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Guests | May 2, 2012

Julia Alvarez: IMG Chichiguas



I wouldn't have met Piti if it hadn't been for a chichigua. To translate chichigua as a kite does not do justice to these beautiful creations of... Continue »
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    A Wedding in Haiti

    Julia Alvarez 9781616201302

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Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Angle of Repose

Night Editor, January 1, 2010

This is my vote for the best book I read in the last ten years. I read this 6 years ago just as I took a new job as editor at the Minnesota Historical Society Press; and now, as Press director, I read it again over Thanksgiving break--the end of a very long and trying 2009. A beautiful history of the West, an honest love story, an epic tribute to the American spirit.
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