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Hombre by Elmore Leonard

John Loranger -

The plot concerns a man named John Russell. He is a non-Native American who was raised as an Apache; and if you want an example of stoicism or “grace under pressure”, here it is.

Exorcism Literature

John Loranger -

Stories about the supernatural fascinate and attract, I suppose, because they deal with those realms of human experience that are mysterious.

Christmas and The Spirit of Resilience

Florida Night Train -

In the spirit of this holiday season, I dedicate this column to all of those whose internal struggle persists to balance the notion of the Christmas spirit of giving with that of finding one-self in a sea of sadness.

Weinstein vs Traffickers

Sally Richardson -

I believe that the sexual abuse Weinstein’s Victims felt as well as trafficking Victims was and is we were ALL MADE TO FEEL TRAPPED, VULNERABLE and ALL were exploited.

Vigilante Sting Exposing Fake Psychics

Jane Hill -

A group of online vigilantes organized by skeptical activist Susan Gerbic is on a mission to expose fake celebrity psychics.

“Koba the Dread” by Martin Amis

John Loranger -

But horror more than anything else permeates Amis’s history of the Soviet Union. He gives readers a nightmarish overview of a little-known and enforced famine that ended the lives of some five million people.

“Dead Souls” by Nikolai Gogol

John Loranger -

Nikolai Gogol published his great novel, “Dead Souls”, in 1842. The plot concerns a man named Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, who buys dead serfs from various landowners; not the cadavers of these serfs, rest assured; only their names.