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Wadmalaw

by Marlene Y. Satter

Ghosts haunt Wadmalaw Island, including the new home of Liv and Autis Oakley. The couple bought what they thought was their dream house, only to learn that no one else dared to live there. This complex tale told by Bart Bare in Wadmalaw... Read More

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The Power of the Poppy

by Marlene Y. Satter

An eminently readable book, this examination of the poppy’s contribution to humankind, for both good and ill, belongs on every shelf. Written in a beguiling, conversational tone that kept this reader reading late into the night, the... Read More

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Arctic Gardens

by Marlene Y. Satter

Debate about climate change and the continuing and relentless search for fossil fuels fills the headlines, but relatively little is known about the people most affected. Little is known, too, of the Arctic Circle culture at risk, and the... Read More

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Assault with a Deadly Glue Gun

by Marlene Y. Satter

Anastasia Pollack crafts for a living, for a “second-rate general women’s magazine sold at supermarket check-out lines.” Petite but pear-shaped, she has a comfortable middle-class life with her “still-a-hunk” husband Karl, two... Read More

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The Animal's Bible

by Marlene Y. Satter

Animal lovers often wonder about the use of biblical quotations to justify the many ways in which people fail to be kind: confining animals in zoos and factory farms, beating or starving them, hunting, fishing, holding cockfights or... Read More

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