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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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Book Review: Stony The Road We Trod, Volume One and Volume Two

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Patricia Vaccarino
February 05, 2026

Stony The Road We Trod is a family saga spread across two volumes that are inextricably linked and essential reading to acquire an understanding of the joys, triumphs and struggles borne by the Grimke family. A former slave-holding family in Charleston, South Carolina, the Grimke lineage spans across race ethnicity, religion, and cultural norms. Greater than the usual fare of historical fiction, Stony The Road We Trod is the quintessential American story.  

 

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NOTES FROM THE WORKING CLASS: Belle’s Big Burden

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Patricia Vaccarino
January 25, 2026

Belle Burden was given the opportunity to write a big book about divorce. Burden’s book, Stranger: A Memoir of Marriage, is a tell-all about nothing at all. It could be perceived as revenge porn, but the characters never take off their clothes to have hot sex.

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Book Review: Gender Outlaw

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Patricia Vaccarino
December 31, 2025

The first edition of Gender Outlaw, by author and performance artist Kate Bornstein, was published in 1994. A later edition of Gender Outlaw (the one I read) was published in 2016. I have no doubt that another edition might one day emerge. Gender Outlaw is a timeless classic that fills a much needed void. Kate Bornstein has said she wrote the book she had once wished someone had written for her.

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Book Review: The Blue Girl

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Patricia Vaccarino
December 29, 2025

The Blue Girl is a delicious romp through fairy madness, as told through the first person perspective of three teens: two girls, both alive, and one teen-boy ghost. 

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The Good Gift

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Patricia Vaccarino
December 08, 2025

This past Thanksgiving marked the two-year anniversary of when I was shot. The weapon was a Smith & Wesson high performance revolver, loaded with eight .357 Magnum bullets. The perpetrator fired all eight rounds. I was struck three times. Miraculously, my injuries were nominal: three cracked ribs and a collapsed lung. I lost a lot of blood. It could have been worse. One bullet, “a thru and thru,” passed close to my spine. 

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