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The White Girl
A searing new novel from leading Indigenous storyteller Tony Birch that explores the lengths we will go to in order to save the people we love.Odette Brown has lived her whole life on the fringes of a small country town.
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Under the volcano
It is the Day of the Dead in Mexico and Geoffrey Firmin-ex-consul, ex-husband, an alcoholic and a ruined man-is living out the last day of his life, watched by his former wife and half-brother.
The Quileute Dune: Frank Herbert, Indigeneity, and Empire
Frank Herbert's influential science fiction novel Dune (1965) is usually understood as a prescient work of environmentalism. Yet it is also concerned with empire, and not merely in an abstract way. Herbert worked in politics with the men who oversaw the United States’ overseas territories, and he took an unusually strong interest in Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest, particularly the Quileute Nation. Conversations with Quileute interlocutors both inspired Dune and help explain Herbert's turn toward environmentalism. This article recovers the neglected imperial context for Herbert's writing, reinterpreting Dune in light of that context.
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Smashed
Maine high school senior Katie Martin is set to win a field hockey scholarship until her life is derailed by drinking, a car accident, and an angry classmate.
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Laurie Halse Anderson
For author Laurie Halse Anderson, a survivor of trauma, putting pen to paper allowed her to make sense of the world. Discover how the acclaimed Young Adult author has connected with readers across the globe.
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Tiny love : the complete stories of Larry Brown
\"A career-spanning collection, Tiny Love brings together for the first time the stories of Larry Brown's previous collections along with those never before gathered\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Aesthetics of Utopian Imaginings in Louise Penny's A Trick of the Light
[...]one of our strengths, as humans, is our diversity-of talents, abilities, and even desires; therefore, one person's utopia is likely to be another person's dystopia. [...]human cognition and perception function largely through contrasts, which means that it would be difficult to recognize let alone appreciate happiness or pleasure without sadness or pain. By casting a wide net on aesthetics-representing traditional paintings and classical poetry alongside new media products like YouTube videos-Penny repeatedly explores the potential of art not only to perform a critique of contemporary society but also to imagine a better future, thus demonstrating that twenty-first-century detective fiction can capably house one of the most vibrant utopian projects of our time. [...]utopianism has a transformative function\" (12).
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