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Welcome to Sonderbooks, an e-zine of book reviews by Sondra Eklund.
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*****Leaving the Saints, by Martha Beck
****Over Hill and Dale, by Gervase Phinn
  ****Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins
****Room to Grow, edited by Christina Baker Kline
****Remarkable Reads, edited by J. Peder Zane
****Lighthouses of Europe, photographs by Philip Plisson and Guillaume Plisson, text by Daniel Charles
  ***Ready or Not, Here Life Comes, by Mel Levine, M.D.
***Living in Rome, by Bruno Racine, photographs by Alain Fleischer

****Vanishing Acts, by Jodi Picoult
***The Tale of Hill Top Farm, by Susan Wittig Albert
  ***The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios:  Short Fiction, by Yann Martel

Young Adult Fiction

***Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You, by Dorian Cirrone

Children's Nonfiction

****The Milestones Project, photographs by Dr. Richard Steckel and Michele Steckel
***Parthenon, by Lynn Curlee

Children's Fiction

****Gracie:  The Pixie of the Puddle, by Donna Jo Napoli
***Jack and the Seven Deadly Giants, by Sam Swope, pictures by Carll Cneut

(Young Adult Fiction): *****Emily's Quest, by L. M. Montgomery

****The Yellow Balloon, by Charlotte Dematons 

“The work for which we are fitted—
which we feel we are sent into the world to do—
what a blessing it is and what fullness of joy it holds.”

—Emily in Emily's Quest, by L. M. Montgomery

Sonder is a German prefix meaning "special."