Top stories published by Nina Sankovitch in March of 2010

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Mar 15, 2010

Between the Living and the Dead

In Sandra L. Bertman’s One Breath Apart: Facing Dissection, Bertman, professor of Thanatology and Arts at the National Center for Death Education, Mount Ida College, documents a program she began years ago at University of Massachusetts Medical Center to allow first year…

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Mar 2, 2010

Life is a Gamble

In 2001 Kyle Jarrard published Rolling the Bones. Nine years later, and in one day of voracious reading, I read it. I will read this book again and again. Everyone read this book! Rolling the Bones is a fabulous adventure book, a soul-searcher, a dream-catcher, and a long, luscious roll in the hay…

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Mar 9, 2010

Immortality for the Woman Behind the Cells

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot is just as good as everyone (The New York Times, Science magazine, Publishers Weekly, Washington Post, Boston Globe, etc) says it is. It is the riveting story of a young mother who went to the public…

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Mar 1, 2010

Degrees of Servitude

The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom is a fantastic book, containing all the elements of great storytelling: richly rendered characters, compelling plot, and a completely satisfying conclusion. Grissom tells her story with honesty, passion, and conviction and we are carried away on her…

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Mar 12, 2010

Festering Scars of War

The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee is an epic novel about the personal costs of war. The three main characters, June, Hector, and Sylvie, have all experienced the horrors of war up close, June as a young refugee during the Korean war, Hector as an American soldier fighting in Korea, and…

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Mar 8, 2010

Into Afghanistan

Daniele Mastrogiacomo was taken prisoner by the Taliban in Afghanistan in March 2007 and Days of Fear is his account of the two weeks he was held captive, moved almost daily from camp to camp, and tortured physically and mentally. Mastrogiacomo went to Afghanistan to get a close-up interview with a…

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Mar 22, 2010

Born to Be Wild

Wild Indigo is the first in Sandi Ault’s “Wild” mystery series set in Taos Valley in New Mexico. The “wild” in the series refers both to the last name of the sleuthing heroine, Jamaica Wild, and the juxtaposition in the pueblo regions of New Mexico between ancient lands and traditions and the work…

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Mar 12, 2010

Raising the Ceiling

The Love Ceiling by Jean Davies Okimoto is a heartfelt and genuine look at family, and at the pivotal — and often thankless — role that the mother plays in nurturing along the members of her clan. The title refers to the limits that mothers feel as they pursue their own interests and careers…

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Mar 3, 2010

Heroic Mothers

Gabrielle Burton’s Impatient with Desire is a beautifully written fictional account of the Donner party’s epic journey of 1846. It is a journey whose tragic and gruesome finale is familiar to most Americans. Burton uses years of solid research and a disciplined imagination to fill in the less…

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Mar 19, 2010

Burning Bright and Beautiful

Ron Rash is a writer of quiet and stunning beauty. His novel One Foot in Eden was one of my favorites in my year of reading one book a day. When I received his latest publication, a collection of short stories entitled Burning Bright, I was excited to sit down and delve in. I…

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