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Melynda Taylor

From public school classrooms in Appalachia’s Blue Ridge with beloved teachers to university lecture halls with scholarly professors in Boston and Cambridge and a long varied career that always included research, writing, and learning, Melynda Taylor has always been captivated by words and ideas and a belief in their power to illuminate, uplift, and positively influence our time.

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Book

Late Flight to Lisbon

Shaped by decades of civic and literary influences, Late Flight to Lisbon is both intensely personal and quietly political. Its characters echo the voices of those too often unheard — and the plot unfolds not through tricks or twists, but through the longings that live inside all of us.