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Rejecting the dictatorship of world financial markets and defending the social values of modern democracy, Hessel reminds us that life …
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and …
Forcibly removed from the ancient village of Ein Hod by the newly formed state of …
Heartbreaking and infuriating but almost impossible to put down.
Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don't let you go around again until you get it right.
According …
This Gospel is up there with Biff's :)
A recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of “Naked”, presents a collection …
Bottleneck :)
I was a bit perplexed when Genghis died about halfway through, as I thought this was his biography. It turned out to be a good overview of the entire period of the Mongol Empire instead. It got a bit tiresome the way he constantly felt the need to emphasize how much more humane the Mongols were than their European contemporaries, though. Not that I doubt that's true, and I understand that this is supposed to be revisionist, but still...
Beautiful melancholy :)
1925 autobiographical book "My Struggle" (USA: "My Battle") by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler
On April 1, 1924, because …
The Appalachian Trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America—majestic mountains, silent …
