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Salt Houses

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If you've ever built a sand castle in the intertidal zone at the ocean's edge, you know what happens when the tide comes in: It washes away your castle, leaving not a trace of it except in your memory or a photograph. The salt houses in Hala Alyan's ...

The Last Straw

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When Jeffrey Phillips, a poor teenager in Chicago, shoots and kills a man in a carjacking gone sideways, Sandra Yanders, a teen witness from "the other side of the tracks," is determined to testify against the shooter in court. Her determination ...

Hitler: Ascent, 1889–1939

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Volker Ullrich Translated from the German by Jefferson Chase As the son of a WW II veteran who fought in the Battle of the Bulge, I grew up hearing stories from my Dad about his personal experiences in the war. Later, in high school, I read ...

Music and the Armenian Diaspora

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Big Band music saved my sanity during an especially stressful time in my life. I was working long hours, seven days a week, on a high-stakes project. I actually liked working in my office on weekends, because I could work undisturbed, but after a ...

Pigeon-Blood Red

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Ed Duncan, an attorney with expertise in insurance, is the author of five editions of Ohio Insurance Coverage. Pigeon-Blood Red is his first novel, and it's a good one. He has crafted likable, unsavory, and pathetic characters and put them in motion ...

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

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"I only liked Perestroika when it first started. If someone had told us back then that a KGB lieutenant colonel would end up as president …" [ellipses in the original text] The sentiment of this quote, from the chapter "Snatches of Street Noise and ...