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"Canis Lupus Familiaris" a wry short story by Ukrainian author Tanya Malyarchuk.
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"A Conspicuous Blossoming:" The Emergence of Prose Writing by Ukrainian Women.
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Canadian Jenn Farrell's brazen collection The Devil You Know is closely
examined by Joyce Nickel.
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Reviews
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DOC: A NOVEL
Mary Doria Russell
Doc Holliday is known primarily as Hollywood and dime store novels have portrayed him: as a cold-blooded gunslinger, calculating at cards, and most often with a whiskey in one hand and a revolver in the other.
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Reviewed by Lisa Sanders
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THE LONG-SHINING WATERS
Danielle Sosin
Lake Superior in North America, which extends into both Canada and the United States, is arguably the largest freshwater lake in the world. For generations it has fascinated, frightened and served those who have visited its waters, among them Indians, explorers, trappers, hunters, missionaries …
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Reviewed by Kathleen Ambrogi
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AMERICA PACIFICA
Anna North
Anna North's young adult novel, America Pacifica, is a grungy, thrill-a-minute frappe of familiar dystopian elements—scuzzy landscape, crazy tyrants, social and environmental exploitation—garnished with …
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Reviewed by Jean Raber
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DARK DESIRES AND THE OTHERS
Luisa Valenzuela
Translated by Susan E. Clark
Dark Desires and the Others is both an erotic memoir and a meditation on writing. Taken from Valenzuela's diaries written in New York between 1979 and 1982, it is a series of essays …
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Reviewed by Andy Barnes
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THE FOLDED EARTH
Anuradha Roy
This rich evocative novel takes you into the tranquil hills of Ranikhet, a little town set deep in the Himalayan Mountains, with Maya and a host of colorful hill people who become her family when she seeks refuge there in an attempt to get over the loss of her husband.
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Reviewed by Akeela Gaibie-Dawood
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BIG GIRL SMALL
Rachel DeWoskin
Judy Lohden is smart and talented; she has a scathing sense of humour and is just a little bit conceited. She is 16 years old, starting a new year in a new school, trying to find her place in the often vicious, often changing world that is high school.
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Reviewed by Judy Lim
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WITNESS THE NIGHT
Kishwar Desai
It is September 2007, and police in the Punjab region of India ask social worker Simran Singh for her help in talking to an uncommunicative fourteen-year-old girl. The girl, Durga, was found loosely tied up and…
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Reviewed by Joyce Nickel
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THE SELECTED STORIES OF MERCÈ RODOREDA
Mercè Rodoreda
Translated from the Catalan by Martha Tennent
When General Franco took power in Spain, he repressed all regional languages including Catalan, prompting the twenty-six year old Merce Rodoreda to go into exile, where she did not write for twenty years. Now a legendary Catalan writer…
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Reviewed by Andrew Stancek
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