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Woodpecker Menace
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Ted Olinger
TBone Tacoma
, December 13, 2013
In this debut collection of short stories, Olinger uses wit and warmth to weave a picture of rural life that is both charming and moving. Much like the roads on the peninsula, the stories meander, but all are linked. The Key Peninsula is painted so evocatively that it's almost a character itself--wet, dirty and beautiful in its solitude. Olinger draws from his life on the peninsula to create a collection that is humorous and, at times, heartbreaking. A delightful, low-key yet memorable collection. --Kirkus Reviews
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Land of a Thousand Hills My Life in Rwanda
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Rosamond H Carr
TBone Tacoma
, July 12, 2013
What a beautiful book and all the more for doing what great stories do, in my view, which is to show how we do not know ourselves by accident, even if it is only through one accident of fate after another that we come to know ourselves at all. This is a stark and moving memoir of a young woman out of her depth in life and in love, a newlywed who emigrates from the U.S. to Rwanda in 1949 to find herself soon alone and learning to run a colonial era plantation on her wits and fortitude. Her story starts with the most personal and ordinary of failures but takes her to a time and place that, as she put it, "would become the standard by which the world would measure human tragedy forevermore." She managed to escape the genocide, but returned just months later to the war zone that had been her farm. She rebuilt her ruined home with the few workers and friends who had survived, and turned it into an orphanage. She was then 86 years old, and faced another decade of fighting and struggles to save some of the children in her adopted country. Unforgettable.
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