November 4 2008: This week's book reviews, by Carol Livingstone, as submitted for publication in the Tofield Mercury.

THE ENGLISH MAJOR, by Jim Harrison

Intending to rename all fifty states and their state birds on a road trip across America, a man experiences many adventures.  The story, replete with wicked wit, is the map of a man’s journey into – and out of – himself.  

EXPOSED: A Maggie O’Dell Novel, by Alex Kava

Maggie faces a new opponent from inside an isolation ward at a biosafety containment hospital where she waits to see if a deadly virus is multiplying in her body.  Will she live long enough to discover the deadliest, most intelligent killer she’s ever profiled? 
 

ANTI CANCER: A New Way of Life, by David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D.

Offers compelling evidence and arguments for participating in our own health by supporting our natural capacity for healing.  A culmination of the author’s experience in the field of cancer, as a doctor and as a patient. 
 

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