing from figures like Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo […]
“Turtle on a Post” by Carl Parker as told to Jim Sanderson
August 12, 2025 by 1 Comment
Turtle on a Post (Lamar University Press, 2024) is a memoir that transforms what Jim Sanderson describes as “bits and pieces of anecdotes” into a compelling narrative of Carl Parker’s life. The story traces Parker’s journey from his childhood in East Texas to a distinguished career in public service. It follows him from his early […]
“The Devil’s Pulpit & Other Mostly True Scottish Misadventures” by E. J. Wade and Karen Spears Zacharias
August 12, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Ellen Wade and Karen Spears Zacharias, two seasoned women with family roots in the American South, take us along as they leave their families behind and enter a graduate program in Scotland, where they have months to study the connection between Scotland and Appalachia while exploring their own Celtic roots. The book’s title, The Devil’s Pulpit […]
“Beach House Rules” by Kristy Woodson Harvey
August 11, 2025 by Leave a Comment
What is your guilty pleasure? What do you head for when you’ve had a bad day? A bowl of ice cream, a glass of wine, a bacon sandwich? Well, you can save those calories, just get a hold of Kristy Woodson Harvey’s newest of twelve novels, Beach House Rules (Gallery Books 2025), set it aside […]
Read of the Month: “Resurrected Body” by Elizabeth C. Garcia
August 6, 2025 by Leave a Comment
The opening poem, “What to Expect When You’re Expecting,” sets the soul-baring tone for Elizabeth C. Garcia’s stunning collection, Resurrected Body (Cider Press Review 2024). No wonder this book won Cider Press Review’s 2023 Editor’s Prize! The phrasing of Garcia’s first poem will cause most mothers to recall those scary, cringeworthy moments in the delivery […]