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Our shelves are full of books written by local and independent authors, folks who have chosen to self-publish or to work with a publisher outside of the big national conglomerates. In support of their efforts, we're pleased to present the following selections currently on sale at Book Revue.
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Gift of Graces
by Jane Spiotta
Jane, shortly after moving into her sister Grace’s home, is now a frightened, pregnant teen who’s being faced with a life-altering decision. Should she terminate the pregnancy despite the fact she never thought it should be an option for anyone? Now that the tables were turned, it looked to be her only way out. Keeping her child wouldn’t be the best choice. Having no career or formal education, how would she manage to raise a child on her own? Option number three seemed horribly painful. She couldn’t imagine giving her child to total strangers. She was grateful to have her sister Grace walk the journey with her. Seven years later, Jane is married with a little boy and a baby on the way, and she thinks her life is nearly perfect. Then she receives a devastating phone call—her sister Grace is stricken with a deadly virus. Jane faces yet another harrowing passage in her life. At the end of her child-bearing years, Jane and her husband are blessed with another pregnancy. But again she is confronted with the same choices of her youth, as the child she is carrying will be born with a disability.
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THINK JUNG! HOW I FOUND MEANING IN MY LIFE: A MEMOIR
By Paul Marshall Wortman, PhD
Carl Gustav Jung is arguably the most important depth psychologist of the 20th Century. While Freud claimed the unconscious was a repository for repressed sexual desires, Jung viewed it as a source for overcoming one's problems and achieving personal well-being. Applying Jungian concepts has led the author to a richer and more satisfying life.
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Wrong Dog in the Right Bathroom
by Paula Crayon
Our Price: $12.99
"Wrong Dog in the Right Bathroom" is a delightfully funny story about a family's dog who loves to get out and look for adventure. When Mom takes the dog in for a bath, she finds under the muddy mess that she has cleaned the wrong dog by mistake.
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Mittins in the Attic
by Paula Crayon
Our Price: $12.99
"Mittens in the Attic" is a story about a large family of nine children. An older sister uses her imagination to create a scary monster hiding in the attic. Fears are put to rest when the scary monster joins in for the fun of a big snowball fight.
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THE SECRETS OF LIFE AND DEATH
by Richard G. Shear
Our Price: $14.98
(Exercise)
Is there life after death? Is there a rhyme or reason to the events of our life? Although many think that we cannot find the answers in our lifetime, Dr. Richard G. Shear believes that the secrets of the universe have been revealed to us. The Secrets of Life and Death provides the answers to such questions as: What is our purpose on Earth? Why does God allow evil to exist? And what can we do to make our lives better? Additionally, The Secrets of Life and Death provides evidence that establishes what truly happens to us when we die. The author is the father of a miracle son who fought back from a low birth weight of 1 lb. 1 oz. to become an incredible young man. He is also the father who lost one of his twin sons. As a high school principal, Shear has supervised the education of thousands of young people, but nothing changed his life like the unexplained, momentous events in 1995, when on more than one occasion, the child who passed away sent him messages of love and comfort, proving that consciousness survives death. "Death is wrongly defined as an end," argues Shear. "It is a doorway transitioning our soul to another vibrational state that we live in." Knowledge that we never die and that our lives have an understandable purpose is comforting, but the information in this book that is designed to make our everyday lives more joyful and rewarding, is invaluable. Written in three parts for clarity, each focusing on one of the three crucial questions, it is important to understand that our existence is aligned with a single thread. What happens when we die, why we are here, and tips on living our lives are all parts of the greater whole. "Everything that appears to be senseless is actually happening as a result of the laws of the universe," says Shear. "Laws that are simple and elegant." We were put on Earth at this time to learn, and the lessons unfold, page by page in Secrets of Life and Death, where the creative force is defined as pure love.
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What Doesn't Kill You Will Only Make You Stronger
by P. Churchill
Our Price: $10.95
(Personal Growth
)
Pat grew up during the 1960s in New York City tenements amongst drugs, prostitution, crime, and poverty. Taught from an early age to keep things to herself and to keep secrets within the family, Pat knows only how to survive by praying. But at age fourteen, Pat begins a transformation from properness to promiscuity-and ends up pregnant in her teens. Pat has just begun a lengthy journey on a road to overcoming a lifetime of challenges.
With a straightforward style, Pat shares the story of a life fraught with insecurities, seemingly insurmountable obstacles, and unhealthy relationships as she struggles to survive in a world where love is rare and self-esteem is even more uncommon. Even as her career takes off, Pat is unable to stop herself from making the same mistakes over and over again. Desperate for someone to help her determine what is wrong with her, one day Pat receives news that will change her life-and her attitude-forever. What Doesn't Kill You Will Only Make You Stronger is the tale of one woman's determination to not only survive, but thrive, in the face of overwhelming odds.
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Collide
by Mia Black
Our Price: $19.99
When Addison finds married life becoming too predictable and stale, she decides to take some chances and crazy risks. Soon she is committing adultery with a much younger lover but it doesn't take long for Addie to find out how daunting deception can be. Suddenly her life is thrown into a tailspin and everyone she once trusted becomes entangled in a world where truth and fantasy collide dangerously and leave behind serious consequences.
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60 Water Street
by E. Dantes
Our Price: $14.95
(Fiction)
While it may not be most every parent's hope and desire to enrich their children's lives beyond that of their own childhood; to love them; to teach them while protecting them from the world...far too many of them fail and unknowingly bring about the very things that they feared most, then sadly spend a lifetime of regret thereafter. Eric Anderson was such a parent, who was unable to protect his children from shattered dreams and hopes of happily-ever-after. was it Anderson's pride or was it fate that robbed him of his children's and their love?
Now decades later Jennifer Anderson is notified by her father's lifelong friend that her estranged father lies dying in a NY hospital. He asks her to come to see him before it's too late. Jennifer is her father's daughter, filled with that same stubborn pride that leaves no room for forgiveness. yet somehow she finds it in herself to go to him. It would be a decision that will change her life forever. Jennifer uncovers what her father had found...that "the love worth having can not be sought, but seeks and finds you."
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It's Time For Yoga:
Roll Out the Mat
Experience A Yoga Class
by Diana Dantuono
Our Price: $15.00
(Health & Fitness)
It’s time for you to make a commitment to better health. It’s time for you to stop making excuses, to empower yourself, to take control, and to try that yoga class. It’s Time for Yoga, Roll Out the Mat: Experience A Yoga Class can be the book that sets you on the path to improving your mind, body and spirit. Includes real photos of yoga students practicing achievable poses and step-by-step instructions to help you maximize your results on the mat and make you feel as if you're participating in a class right in your own home.
Diana Dantuono is a registered yoga instructor who has practiced and taught yoga since 2000. She teaches on Long Island, New York, and has conducted workshops on the philosophy and benefits of yoga. She has been involved in yoga projects for the mentally ill and for cancer survivors.
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Biblical Beauty: Ancient Secrets and Modern Solutions
by Rachelle Weisberger
Our Price: $18.95
Hidden within the Bible are beauty secrets that are useful for today's woman. BIBLICAL BEAUTY seamlessly integrates biblical, historical and cultural perspectives with practical advice and specific on a variety of subjects. It offers enlightening guidance on skin care, sun care, makeup,hair care, fragrance, jewelry, healthy aging, motherhood and feminine leadership.
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15 Ways To ZAP A Bully!
by Jackie Humans
Our Price: $12.99
(Childrens)
For children who are picked on, laughed at, or harassed by their peers comes this new book that teaches kids how to gain confidence in facing up to those who might try to tear them down.
15 Ways to ZAP a Bully! illustrates simple techniques kids can use to make ignoring a bully easier, quiet the bully’s verbal attacks with their own humor and snappy comebacks, and increase their confidence in handling the situation. Humans also outlines the 5 W’s of reporting bullying in order to maximize credibility. The last W may surprise you!
Jackie Humans knows firsthand what it’s like to have a young child become the target of bullies and feel helpless to stop the bullying. Helping kids empower themselves is now her life’s mission.
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Love in D Major
by Sherri London Pastolove
Our Price: $12.95
(Poetry)
"He said he liked the sound of her voice - a throaty purr breaking into girlish giggles, and then seductive silence." This is the opening of "Love in D Major", the title poem from a new collection by Sherri London Pastolove. The poetry captures ordinary life experiences, and shows how their impact is often anything but ordinary. Love in D Major is a personal journey, written over several decades, and reflective of all of those life changes that run parallel. Readers will often see bits and pieces of their own life experiences between the lines, as the personal becomes universal.
This is Sherri London Pastolove's first published poetry collection, although she has been writing for as long as she can remember. She received a BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She lives on Long Island, NY with her husband, daughter and chubby tabby.
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Pilgrims and Strangers on the Earth
by Jim Carten
Our Price: $19.95
(Non Fiction)
PILGRIMS & STRANGERS ON THE EARTH is a modern interpretation of the Old & New Testaments. This book is the product of 13 years of research. It clearly & logically establishes an extraterrestrial basis for the Bible, without changing its basic message. Looking back at Biblical events with today's knowledge & perspective, they can be seen to be supernormal -- not supernatural. They actually happened, but not in the magical way traditionally described. Jim Carten, independent author & publisher (The Heretic Press), clearly explains his interpretation, starting with the newly translated book of Enoch (which had been lost for 1500 years) & continuing "chapter & verse" to the end of the New Testament. The story that unfolds will astound you! Give this book a chance. Each verse is presented in easy-to-read expanded print (no footnotes), so that the reader can easily follow the incredible story from beginning to end. PILGRIMS & STRANGERS ON THE EARTH courageously challenges the supernatural explanation of the Bible, with a clear, logical, scientifically realistic (yet spiritually grounded), view of this important Scripture.
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Healing Depression
by Dr. Peter Bongiorno
Our Price: $49.95
(Health/Psychology)
Depressive disorders affect almost 10% of the North American adult population age 18 and older in a given year, and about 25% of adults will have a major depression episode. It is projected that depression will be the second most burdensome disease after heart disease by 2020. Conventional medicine is adept at prescribing medications for depression, but not well versed at addressing the causes of depression or preventing this disease. Fortunately, naturopathic medicine is proving to be especially effective and safe in doing do.
Fully referenced and cited, this book is an academic text written in a familiar, relaxed style geared to teach physicians, psychologists and other holistically minded practitioners the basics regarding how to think about and treat low mood and depression disorder. It will also arm patients with all the information necessary support their doctors to effectively use natural medicines.
Find out more at Inner Source Health
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The Day Benny Stuck His Neck Out
by Verne Uvezian
Our Price: $11.95
(Childrens)
Benny was different from everyone in his family or
school -- he had a short neck -- and he was teased
mercilessly by the other giraffes and zebras. This
really made him sad until one day he found out that
being different was really great.
This book can be read both to and by children and
it teaches them that disabilities can be looked at in
a different light. You have to believe that being
different is a wonderful thing. It gives them a marvelous
sense of compassion because they are different and
they know how a caring word or gesture makes them
feel better.
Bullying is a big part of this story. It makes the person
who is being made fun of feel both bad and sad. One can
rise above this by knowing that all children are created
great and that bullying only comes from a sense of fear.
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Proof of God
by A.J. Grady
Our Price: $11.50
(Fiction/Metaphysics)
While investigating a missing person's case involving a philosophy professor who was working on proof of God's existence, atheist Detective Shamus O'Shea's beliefs are called into question. As O’Shea searches for the professor and the proof of God, strange characters, troublesome clues and altercations with nefarious people all stand in the way of solving the mystery. Will O'Shea find the missing professor...or proof of God that could change his life forever? Proof of God will appeal to fans of crime novels, along with those interested in philosophy, metaphysical questions about God, the supernatural, and science fiction.
Author A. J. Grady is a retired chemist who lives in Long Island, New York. Grady’s work in science and philosophy encompasses thirty years of study providing the fodder for Proof of God: An Ontological Adventure. Grady says: “My interests have always been in fact-based fiction, science fiction, humor in the style of Mark Twain, philosophy— particularly metaphysics— and raw science. On the surface Proof of God is a detective story, a crime novel, but I was happy to integrate all of my passions in one book. My desire to find the perfect proof of God a priori—perfect proof from reason alone— inspired the story line of my book.” Grady is currently at work on The God Machine, a continuation of Proof of God.
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Oh Shiksa
by Mayan Hadara
Our Price: $17.95
(Fiction/Humor)
"YOU'RE GOING TO MARRY A WHAT?!"
When David Adelstein announces to his family that he is going to marry a shiksa hairdresser named Maive, the reaction couldn't be worse. As he watches his mother being whisked off to the hospital in an ambulance, he knows that he has no other choice but to cast Maive aside like last weeks' challah and marry a girl of his mother's choosing.
Years later, Maive, who is still hooked on David, tries to find solace on the Versace-clad shoulder of her flamboyant boss, while David turns to the pages of Playboy magazine to escape from his loveless marriage to a Prada-toting stick bug draped in jewels.
David doesn't know anything about the gorgeous blonde he bumps into while rushing to catch his train out of Manhattan, but he does know he's willing to throw away his marriage and his family's respect for a second chance at happiness with the beautiful stranger.
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Breathing Space
by Ian Fydell
Our Price: 29.99 (Hardcover), 19.99 (Paperback)
(Science Fiction)
The year is 2095. It has been decades since World War III has ended. Earth is in severe ecological decline, the result of several centuries of mistreatment by its human progeny. Within a few decades, a century at most, Earth will no longer be habitable. Pollutants, wars, deep mantle mining, and everyday disregard for our planet have finally taken their toll, and now earthquakes, droughts, volcanic eruptions, and plagues are regular occurrences. Colonies have been established on all the larger bodies of the solar system, but these are small and hardly self-sufficient; it is widely recognized that, in order to save the majority of the species, humanity must find a new homeworld, ready-made for its existence.
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Two Wrongs Make a Vice
by Nick Orsini
Our Price: $12.00
(Fiction)
Two Wrongs Make a Vice is a novel that moves from music scene to music scene, following the journey of a nameless protagonist as he struggles to find identity through art. On his journey, he meets friends that stay with him for life and girls who leave more than an impression. From the comfort of all-boys high school to the freezing college campus, awkward moments abound and lyrics come to the rescue. This coming-of-age tale is written with the urgency that surrounds the youth of today. Two Wrongs Make a Vice is the debut novel from New Jersey-based poet Nick Orsini.
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Rex Riders
by J.P. Carlson
Our Price: $16.95
When fourteen-year-old Zeke Calhoun came to Texas to live at his Uncle Jesse’s broken-down ranch, he discovered that he had a natural way with horses and loved to ride. But that was nothing compared to what he found in a riverbed near the ranch: a mysterious stranger riddled with bullets lying face down in the dirt, and a juvenile T-Rex the size of a horse keeping a pack of hungry wolves at bay!
Where did the stranger come from? What was he doing here? Who shot him? And why? Then Zeke noticed the bridle in the dinosaur’s mouth. From that moment on he knew he had to ride it!
What Zeke didn’t know was that rescuing the stranger and his rex would set off a chain of events that would plunge Zeke into an incredible adventure, and lead to the discovery of a deadly alliance between Earth and a prehistoric world that would threaten the fabric of both!
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Helios
by Dean Cambourakis
Our Price: $14.00
(Fiction)
Helios begins in a world of shadows and culminates in the brilliant light of dat. In this book, you will meet the powers that be at a giant conglomerate. These Machiavellian characters employ a dubious bag of tricks to create an illusion of greatness. Eventually, the grand illusion crumbles and falls like a house of cards. the deceivers are eclipsed by a group of extraordinary individuals who see through the smoke and mirrors and render them obsolete. With foresight and wisdom, the forces of light prevail over the forces of darkness.
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Remnant: an anthology
by Roland Allnach
Our Price: $18.00
(Fiction)
"When all that's left is broken, which piece do you pick up first?"
So the question stands, and seeks fulfillment- a path reaching from the shores of a doomed paradise, through
an illusory reality, and ending in a devastated future. REMNANT, a collection of three novellas, is both the
sum of these tales and the element that binds them together.
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Anything's Possible
by Armando Rodriguez
Our Price: $14.00
(Fiction)
What do you want to be when you grow up?
You think about it all the time; what do you want to be when you grow up? Some of you know what you want, but sometimes, for whatever reason we lose focus. This book can be your guide. You don't have to wait until you're older to start planning what you want to do. Why not start now? You're future is important, although it may seem far away. This book dares you to believe that "anything is possible."
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TR's SUMMER WHITE HOUSE OYSTER BAY
by Sherwin Gluck
Some call it the "Bay," others the "Hill." To the world at the start of the twentieth century, these words meant one thing only, Oyster Bay and Sagamore Hill. Sherwin Gluck's TR's Summer White House - Oyster Bay reveals the intriguing story of the first peacetime relocation of the Executive Branch of the United States Government. Through newspaper articles, government documents, photographs, cartoons, and insightful commentary this book recreates the summers of 1902 through 1908 when the President and his staff governed the United States of America from Oyster Bay.
By documenting the interaction among the President of Sagamore Hill, his Executive Staff at Moore's building, and the newly created Secret Service, Mr. Gluck corrects the long-held belief that the "Summer White House" was located only at Sagamore Hill. This book conclusively proves that the "Summer White House" included the White House in Washington, Moore's Building in Oyster Bay, and Sagamore Hill. Indeed, without the Executive Offices in Moore's Building there would have been no "Summer White House."
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Capitalism
by Frank Solomon
Solomon's Capitalism demonstrates the capacity of Adam Smith's philosophy of enlightened self-interest to encompass a broad variety of contemporary politico-economic problems, including health care, education, the military/industrial complex, welfare, organized crime, international trade, war, et al.
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Drawing the Figure with the Mind of Michelangelo
by J. Gennaro Albano
Our Price: $20.00
(Art)
The Mind of Michelangelo is a thought provoking adventure into the thinking of the great renaissance artist. An analysis of life drawing using the great master's methods. Includes photography and new media captures of the model.
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Ultimate Betrayal
by Gene Ligotti
Our Price: $19.95
Ultimate Betrayal - a suspense-filled novel of an all-consuming desire for revenge and a love that wouldn’t die. Ryce Traden works in Montauk, aboard a fishing boat. His dream: own a fishing boat and marry Taylor Banning. Wesley, is Ryce’s ‘best friend’ and also wants Taylor.
Ryce’s dream sets factors exploding into the novel’s driving force. Needing money, Ryce makes a pick-up he thinks are knock-offs, but are drugs. Wesley notifies the police.
A judge and lawyer, protecting their smuggling, put Ryce in prison and say he died at sea. Taylor marries Wesley.
Ryce escapes, plans to use Taylor’s daughter for his revenge and hires a lawyer for a new trial with exciting courtroom surprises. The suspenseful ending is terrifying as Ryce fights Wesley in his final act of vengeance.
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Remembering Goodbye
by Rob Elder
Our Price: $14.00
Through inspirational poems and enlightening quotes, this honest and extraordinary book, "Remembering Goodbye" follows the beginning to end journey of a son understanding and accepting his father's struggle with Alzheimer's disease. The poems will serve as a support and comfort to the victims of this devastating illness and to those who are caring for a loved one in that passage. It genuinely chronicles the mad dash to discover and preserve memories from the beginning of Alzheimer's to the inevitable finish. Although this book is about loss and letting go, it points to the possibility of the end of suffering, and the reemergence of emotional wellbeing and freedom.
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Appetite: A Hunger for Italy
by Elena Bertozzi
Our Price: $9.99
The book is about the experiences of a young writer who is interested in exploring the differences between Italian and American attitudes towards food, hunger and appetite. Why do Italians say “Buon Appetito”? Why is there no similar expression in America? The book allows the reader to travel throughout the PIedmonte region of Italy, meeting cooks and sharing meals and recipes.
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"Inspired Blessings": Led by God to Inspire the World with Love, Faith and Hope
by Jean Marie Prince
Our Price: $18.95
Keep "Inspired Blessings" within arm's reach... to help give you comfort when others are at a loss for words! Have you ever lost a loved one and didn't know how to find peace? Wondered why life is consumed with so much violence and destruction? Asked if God is real and does He provide a meaning for our existence? Do you have the answers for the souls that are searching, or are you searching as well? These writings may be a source of comfort and joy for you. I have seen these inspirations touch people's hearts, bring them to tears, mend relationships and give them hope. You will read about individuals who have witnessed God's miracles in their lives. This is a book of substance, written to help readers face the trials and temptations that await us all! About the Author When JEAN MARIE PRINCE was only two days old, she was abandoned in a bathroom in Seoul, Korea. She believes it was only through the grace of God that she was found and taken into an orphanage. She lived there for her first five years, until she was adopted by an American family. God has blessed Jean Marie with the ability to write inspirational poetry and lyrics. "Inspired Blessings" was written as a result of God's work in her life. God willing, you will see the purpose He has given her, and help her continue to inspire the world with love, faith and hope!
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Two Little Shoes
by Brian Hansen
Our Price: $19.95
"Two Little Shoes" is a story about best friends who are different in color. They are unaware of their dissimilarity until a couple of evil characters point this fact out to them. The two friends become self-conscious of their contrast in color, aided by the ridicule of some of their friends. After an unsuccessful attempt to find similar looking pals, the two little shoes make an amazing discovery and learn an important lesson.
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When Yesterday Was Today
by Edmund Siejka
Our Price: $15.00
It's always a pleasure to listen to or read Ed's poetry. Whether he writes about the scene in the Village, Nam, or his hometown, he crafts a story that will be capture you. Writing of "their dreams may be the only words to some, but to them they mean everything," Ed explores the inhabitants of the East Village and their passions. He possesses the ability to tap into the senses, finding the extraordinary in mundane lives, depicting them with clear and insightful words as are found in the poems contained here, leaving us all yearning for, "...good friends, honest talks, and simpler times."
-Arnold Hollander, writer of poems and short stories and publisher of quarterly 'zine Grassroot Reflections.
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