Notes from the Blockade Gifts for Grads James invites readers to celebrate

James invites readers to celebrate spectacular food created from the perfect balance of animal and plant life in the Southern Highlands

supports the whole person’s emotions

Dane must track down the mystical crystal skulls that have baffled scientists

a middle-aged woman forced to return to a home state she'd rather forget

From the can-opening Zans to the boxing Gox to the winking Yink who drinks pink ink

Notes from the Blockade Gifts for Grads James invites readers to celebrateFrom her experience as a survivor of the 900 day siege of Leningrad, Lidiya Ginzburg has created a remarkable hero in whom she distills the experience of life under siege. Though she depicts the harrowing conditions, the reader takes away an impression of the dignity, vitality, and intellectual resilience of the thinking mind as it makes sense of extreme experience. This classic work of documentary fiction reminiscent of Primo Levi and Albert Camus,