Chapter 16
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Contracts with the Devil

In Jennifer Haigh’s new novel, Heat and Light, energy companies choose profits over safety

…Heat and Light, addresses the calamity of fracking. Though Haigh makes it clear from the start that energy exploration inevitably carries environmental costs, she fills her novel with characters who…

Simple Living in the Suburbs

With four homeschooled kids, a popular blog, a flock of chickens, a herd of goats, and a new picture book for children, Deanna Caswell has her hands full

…This book is about those simple-living behaviors that fit easily into a typical suburban neighborhood.” Beach House, Caswell’s latest children’s book, celebrates family and the best of summer fun—a trip…

Stand By for a Fighter Pilot

With The Death of Santini, Pat Conroy delivers an emotional farewell to his titanic father

…during the early 1970s—and of his dismissal for “unorthodox” teaching practices, including the refusal to administer corporal punishment. Conroy followed this first success with a novel about his childhood. The…

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