At fifteen, Crown Prince Acolmiztli is preparing to enter the calmecac, the temple school that will prepare him to rule the Acolhua people. However, his time there is cut off abruptly after only a few...
Read ReviewThe Pre-Columbian City of Tetzcoco
In David Bowles' novel The Prince and the Coyote, Prince Acolmiztli is forced to flee his beloved city of Tetzcoco after it is overrun by enemies. Acolmiztli, later known as Nezahualcoyotl, was a...
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"History haunts him who does not honor it." This incidental line from Daniel Mason's North Woods encapsulates the spirit of the whole. In surveying the lives and land use changes that have defined one...
Read ReviewA mysterious recurring figure in Daniel Mason's Massachusetts-set novel North Woods — starting with the cover image — is the 'catamount.' This folk name, which originates from the ...
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While British author Emily Critchley's graceful novel One Puzzling Afternoon is about cognitive deterioration, the story's beauty is in how it elegantly unpacks memory, friendship, and regret. It ...
Read ReviewDementia: A Two-Person Illness
After a dementia diagnosis, the rules that families depend on — who takes care of who — just don't exist anymore. The hierarchy of parent and child or grandparent and grandchild dissolves ...
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Raul Palma's debut novel A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens introduces Hugo Contreras, who came to the United States from Bolivia as a child and is now a widower in Miami, where he staves off mountains of ...
Read ReviewBolivia's Cerro Rico and the Mining God El Tío
During the height of the Spanish colonization of Latin America in the 16th and early 17th centuries, conquistadors forced enslaved workers to extract vast amounts of silver from mines in Cerro Rico ('...
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As in her other work, Melanie Benjamin brings her historical novel California Golden to life through vivid descriptions and sensational twists and turns. She narrates the story of sisters Mindy and ...
Read ReviewAmerican Entertainers Visiting the Vietnam Warfront
In California Golden, Mindy has a transformative experience touring Vietnam during the war that makes her question her chosen career in show business. The Vietnam War was a transformative experience ...
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Lydia Weston is among the first wave of female physicians and professors in the United States. Dedicated to her work, she spends her days treating the sick and teaching the next generation of young ...
Read ReviewWoman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
Both the first hospital and the first medical school in the United States were founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, landing it the nickname 'City of Medicine.' Therefore, it seems only natural ...
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Above the Salt
by Katherine Vaz
A sweeping love story that follows two Portugueses refugees who flee religious violence to build new lives in Civil-War America.
This Is Salvaged
by Vauhini Vara
Stories of uncanny originality from Vauhini Vara, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.
Julia
by Sandra Newman
From critically acclaimed novelist Sandra Newman, a brilliantly relevant retelling of Orwell's 1984 from the point of Smith's lover, Julia.
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