Marc Spitz
Taking us back to late '70s and early '80s Hollywood-pre-crack, pre-AIDS, pre-Reagan- Welcome to the big Reagan '80s, where ketchup is a vegetable and the Cold War looms large and chilly. If like Joe Green you were coming of age during this boom ... [... more]
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Maureen Dezell
Maureen Dezell is a staff writer for the Boston Globe. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. Old-time politics, piety, and St. Patrick's Day parades loom large when the Irish come to the American mind. None truly represents the complex legacy or ... [... more]
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Graham Fraser
As the threat of another Quebec referendum on independence looms, this book becomes important for every Canadian - especially as language remains both a barrier and a bridge in our divided country Canada's language policy is the only connection ... [... more]
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SOS: Stories of Survival
Everyone's life is touched at some time by disaster. But some disasters loom so large they are international events. The stories of those who live through such devastating events such as earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, fires, and floods are ... [... more]
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David R. Roediger
A moving cultural biography of abolitionist martyr John Brown, by one of the most important African-American intellectuals of the twentieth century. In the history of slavery and its legacy, John Brown looms large as a hero whose deeds partly ... [... more]
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Helen Lowe
PRINCE SIGISMUND HAS grown up in a remote castle, dreaming of going on heroic knightly quests while staring out at the forbidden wood that looms to the west. His great-grandfather placed an interdict on the wood nearly 100 years ago, though no ... [... more]
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