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“hauntingly compelling. A highly recommended thrill ride . . .

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Ink & Paint, The Women of Walt Disney’s Animation by Mindy Johnson corrects the misguided perception regarding women’s lack of contribution to the animation industry.

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“How-to books are the Sherpas that usher you to the base camp at the foot of a photographic Everest.”

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“essential primer for anyone seeking to understand the complicated brew of history, politics, and prejudices that make this area of the globe one of the most likely flashpoints of the 21st

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"Death of Assassin is an entertaining look at very human characters in a world on the edge of radical change."

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“a great resource, but sadly, offers little understanding of how modern 20th century political culture was forged and the role radical women and men played in this critical development.”

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“To be clear—a gown is no mere dress.”
—Jo Ellison

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DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution is described in the Authors’ Note as an “unabashedly personal view both of the history and the issues.” The co-authors also stress that book repres

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"This book is an engrossing adventure about the rise of midwest America."

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“Flake is to be applauded for courageously calling out Trump and his many enablers in the Republican Party for their dangerous dance with authoritarian and bigoted white nationalism.”

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“should be the definitive volume on the Riviera’s World War II experience and is highly recommended.”

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Books take us hostage and transport us to times and places where we ourselves can’t go, whether it’s to a remote tropical island or to the Parthenon in ancient Greece.

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" . . .  new light on the diversity of Wright’s creative genius as a socially conscious architect, planner, and inventor."

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". . . read this evocative collection of stories about young people who are making a difference in environmental and political stewardship."

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“unforgettable . . .”

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"John Harte, a former playwright and freelance writer . . . has written a very uneven book about Churchill and the First World War."

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“a beautiful if hefty volume that will serve well as a fundamental study of de Kooning.”

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“These poems breathe an uneasy luminescence into the language of poetry.”

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One of the worst possible experiences in wartime is being captured and becoming a prisoner of war (POW).

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13 Art Materials Children Should Know is the latest installment to Prestel’s Children Should Know series.

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Although many consider that the modernist period of literature began just prior to the start of the 20th century and continued into the 1960s, and included many familiar names, it is the year 1922

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“Horse enthusiasts regularly experience the ways in which horses uplift and save us, giving meaning and peace . . .”

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". . . bound to be a starting point for further research into minority groups in the U.S. and abroad."

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Three of the most recognized letters in sport today are CTE, representing the brain disease, chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Dr.

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“If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer.”—Hanna Arendt

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