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Fam’ly Ties

Book Review: Run in the Fam’ly By John J. McLaughlin Click to view larger Run in the Fam’ly By John J. McLaughlin, University of Tennessee Press, Hardcover, 2007, 292 pages, $32.95 This is one desperate novel. The book opens as the Robertson family heads ...

December 26th, 2007 - Rosette Royale
Jesus Freaks: A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge

Click to view larger Jesus Freaks: A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge By Don Lattin, HarperOne, 2007, Hardcover, $24.95 Every few years, you hear another tale of a spiritual leader who ushers his followers straight to hell: Jim Jo ...

December 26th, 2007 - Rosette Royale
Whoa... Coal Black Horse

Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead Click to view larger "Coal Black Horse" Don't trust anyone, not man, nor woman, nor child." Armed with these chillingly true words from his mother, and a coat-- blue on one side and gray on the other ...

September 26th, 2007 - Alexandra Tobolsky
Whidbey Island Whispers

Book Review- The Edge of the Shadows by Elizabeth George Click to view larger Photo Illustration by Jon Williams/Real Change Becca King, a precocious young woman in her early teens, had arrived unaccompanied on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound with the inten ...

June 17th, 2015 - Joe Martin
Time's Up

Young adult novel recounts the lives of a homeless family parked at the corner of hard times and end times Click to view larger An indigent white family of four resides in their van, which has become their only home. They have arrived in the teeming city ...

March 23rd, 2016 - Joe Martin
Book Review: "I'm Right and You're an Idiot: The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean it Up"

by James Hoggan with Grania Litwin | New Society Publishers | 2016 Click to view larger Illustration by Jon Williams, Real Change Gun control. Transgender rights. Black Lives Matter. The war on terrorism. There are so many hot-button issues these days, co ...

August 3rd, 2016 - Gayle Clemans
Book Review: "People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy"

By Robert W/ McChesney and John Nichols | 2016 | Nation Books | New York | 360 pages Click to view larger Illustration by Jon Williams, Real Change In 2014, former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert published a survey of the economic distress overwhelmi ...

August 10th, 2016 - Joe Martin
Two broken chairs

Lindy West discusses being fat, internet trolls and cancer in this hilarious memoir Click to view larger Illustration by Jon Williams, Real Change If two people are sitting in broken chairs and they fall, who takes the blame? Is it the chair? Or the perso ...

August 17th, 2016 - Aaron Burkhalter
Lifetime Sentence

In ‘A Pound of Flesh,’ UW professor Alexes Harris examines the lifelong consequences of legal financial obligations Click to view larger Alexus Harris It used to be said when you were released from prison that you had “paid your debt to society.” Today, t ...

August 24th, 2016 - Mike Wold
Book Review: "Aurora" by Kim Stanley Robinson

Click to view larger Illustration by Kelly Shor Space — the final frontier? The last walk on the moon was almost 50 years ago, but there’s been little doubt in science fiction movies and novels that someday humankind will break away from our little planet ...

September 7th, 2016 - Mike Wold