Let freedom ring

(on the first anniversary of 9/11) I’VE BEEN THINKING A lot about freedom of late, particularly when I went home this year for the Fourth of July. Home is Seldovia, a village of about 500 people on the southern shore of Kachemak Bay, a place of heart-stopping beauty built on the precarious edge of a deep…

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I’ve still got it.

the 23rd Kate Shugak novelpublished April 11, 2023order your signed hardcover hereKindle USKindle UK an excerpt… The sign on the wall next to the door was in plain brass letters, Pletnikof Investigations. The door opened into a reception area furnished with seating. Copies of PI Magazine were arranged in a meticulous row on the coffee table.…

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An invitational collection of atlases of real and imagined places

The sixth volume in NACIS (North American Cartographic Information Society)’s invitational collections of atlases of real and imagined places. From the quirky to the straightforward, from hand drawn to AI-generated images, these maps are various, beautiful, and new in every edition, beautifully produced and the atlas itself — mirabile dictu!–is reasonably priced. The maps are produced…

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The petroglyphic, pterodactylish figure being slowly revealed by a thin drift of silvery sand

IT IS A MARTIAN LANDSCAPE. A cliff descends from a dark sky, crowned with Rushmore-like heads, if Mt. Rushmore had been carved by Easter Islanders, and then erodes into a delicate lacework frame of what could be either the remains of a condominium for little green men or just the remains of a dear departed…

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I greatly fear that Nelson is right.

Griffiths sets the beginning of this book at the beginning of the Covid pandemic and totally sticks the landing. Archaeologist Ruth Galloway and daughter Kate are living their lives, socializing with friends, family, and neighbors, going out for coffee and to the cinema and shopping when the rumors of this century’s plague begin creeping in.…

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