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Church of Marvels Author: Leslie Perry Church of Marvels, a debut novel, has many glistening parts that entertain and stun: the plot follows four outliers in 1895 New York City, and strums a Dickensian tone throughout the novel.  Sylvan Threadgille is a night soiler; he cleans the lavatories and privies of tenement houses.  One night Sylvan finds a newborn baby in the soils and dregs of the privies and takes her home, asking a neighbor, Mrs. Izzie, to take care of the infant until he can find ... continue reading...

Fat Girl Walking Author:  Brittany Gibbons AKA Brittany Herself (Sex, Food, Love and Being Comfortable in Your Skin Every Inch of It)   I’m still laughing.  Brittany Gibbons has welded together an enormously funny, enormously courageous book about The Truth about Imperfect People or Women to be Exact Who Do Not Fit into a Size 8, 10, 12, 14 or 16 or Maybe Even Higher and Still Live the Good Life.  Ms. Gibbons puts her own face on the absurd adulation of the mesomorph body structure ... continue reading...

The Anti-Cancer Diet Author: David Khayat, MD I had not heard of Dr. Khayat before I picked up this amazing book; his is a well-known oncologist.  If you enjoy nutrition, if you want to be as healthy as possible and if you want to keep cancer at bay, the Anti-Cancer Diet explains all the nuances of cancer, cancerous cells, etc. Dr. Khayat states: “Unlike the people who want to draw up rules based on their own particular, personal experience of cancer, rules that they would like to impose on ... continue reading...

Lost Samba Author: Richard Klein This book is not a true memoir as it shifts back and forth between the histories of Brazil from 1962 to the present through the first person narrator, Richard Klein.  Klein, born in 1962 of Jewish-British parents was born in Rio de Janeiro, and Lost Samba records the many historical events of these years as seen through young Richard’s eyes and memories. After WW II, in 1940, Richard’s parents traveled from Germany, through Poland to Rio de Janeiro on a ... continue reading...