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Elephants and Radium Girls – The Only Harmless Great Thing (2018) by Brooke Bolander

August 30, 2024

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In this tragic and offbeat novella, Bolander combines two historical events – the Radium Girls scandal and the electrocution of Topsy the Elephant – to build a somehow disjointed but highly poetic new narrative. In a world where sign language communication with elephants is possible, US Radium has purchased a few to replace its litigious…
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A Norseman on the Silk Road – All the Horses of Iceland (2022) by Sarah Tolmie

August 27, 2024

Featherstone

A short novella steeped in both history and magic, about the horses of Iceland and the man who brought them there from a distant land. In the ninth century, Norse trader Eyvind of Eyri joins a caravan to travel on the Silk Road. His search for riches, however, takes an unexpected turn when he stumbles…
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