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June 1998

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published June 1998.

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The Mt. Pele Redemption

by Sophia Tarila

Martin, a veteran writer, takes us on an amazing journey placed in the 1950s. Claire Dumont, a feisty young journalist, seeks to unlock the whys and wherefores of her father’s sudden debilitation and death-drawing coma that is somehow... Read More

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North South East West

by Gabrielle Shaw

Co-published by The Carnegie Museum Of Natural History and Roberts Rhinehart Publishers Inc. Dr. Marsha Bol brings her extensive training and experience as an anthropologist in “Indian country” to this magnificently illustrated work... Read More

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Pornocopia

“Porn is sex without secrecy…but its users are secret,” anthropologist Bernard Arcand maintains. With this hushed realism fueling British author O’Toole’s take on pornography in Pornocopia, O’Toole argues that with the onset... Read More

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Five Little Piggies

by Dawn Farley

The well-known fingerplay about the five little piggies going to market is given new life in David Martin’s picture book. The first little piggie goes to market with a list of things to buy. After some fun with mixed-up words, he gets... Read More

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My Father, My Self

by John Flesher

My Father, My Self is a seeming no-brainer: Children need good fathers. Yet, as author Masa Aiba Goetz notes, it wasn’t long ago that society regarded fathers as peripheral to the intellectual, emotional and spiritual development of... Read More

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The Last of the Black Emperors

by John Wark

Promising to continue to serve in some public capacity, Marion Barry, Washington, D.C.‘s colorful and wildly popular political Lazarus, held a press conference in late May to announce he won’t make a fifth bid as mayor. It was a... Read More

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