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Book Review: 'We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program'

by Katherine Luck | July 26th, 2017

Exploring NASA’s role in the social justice movement

In May 1961, the same month that the Freedom Riders began protesting bus segregation, President John F. Kennedy announced his goal to put a man on the moon. It was a tough task undertaken during a dark period in U.S. history. “We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program” offers a complex look at a multilayered subject: the intersection of NASA’s earliest days, African-American history and equal employment legislation.
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Camp Second Chance hosts benefit concert for tiny houses

by Katherine Luck | June 21st, 2017

They say that each part of Seattle has a character all its own, attracting like-minded people who in turn build on the neighborhood’s unique personality. Camp Second Chance was built from the ground up by its residents.

“The founding members were campers from other tent cities. I knew some of them — that’s partly why I came here,” camp resident Patrick Mosley said.
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Book Review: "The Secret Chord”

by Katherine Luck | June 14th, 2017

Geraldine Brooks retells the Old Testament’s King David story

Two-thirds of the way through “The Secret Chord,” the latest book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks, the narrator has a moment of clarity.
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Book Review: "How to Murder Your Life"

by Katherine Luck | May 17th, 2017

If you're rich, White and addicted to drugs, you get to write a memoir

Who is Cat Marnell?
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Book Review: "I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This"

by Katherine Luck | December 28th, 2016

Nadja Spiegelman’s memoir reveals the conflicts between mothers and daughters

Glancing through the opening pages of “I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This” by Nadja Spiegelman, the reader will be forgiven for wondering who Nadja Spiegelman is and what this conspicuously average 29-year-old from New York City has done to merit a memoir.
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Book Review: "Exoneree Diaries: The Fight for Innocence, Independence, and Identity"

by Katherine Luck | September 14th, 2016

More than 2.3 million people are currently being held in state and federal prisons, jails and correctional facilities around the U.S. Within such a massive population, chances are that more than a few of those behind bars are actually innocent. As investigative journalist Alison Flowers discovered, an estimated 2 to 5 percent of all prisoners in the U.S. did not commit the crimes of which they’ve been accused and a prisoner is found innocent and formally exonerated every three days.
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What could go wrong?

by Katherine Luck | January 19th, 2016

Margaret Atwood wraps economic collapse around chaos and humor to create our latest dystopian future

Marked by sly humor and unexpected twists, “The Heart Goes Last,” by Margaret Atwood, is a cunning, challenging take on the oversaturated dystopian genre.
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Pictures Worth 1,000 Words

by Katherine Luck | July 8th, 2015

Two unique takes on graphic novels expand possibilities for the medium
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Black Hills, Dark History

by Katherine Luck | May 27th, 2015

Book Review - Thieves' Road by Terry Mort

Just two years before his infamous “Last Stand,” Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer set off on a secretive expedition deep into the Black Hills region of what is today South Dakota. Officially, he and the one-thousand armed troops he led were scouting a site for a military fort that would protect white settlers from Native American tribes.

But is that really why he was there?
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The fault in their stars

by Katherine Luck | April 8th, 2015

Book Review - The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber

“The Book of Strange New Things” by Michel Faber, author of the 2002 international bestseller “The Crimson Petal and the White,” is ostensibly a work of science fiction. In truth, it is a moving portrayal of romantic estrangement that charts the demise of the marriage of an interstellar Christian missionary, Peter, and his earth-bound wife, Bea.
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