{"title":"Fiction","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"always-coming-home","title":"Always Coming Home by Ursula K Le Guin","description":"\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e.cs13DCAC4{text-align:left;margin:12pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0pt} .cs95B300B{11pt;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-style:normal;Calibri;} .cs3388614{text-align:left;margin:0pt 0pt 10pt 0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0pt} .cs4639DCB{11pt;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-style:italic;Calibri;}\u003c\/style\u003e\r\n\t\r\n\t\u003cp class=\"cs13DCAC4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs95B300B\"\u003eA long, long time from now, in the valleys of what will no longer be called Northern California, might be going to have lived a people called the Kesh.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs3388614\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs95B300B\"\u003eBut \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs4639DCB\"\u003eALWAYS COMING HOME\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs95B300B\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis not the story of the Kesh. 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