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    Counting Backwards

    Counting Backwards should be a sad story of neurological decline, but instead, author Binnie Kirshenbaum uses wit to further the conversation around illness and marriage. Addie is a collage artist ...

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    In Sickness and In Health: Illness and Marriage

    While planning her wedding at the age of twenty-four, after seven years of dating her fiancé, Erin Fortin was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder. Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria, or PNH...

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    The Railway Conspiracy

    At the end of The Murder of Mr. Ma, the first book in S.J. Rozan and John Shen Yen Nee's Dee and Lao historical mystery series, Judge Dee Ren Jie has departed for China, leaving behind his friend, Lao...

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    Spring-Heeled Jack

    Judge Dee Ren Jie, the protagonist of the Dee and Lao mystery series, frequently masquerades as Spring-heeled Jack, a legendary figure out of Victorian London. Sometimes Dee uses the costume to ...

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    Tilt

    In Emma Pattee's debut novel Tilt, heavily pregnant Annie is in IKEA looking to buy a crib when a huge earthquake strikes Portland. Buildings crumble, bridges collapse, roads are ripped apart, and the...

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    The Devastating Earthquake Predicted to Hit Portland

    Emma Pattee's debut novel Tilt follows one woman's journey across Portland after the city is hit by a devastating earthquake. Though fictional, the disaster is based on research that suggests such...

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    Sky Daddy

    Linda, the protagonist of Kate Folk's debut novel Sky Daddy, is sexually and romantically attracted to commercial airplanes. Linda is a first-person narrator, and this information about her interests ...

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    Objectum Sexuality

    Linda, the narrator of Sky Daddy, is sexually and romantically attracted to commercial airplanes. This phenomenon could be viewed as a subset of objectum sexuality (OS) — defined as romantic...

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    The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue

    It starts with a murder mystery of sorts: what is killing the trees on a certain street in the Washington, DC suburb of Takoma Park, Maryland? The investigation sparks climate activist Mike Tidwell&#...

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    Climate Change Mitigation Strategies

    In The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue, author Mike Tidwell offers an overview of strategies being researched and implemented to mitigate climate change. Overall, the main strategies are decarbonization ...

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    Audition

    Katie Kitamura's novels share an unadorned narrative style. Beautiful and spare, the writing can be deceptively straightforward, and there often comes a moment within her novels, an almost ...

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    Books Featuring Actors as Characters

    The protagonist of Katie Kitamura's Audition is an actress, and sections of the novel reflect her thought process on performance, from the creation of her character to her considerations of a play...

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