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“Some things just don’t keep well inside this house …” The summer of 1966 burned hot across America but nowhere hotter than the cotton fields of Mississippi. Finding herself in a precarious position as a black woman living alone,...

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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

By: Daniel Immerwahr

A pathbreaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an...

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Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt

By: Chris Naunton

Tombs, mummies, and funerary items make up a significant portion of the archeological remains that survive ancient Egypt and have come to define the popular perception of Egyptology. Despite the many sensational discoveries in the last...

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Oui, mon commandant ! (Mémoires, Tome 2)
by Amadou Hampâté Bâ

Oui, mon commandant ! (Mémoires, Tome 2)

By: Amadou Hampâté Bâ

This book Oui, mon commandant ! (Mémoires, Tome 2) by Amadou Hampâté Bâ,

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By: Paul Auster

Astonishing, a masterpiece, Paul Auster’s greatest, most satisfying, most vivid and heartbreaking novel — a sweeping and surprising story of inheritance, family, love and life itself. Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in...

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Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads

By: Paul Theroux

One of the most acclaimed travel writers of our time turns his unflinching eye on an American South too often overlooked Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich history and...

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Un-American: A Soldier’s Reckoning of Our Longest War

By: Erik Edstrom

A manifesto about America’s unchallenged war machine, from an Afghanistan veteran and new kind of military hero. Before engaging in war, Erik Edstrom asks us to imagine three, rarely imagined scenarios: First, imagine your own death....

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L’étrange Destin de Wangrin
by Amadou Hampâté Bâ

L’étrange Destin de Wangrin

By: Amadou Hampâté Bâ

Amadou Hampaté Bâ, le grand défenseur de la tradition orale africaine né au Mali en 1901, raconte ici l’histoire d’un homme qui fut son ami. Cet homme, voué dès sa jeunesse au dieu “Gongoloma Soké”, dieu des...

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