Allure of Deceit
Suspense novels about charity, religion, literacy and women fleeing control
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poverty
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Thursday, August 3
Resilience
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A child can develop resilience despite domestic violence, neglect and abandonment, poverty and inequality. In Hang the Moon by Jeannette Wa...
Saturday, April 29
Protection
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Lying is inevitable in the context of war, poverty, inequality. The lying continues even when the context changes, wars end and years pass ...
Thursday, November 10
Battling the grotesque
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Most readers quickly and rightly reject novels that detail abuse of animals, children or other vulnerable populations. Reading about systemi...
Monday, October 24
Abandoned
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The Foundling, set in 1927 at a state institution in Central Pennsylvania, is modeled after the real Laurelton State Village for Feeble-Mi...
Saturday, January 15
Rescue
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A 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes Port-au-Prince in January 2010, a place already so desperately poor, prompting survivors to scramble to r...
Monday, January 27
Corruption
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The future of Afghanistan is in jeopardy, because of poor governance and basic hunger. UN data suggest that 55 percent of the country'...
Saturday, October 13
Poverty
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Data from the CIA offer one strange look into the relativity of national poverty. The definitions of poverty vary wildly among nations...
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