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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
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
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
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
Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West
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A narrative of the West from North Dakota to Texas to the Pacific coast, this book explores the region’s history from prehistoric ...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
The Tyrants
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This large-format hardback is an anthology of fifty of the most autocratic leaders the world has known. All the usual suspects are here. ...Read Review
The Savage Garden
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In 1958, Cambridge art history student, Adam Strickland, goes to Tuscany to work on the Mannerist garden of the Villa Docci near Florence. The ...Read Review
A Day of Small Beginnings
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In early 20th century Poland, Itzik, a young Jewish boy, kills a Polish Catholic and runs to the graveyard for cover. There he ...Read Review
Crowned in a Far Country
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Eight young women sent from home to marry into royal houses: Obscure German princess to Empress of Russia, Catherine the Great deposed her ...Read Review
