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Louise Anne Meredith drew her literary inspiration from the Australian landscape and crafted her own ‘brand’ in its image.

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Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the ... This was reasonable, given the C.I.A.’s history, but Coll indicates that it was exactly the wrong fear.

the crew of the Zaida were among the everyday Americans who risked their lives watching out for enemy submarines A new book examines the evolution of the American workplace, interrogating the idea ...

The deaths of Abraham Lincoln, JFK and Natasha Richardson were some of the most shocking deaths by brain injury in history, but this new book by brain surgeon Theodore H. Schwartz delves into ...

The new book “El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary” delves into the truths and misunderstandings about the legendary knight. The new novel by “The Reader” author Bernhard ...