BookTrib’s Bites: Four Fall Reads You Won’t Want to Put Down

(NewsUSA) - “Slices of Life: A Comic Montage” by Qu

This masterful collection of comics features universal vignettes that examine the small moments in life, reveling in all its quiet beauty. Originally created as the author's thesis project for her MFA in Illustration Practice at MICA, this collection of insightful and subtly magnificent silent comics is now being brought to English readers, as it has previously only been published in China. This edition of “Slices of Life” not only features sublime comics that inspect and reflect the majesty of everyday life, but will also include behind-the-scenes backmatter presenting Qu's journey and artistic process.

Readers are saying Qu is “one of the best contemporary cartoonists to pay attention to” with her “elegant, gorgeously rendered style.” Early readers call the collection “peaceful … yet hilarious,” praising it as a “deeply nostalgic” tribute to what makes “life worth loving” and “all the little moments that are magical and worth slowing down to celebrate.”

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“From Doctor to Healer” by Erica M. Elliott, M.D.

In this final volume of her memoir trilogy, Dr. Erica Elliott begins her medical training as an enthusiastic, wide-eyed student but soon becomes a disillusioned doctor, sick from toxic chemicals at the clinic where she works. This health catastrophe, followed by a near-fatal accident and the harrowing, experimental brain surgery that saved her life, forces Erica off the path of mainstream medicine and onto a path that leads to her profound healing, along with the profound healing of her patients. Now, more than half a century after a Navajo grandmother offered a prophecy about her life, Erica fulfills it in ways she never could have imagined.

“From Doctor to Healer” follows on the heels of her first two groundbreaking memoirs, which followed her time serving the Navajo people as a young school teacher and as a medical doctor (“Medicine and Miracles in the High Desert”) and her later decade-long odyssey in search of her life’s purpose (“From Mountains to Medicine”).

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“Maya, Dead and Dreaming” by Lana Sabarwal

A sleepy town. A precocious girl. A drizzly night. A chilling death that makes no sense at all.

June 1938: Popular teenager Maya Hickman is found dead in a shallow creek, leaving the sleepy town of Shogie, Washington, shocked and baffled. Fourteen years later, Maya begins haunting the dreams of her childhood friend and quiet Indian immigrant, Munna Dhingra, just as an anonymous letter arrives musing “Why Maya Had to Die.”

Stalked by guilt and desperate to prevent more deaths, Munna befriends Karenina — a fiendishly brilliant psychoanalyst — and together, the two unravel a web of jealousy, betrayal and forbidden relationships within a tight-knit community desperate to cling to its veneer of tranquility. But every secret uncovered leads to more questions and every step forward heightens a sense of encroaching dread. Will they find out in time... why Maya had to die?

Agatha Christie meets “Gone Girl" in a 1950s small town.

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“If Today You Hear His Voice” by Irene Lynch

Throughout our rich and inspiring Catholic history, many saints have proclaimed to have had a conversation with Christ or the Blessed Mother. I believe that everyone can hear the voice of God! He is as alive and involved in our lives today as He was when He walked the earth over two thousand years ago! God wants a loving relationship with each one of us. I believe that through the Holy Spirit, God prompted me to write this book. My complete trust in His endless love and mercy has given me blessings beyond my greatest dreams. My prayer is for you to seek God in all things, walk with Him in your life journey, and listen to His voice. Come walk with me and let me show you how!!

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