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Review: Swift Dam: A Veterinarian’s Meditation On The Flow Of Water And Time 0
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- September 18, 2019
Summary: The worst flood in Montana’s history occurred in 1964, when the Swift Dam broke after being inundated with rain and snow. Thirty-one lives were lost, all but one on the Blackfeet Reservation. (1) Using this fact as background, plus his own knowledge and experience of that area, the author gives us a story that
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Review: The Year Of The Return: A Literary Snapshot Of A Period In Philadelphia’s History 0
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- September 6, 2019
Summary: The setting is Philadelphia, 1976, just before the country’s Bicentennial. The country is still reeling from the effects of the Viet Nam war. Mayor Frank Rizzo is throwing his weight around, doing his best to foment racial uprisings, just so he can quell them with force. In the midst of this stew are two
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Review: Rosemary In Bloom: Love In The Midst Of War 0
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- August 22, 2019
A tale of love in the midst of World War II, between 1942-1950. Inspired by a true story, this touching love story between Rosemary and Albert who fall in love began from their meeting at Paddock club. Their love is soon derailed by Albert’s noble patriotic duty, and Rosemary’s fear of being abandoned and alone.
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Review: The Irrationalist: Solving The Mystery Of Descartes’s Death 0
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- July 22, 2019
November 10, 1619. In a clearing within the Black Forest a gentleman and his servant begin an argument, resulting in a rapier duel to the death. When one is disabled his antagonist runs him through the chest and walks away. René Descartes died in Sweden in 1650, and based on most accounts, from pneumonia. The Irrationalist
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Review: Copper Sky Highlights Women’s Struggles In An Early 20th Century Mining Town 0
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- June 24, 2019
Most of our stories and images of mining towns are about men, so I was intrigued by this novel about women in Butte, Montana. Copper Sky, by Milana Marsenich, tells the connected stories of two very different women in this town. The novel starts off slowly, with a lot of repetition of the key facts.
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Review: Eat The Evidence: Documenting The Life Of A Suspected Serial Killer 0
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- June 10, 2019
Bar Jonah liked to break his victims. To create a fissure in their being that would last a lifetime so that when the thin-membrane scar of the crevasse was ruptured, the hydra would re-emerge and consume them once again from the inside out. At least with one victim however, he not only broke him, he
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