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The Path of Kokopelli
"The Path of Kokopelli" is a science fiction novel in which two men travel through time and discover what really matters in life. In Walter Stephen Geeding’s science fiction novel "The Path of Kokopelli", two men try to make their...
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Ice War Diplomat
Gary J. Smith recalls how he helped to organize a historic hockey tournament between Canada and the Soviet Union in his memoir "Ice War Diplomat". In 1972, with the Cold War still in full swing, the relationship between Canada and the...
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Witches
In Brenda Lozano’s "Witches", an Indigenous healer tells her story to a reporter who has her own unhealed wounds. Paloma was killed for being Muxe, a third gender recognized by the Zapotec, one of Mexico’s many Indigenous groups. The...
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Kibogo
Two outcasts from a troubled Rwandan village try to save their country in Scholastique Mukasonga’s novel "Kibogo". In the 1940s and 1950s, Rwanda faced numerous tragedies, including drought, famine, war, and continuing repression by...
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Days Come & Go
In Hemley Boum’s novel Days Come & Go, a woman’s terminal diagnosis triggers memories of her family’s tragic history. Anna grew up without a mother. Her daughter, Abi, has never known a world without her mother in it. But Anna...
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Let No One Sleep
A taxi driver succumbs to her bizarre, terrifying delusions in Juan José Millás’s novel "Let No One Sleep". From the moment that she heard her downstairs neighbor playing opera through the air vent, Lucía knew that they were...
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It's the End of the World, My Love
Dark and supernatural forces affect many lives in Alla Gorbunova’s novel It’s the End of the World, My Love. Russia is a vast, contradictory place. For all its natural beauty and cultural traditions, its troubled history often causes...
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Is Mother Dead
In Vigdis Hjorth’s novel "Is Mother Dead", a woman takes drastic action to figure out where her relationship with her family went wrong. After thirty years, Johanna is finally back in Oslo, the city where she grew up. In all that time,...