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Diane's reviews, blogs and articles have appeared (over the past three decades) in VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates), Popular Woodworking, GRIT, The Bookwatch, Children's Bookwatch, and more. She now edits Children's Bookwatch and California Bookwatch for The Midwest Book Review, and her regular column Donovan's Bookshelf in the monthly publication MBR Bookwatch profiles the best in upcoming new releases!

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Review: The Four Trials Of Henry Ford: A Hard-To-Put-Down Account That Captures The Henry Ford Story 0
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- October 28, 2019
The Four Trials of Henry Ford is a highly recommended pick for any collection strong in American, legal, or transportation history, focusing on the litigation process at the turn of the 20th century. In this era, Ford was not a giant company, but a man whose development efforts threatened the existing Seldon patent on the
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Review: Eat The Evidence: First Book In True Crime Trilogy Chronicles Life Of Suspected Serial Killer 0
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- March 21, 2019
Bar Jonah was a suspected serial killer. Author John Espy is considered one of two experts in the United States in the area of pedophilic and paraphilic OCD. Eat the Evidence represents hundreds of hours of interviews with Bar Jonah and those who knew him well, and captures the extent of his life, actions, and
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Review: The Last Devadasi Evokes The Sights, Smells, And Sounds Of Indian Culture 0
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- October 15, 2018
Picture contemporary India, where popular star Kamala Kumari is also a member of the Devadasi caste, an ancient cult operating in modern times, dedicated to having girls placed in South Indian temples to serve gods and men. Kamala’s modern world seems to preclude such activities; but she becomes caught between tradition and romance in The
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Review: Beneath The Same Heaven, A Powerful Literary Piece 0
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- May 8, 2018
The initial story of American woman Kathryn (who marries Pakistani Muslim man Rashid) and their two children at first seems to mirror the nonfiction story of Not Without My Daughter, an account of an American woman’s involvement with an Iranian man which leads to her entrapment in the Middle East. But Beneath the Same Heaven:
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