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Mark Munger
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Her hand gripped his, trying in vain to stop the descent of the blade into her chest. But she was weak and he was strong.
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Suomalaiset: People of the Marsh
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Sukulaiset: The Kindred
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2014
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Laman's River
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2012
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Kotimaa: Homeland
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Pigs, a Trial Lawyer's Story
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2003
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Boomtown
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Esther's Race
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2007
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The Legacy
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2002
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Ordinary Lives
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2002
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Mr. Environment: The Willard Munger Story
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The Shit Hits the Fan (An Author’s Tale from the Road)
Hackensack, MN Art and Book Fair 2016
Before we left home, the shit literally hit the fan. Rene’ and I were due to leave the house early on Friday morning. I had plans to load the car, tuck away the dogs (our son Matt had agreed to feed, water, and exercise our Lab and Dachshund), and hear the hum of rubber on asphalt before 8:00am. Didn’t happen that way. Here’s why.
First, I woke up sicker than a
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“Whereas much of eastern Finland is marshy, lake-filled, and forested, making mass assaults with tanks and mechanized troops problematic, the Estonian border with Russia is not nearly as difficult for invaders. Cross a river or two and the path is clear to Tallinn. Historians still debate Konstantin Päts’s decision to capitulate to Stalin. I decided long ago, despite my enmity towards the man, that his decision saved, rather than cost, Estonian lives.”
― Sukulaiset: The Kindred
― Sukulaiset: The Kindred
“Yes, yes. I know. Poor judgment, that. But he at least was an Estonian, believed in Estonia. Most faculty members who thought like him have vanished. The communists also closed the theology department, which, since I wasn’t thinking of the ministry,” Karl said wryly, “didn’t affect me. But then they liquidated the Academy of Sciences,” Karl continued, his somber mood returning, “which had just formed. They also purged tens of thousands of ‘objectionable’ books from the university library.”
― Sukulaiset: The Kindred
― Sukulaiset: The Kindred
“Oh my God,” she whispered. “Oh my God.” My father chortled. “Hele, my dearest one, God has very little to do with it. This is the work of politicians. I’ve seen their work up close, too close. The result of their work is, in the end, slaughter. And for what? To gain a few more hectares of swamp? Trees? Fields?” This”
― Sukulaiset: The Kindred
― Sukulaiset: The Kindred
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