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Former doctor Tucia Hatherley, when her livelihood is threatened, joins a traveling medicine show, and loathing the duplicity, tries to break free only to be pulled in even deeper until something happens that challenges her to recover her belief in medicine and the good in others--and herself.
2) Yellow roses
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A captivating collection unveiling the intricacies of love, life, and legacy
These twelve stories, told from the viewpoint of young women in life's mid-passage, explore the splendors and miseries of love, both carnal and spiritual, and cast back through sickness and health to the engraving experiences of childhood and forward to the rituals and release of death and its occasion for recall.
They tell us of a dutiful but not guiltless daughter faced...
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The lively essays collected here explore colonial history, culture, and thought as it intersects with Jewish studies. Connecting the Jewish experience with colonialism to mobility and exchange, diaspora, internationalism, racial discrimination, and Zionism, the volume presents the work of Jewish historians who recognize the challenge that colonialism brings to their work and sheds light on the diverse topics that reflect the myriad ways that Jews...
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Hyperinflation, Staatskrise, Hitler-Putsch: Ohnmächtig wankt die junge deutsche Republik im Jahr 1923 Richtung Abgrund. Der Einmarsch französischer Truppen ins Ruhrgebiet treibt Extremisten von Rechts und Links auf die Barrikaden, das Land steht vor Bürgerkrieg und Diktatur. Es ist eine „Tollhauszeit" (Stefan Zweig), in der sich Krisengewinner dekadenten Vergnügungen hingeben, während die Bevölkerung ins Elend stürzt.
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We commonly think of the psychedelic sixties as an explosion of creative energy and freedom that arose in direct revolt against the social restraint and authoritarian hierarchy of the early Cold War years. Yet, as Fred Turner reveals in The Democratic Surround, the decades that brought us the Korean War and communist witch hunts also witnessed an extraordinary turn toward explicitly democratic, open, and inclusive ideas of communication and with them...
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America's most inspirational voices, in their own words… Published when Studs Terkel was ninety-one years old, this astonishing oral history tackles one of the famed journalist's most elusive subjects: Hope. Where does it come from? What are its essential qualities? How do we sustain it in the darkest of times? An alternative, more personal chronicle of the "American century," Hope Dies Last is a testament to the indefatigable spirit that Studs...
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1934, ein Jahr nach der »Machtergreifung«, gerät das NS-Regime in eine schwere Krise. Die politischen Erfolge bleiben aus, die erste Euphorie unter den Anhänger:innen ist verflogen. Ernst Röhm baut seine »Sturmabteilung« weiter aus und fordert eine Fortsetzung der »nationalsozialistischen Revolution«, gleichzeitig formieren sich ultrakonservative Kräfte. Im Juni 1934 hält Hitler blutige Abrechnung: Er lässt Röhm und die SA-Spitze kaltblütig...
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H.L. Mencken was America's most prominent iconoclastic journalist of the first half of the 20th century, and he still has a considerable following. Mencken's writings have been in print continuously for over 100 years, including a collection published in the 1950s that's still in print almost 70 years after it was first published.This is the first new collection of Mencken's writings to appear in decades, and it consists primarily of complete pieces...
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Wie kommt es, dass Menschen töten? Michael Kühner, langjähriger Ermittler und Leiter der Stuttgarter Mordkommission a.D., geht der Frage anhand von drei Mordfällen nach, die in den 1960er- und 1970er-Jahren die Schwabenmetropole erschütterten. Täter, Opfer und Hinterbliebene taumeln in einem Strudel aus Leben und Tod … Sachlich und authentisch breitet der Autor ein Panorama menschlicher Tragödien im Schatten des Wirtschafswunders aus. Ein...
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Adolf Hitler, so hat Brigitte Hamann nachgewiesen, ist ohne Wien nicht denkbar. Es ist die Erfahrung der habsburgischen Metropole, die das Denken des Diktators zutiefst prägte. Oliver Rathkolb und Johannes Sachslehner legen diesen Meilenstein der Hitler-Biografik nun in völlig überarbeiteter Form vor, lassen die aktuellsten Forschungsergebnisse zu Wort kommen, bringen wichtige Ergänzungen anhand neuer Quellen und zeichnen ein Bild von großer...
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The final volume of Burns's classic history of the American Experiment, from the election of FDR to the final days of the Cold War Crosswinds of Freedom is an articulate and incisive examination of the United States during its rise to become the world's sole superpower. Here is a young democracy transformed by the Great Depression, the Second World War, the Cold War, the rapid pace of technological change, and the distinct visions of nine presidents....
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During the five full years of his presidency (1964—1968), Lyndon Johnson initiated a breathtaking array of domestic policies and programs, including such landmarks as the Civil Rights Act, Head Start, Food Stamps, Medicare and Medicaid, the Immigration Reform Act, the Water Quality Act, the Voting Rights Act, Social Security reform, and Fair Housing. These and other "Great Society" programs reformed the federal government, reshaped intergovernmental...
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One of E.M. Forster's most beloved and critically-acclaimed works, "A Room With a View" follows the journeys - both abroad and romantically - of young Lucy Honeychurch, a British girl during the Edwardian era with a distinctly independent nature.
On a trip to Italy, with her chaperone Miss Charlotte Bartlett in tow, Lucy encounters a Mr. Emerson and his son George. Both men are free-thinkers, unbound by the strictures of the day, and as they...
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The twentieth century was a golden age of mapmaking, an era of cartographic boom. Maps proliferated and permeated almost every aspect of daily life, not only chronicling geography and history but also charting and conveying myriad political and social agendas. Here Tim Bryars and Tom Harper select one hundred maps from the millions printed, drawn, or otherwise constructed during the twentieth century and recount through them a narrative of the century's...
15) After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century
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For most of the twentieth century, maps were indispensable. They were how governments understood, managed, and defended their territory, and during the two world wars they were produced by the hundreds of millions. Cartographers and journalists predicted the dawning of a "map-minded age," where increasingly state-of-the-art maps would become everyday tools. By the century's end, however, there had been decisive shift in mapping practices, as the dominant...
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More than just colorful clickbait or pragmatic city grids, maps are often deeply emotional tales: of political projects gone wrong, budding relationships that failed, and countries that vanished. In Map Men, Steven Seegel takes us through some of these historical dramas with a detailed look at the maps that made and unmade the world of East Central Europe through a long continuum of world war and revolution. As a collective biography of five prominent...
17) Singing in the Age of Anxiety: Lieder Performances in New York and London between the World Wars
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In New York and London during World War I, the performance of lieder-German art songs-was roundly prohibited, representing as they did the music and language of the enemy. But as German musicians returned to the transatlantic circuit in the 1920s, so too did the songs of Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf, and Richard Strauss. Lieder were encountered in a variety of venues and media-at luxury hotels and on ocean liners, in vaudeville productions and at Carnegie...
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A brilliantly original and gripping new look at the sinking of the Titanic through the prism of the life and lost honor of J. Bruce Ismay, the ship's owner
Books have been written and films have been made, we have raised the Titanic and watched her go down again on numerous occasions, but out of the wreckage Frances Wilson spins a new epic: when the ship hit the iceberg on April 14, 1912, and one thousand men, lighting their last cigarettes, prepared...
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"One word sums this book up for me; Magnificent! . . . this is right up there with the best war romances I have read . . . Just stunning!" -Chicks, Rogues and Scandals
July 1942
Dear diary, despite the war raging around me, I find I can't stop thinking about the American officer, Sergeant Dale Johnson. I've never known anyone as brave, kind and handsome! But I promised myself I wouldn't care this much about a man again, especially when he could...
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During the glamorous 1970's, a young woman with lofty dreams falls in love with a charismatic man with a mysterious past … Natasha is a fashion model with higher ambition. Philippe is an architect with a secret past as a child of the Holocaust. They meet by accident and their lives and careers grow as quickly as their whirlwind romance. From Cleveland, to New York and Paris … their life is filled with champagne for breakfast. Fate introduces them...
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