Hell No, Your Right to Dissent in Twenty-First-Century America by Michael Ratner & Margaret Ratner Kunstler; 2011; $17.95; 164 pages; The New Press, New York, NY; 978-1-59558-540-0; Checked out from Multnomah County Library, Central; 1/6-1/6 Why did I pick this up? Because I think that things may be getting weird in the good ole USA [...]

Radiant Darkness by Emily Whitman; 2009; $16.99; 278 pages; Greenwillow Books, New York, NY; 978-0-06-172449-7; Checked out from Multnomah County Library, Holgate; 1/4-1/5 Why did I pick this up? Because just 1bout 11 years I worked with the author at the Woodstock Branch Library. What is the story? Myth has said the Hades abducted Persephone, [...]