Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof, Sheryl Wu

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Book Review by Zinta Aistars• Paperback: 28 pages • Publisher: March Street Pr, 2004 • Price: $9.00 • ISBN-10: 1596610018 • ISBN-13: 978-1596610019 Driving north for a week’s retreat in one of the places I love most—the Keweenaw Peninsula, a peninsula on a peninsula, in the U.P. of Michigan—I packed a bag of books as travel companions. I’ve had an insatiable love of traveling since earliest childhood, and for me, taking books along that in some way reflect on the new world to explore, in some way deepen my experience and help me to understand a place and its

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and She
Book Review by Zinta Aistars• Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: Knopf (September 8, 2009) • Price: $27.95 • ISBN-10: 0307267148 • ISBN-13: 978-0307267146             This book is important. So important, in fact, that first reviews from reputable source

13 1/2 by Nevada Barr
Book Review by Zinta Aistars• Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: Vanguard Press (October 6, 2009) • Price: $25.95 • ISBN-10: 1593155530 • ISBN-13: 978-1593155537 I am holding Nevada Barr responsible: since picking up her newest novel, 13 ½, I have been losing sleep. Until the very last pa

Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O’Keeffe by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
Book Review by Zinta Aistars• Paperback: 480 pages • Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co., 2005 • Price: $21.95• ISBN-10: 0393327418 • ISBN-13: 978-0393327410         In meticulous, even painstaking detail, biographer and art critic, Hunter Drohojowska-Philp has recorded the near

stains: early poems by Lori A. May
Book Review by Zinta Aistars • Paperback: 88 pages • Publisher: Bohemian Steel Press, 2009 • Price: $15.95• ISBN-10: 0973582405 • ISBN-13: 978-0973582406           Brave and confident soul, who is willing to put into lasting print—however lasting print is these days