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James Janko
Books in Order: 4 titles
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The Wire-Walker
- Sep-2025
- / General Fiction
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In the Balata Refugee Camp in Nablus, Palestine, sixteen-year-old Amal Tuqan finds her escape in tightrope walking. Living in an alley so narrow that " the walls hold their breath," she practices tirelessly on thin wires and slippery rebar. Her extra...
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What We Don't Talk About
- Nov-2022
- / Literary
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Orville, Illinois, is bucolic, charming, and almost Norman Rockwellesque-if you're white. But like many midwestern cities in the 1960s, it is a sundown town-a place where Black Americans are prohibited from entering or remaining after dark. The town...
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The Clubhouse Thief
- Feb-2018
- / Literary
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“Part of me wanted to quit, let the Red Birds hammer us, and slink away to hibernate all winter. I had that old feeling of worthlessness running through me, and sadness, too. A coach, whatever his age, should be a reservoir of hope, but I, in my Cu...
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Buffalo Boy and Geronimo
- Jan-2006
- / General Fiction
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The unique vision in Janko's Buffalo Boy and Geronimo is the depiction of the Vietnam War as seen through the lens of a wounded but resilient nature as a Confucian society still rooted in the earth and the unbroken fabric of ancestors is pitted ag...