R.C. Binstock

• May-1992
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• Aug-1995
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The year is 1938. The Japanese army has occupied Nanking.

Kuroda, a reluctant officer trained as a botanist, is left in charge of a garrison town. When he comes upon a starving, filthy Chinese refugee about to be raped by his soldiers, a co...

• May-1996
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Phillip's insular artistic life borders on self-exile. He lives in the woods of New Hampshire in a centuries old farmhouse. He does not simply prize his privacy, he insists on it. When a young female relative arrives, to whom he has offered a tempora...

• Oct-2014
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Boston needs water. The engineers know where to find it. But four towns stand in their way …

“I am entirely a creature of my life’s sad events, committed to patience now, to endurance if nothing else. I am a part of my surroundings an...

• Jun-2016
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When Oscar Allen, eight year-old Manhattan foundling, ward of the state and child of the streets, and Lillian Hanover, a newly-married Nebraska farm girl still mourning her own parents, are brought together by circumstance in the fall of 1922, they f...

• Sep-2022
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These twelve stories explore the infinitely varied ways in which a shared crisis brings us face to face with ourselves, forcing us to both engage with the stranger we inevitably encounter and rely on our own kindness and mercy.Read one and you'll wan...