These women – and more – women whose courage gives me courage, whose lives are a testament to the strength and beauty of women – our rugged tenacity; our unwillingness, in the midst of widespread, smothering violence and a history of atrocities, to give up, give in, die – these women inspired me to collect …
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Mar 28
Sunday Salon – March 28, 2010
March 28, 2010 10:30 AM Good morning and welcome to this week’s edition of Sunday Salon: Imagine some university library’s vast reading room. It’s filled with people–students and faculty and strangers who’ve wandered in. They’re seated at great oaken desks, books piled all around them, and they’re all feverishly reading and jotting notes in their …
Mar 28
Winner: An Irish Country Girl
An Irish Country Girl, by Patrick Taylor ISBN 978-0765320711 320 Pages Published by Tor/Forge (January 2010) Today’s giveaway for Reading for a Cure goes to another lucky winner who will receive a hard copy edition of An Irish Country Girl by Patrick Taylor. I chose one name randomly by assigning a number to each person …