To Selena, With Love

From Jackie Cantwell Author:  Chris Perez To Selena, With Love Chris wants you to know that he is more than “the widower of the Queen of Tejano music ,Selena Quintanilla Perez.” Chris was the guitarist for Selena’s band. This is a loving tribute to the Latin music superstar who was gunned down by her fan [...]

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No time for tears: surviving grief in America

From  Jackie  Cantwell Author:  Judy  Heath No time for tears: surviving grief in America  Judy is a psychotherapist who used to practice in Huntington, but moved to Charleston, SC. She is an experienced bereavement specialist who counseled firemen and cops after 9/11. This is an excellent book with concrete, real-life suggestions to help one who [...]

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Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: my year of magical reading

From Catherine Given Author:  Nina Sankovitch Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: my year of magical reading I just finished Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch, about a woman who self-prescribes a book a day for a year as a way to re-group after her beloved sister’s death.  It’s [...]

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Hothouse

From Eric, Teen Book Reviewer author: Lynch, Chris Hothouse Hothouse is an emotional and unique story about the sharp and oftentimes unexpected change from being admired to being despised. The story is about seventeen-year-old Russell and his best friend D.J., who have shared similar childhoods. Both boys have grown up around the firehouse, because both [...]

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The Blood of Lorraine

From Rosemarie Jerome author: Pope, Barbara Corrado The Blood of Lorraine It is France, 1894.  The Alfred Dreyfus trial is causing anger and unrest throughout the country.  Anti-Semitism is rampant.  A Christian baby is found mutilated.  Magistrate Bernard Martin must find the killer before the entire town riots.  When two Jews are killed, is he [...]

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The merry recluse: a life in essays

From Jackie Cantwell author: Knapp, Caroline The merry recluse: a life in essays  This was published posthumously in 2004. The compiler is Sandra Shea, her former editor. The author died of lung cancer in 2002 at the age of 42.  Ms. Knapp was a columnist for the Boston Phoenix, an alternative newspaper, and her essays [...]

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Let’s take the long way home: a memoir of friendship

From Jackie Cantwell author: Caldwell, Gail Let’s take the long way home: a memoir of friendship This is an account of the author’s friendship with Caroline Knapp, the author of Pack of two and Drinking: a love story (among others), who died of lung cancer in 2002 at the age of 42.  I liked Ms. [...]

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Finding Chandra

Jackie Cantwell author: Scott Higham and Sari Horowitz. Finding Chandra Most of you already know the ending. But you probably don’t know about what happened behind the scenes. Chandra Levy, a 24 year old woman, was working as an intern at the National Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C. to fulfill a requirement for graduate [...]

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