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PR for People® Book Reviews: How May I Help You?

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Barbara McMichael
June 14, 2017
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   The American Dream has always included the idea of satisfying employment and upward mobility, but a new book by Deepak Singh sketches out a less rosy reality.

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How May I Help You? Deepak Singh
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The “Bloody English” is a well-deserved moniker

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Patricia Vaccarino
September 18, 2021

Mantel conjures the world under the reign of Henry VIII and delivers Thomas Cromwell, in all of his complexity, to us as a sort of gift that keeps giving. If we can understand Cromwell, then maybe we can learn to understand ourselves.

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NOTES FROM THE WORKING-CLASS: Come September

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Patricia Vaccarino
September 10, 2021

Even though it has been many years since I've been in a classroom, when September comes, I can’t shake the feeling that I belong in school. It’s ironic that I should feel this way because I hated school.

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Books We Love: The Antidote to Thinking Like an Idiot

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Patricia Vaccarino
August 30, 2021

G.K. Chesterton’s Heretics and Orthodoxy is two books, two collections of essays, in one volume, containing some of the most powerful thinking that the world has ever seen. Chesterton is often categorized as a “Catholic” writer but that is a shallow assessment. From Dickens to Whistler, Chesterton lambasts the great thinkers of his time and in some cases makes mincemeat of notable writers including, but not limited to, Robert Browning, Rudyard Kipling H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw.

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Books We Love: The Military Alphabet Coloring “Alpha 2 Zulu”

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Patricia Vaccarino
July 29, 2021

The Military Alphabet Coloring “Alpha 2 Zulu” is fun and therapeutic for those who want to achieve the art of Zen via coloring. 

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Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon

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Patricia Vaccarino
July 18, 2021

I’m happy to announce that I’ve read my snob book for the year. This brilliant collection of essays had me hungering for the lunatic-fringe side of writing. 

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