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Ridiculous Read Author: Barbara Levenson Outrageous October Cover Mary Magruder Katz is a Miami-based criminal defense attorney.  She runs her own successful practice and goes home at night to handsome fiancé Carlos, a local businessman.  Until Outrageous October, that is.  Carlos has a large and complicated family and Mary has spotted him in a compromising position. Instead of facing him, Mary decides to cut and run.  She heads north to the family home of her friend, Lucy, in High Pines, Vermont.  Being outgoing in a small town means making friends quickly.  Especially in a place where half the [...]

A Subzero Time Capsule... Author:  Farley Mowat Even today it’s not easy for Americans (or Canadians) to know what life is like for the average person in the depths of Siberia, but in the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, it was a complete mystery.  So when acclaimed Canadian author Farley Mowat – with several popular books in the Soviet Union – was invited to visit by a Russian writer, he jumped at the chance.   He was interested in comparing life in Siberia with the North American arctic that he knew so well.  Published in 1971, The Siberians [...]