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When I was a kid, my folks had a study lined with books. It had some easy chairs, a world…
Book banning precedes our First Amendment by more than a century. In 1634, pre- Massachusetts Plymouth Colony, Thomas Morton critiqued…
Girl One Sara Flanner Murphy MCD Picador$18 Josephine Morrow was the first Miracle Baby–“Girl One”–conceived in the mind of Joseph Bellinger and…
On my United Airlines flight from London to Newark, when boredom set in during the seven and a half hour…
Ma and Me: A Memoir Putsata Reang?Farrar Straus and Giroux $28 Infant Putsate Reang was carried by her mother (Ma) through war-riven…
Tom Godwin’s “The Cold Equations” in the August 1954 Astounding Magazine, chilled me at thirteen, and still can, surfacing over the…
Last Call at the Nightingale Katherine Schellman Minotaur Books $27.99 Schellman’s first in a Jazz age mystery series draws the reader into the…
When you think of Amazon, what are the first things that come to mind? They are not just a leading…
2022 marks the 20th anniversary of the Red Ribbon Ride. This year the ride will take place on Friday, August 19th, and…
The Non-Profit Award for Service to the HIV/AIDS Community Minnesota’s first free PrEP clinic, THRIVE, was opened in September of 2021…
