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The Reindeer and the Easter Bunny: A Children’s Story for All Ages by Jim Olson

victor March 5, 2026 February 22, 2026Children / Fairy Tales Jim Olson, Sharon Brunner 0
Cover of a children’s book titled “The Reindeer and the Easter Bunny,” showing a reindeer in a sleigh above a group of cartoon bunnies, with one bunny standing on a platform in front of the others.

Reviewer: Sharon Brunner Jim Olson’s The Reindeer and the Easter Bunny: A Children’s Story for All Ages offers a delightful tale about how a snowstorm almost ruined the Eater bunny’s delivery of Easter baskets. The main human characters lived in an old inn on a lake in the Northwoods. Their…

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The People of the Dune,  by Jim Olson

victor September 15, 2025 July 29, 2025Adult Fiction, Native American & Aboriginal Jim Olson, John Austin 1
Book cover with the title "People of the Dune" and author "Jim Olson" on a beige background. Simple illustration shows a dotted hill, clouds, and small figures walking in the foreground.

Review by John Austin The extraordinary core of People of the Dune—a blistering, elaborate, and meticulous interrogation of the tension between modern property rights on the one hand and the obligations we owe to sacred places and the common good on the other—comes in the form of an unorthodox legal…

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