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This true story of Greg Gadson, a former colonel in the US Army who was grievously wounded in Iraq by an IED explosion that cost him both legs is an unforgettable, riveting, and inspiring account of courage and faith.

The winner of the 2023 Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature, this beguiling, poetically drawn memoir of the author's early years as a nun in San Francisco in the mid-1960s, by Dianne Dugaw, provides a pastoral and moving ode to the cloistered world with vespers and Beatles tunes for a soundtrack.

"Set in an unnamed city in Mexico, these nineteen stories in award-winning author Karen Brennan's latest collection, Rabbit in the Moon, reveal startling truths surrounding the varied expat and native inhabitants of a city distinguished by wide class divides, as well as a rich racial and cultural diversity. In her lyrical and naturalistic style, lush with sensual details of this south of the border retreat, Brennan instills deep empathy to the array of characters with whom she populates her stories; whether expats, artists, street hustlers, faded beauty queens, revolutionaries or wide-eyed tourists, all are imbued with a rich humanity as they strive to recoup their losses and shattered selves. At a time when so many are looking for an escape to a remote tropical haven, these at times humorous, at times heartbreaking, and always riveting tales in Rabbit in the Moon will resonate with readers everywhere"--