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These Americans
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Sacred Bundles Unborn
With a keen sense of human dignity, "Sacred Bundles Unborn" balances horrific accounts of forced sterilization with academic analyses. Edited by Morningstar Mercredi, the powerful essay collection "Sacred Bundles Unborn" presents a...
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Children and Complex Trauma
"Children and Complex Trauma" is a powerful book that suggests means of creating strong relational networks to support children’s recovery and resilience. Chuck Geddes’s psychologically astute book "Children and Complex Trauma" draws...
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Steel
"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...
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Thunder Peak
by Karen Rigby
Injecting fantasy elements into an Old West setting, the young adult novel "Thunder Peak" follows a strong young woman as she meets her destiny. In Trae Stratton’s young adult novel "Thunder Peak", a girl comes into her own as she...
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Into Your Blues
by Karen Rigby
In the future-set novel "Into Your Blues", people from two generations struggle for meaning and fulfillment. In Charlie Moodie’s fresh and original novel "Into Your Blues", middle-aged men’s lives are upended by job losses. In the...
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The Way of the Saints
Based on Elizabeth Engelman’s family history and experiences growing up as the daughter of a Santeria priestess, the short story collection "The Way of the Saints" charts Puerto Rico’s history of colonization, revolution, migration,...