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September 18, 2015

The most thoughtful obituary writer in all of southeastern Alaska

Colleen Mondor

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  • Find the Good
    by Heather Lende
    Algonquin Books
    April 01, 2015
    162 pages
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  • If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name
    by Heather Lende
    Algonquin Books
    June 01, 2006
    281 pages
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  • Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs
    by Heather Lende
    Algonquin Books
    April 01, 2011
    299 pages
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September 11, 2015

Intoxicating and irresistible and maybe untrue

Rebecca Hussey

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  • The Art of Memoir
    by Mary Karr
    Harper
    September 14, 2015
    256 pages
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September 10, 2015

Upstairs, downstairs

Paul Constant

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  • Good and Cheap
    by Leanne Brown
    Workman Publishing
    July 08, 2015
    208 pages
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September 08, 2015

Heaven is a place on Earth

Paul Constant

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  • This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!
    by Jonathan Evison
    Algonquin Books
    September 07, 2015
    304 pages
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September 04, 2015

The ballad of Rosie the Riveter

Paul Constant

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  • Raising Lilly Ledbetter
    by Carolyne Wright
    Lost Horse Press
    March 31, 2015
    250 pages
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September 03, 2015

The women problem

Mia Lipman

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  • Days of Awe
    by Lauren Fox
    Knopf
    August 03, 2015
    272 pages
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August 31, 2015

Pronouns in space

Kate Macdonald

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  • Ancillary Justice
    by Ann Leckie

    October 01, 2013
    416 pages
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  • The Left Hand of Darkness
    by Ursula K. Le Guin
    Ace Trade
    December 31, 1999
    304 pages
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  • Ammonite
    by Nicola Griffith
    Del Rey Books
    December 31, 2001
    397 pages
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August 28, 2015

The Seattle of your nightmares

Paul Constant

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  • Between the World and Me
    by Ta-Nehisi Coates
    Spiegel & Grau
    July 14, 2015
    176 pages
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August 27, 2015

Fun, food, and fear: Farley Mowat and the lessons of Never Cry Wolf

Benjamin Corey

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  • Never Cry Wolf
    by Farley Mowat

    September 12, 2001
    256 pages
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August 24, 2015

A cruel mistress

Jennifer R. Bernstein

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  • Hausfrau
    by Jill Alexander Essbaum

    March 16, 2015
    336 pages
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  • The Art of Cruelty
    by Maggie Nelson

    July 10, 2011
    304 pages
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August 21, 2015

Bureaucracy now

Sharma Shields

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  • The Beautiful Bureaucrat
    by Helen Phillips
    Macmillan
    August 10, 2015
    192 pages
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