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Americans in the Arctic... Author:  Hampton Sides You may have never noticed them, tucked away on the northernmost fringe of your map of Asia.  Known as the De Long Islands, they’re just a few flecks of land, several hundred kilometers off the northern coast of Siberia.  Occupying the western edge of the East Siberia Sea, these treeless, uninhabited islets – including Jeanette, Henrietta and Bennett Islands – couldn’t be more bleak and forbidding, but how did these remote islands in the frigid Russian Arctic get such non-Russian names?  The answer is actually a long and frequently terrifying story of American [...]

Love by Murder By: M.C. Beaton Returning from her six month stint in London the old, aggressive Agatha is relieved to let go and once again sink into the bucolic scenes of the Cotswolds, preferably with her heart-throb bachelor neighbor. It’s not to be, however, as he continues to be his aloof, boyish self and only one thing will get them together again and give that spark of love a chance: murder. Enter Jessica Tartinck, out-spoken leader of the Dembley Walkers, a formerly peaceful rambling group now set out under Jessica’s rule to end the oppression of the wealthy land [...]

A Collection of Returning By: Brandi Dawn Henderson (t)here represents a collection of 36 journeys, some fulfilled, some faithless, some accepting, some angry, others full circle, all deeply human and soul stirring. Daughters return to homelands to find life different, themselves having changed to the extent where, ultimately, they can no longer belong to one place. Men confront war and upon returning see how life just keeps going on while they are now alien, apart. People leave steady lives for adventure, long for steadiness, and then never find it again. Others think that the steadiness of a homeland they never [...]