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    Tilt

    In Emma Pattee's debut novel Tilt, heavily pregnant Annie is in IKEA looking to buy a crib when a huge earthquake strikes Portland. Buildings crumble, bridges collapse, roads are ripped apart, and the...

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    The Devastating Earthquake Predicted to Hit Portland

    Emma Pattee's debut novel Tilt follows one woman's journey across Portland after the city is hit by a devastating earthquake. Though fictional, the disaster is based on research that suggests such...

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    Sky Daddy

    Linda, the protagonist of Kate Folk's debut novel Sky Daddy, is sexually and romantically attracted to commercial airplanes. Linda is a first-person narrator, and this information about her interests ...

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    Objectum Sexuality

    Linda, the narrator of Sky Daddy, is sexually and romantically attracted to commercial airplanes. This phenomenon could be viewed as a subset of objectum sexuality (OS) — defined as romantic...

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    The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue

    It starts with a murder mystery of sorts: what is killing the trees on a certain street in the Washington, DC suburb of Takoma Park, Maryland? The investigation sparks climate activist Mike Tidwell&#...

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    Climate Change Mitigation Strategies

    In The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue, author Mike Tidwell offers an overview of strategies being researched and implemented to mitigate climate change. Overall, the main strategies are decarbonization ...

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    Audition

    Katie Kitamura's novels share an unadorned narrative style. Beautiful and spare, the writing can be deceptively straightforward, and there often comes a moment within her novels, an almost ...

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    Books Featuring Actors as Characters

    The protagonist of Katie Kitamura's Audition is an actress, and sections of the novel reflect her thought process on performance, from the creation of her character to her considerations of a play...

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    The Usual Desire to Kill

    Playwright Camilla Barnes has crafted a character-driven debut novel with little conventional plot, relying instead on the central family's complex relationships to drive the narrative: the parents, ...

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    The Silent Generation in The Usual Desire to Kill

    In 1951, Time magazine described the youth of the era in the following terms: 'The most startling fact about the younger generation is its silence. With some rare exceptions, youth is nowhere near the...

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    Nesting

    Roisín O'Donnell's debut novel, Nesting, opens with what appears to be a perfect family on an outing: a strong, strikingly handsome husband and his gorgeous wife out for a day on the beach with ...

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    The Signs and Effects of Emotional Abuse

    Ciara Fay, the protagonist of Roisín O'Donnell's novel, Nesting, is the victim of emotional abuse, although she remains unaware of this for most of the book. Also referred to as psychological...

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