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Countless scholars have labored to uncover the facts behind Whittaker Chambers' shocking accusation in 1948 before the House Committee on Un-American Activities that Alger Hiss, a former rising star ... (Read More)
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This is a compact yet thorough retrospective of the films of Alice Guy Blaché (1873–1968), an essential if unsung figure of the early years of cinema—the first woman director and the first woman to ... (Read More)
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(PEN/Faulkner Award Nominee) This collection of stories is Edward P. Jones' follow-up to his stunning novel The Known World, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics ... (Read More)
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As she did with The Sweet Life and Off the Beaten Path, illustrator Laura Stoddart again illuminates a choice selection of prose and verse passages from great literary pens—this time on ... (Read More)
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In this collection of stories that carry us from the excitement and anticipation of courtship to the deep connection of lifelong commitment, the founder of NPR's StoryCorps oral history project ... (Read More)
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To all the sports fans, benchwarmers, and backups that populate the bathrooms of this world, Max Brallier has your outhouse bible. Among the facts, quotes, jokes, anecdotes, trivia, and history in ... (Read More)
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Illustrator Allen Lewis created more than 50 bookplates in his career, including this woodcut from 1926, dramatically depicting a lone archer taking aim at something high in the sky. This package ... (Read More)
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"Down in the bayou / in the marshy glades / where the alligators slither and slide, / on a warm summer night / when the moon was bright / an alligator took a bride." Nancy Jewell's rhyming romp for ... (Read More)
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In 2005 researchers sequenced the chimpanzee genome and provided a startling new window into the differences between humans and our closest primate cousins. For the past several years, Science ... (Read More)
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"If everybody's first English teacher were Roy Blount Jr., we might still be trillions in debt, but we would be so deeply in love with words and their magic ... that we'd hardly notice," opined Chris ... (Read More)
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With printed endpapers, ribbon markers, and hard covers in vivid colors, inset with color photos, these small lined notebooks each contain 80 pages of off-white ruled paper. The 4 x 5 3/4-inch books ... (Read More)
The Mexican War introduced vast new territories into the United States, among them California and the present-day Southwest. When gold was discovered in California in the 1849 gold rush, the ... (Read More)
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