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Diana Beresford-Kroeger Urges Us to Plant Trees to Save the Planet
Facts and Non-Fiction

Diana Beresford-Kroeger Urges Us to Plant Trees to Save the Planet

The world’s forests may lack a voice of their own, but they have a powerful ally in Diana Beresford-Kroeger, 80. The globally renowned botanist, medical biochemist and self-described “climate-change visionary” – who describes forests as “molecular green machines, just like the brain” – has dedicated her life and career to tree advocacy. At every opportunity, […]

In ‘The Traitor’s Daughter,’ Roxana Spicer Uncovers Her Mother’s Wartime Secrets
Facts and Non-Fiction

In ‘The Traitor’s Daughter,’ Roxana Spicer Uncovers Her Mother’s Wartime Secrets

Family secrets can be corrosive or illuminating. Occasionally, they are redemptive. That was the case for Canadian video journalist Roxana Spicer, 70, who painstakingly untangled the closely guarded wartime secrets of her late mother Agnes Spicer for her provocatively titled new non-fiction book, The Traitor’s Daughter.  Among the bombshells Roxana unearthed: Her Russian-born mother served […]

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