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May 14: Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience was published on this day in 1849. An anthem for the idea of principled, independent behavior, Thoreau's essay was inspired by the nation's battle over slavery and its land-grabbing war with Mexico -- [...]
May 13: After months crossing the Atlantic and then weeks exploring the Virginia coast, English settlers anchored at Jamestown on this day in 1607. When the 104 colonists disembarked the next day, they established what would be the first permanent [...]
Wolf Blitzen: This just in: CNNN has it on good authority that this Sunday, May 12th, will be celebrated all over the United States as Mother’s Day. It’s not clear at this time how many mothers and children will be [...]
Three Chicago journalism students attend an “innocence” seminar that will teach them how to release the wrongfully accused from prison. But as innocents are jailed, a killer roams free, and the students are next on the hit list.
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A claustrophobic tale of a brazen and imaginative 10-year-old kept in summer isolation with a tenuous caretaker, Flora, during her father’s stint doing secretive World War II work.
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Set against a backdrop of slave revolts and yellow fever, this historical novel delves into the little-mentioned past of former crown colony Jamaica.
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Inspector Chen is at it again in another hard-boiled addition to Qiu Xiaolong’s celebrated mystery series. This time, the Shanghai detective must choose between ruling a Party member’s mysterious death as a suicide and pursuing the sinister truth.
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Inspector Chen is at it again in another hard-boiled addition to Qiu Xiaolong’s celebrated mystery series. This time, the Shanghai detective must choose between ruling a Party member’s mysterious death as a suicide and pursuing the sinister truth.
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Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin.
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In an alternate America with nightmarish overtones of our own, Benjamin Percy brings a keen eye for the wonder of the natural world in Red Moon, his page-turning take on the supernatural thriller and a Summer '13 Discover pick. Percy [...]
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