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Coastal Noir: Santa Cruz as a Character

I was twenty-two the first time I saw the ocean. To my utter shock, I discovered that the Pacific was ice cold beneath the blazing sun and bobbing with blobs of tar leaking from oil pumps off the Santa Barbara shore. Still, it was undeniably beautiful, both in cold reality…
Victoria Helen Stone
June 3, 2025
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Because Motherhood isn’t Always Flowers and Breakfast in Bed

Mother’s Day usually shows up dipped in pastels and wrapped in performative gratitude, but motherhood? That’s another beast entirely. It’s brutal. It’s sacred. It’s messy, fractured, feral. And if Sigmund Freud taught us anything (besides the fact that therapy is expensive for a reason), it’s that the mother-child bond is…
BookTrib
May 9, 2025
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Chasing Chords, Women, and Ghosts of War in “Wither Creek”

To say Bill Ehnert appreciates women is an understatement. Whatever female strays into his peripheral vision, he sees through his own particular pair of rose-colored glasses, which makes Ken Rossal’s newest novel, Wither Creek, a joyous and libidinous ride. Starting out at 16, living in Smalltown America, Rossal’s everyman first…
Sherri Daley
May 27, 2025
The Umbrella Makers SonTrending

A Brutal Regime. A Family Torn Apart. A Fight to Survive.

Tod Lending is a multi-talented award-winning producer, director, and cinematographer who specializes in human interest documentaries that demonstrate the resilience of spirit and the triumph of humanity in a variety of challenging situations during his 40-year career in filmmaking. Nominated for a Best Documentary Academy Award for his film Legacy,…
Linda Hitchcock
March 19, 2025
SnapshotRecommendedRomance

They Have One Year to Pretend … Or Risk Losing Everything

The best romance novels often work off the dichotomy between the story’s meant-to-be and can’t-possibly-work elements. Kay Cove’s latest novel, Snapshot, delivers beautifully on both, with plot twists and outside characters that seriously threaten a happily-ever-after ending. For added depth, Cove intertwines two love stories, one from a grandmother’s distant…
Anne Eliot Feldman
December 4, 2024
Banned Books They Dont Want You to Read - listcicleListicles

Read What They Don’t Want You to Read

Censorship has long been a weapon against ideas that challenge the status quo — but some books refuse to be silenced. Tackling race, gender, oppression, and free speech, these banned books feel more urgent than ever. Their struggles are still our struggles, their messages louder than ever. If a book…
Monique Snyman
February 10, 2025