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Tell No Lies

3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions

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Migizi Will Fly–A Grandmother’s Journey to Stop Line Three

Migizi Will Fly

A Grandmother’s Journey to Stop Line Three

By Barbara Rhine

It was my first flight out into the wider world since Covid geared up, so I was a hot mess on May 22, 2021, when I began a five-day trip to Minnesota with an uphill task: Stop “Line Three”—the pipeline Enbridge Inc. has planned to transport Canadian tar sands, the dirtiest of oils, to Lake Superior for

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Still Life

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Barbara Rhine rated a book liked it Some Bright Nowhere by Ann Packer (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
On the one hand this was such interesting subject matter (a devoted husband accompanying his wife through hospice after an extended period of cancer), with a dramatic overlaid plot that has to do with the role played by her women friends, and well-wr ...more
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Barbara Rhine rated a book it was amazing The Way I Am Now (The Way I Used to Be, #2) by Amber Smith (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Whoever thought I would like a young adult book this much? I never read them, and wasn't even aware that this was one until I was near the end. An incredibly touching love story between two young people, each profoundly affected by their fathers' alc ...more
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Barbara Rhine rated a book really liked it Norwegian by Night (Sheldon Horowitz #2) by Derek B. Miller (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This book is a thriller with excitement and a mystery with cops. But mostly it is an exegesis on aging. The central character is a Jewish New Yorker in his eighties, who struggles with his very serious belief that he has been responsible for the deat ...more
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Barbara Rhine rated a book it was amazing Shadow of the Solstice: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel by Anne Hillerman (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I do like Anne Hillerman's books, set among the Diné people, with a woman Navajo police officer as a central character, This one, written in 2025, has two distinct elaborate plots, one related to environmental damage, the other to addiction. The char ...more
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Barbara Rhine rated a book it was amazing Sacrament by Susan Straight (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
You know me--I love books that deal with subject matter so often left out of fiction in the past. So here is an intimate account of nurses in Southern California on the front line of hospital work during Covid. All Latina, none wealthy, staying in a ...more
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The part of this book that worked best for me was its detailed account of famed director PB Pabst (a real person, the subject of this fictionalized account) who has returned to Austria to care for his mother after a professionally unsuccessful sojour ...more
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As an eighty-something practicing American Buddhist who contends with the inexorable changes of the aging process, I found this book fascinating. An honest account of what it's like to have serious cancer drop in the midst of an active middle age, th ...more
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Barbara Rhine rated a book really liked it Neruda on the Park by Cleyvis Natera (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
If I hadn't just read Natera's amazing second novel "The Grand Paloma Resort" I might have been equally stunned by this one. So keep in mind that my four-star rating was influenced by the comparison. This is a spectacular debut by Natera, but I found ...more
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I am not particularly a fan of the memoir genre, but this is, simply put, the best memoir I have ever read! Arundhati Roy writes so well of her painful childhood due to her abusive, problematic mother, Mary. Yet rather than hating Mary, I, like Arund ...more
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The first half of this book, written from and about an entirely male reality and point of view, enchanted me, to my surprise. The mainspring of the plot, which is the serious injury of the narrator incurred in front of the Libyan Embassy during an an ...more
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