Blogs in August 2016

Preparation For the Next Life 15th August 2016

In post-9/11 New York, Zou Lei is an illegal immigrant from northwest China. Forced to work fourteen-hour days and live in squalor, she nevertheless embraces the many freedoms her adopted homeland has to offer. Damaged by three tours in...

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Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper 15th August 2016

In the 1820s, a fellow named Sam Patch grew up in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, working there (when he wasn’t drinking) as a mill hand for one of America’s new textile companies. Sam made a name for himself one day...

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Happy Hour: And Other Philadelphia Cruelties 15th August 2016

  A young grifter steals an overcoat. As he discovers forty-thousand dollars in its inside pocket, the coat’s owners come after him.The action never stops as his pursuers seem to be both ahead and behind him at all times,...

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Dead Men Do Come Back 15th August 2016

Dead men do come back A novel by Steven C. Levi Why would someone kill a miner, freeze his body solid on a glacier and then drop it alongside the Juneau wharf, the one place where United States Marshal...

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The Kite that Bridged Two Nations: Homan Walsh and the First Niagara Suspension Bridge 12th August 2016

This picture book is based on the true story of Homan J. Walsh, an ordinary boy born in Ireland and raised in Niagara Falls, NY. In 1848, Homan entered a kite-flying contest. The winner’s kite string would span Niagara...

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