A psychiatrist urges healthcare workers to bring their full humanity to the workplace
Part memoir, part argument, and part self-help manual, How Do You Feel? by Dr. Jessi Gold challenges dangerous assumptions, common to the public and healthcare workers alike, about what it means to be a good doctor or nurse.
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Frank X Walker’s Load in Nine Times gives voice to enslaved and enslaver in Civil War-era Kentucky
Load in Nine Times is Frank X. Walker’s poetic exploration of American life in the period surrounding the Civil War. The collection takes Kentucky as its geographical framework, speaking through enslaved mothers, fathers, and children and masters and mistresses.
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With a little imagination, anything seems possible
I’m into porn. Cookbook porn. It’s a terrible habit.
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By the Fire We Carry tells a story of Native American land lost and regained
By the Fire We Carry, by Cherokee journalist Rebecca Nagle, tells how the Five Tribes of frontier history (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee, and Seminole) were dispossessed first of their Southeastern homelands, then of their reservation lands in Oklahoma — until finally, against the odds, they won back their treaty rights in court.
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Three recent poetry collections seek form and language to reflect an uncertain world
In three recent poetry collections — Blas Falconer’s Rara Avis, Danielle Chapman’s Boxed Juice, and Todd Osborne’s Gatherer — our world’s inherent uncertainty takes center stage, fueling each poet’s inquiry into how our everyday lives (and our deeper internal longings) can survive the unknowable.
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Two smart teens protect their country and their family in war-torn England
“I am Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ Novis. … I am the candidate most likely to violate the Official Secrets Act. And I will be convicted of treason when I do.” Lizzie is half of the talented brother/sister team at the center of The Bletchley Riddle, a World War II novel for middle-grade readers by an equally talented team: award-winning writers Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin.
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