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Now, Berlin's noir tradition--fueled by history, geography, and various literary traditions--adds up to a powerful volume of riveting short stories.

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In Berlin Sketchbook artist Fabrice Moireau captures the iconic sites and hidden corners of the German capital, guided by author and Berlin resident Boris von Brauchtisch.

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Bess and Frima, best friends from the Bronx, find romance at their summer jobs at Jewish vacation hotels in the Catskillsand as love mixes with war, politics, creative ambitions, and the mysteries of personality, they leave girlhood behind them.

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Drawing on biographical and historical sources, Bessie reimagines the early life of Bess Myersonthe talented daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrantswho, in the bigoted milieu of 1945, remarkably rises to become Miss America.

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Drawing on biographical and historical sources, Bessie reimagines the early life of Bess Myerson, the talented daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrants, who, in the bigoted milieu of 1945, remarkably rises to become Miss America.

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Richard Milton exposes the secrets of a relationship steeped in mutual admiration, blood and propaganda.

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Reuben Award-winning cartoonist Amend culls through 20 years of "FoxTrot" strips to select his personal favorites for this lavish hardcover retrospective.

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Drawing on the history of architecture, media theory, cultural anthropology, and urban studies, Best Practices pairs photographic documentation with extensive captions and citations to define a territory within the margins between the sanctioned and unsanctioned, the regulated and unregulated, the tasteful and tacky, the novel and the nonsense.

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In this vital and illuminating book, Peter Cochrane examines how the racial preoccupations that shaped Australia's preparation for and commitment to the war have been lost to popular memory.

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Deep in Tallinor folklore lies the dark secret of a powerful sentient called Orlac, a sentient who was once razed the famed city of Caremboche.

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When Sarahs seemingly perfect life begins to crumble, she is forced to confront the reality of her abusive marriage and dark past, and it seems all is lostuntil she allows the support of friends and a long forgotten, unopened letter to help her find her way back.

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Its 1964, and Evelynan adventurous and romantically inclined twenty-one-year-oldjoins the Peace Corps and is sent to the Andes, where she falls in love with her village, her indigenous pupils . . . and a university student. Violating the sexual prohibitions of her Catholic upbringing, she finds herself pregnant and must choose whether to marry the father of her unborn child.

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The true story of a retired British army officer's private Somali-hostage rescue mission.

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson traverse the British Isles and the Italian peninsula in a rousing new series of adventures.

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Stories of amazing coincidences and the mystery and mathematics that lie behind them.

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In the crucible of grief following a friends death, Patricia Pearce resolved to open herself to hidden dimensions of her existencenot realizing her quest would cost her her vocation as a Presbyterian pastor and open her eyes to the radical implications of Jesuss message for our spiritual evolution.

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When Napoleons army enters the sleepy port city of Ancona, Italy, livesincluding those of a Jewish girl torn between love and duty, a dashing French cavalryman, a devoutly Catholic housewife, a brave Jewish soldier, and of course, Napoleon himselfare changed forever.

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A moving memoir of a young nurses experience trekking with a local health team in rural Nepal, Beyond the Next Village chronicles how, after arriving in the roadless district of Gorkha in 1978, Mary Anne Mercer experiences firsthand the interlacing of modern medicine with an ancient cultureand her life is gradually transformed by immersion in the daily lives of villagers and her team.

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The mystery of Hanging Rock has everlasting appeal, and the life of the author Joan Lindsay is just as fascinating

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Tells the history of women's engagement with filmmaking and film culture in twentieth-century Australia. In doing so, this book explores an array of often hidden ways women in Australia have creatively worked with film.