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Karl Beckstrand and Ransom Wilcox- To Swallow the Earth: A Western Thriller Genre: Western Thriller 4 Stars Adventurous and Intriguing read What an adventurous "western" story in To Swallow the Earth: A Western Thriller by Karl Beckstrand and Ransom Wilson. I am a big fan of Beckstrand and found that he can write different genres of stories and do it very well. This story is supposed to be geared to young adults, but I found it was an interesting and intriguing read that many

5 Stars Magnificently told! Wilcox pens an incredible memoir in The Long Tail of Trauma: A Memoir. This is the first book of this author's that I've read. Wilcox writes, "This is a story of mothers. This is a story of daughters. This is a story of the trauma we carry and the trauma we tend to. This story begins long before me. It begins with the first trauma my ancestral mothers bore, something passed deep in our wombs, from one generation to the next." And that is just the b