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Friday, July 30, 2021

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer

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Protecting cultural heritage from al-Qaeda During the Middle Ages, when Europe was experiencing an extended descent towards barbarism, Is...
Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Essential Fantastic Four, Volume 1 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

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Glory days of the Silver Age Essential Fantastic Four, Volume 1 reprints the first twenty issues of the Fantastic Four comic book, which...
Monday, July 26, 2021

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt

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From the Orinoco to the Amazon and back Alexander von Humboldt Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt’s expedition to the New Wor...
Monday, July 19, 2021

The Modern Prometheus by E. Phillips Oppenheim

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Guilt-ridden romance E. Phillips Oppenheim I recently discovered the work of British author E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) and have ...
Monday, June 28, 2021

The Stranger by Albert Camus

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A meaningful testament to meaninglessness Albert Camus, winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born in Algeria to French pare...
Friday, June 25, 2021

Anthology of Modern Slavonic Literature in Prose and Verse, translated and edited by Paul Selver

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Eastern European stories and poems in English translation Wladyslaw Reymont As the title suggests, Anthology of Modern Slavonic Literatu...
Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Growing Soles: A Ninety-Six Year Journey Around the World by Micae Martinet

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Circling the globe on foot in 1920 and 2016 I first encountered the name Hippolyte Martinet while doing genealogical research. He is a di...