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Blue Sky Kingdom: An Epic Family Journey to the Heart of the Himalaya
by Bruce Kirkby
So much more than a travelogue (10/10/2020)
Get ready to be inspired and transported to a buried place in your heart as Canadian writer-adventurer, Bruce Kirkby takes you with him on his family’s quest to flee the constant noise and pressures of society and slow the pace in a Himalayan Buddhist temple.

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The Color of Air
by Gail Tsukiyama
Totally immersed in place and time (6/29/2020)
A welcome panacea to the times we are living in is how I would describe reading this story of Daniel Abe, a successful doctor in Chicago, as he returns home to Hilo two years after his mother Mariko’s death.
A secret has driven Danial home, though, and I was enchanted by themore
Today We Go Home: A Novel
by Kelli Estes
This book honors women who serve (8/21/2019)
I gained so much insight reading Today we go Home.

The story of two women soldiers, Emily Wilson, who, during the Civil War, fought with the Union Army disguised as a man and Larkin Bennett, a US Army soldier who was deployed to Afghanistan twice.

In the present-day, Larkinmore
Beirut Hellfire Society
by Rawi Hage
To understand the anguish of outcasts (6/14/2019)
Beirut Hellfire Society opens in war-torn Lebanon with Pavlov, then 16, accompanying his father into the mountains to participate in a bewildering burial ritual. Here we learn of the Hellfire Society.
I appreciated the book and the way the author carried me into the sorrowmore
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