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Ghost Sex and Women's Rights Author: Ronlyn Domingue The Mercy of Thin Air ties together two timelines, two deaths, and two true loves through the eyes of a ghost. Raziela Nolan (Razi for short) was a firebrand of a woman in the 1920s, advocating for birth control and abortion, engaging in a steamy love affair, and dreaming of a career as a doctor.  If you are facing an unwanted pregnancy, you can Discover More Here about abortion and its procedures. Her lover, Andrew, understood and supported her, only his affection had strings, as all affairs of the heart do, and [...]

A Heartless, Sensationalist Look at Suffering Author: Kevin Hazzard I remember when this book was first published and displayed as a Book of the Month pick – how desperately I avoided it at all costs and shuddered at the gruesomeness of a job that involves seeing and participating in some of the most heartbreaking moments of a person’s life. At the time, I was only a few years away from my father’s own heart attack and subsequent touch-and-go time in the ICU under experimental treatment. This was a book that was definitely going to trigger me and bring up some [...]

A Retelling of Jekyll and Hyde Authors: Robert Louis Stevenson and Libby Spurrier The story of Jekyll and Hyde is a familiar one, even if you haven’t read the original novel. Examples of mad scientists acting out the duality of human nature by using potions to split themselves into a good (or at least non-aberrant) side and an evil side populate everything from children’s cartoons to retellings across plays, books, and movies. But . . . what if the mad scientist was a woman, and what if she lived during a time of cell phones and more advanced science? Henrietta [...]