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In 2011, the Korean American writer and teacher Suki Kim taught English to the sons of North Korea's elite for two semesters. When it came time for her to leave North Korea (the ...

Stray Our Pieces

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Gloria Hytner is the protagonist in Jason Graff’s edgy study of a disconsolate woman in a marriage she grows to resent. If it hadn’t been arranged by mistakes and bad luck, she ...

So You Want to Talk About Race

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Have you ever tried to ignore the uncomfortable conversations about race that happen around you? Have you ever been angry that your well-intended comment has been labeled as ...

Parts per Trillion

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Claudine Nash’s poetry collection Parts per Trillion contains themes easily accessible to everyone who has endured a time of loss. Her language is simple, yet her writing is ...

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Minka Kent – Author Study

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Minka Kent writes psychological suspense novels that draw the reader in from the word “go.” Delving into her novels could almost be considered a delectable guilty pleasure except the author's impressive writing style and ability to channel her first-person narrators down to the most specific detail make her books true gems in contemporary ...

Courage to Create

The Courage to Create

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In the early 1980s when I studied choreography with Dr. Alma Hawkins at Santa Monica Community College, The Courage to Create by Rollo May was on the reading list for the class. You may wonder: Why would there be a reading list for a dance class? Dr. Hawkins was interested in how the creative and imaginative processes work in order to support the ...

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Leading from the Roots

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Leading from the Roots: Nature-Inspired Leadership Lessons for Today’s World is a transformative book in the field of organizational leadership. In the Introduction and the following eleven chapters, ...

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White Dancing Elephants is a finalist for the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards. Women take center stage in Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s debut short story collection, White Dancing Elephants. As characters, ...

A Crack in Creation

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The reader who follows recent developments in genetics may often experience a feeling of vertigo. Consider as just one example the intellectually dizzying prospect on evolution opened by recent work ...