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Dream Story (Translated, Annotated, & Illustrated)This new edition of Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler offers readers a new translation from the original German text and a comprehensive exploration of the acclaimed novella, originally published as Traumnovelle in 1926 and adapted into the movie Eyes Wide Shut.Set in early 20th-century...
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Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990Spanning twenty-five years, this historic collection of writings shows Vaclav Havel's evolution from a modestly known playwright who had the courage to advise and criticize Czechoslovakia's leaders to a newly elected president whose first address to his fellow citizens begins, I assume you did...
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Bad Boys of the Black Hills: ...and Some Wild Women, TooThe lively romp details some of the Wild West's most engaging stories, specifically in the Black Hills and Deadwood, home to prostitutes and poets, desperados and dancehall girls, fortune tellers and fugitives. Readers will meet a host of rowdies ranging from madams to stagecoach...
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The Wild HuntThe islanders have only three rules: don't stick your nose where it's not wanted, don't mention the war, and never let your guard down during October. Leigh Welles has not set foot on the island in years, but when she finds herself called home...
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The Santa Claus GirlYES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS.Virginia grew up.When the polio epidemic of '52 reaches New York City, a young WWII veteran races against time, public fear of the disease, and demons from his past, to save the life of a little girl.Goodin debuts...
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Zachary: A Seagoing Cowboy"This sequel to No Quiet Water gently addresses for young readers the injustices of war. Transporting us this time to Japan, Zachary's goodwill mission brings him face to face with the emotional and physical realities of the aftermath of war." -Peggy Reiff Miller, Heifer...
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The Shortest History of Germany: From Roman Frontier to the Heart of Europe - A Retelling for Our TimesA country both admired and feared, Germany has been the epicenter of world events time and again: the Reformation, both World Wars, the fall of the Berlin Wall. It did not emerge as a modern nation until 1871--yet today, Germany is the world's fourth-largest...
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Poster Girls"Everyone is an outsider somewhere. There's a sameness to being different." After an unwanted southern migration, an upside-down world in 1943 offers military wife and mother, Maggie Slone, a job at Charlotte's largest wartime employer-the massive and dangerous Shell Assembly Plant. Meanwhile, military wife...
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Fried Chicken CastañedaAt the Castañeda Hotel you'll find romance, gourmet dining, bootleggers, and murder! Bored with her conventional middle-class life, Prudence Bates escapes Cleveland by heading west to qualify as a Courier for the Southwestern Indian Detours. On the California Limited she meets Jerry Begay, a...
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Inventing Human Rights: A HistoryHow were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture...
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Upstairs GirlsProstitutes make up one of the most engaging chapters in the story of the American West. Upstairs Girls opens a window on the lives of these women for hire--why they turned to prostitution, who they worked for, and what their lives were like. Author...
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Ordeal by HungerAward-winning author George R. Stewart's history of the Donner Party is “compulsive reading -- a wonderful account, both scholarly and gripping, of horrifying episode in the history of the west" (Pulitzer Prize-winner Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.)The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the...
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Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of AuschwitzThis is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine. Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his family; but when the Germans invaded,...
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In Search of a Boy Named Chester: A gift to my father for his 100th birthdayShortly after the end of World War II, a 21-year-old Navy officer - just back after a year at war in the Pacific - was eager to return to his small hometown in eastern North Carolina for a brief home leave. At the San...
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JFK: The Cia, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. KennedyWith an Introduction by Oliver Stone, the director of the hit movie JFK and a Foreword by Jesse Ventura, author of the New York Times Bestseller, They Killed our President, here is an insider's view of JFK, the CIA, Vietnam and the plot that...
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Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts, and FictionsIn an ambitious blend of fact and fiction, including family secrets, documents from the era, and a thin, fragmentary case file unsealed by the court, novelist Sheila O'Connor tells the riveting story of V, a talented fifteen-year-old singer in 1930s Minneapolis who aspires to...
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Time of SilenceA young cancer researcher ventures through the streets, slums, and subcultures of Francoist Madrid in this widely roving, linguistically inventive novel--a sort of Spanish Ulysses, but infused with the grotesquerie and dark comedy of Goya--available here in a new translation and with previously censored...
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Horse of a Different Color: Reminiscences of a Kansas Drover"Ralph Moody's story is a perfect example of rural American enterprise in the early 1920s...this book is a glorious recollection of Pre-Dust Bowl, pre-Depression days and is highly recommended."―Library JournalHorse of a Different Color ends the "roving days" of young Ralph Moody. His saga...
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Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia"In quiet, lovely prose, Julie Brill has delivered a powerful reminder of why our stories-personal, familial, historical-are so crucial. A moving excavation of a family story." -Menachem Kaiser, author of Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi TreasureDiscover a powerful, untold chapter of...
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The OtherFor Abe Dubinski and his family, life on the canal is both peaceful and productive. Employed as a lock tender, Abe is responsible for the safe passage of barges carrying anthracite from Pennsylvania to New York. When the canal company announces its plan to...
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