Jonis Agee packs several types of books into her 2016 novel, The Bones of Paradise. She combines a fairly violent, rough-and-tumble American Frontier piece with a murder mystery, a very subtle romance, and a saga that captures the flow and change of American history at an epochal moment as it affects the lives of its citizen-actors. The whole is an outstanding effort, succeeding at nearly all genres and historical epochs.At the novel’s outset, J. B. Bennett has made a monentous decision and...
September 06, 2022
"Heal." Poems by Hana Kopernik
In a touching attempt to help others, poet and artist Hana Kopernik has published Heal, a collection of personal, understanding, and understated, poems. In an email she said, “I felt a strong need to share my journey of healing, for I know how much it could help someone else going through something similar.”While her poems are never specific about what she went through and recovered from, they do offer an eloquent and highly personal guide to self-acceptance and self-love, a kind of pep talk for...
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