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but it's especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison's 1970 debut novel

Islas is about preserving the wisdom

and include clues to deciphering the terrain--making Oregon and Washington's Roadside Ecology a must-have guide to some of the area's most spectacular and unusual natural sights

Kumar's perspective is not that of a list keeper

The Return Sagas but it's especially reminiscent ofA group of friends reunite after one of them has returned from a mysterious two year disappearance in this edgy and haunting debut. Julie is missing, and no one believes she will ever return except Elise. Elise knows Julie better than anyone, and feels it in her bones that her best friend is out there and that one day Julie will come back. She's right. Two years to the day that Julie went missing, she reappears with no memory of where she's been or