The World of Extreme Happiness
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When Sunny is born in rural China, her parents leave her in a slop bucket to die because she's a...
Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image
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Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was a dancer, singer, actress, author, politician, militant, and...
The Ghosts of K2: The Epic Saga of the First Ascent
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At 28,251 ft, K2 might be almost 800 ft shorter than Everest, but it's a far harder climb. In this...
The Lost Colony (Artemis Fowl, #5)
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Demons are beginning to materialize without warning on Earth. If humans were to capture one, all...
The Collector
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WHY WE LOVE IT: The late Sergio Toppi remains one of the great master sequential artists whose work...
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
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'The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.' Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to...
Brilliance of the Moon
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The third title in the compelling Tales of the Otori - the story that began with Across the...
The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon
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'An ass, clothed in the skin of a lion...' Aesop's animal fables are some of the earliest stories...
How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing
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'No one characteristic clasps us purely and universally in its embrace.' A selection of charming...
Jason and Medea
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'The Argonauts were terrified at the sight. But Jason planting his feet apart stood to receive them,...
Greek Mythology