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Fandango’s Gold
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Jack Carlton isn’t really looking for adventure, but as captain of the Caribbean charter schooner Fandango, an adventure of some description can ...Read Review
A Short History of Slavery
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Published to coincide with and celebrate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the English Atlantic slave trade in 1807, this is the kind ...Read Review
For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies
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Orientalism has become a problematic scholarly discipline since Edward Said published his Orientalism in 1978. According to Irwin, Said accused Orientalists of imperialism, colonialism ...Read Review
Jack Knife
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The movie Time After Time, released in 1979, purported that Jack the Ripper stole H.G. Wells’s time machine and went to the 20...Read Review
English History Made Brief, Irreverent, and Pleasurable
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The cover of this slim, informative volume suggests at first glance something in the spirit of A’Beckett’s The Comic History of ...Read Review
Ysabel
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Guy Gavriel Kay has mesmerized readers with his realistic, historically-steeped novels set in alternate versions of actual eras and places. He has won ...Read Review
Flushed: How the Plumber Saved Civilization
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If you have some disposable income, Flushed, Hodding Carter’s tribute to the “humble plumber,” is a fun, yet informative, way to spend ...Read Review
Openwork
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Using the image of close needlework – where patterns are formed by holes in the cloth – Bernardi tells a cross-generational story of Italian families ...Read Review
Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy
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Dancing in the Streets is a compilation of essays celebrating the collective joy demonstrated through ritual dancing. Throughout history, dance and music have ...Read Review
The Willow Field
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The novel tells the life story of Rossie Benasco, from the age of fifteen until he becomes an older man and a grandfather. ...Read Review
