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Harlot’s Sauce: A Memoir of Food, Family, Love, Loss and Greece by Patricia V. Davis


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Patricia Volonakis Davis makes no bones about the precarious state of her marriage in a memoir that shares the name of her e-zine and radio podcast. “Harlot’s Sauce: A Memoir of Food, Family, Love, Loss and Greece” details how Davis met a mercurial Greek man and spent more than a dozen years trying to make their union work. Read the review...
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Emily’s Ghost by Denise Giardina

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Denise Giardina brings to life the story of Emily Bronte in her novel, Emily’s Ghost. Emily’s reality is her family, her home, and the ghosts she hears in the graveyard and on the moors. Read the review...
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Live Through This: A Mother’s Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love by Debra Gwartney

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Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love, Debra Gwartney’s memoir, is not for the faint of heart. Live Through This: A Mother’s Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love is a saga of parenting that leads us through Debra’s separation, divorce, loss of daughters, attempts to retain daughters (various facilities, outdoor camps, foster homes) and final tentative relationship with her now adult daughters. Read the review...
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Walking an Ancient Path by Karen Tate

Waling an Ancient Path by Karen Tate
Karen Tate follows Sacred Places of Goddess: 108 Destinations with Walking an Ancient Path; Rebirthing Goddess on Planet Earth (O Books. $18.99. ISBN-10: 1846941113). This book continues the reader’s journey along a path of discovery to recognize the significance of the Goddess through history, archeology and mythology. Read the review...
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Sacred Places of Goddess by Karen Tate

Sacred Places of the Goddesses by Karen Tate
In Sacred Places of Goddess: 108 Destinations author Karen Tate takes us on a journey of scared travel to uncover the lost Mecca’s of the Divine Goddess. Throughout the book, Tate provides an interesting, fact-based history of women and their ancient role as leader, priest, shaman and warrior in a way that is factual and non-intimidating. Read the review...
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Autobiography of a Wardrobe by Elizabeth Kendall

Autobiography of a Wardrobe by Elizabeth Kendall
As a woman I identify with the idea of the wardrobe as a separate entity but inherently a part of me. In Autobiogrpahy of a Wardrobe by Elizabeth Kendall the writer explores her own history through the eyes of her wardrobe. The wardrobe refers to Elizabeth as B. short for body.
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