Barbara Rhine
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Perhaps this book is a bit too long; perhaps its elaborate plot contains some aspects that are hard to believe. Forget all that, because it is worth every bit of your attention anyhow. Billed as a thriller, and it does qualify, it is also an in-depth ...more | |
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I read this long and substantive work of fiction at the same time that I had to hurry through an unbelievably substantive work of nonfiction, and they both became overdue at the library before I finished either of them. And believe me, "Emperor of Gl ...more | |
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This nonfiction assessment about what should be done to meet the Climate Crisis is totally compelling! Written by a young white man (check out his picture--from this 80-year old's perspective he looks about 12), Harris starts from the premise that an ...more | |
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This nonfiction assessment about what should be done to meet the Climate Crisis is totally compelling! Written by a young white man (check out his picture--from this 80-year old's perspective he looks about 12), Harris starts from the premise that an ...more | |
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It surprised me to find this (fictional) account of MLK and a counterpart who looked so like him that he could have been as his twin, and was asked to substitute for him on occasion. The premise just seemed too fantastical. But instead I ran into a c ...more | |
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A crazy intense tale of two cousins by blood, linked to a grandfather who had a hidden family in another country. The action here takes place in Singapore, where the child from Malaysia is dropped off and left for the other family to care for. Both g ...more | |
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Well-worth reading despite its deficiencies, for the insights and knowledge shared about what it's like to be an African woman either living in, or deeply influenced by, the United States. Adichie follows the lives of four particular women, three Nig ...more | |
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"Piano Tide" is set in the far reaching wilds of Alaska, in a small town at the mercy of the tides, reachable only by boat, with a cast of inhabitants who know each other all too well. A woman shows up with a piano, and needs help hauling it into a h ...more | |
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Slight, brief and easy to read, I learned a lot from this book. What I learned was about the just about unimaginable difficulty of physical and sexual functioning in an extremely disabled body. Written with a light touch, if that's possible with this ...more | |
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This is a troubling book, so unusual that it is well worth your time. James Welch is the author of "Fools Crow," a fictional portrait of life with the Blackfeet Nation as the white man appears on the horizon, is one of my all-time favorite novels. He ...more | |

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