This new extreme travelog is for readers who want extra crunch in their forays into travel, history, and culture. Longer than the circumference of the earth, Russia’s frontier is the longest in the world–Border drops into every country, from North Korea to Norway, Finland to China.
Makhno: Ukrainian Freedom Fighter
By Philippe Thirault and Roberto Zaghi.
Revolutionary, anarchist, military strategist, and freedom fighter, Nestor Makhno became a hero in the Russian Revolution, but became a legend fighting both the Bolsheviks and the Germans to preserve his homeland.
Antes Que Isla es Volcán: Poemas: Before Island is Volcano: Poems
By Raquel Salas Rivera
This bilingual collection of poems from NAB-nominated and Lambda award winning author Salas Rivera draws from the fires of the past to look to the future–hope, liberation, and a decolonialized island of Puerto Rico.
Was it Worth It?: A Wilderness Warrior’s Long Trail Home
By Doug Peacock
40 years ago, Edward Abbey channeled Doug Peacock when penning Hayduke in the Monkey Wrench Gang. After ranging from Sonora to Siberia, Belize to British Columbia, Peacock has now chosen to tell his own story.
100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting
By E. J. Dionne
Elections are beginning to matter more than ever, yet barriers to exercising the vote rise higher. Dionne takes close look at how the right to vote is fundamental to healthy governance in a truly democratic society, and how universal voting can be accomplished.
Book Review: The Breakdown
Diana Pringle, Retail Associate at the Gold Mine, recommends The Breakdown by B.A. Paris.
The Breakdown follows Cass, who decides to go against the wishes of her husband on a rainy night and take the dangerous shortcut home. She notices a car pulled over with a woman inside, just staring blankly out the window, why wasn’t she waving for help?
Feeling spooked, Cass decides to drive off. Days later she finds out the woman was brutally murdered, a woman she had newly befriended.
Cass is overwhelmed with guilt and cannot stop wondering what would have happened if she stopped and helped the woman. Starting that day, her life begins to fall apart.
She is consumed with guilt about the death of her new friend. Her mind now becomes her new worry as she forgets appointments, where she parked her car and items she ordered for a baby she is not expecting. Then the silent calls come everyday and Cass feels she is being watched. Cass doesn’t know who she can trust, including herself.
This is a fast moving, who-done-it, psychological thriller… something I do not normally read and I was pleasantly surprised. I randomly grabbed this book from the book room at the Gold Mine.
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