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A heartbreaking novel about the impacts of residential schools on five indigenous children

Five Little Indians is a heart-breaking novel by Cree writer Michelle Good, which explores how residential schools have affected lives in Canada. The book follows the lives of five indigenous children taken from their families and the physical and emotional impact of their experiences. It’s horrible to imagine that this could happen in Canada, but of course, it did, to hundreds of children. This book brought me to tears more than once. I recommend it to anyone interested in understanding how residential schools affected Canadian and Indigenous culture and society.

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The Devil’s Sea: Fast-paced international thriller with high adventure, deep sea exploration and peril

Clive Cussler’s son, Dirk Cussler, has taken the reins from his father as master storyteller. In The Devil’s Sea, he brings us a fast-paced international thriller undersea and though Tibet in a tangled web involving a Chinese missile, marine exploration, and a Buddhist relic. Expect high adventure, deep sea exploration. explosions and peril. Dirk does a great job continuing the legacy that his father started, with clean, exciting suspense that anyone can enjoy.

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The Bell Jar – A Dark and Engaging Exploration of Depression

This book has been on my reading list for a long time, and I finally got around to reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. It is a difficult-to-read fictionalized autobiographical account of mental illness, depression, and attempted suicide. The author/main character was hospitalized for therapy, including shock therapy, after a serious suicide attempt. Sylvia Plath tells it like it is and was heralded for her fresh, unflinching look at depression in our modern society, especially in women.

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A Journey into Botswana in The Kalahari Typing School for Men

I’m not sure how many of the books I have read in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith. Maybe just one other one. The Kalahari Typing School for Men is number four in the series. It can, of course, be read as a stand alone. The mysteries dealt by the ladies are not suspenseful and thrilling, but instead take you on a journey into the culture and streets of Botswana. It is a slower pace, with lots of domestic details and carefully drawn characters. It is easy to find yourself pulled into these books even if you are used to the faster-paced mystery thrillers.

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A look back at the future in Click Here for Murder

Click Here for Murder by Donna Andrews has been a fun and clever read so far. The main narrator (it has multiple points of view) is an AI personality that has gained sentience. I have not read book one in the Turing Hopper series, but there is enough backstory for me to understand the main points of what has happened prior to this story. I have read some of Donna Andrews’ Meg Langslow series, which is quite good.

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