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Extreme North

by Kristine Morris

About the history, fantasies, projections, and outright lies that have formed Western civilization’s concepts of what’s good, true, and beautiful, Bernd Brunner’s panoramic cultural text "Extreme North" shows that the vast, frozen... Read More

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The Spanish Daughter

by Kristine Morris

In Lorena Hughes’s panoramic novel "The Spanish Daughter", World War I left Spain devastated. Puri, a chocolatier, and her novelist husband leave their Seville home for lush, tropical Ecuador, hoping to claim the inheritance left to... Read More

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Breaking the Maafa Chain

by Kristine Morris

Based on the true story of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, Anni Domingo’s epic historical novel honors the unbreakable bond between two sisters who are captured by slavers in a vicious raid on their African village, sold, and sent to two... Read More

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Steel

by Kristine Morris

"Steel" is an intimate coming-of-age story set in a gritty northern Minnesota mining town in the 1920s. The town, made up of poor immigrant families—mainly Italians, Croatians, and Scandinavians—has as its sustenance the world’s... Read More

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Hollis

by Kristine Morris

In 1937, Los Angeles is baking in a September heat wave. The citizens of the growing city, thirsty and on edge, are angry and desperate for water. They wait for the okay on a new dam project, though the water department’s chief... Read More

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The Serpent Papers

by Kristine Morris

Probing the consciences of people and a nation during a pivotal era, "The Serpent Papers" is a novel about the intricacies of decision-making and taking a stand when life itself is at risk. Growing up in the 1960s, J-Bee, the son of an... Read More

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