
Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln: The Enduring Friendship of Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed
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On April 15, 1837, a "long, gawky" Abraham Lincoln walked into Joshua Speed's dry-goods store in...

Do You Remember?
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Alice Taylor remembers her childhood home - the farm with all its tools and animals, the home with...

Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922) spent fourteen years creating A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search...

How I Escaped My Certain Fate: The Life and Deaths of a Stand-Up Comedian
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Experience how it feels to be the subject of a blasphemy prosecution! Find out why 'wool' is a funny...

Badiou and Theology
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Depoortere traces the links between French philosopher Alain Badiou and Pauline theology in the face...

Saints for All Occasions
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Nora and Theresa Flynn are twenty-one and seventeen when they leave their small village in Ireland...
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Castaway Tales: From Robinson Crusoe to Life of Pi
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Ever since Robinson Crusoe washed ashore, the castaway story has survived and prospered, inspiring a...

The Outside Lands
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'Masterly ...gloriously well-written and deeply imagined' Jim Crace Jeannie is nineteen when the...

Girl at War
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Growing up in Zagreb in the summer of 1991, 10-year-old Ana Juric is a carefree tomboy; she runs the...