
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Other Stories
Nikolai Leskov and David McDuff
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The story of a passionate young woman who escapes her stifling marriage through adultery and murder,...

Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music
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In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR's acclaimed music critic...

The Outsider
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'My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.' In The Outsider (1942), his classic...

The Skin
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“It is a shameful thing to win a war.” The reliably unorthodox Curzio Malaparte’s own service...

Sisters of the East End: A 1950s Nurse and Midwife
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Heart-warming tales of nursing and midwifery from the Sisters who worked with Jennifer Worth. "A...