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    How to Dodge a Cannonball

    How to Dodge a Cannonball tells the story of Anders, a poor white boy from Illinois who, like his family members before him, twirls flags during war. Naive, garrulous, and focused above all on self-...

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    Flag Bearers of the Civil War

    Anders, the protagonist of Dennard Dayle's How to Dodge a Cannonball, describes himself as a 'flag-twirler': he twirls flags for the Union, then the Confederacy, then the Union again. Throughout ...

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    Atmosphere

    Taylor Jenkins Reid's new novel, Atmosphere, opens with a bang—literally. It's 1984, and astronaut Joan Goodwin is acting as NASA Command's CAPCOM ("Capsule Communications," the person who ...

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    Sally Ride, First American Woman in Space

    Joan Goodwin, the protagonist of Taylor Jenkins Reid's novel Atmosphere, applies to NASA to be one of America's first female astronauts and is accepted to the program as part of Group 9. Group 8 (...

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    So Many Stars

    Caro de Robertis' So Many Stars shares the personal stories of 20 trans and nonbinary people of color over age 50 who, through their activism, art, and courage, have helped pave the way for the LGBTQ+...

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    Nicky Calma, aka Tita Aida

    In Caro de Robertis' work of transcribed oral history, So Many Stars, one of the interviewees is Nicky Calma. She shares the story of how, along with others at the Filipino Task Force on AIDS, she ...

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    Awake in the Floating City

    Susanna Kwan's debut novel, Awake in the Floating City, is an ode to her hometown of San Francisco, nostalgic about the city's past and poignantly speculative of a post-apocalyptic future. Middle-aged...

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    Community-Based Resources for Aging in Place

    In Awake in the Floating City, Bo is an artist who supports herself by working as a caregiver to home-bound elderly clients. Remaining in one's own home, often living alone and having caregiver help...

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    The Slip

    The Slip by Lucas Schaefer begins with a newspaper clipping highlighting the ten-year disappearance of Nathaniel Rothstein. Nathaniel, a troubled Jewish sixteen-year-old from Newton, Massachusetts, ...

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    The Widespread Appeal of Boxing

    A central element of The Slip by Lucas Schaefer is Terry Tucker's Boxing Gym in Austin, Texas, which serves as a hub connecting the story's characters. The gym, attracting individuals from diverse...

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    Murderland

    America in the 1970s has been described as "the golden age of serial killers." The I-5 Killer, BTK, the Night Stalker, the Hillside Stranglers, the Grocery Bag Killer, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer,...

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    Superfund Sites: How the Environmental Protection Agency Cleans Up Waste

    In her book Murderland, Caroline Fraser examines the lead-crime hypothesis, the theory that children exposed to high levels of lead have neurological changes that lead to increased aggressiveness ...

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