She Does Not Dance

She Does Not Dance

Imagine that you create a character who is not a dancer – two left feet, ungainly, embarrassed at her lack of rhythm. You do not intend her to dance. One day you’re surprised that she’s tripping across the pages, twirling and bowing, barely touching the floorboards. Judith Simpson, a wonderful creative writing teacher in the Queens University adult learning program some years ago, called...

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Naked on Fourteenth Street

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Book Review

A long time comin’ Robin W. Pearson Pearson is a North Carolina native and a graduate of Wake Forest University. She was an editor at Houghton Mifflin and writes a blog, Mommy, Concentrated. This is her debut novel. The characters are well-drawn and the setting, Spring Hope, NC, is the small town we know and either love or can’t leave fast enough. Evelyn Lester, the main character, does both,...

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Inspired

This book, by Rachel Held Evans, is beautifully written and deeply thoughtful about issues vital to believers, skeptics and nonbelievers.  A gift of a book.

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The Legally Binding Christmas

The Legally Binding Christmas Landis Wade This is a charming book – part courtroom drama, part fantasy, part love story.  The balance is just right.  The courtroom drama is exciting, the fantasy is heart-warming and the love story promises hope. At the end of the story, I was among the believers.  I bet you will be, too.

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