Tom Mayer
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- Sep 24, 2026
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(Books) In translation: Finding the right words for a mysterious Cat Clinic - The Cullman Times (opens the original)
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Published 1:04 pm Thursday, September 24, 2026 When E. Madison Shimoda translates Syou Ishida’s “Welcome to the Kokoro Cat Clinic” (Berkley), she is doing more than moving Japanese words into English. She is trying to preserve a particular way of telling a story — one built on implication, understatement, patient pacing and voices that can reveal as much through what they do not say as through what they say. That makes translation less a matter of finding equivalent words than finding equivalent
Past the edge of ordinary: 18 new books that push characters to the limit - The Cullman Times (opens the original)
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Published 1:25 pm Wednesday, September 16, 2026 September’s new fiction explores people pushed to the edge by war, ambition, grief, loyalty and survival. Whether set in ancient Rome, haunted wildernesses, dystopian futures or contemporary cities, these 18 stories examine what happens when ordinary lives collide with extraordinary circumstances. Political intrigue, supernatural menace, family bonds and impossible choices run throughout the collection, offering everything from turn-the-page thrill
A litigator’s next case: Wade Monk weaves Cold War suspense with Southern coming of age - St. Clair News-Aegis (opens the original)
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Published 3:27 pm Wednesday, September 2, 2026 A teenage boy is trying to make sense of a family that no longer makes sense to him: His mother is dead. His twin brother, Elliot, is difficult to understand and even more difficult to love. His father has his own troubles. God is somewhere in the background, though Haskell Hand is not sure what to make of Him. Around all of this, almost without invitation, comes the Cold War, espionage and the possibility that the world outside one small Georgia co
A litigator’s next case: Wade Monk weaves Cold War suspense with Southern coming of age - Athens The News Courier (opens the original)
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Published 3:27 pm Wednesday, September 2, 2026 A teenage boy is trying to make sense of a family that no longer makes sense to him: His mother is dead. His twin brother, Elliot, is difficult to understand and even more difficult to love. His father has his own troubles. God is somewhere in the background, though Haskell Hand is not sure what to make of Him. Around all of this, almost without invitation, comes the Cold War, espionage and the possibility that the world outside one small Georgia co
A litigator’s next case: Wade Monk weaves Cold War suspense with Southern coming of age novel - The Cullman Times (opens the original)
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Published 3:26 pm Wednesday, September 2, 2026 A teenage boy is trying to make sense of a family that no longer makes sense to him: His mother is dead. His twin brother, Elliot, is difficult to understand and even more difficult to love. His father has his own troubles. God is somewhere in the background, though Haskell Hand is not sure what to make of Him. Around all of this, almost without invitation, comes the Cold War, espionage and the possibility that the world outside one small Georgia co
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