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Heart transplants. Body modification. Harvesting spleens from other animals. Steel/plastic/synthskin... How far can and will science go to help the human body fix itself? Or even create new? What are the religious and ethical ramifications of these practices? Arwen Elys Dayton pushes these questions further and further in each of the six connected stories... Continue Reading →
Katie started the best restaurant in town. She created the menu. All the employees are her employees. But she doesn't own it. For years she has saved her pennies, and now Katie has the opportunity to open her own place at a 50% stake. But little roadblocks start getting in her way, and she thinks... Continue Reading →
The Harlem Hellfighters is a fictionalized account of the 369th Infantry Regiment, the first African-American unit to fight in WW1. From enlistment to basic training to the trenches, this graphic novel follows the men through each step of the war towards many of their eventual deaths. It is a dark and at times graphic narrative,... Continue Reading →
‘It was very difficult for the Americans to tell the good guys from the bad guys.’ Would the United States allow a man to take the fall for a CIA agent’s murder? Would the government be complicit in the cover-up? These are the overreaching questions directing Michael Pullara's book The Spy Who Was Left Behind.... Continue Reading →
Two families in Houston, Texas in 1968. One father is an African-American professor at Texas Southern University, and the other is a white reporter for the local television station. They form a friendship that is questioned and vilified from every side. Tensions flare when students try to organize protests (Stokely Carmichael’s Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)... Continue Reading →
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