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What attracts most people to read a newly published book? They browse along the colorful bindings in a bookstore, pull out the titles that interest them, and read the summary. Is it a mystery, a historical, a contemporary? Is the setting of interest?Nemesis? Without giving away the secret that is at the heart of the story, you should know that for a long time it casts a dark shadow over the heroine's ability to live a full life after she makes a senseless mistake.This is a story of unforgiving guilt, until an unexpected redemption is offered this Russian woman who lives in Harbin, China, between 1909 and 1939, during the turbulent years of WWI, the fall of Imperial Russia, and emergence of Communist Revolution.

The year is 1964. Imagine a country where you are a slave. You have no rights. You cannot attend public schools, the public library, restaurants, parks, churches, or movie theaters. You cannot vote or meet and organize with others like yourself who are denied these rights. That country is the United States of America, in the State of Mississippi. You are black. Remembering Mississippi Freedom Summer is a first-person account of Charles Prickett, a college student and civil rights activist, who worked during the Mississippi Freedom Summer of1964. This moving account explores rural Mississippi and the black community's efforts to change the stifling and brutal system of racism that touched every life. The Mississippi Freedom Summer focused on four goals: Freedom Schools tried to fill in the gaps left by a segregated educational system that denied black citizens a quality education. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party tried to give a political voice to disenfranchised black citizens. Black farmers were organized so they could share in federal programs that support agriculture. Voting registration drives tried to register black citizens to vote. All these efforts were met with violent resistance. What emerges is a triumph of democracy, as Mississippi became the state with more black elected public officials than any other state in the U.S.

Ueno Park in central Tokyo is one of the world's great public spaces, visited by over ten million people a year. These snapshot poems written there capture moments of pleasure, pain, reflection, humor, and surprise.

Against a backdrop of Las Vegas in the 1970s, when the Mob was still in power, Looking For a Waterhole portrays four women, following their destinies in a town that was infamous for losers and addictions. From Native American stripper, Wanda Moon, to her Mob-connected boyfriend, Sol Wolfe, the adventures and suspense revolve around them as well as the other women in the novel: showgirl, Suzanne Cane, waitress, Violet Kandinsky and Ruby Songer, a topless dancer.

Chihuahua Enchilada is the continuing adventures of Lola Raines-Morales and Sherry Brown as they travel to Mexico to visit one of Lola's old flames. The Vegas Mob tracks her down there, intent upon killing her. Her usual spunky and edgy approach to life directs her into trouble wherever she goes.

Ruhama Veltfort was a young Barnard graduate living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan when she gave up her newborn son for adoption. Thirty-one years later, she discovered that he was living only five blocks away from her home in San Francisco's Mission District. With tenderness and wry humor, these fourteen well-observed stories trace the roots of that cycle of relinquishment and reunion, offering an intimate perspective on the social transformations of the mid-to-late twentieth century. Lovers, husbands, children and a "rag-tag band of seekers and screwballs" wind their way through this vivid and even-handed memoir of a Bohemian "red-diaper" childhood in 1950's California, a rebellious coming-of-age in the earliest days of the Grateful Dead and an Ivy League education gone sour. Universal themes of idealism, betrayal and redemption weave through a moving account of the author's adventures in political activism and the human potential movement to culminate in a maturity graced by family, friends and an eclectic spirituality.

Somewhere a Phone Is Ringing: The Collected Stories of Nancy BourneAt age 69, Nancy Bourne set herself a goal: to publish at least one story in her lifetime. She was 73 when that first story, "Drawing Lily," was published. During her last decade-from seventy-three until she died in 2021 at eighty-two-Nancy produced thirty-seven published stories (the last one published posthumously, in 2022), with remarkably varied settings and human predicaments. Examples: A lawyer in a small 1960s southern town pretends his political campaign is not racist ("Massive Resistance"). Touring Iran, an autistic expert on Persian art falls prey to religious police ("Stalking the Sprouted Stag"). In juvie for dealing drugs, a girl sends her friend's brother to the penitentiary and deftly punishes a teacher she distrusts ("American Girl"). A widower's demands that his daughter preserve her chastity contribute to her death, racking him with guilt ("A Case for Wrongful Death"). Her final story, "Somewhere a Phone Is Ringing," offers a measure of respite from the anguish of impending death.