North American X-15
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The revolutionary X-15 remains the fastest manned aircraft ever to fly. Built in the two decades...
Twilight in Italy
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In 1912, a young D.H. Lawrence left England for the first time and travelled to northern Italy. He...
A Handful of Blue Earth: Poems by Venus Khoury-Ghata
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In her preface the distinguished American poet and translator Marilyn Hacker describes the poems...
Pure Contradiction: Selected Poems
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Rainer Maria Rilke's work spans the divide between turn-of-the-century Europe's decadence and its...
Lord of the Flies
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At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of...
Cannibals
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On a farm, in a village, on the fringe of Europe, life is simple but hard. When the sweeping forces...
The Egyptologist
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This darkly comic labyrinth of a story opens on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, then winds its...
Interview with History
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A posthumous compilation of this award-winning and best-selling writer and journalist's seminal,...
What Did You Do in the Great War, Grandfather?: The Life and Times of an Edwardian Horse Artillery Officer
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Part history, part social documentary, part love story, this is a grandson's search for what his...