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Interview: Vaddey Ratner, author of In the Shadow of the Banyan

Aug 9, 2012

The atrocities committed in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime will go down in history as some of the vilest abuses of human rights. Emerging from the stranglehold placed by Pol Pot is author Vaddey Ratner, whose debut novel, IN THE SHADOW OF THE BANYAN, is poised to take the literary scene by storm.

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Ernest Hemingway

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.

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Ernest Hemingway

Week of August 27, 2012

TIGER HILLS by Sarita Mandanna is an emotional saga about a young woman forced to make difficult choices following a gut wrenching tragedy that change the course of her life forever.

In THE ROPE by Nevada Barr, readers are taken back into Anna Pigeon’s past and shows her as she struggles to acclimate to New York and heal her broken heart.

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Week of August 20, 2012

UNMEASURED STRENGTH by Lauren Manning is the story of Lauren’s remarkable recovery after she has gotten 80 percent of her body burned in the fall of the World Trade Centers.

 In THE SHOEMAKER’S WIFE by Adriana Trigiani, Ciro has caught the local priest in scandal. He is banished from his village and sent to hide in America as an apprentice to a shoemaker. He leaves his love Enza, but soon her family faces disaster and she is forced to go to America too.

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Week of August 13, 2012

In CLOSE YOUR EYES by Iris and Roy Johansen, FBI agent Adam Kyle consults with music therapist Kendra Michael to help him solve his case, a case that has Kendra's ex in the path of a known serial killer. Will Kendra and Adam be able to save him in time or will there differences get in the way?

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