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Livonia Chow Mein by Abigail Savitch-Lew This country has enough resources to ensure every person has a home. That’s the America I want to live in. from Livonia Chow Mein by Abigail Savitch-Lew This ambitious, complex novel is fille…

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Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth This is a love story, by the way. It may not seem like it, what with all the blood and guts and murder, but nevertheless, that’s what it is. And there is no greater love story than that of pl…

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A Different Person: A Memoir by James Merrill If your father ever knew about your life it would be the death of him. from A Different Person by James Merrill In 1950, after the publication of his first book of poetry, the twenty-four-year-old …

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The Lost Cities of El Norte by Peter Stark Out here, in the heart of the continent, one can imagine Don Francisco Vazquez de Coronado isolated like Captain Kurtz in his lone outpost up the Congo River, European rescue parties searching for …

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The Best 2025 Short Stories These twenty stories do not require something fancy like a projector and a big screen. These twenty show what happens when writers fish in the rivers of their own imagination. from Introduction by …

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Preservation, even just the preservation of a family, was never as easy as people imagined.
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Books, News Book mail this week included Three Days in June by Anne Tyler, thanks to the publisher The Theater: Courage and Survival in the Defining Atrocity of the Ukraine War by James Verini, thanks to Libra…

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White Moss by Anna Nerkagi He only ever seemed to have one path–into the past, and that kind of road, however long you ride, has no end. from White Moss Anna Nerkagi was removed from her Nenets community by the Soviets…

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The Creative Container Garden by Anders Royneberg This spring we will be completely remaking our patio garden. We are taking out several fruit trees planted forty years ago. Because of our age, I want to create a garden that is easier to install a…

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I used my collection of vintage fabric scraps. I am working on another with vintage fabrics now. So much fun!

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