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The Yankee Comandante

by Jeff Fleischer

The story of intrigue between rival factions in the new Cuban government and William Alexander Morgan’s place in the middle of it all is as compelling as a crime novel. "The Yankee Comandante" is the second book coauthored by Pulitzer... Read More

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Protecting the Wild

by Kai White

This in-depth analysis of environmental conservation shows how seeking new responses to decreasing biodiversity can offer hope. Editors George Wuerthner, Eileen Crist, and Tom Butler deliver a powerful collection of environmental essays... Read More

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The World Is on Fire

by Rebecca Foster

This ambitious collection of Americana-themed essays blends travel, personal anecdote, history, and science. The pieces in "The World Is on Fire", Joni Tevis’s second work of creative nonfiction, tread a fine line between essays and... Read More

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Sisters Born, Sisters Found

by Patty Comeau

In the space of these pages, McHale Holland has cultivated a community that encourages speaking truth to empower. In Sisters Born, Sisters Found: A Diversity of Voices on Sisterhood, editor Laura McHale Holland captures the feeling of... Read More

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Jane Eyre's Sisters

by Kristine Morris

Countering the voices, inner and outer, that demand women’s silence, fiction writers imagine new possibilities into being. The works of a substantial number of Western women writers reveal a major theme: the journey of the... Read More

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More than a Score

by Barry Silverstein

This compilation of essays, interviews, speeches, and poems presents a united front against standardized testing in schools. One core issue in education—standardized testing—seems to be galvanizing educators to rise up in a common... Read More

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