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A Habit of Landscape
Shelley Armitage is an award-winning author, professor, and scholar of varied and wide-ranging talents, interests, and insights. Her books, essays, and articles run the gamut of genres and topics from poetry to biography, geography, cultural anthropology, memoir, history, chronicles of our changing landscape and climate, and more. The […]
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Biography
Lost Legacies
Everyone comes from somewhere. Many times family history and lore are lost when the older generations pass. Margaret Ostrowski’s work with immigrants to Canada sparked her initiative to explore her own family background. She uncovered a tapestry of previously unknown stories, focusing on her father and grandmother. I […]
Fiction
A Tiny Piece of Blue
Charlotte Whitney skillfully takes us back to rural Michigan during the Great Depression. Desperate families pass on their children to extended family to feed, or sell them or abandon them. Whitney gives the reader a heart-tugging account of one desperate farmer who objects to his wife’s generosity toward […]
Memoir and Autobiography
Spared
Clementine Msengi has written a compelling autobiography that held my attention throughout. As a survivor of the Rwanda genocide (1994), she describes the ordeal—many ordeals—with descriptions of events one can only imagine. And imagine I did as she narrates: “I need to be relocated, but we couldn’t think […]
Categories: Memoir and Autobiography
Tags: Author of Color, Cultures, Good Books, Immigrants, War and its effects
Tags: Author of Color, Cultures, Good Books, Immigrants, War and its effects
Finding the Light: A Mother’s Journey from Trauma to Healing
Author Marian Henley keeps a secret from her innocent, adopted son, whom she loves dearly. He’s her lifeline to hope, love, and second chances, and she keeps her secret for all the right reasons. She’s in her bliss as she watches the boy explore and embrace the world. […]
Categories: Memoir and Autobiography
Tags: Alternate-form Memoir, Good Books, Relationships, Trauma, Women's issues
Tags: Alternate-form Memoir, Good Books, Relationships, Trauma, Women's issues
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Watching Sarah Rise
Expecting a baby can generate equal measures of anxiety and joy. The months before the child is born are spent learning what to expect and planning for the much-anticipated son or daughter’s arrival. Sometimes plans and expectations can give way to grief, however. Watching Sarah Rise, by Jennifer […]
Our Favorite Authors
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Interview With Masha Rumer
Categories: Author Interviews, Nonfiction
Tags: Caregiving, Cultures, Immigrants, Our Favorite Authors, Sarton winner
Tags: Caregiving, Cultures, Immigrants, Our Favorite Authors, Sarton winner