The Picturegoers
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Welcome to the Palladium, Brickley. Once the grandest music-hall south of the river, now its peeling...
Women, Enlightenment and Catholicism: A Global Biographical History
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Women, Enlightenment and Catholicism explores, for the first time, how Catholic women in Europe used...
Creating Freedom: Power, Control and the Fight for Our Future
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We are far less free than we like to think. In Creating Freedom, Raoul Martinez exposes the...
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What really needs to be recognized here is the message. The message of a mother and a family support system who simply refuse to accept that her son will not recover from falling through the ice of a frozen lake.
Dennis Haysbert and Mike Colter both provide performances in supporting roles that really help put everything else into place, right where it should be. Topher Grace earned a level of respect from me that I didn't think he would achieve in his role, as well.
The Street
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New York City, 1940s. In a crumbling tenement in Harlem, Lutie Johnson is determined to build a new...
The Long Home
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Nathan Winer is unknowingly working for a man who killed his father and has designs on his lover,...
Bone
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Raw and stark, the poems in Yrsa Daley-Ward's breakthrough collection strip down her reflections on...