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Lessons from a Family Forged by History

by Rich Benjamin ...

**A piercingly powerful memoir, a grandson’s account of the coup that ended his grandfather's presidency of Haiti, the secrecy that shrouded that wound within his family, and his urgent efforts to know his mother despite the past.“A brilliant, absorbing book...I couldn’t stop reading.” —Salman Rushdie, author of Knife**Rich Benjamin’s mother, Danielle Fignolé, grew up the eldest in a large family ... Read more

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**A piercingly powerful memoir, a grandson’s account of the coup that ended his grandfather's presidency of Haiti, the secrecy that shrouded that wound within his family, and his urgent efforts to know his mother despite the past.“A brilliant, absorbing book...I couldn’t stop reading.” —Salman Rushdie, author of Knife**Rich Benjamin’s mother, Danielle Fignolé, grew up the eldest in a large family
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The Passion Trilogy

The Calvary, The Torture Garden & The Diary of a Chambermaid

by Octave Mirbeau ...

Translated by Louis Rich, Alvah Bessie, Benjamin R. Tucker ...

Octave Mirbeau's 'The Passion Trilogy' is a collection of three intense and thought-provoking novels that delve into the darker aspects of human nature. Mirbeau's literary style is bold and unapologetic, often utilizing vivid imagery and frank language to portray themes of desire, power, and corruption. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the trilogy offers a poignant commentary on ... Read more

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Octave Mirbeau's 'The Passion Trilogy' is a collection of three intense and thought-provoking novels that delve into the darker aspects of human nature. Mirbeau's literary style is bold and unapologetic, often utilizing vivid imagery and frank language to portray themes of desire, power, and corruption. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the trilogy offers a poignant commentary on
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Lessons from a Family Forged by History

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**A piercingly powerful memoir, a grandson’s account of the coup that ended his grandfather's presidency of Haiti, the secrecy that shrouded that wound within his family, and his urgent efforts to know his mother despite the past.“A brilliant, absorbing book...I couldn’t stop reading.” —Salman Rushdie, author of Knife**Rich Benjamin’s mother, Danielle Fignolé, grew up the eldest in a large family ... Read more

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**A piercingly powerful memoir, a grandson’s account of the coup that ended his grandfather's presidency of Haiti, the secrecy that shrouded that wound within his family, and his urgent efforts to know his mother despite the past.“A brilliant, absorbing book...I couldn’t stop reading.” —Salman Rushdie, author of Knife**Rich Benjamin’s mother, Danielle Fignolé, grew up the eldest in a large family
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Searching for Whitopia

An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America

by Rich Benjamin ...

As America becomes more and more racially diverse, Rich Benjamin noticed a phenomenon: Some communities were actually getting less multicultural. So he got out a map, found the whitest towns in the USA -- and moved in.A journalist-adventurer, Benjamin packed his bags and embarked on a 26,909-mile journey throughout the heart of white America, to some of the fastest-growing and whitest locales in ... Read more

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As America becomes more and more racially diverse, Rich Benjamin noticed a phenomenon: Some communities were actually getting less multicultural. So he got out a map, found the whitest towns in the USA -- and moved in.A journalist-adventurer, Benjamin packed his bags and embarked on a 26,909-mile journey throughout the heart of white America, to some of the fastest-growing and whitest locales in
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 85 (October 2019)

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by John Joseph Adams, Nathan Ballingrud, Carlie St. George, Gemma Files, Rich Larson, Benjamin Percy ...

Series Book 85 - Nightmare Magazine
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.Welcome to issue eighty-five of NIGHTMARE--and happy October! Every month is a great month to seek out literary scares, but an October horror story is just a little sweeter than usual. If you loved ... Read more

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NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.Welcome to issue eighty-five of NIGHTMARE--and happy October! Every month is a great month to seek out literary scares, but an October horror story is just a little sweeter than usual. If you loved
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause

The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement

by Benjamin Nathans ...

Narrated by Rich Miller ...

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23 hours 55 min

A gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR—and still provides a model of opposition in Putin’s RussiaBeginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was unexpectedly confronted by a dissident movement that captured the world’s imagination. Demanding that the Kremlin obey its own laws, an improbable band of Soviet citizens held unauthorized public gatherings, ... Read more

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A gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR—and still provides a model of opposition in Putin’s RussiaBeginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was unexpectedly confronted by a dissident movement that captured the world’s imagination. Demanding that the Kremlin obey its own laws, an improbable band of Soviet citizens held unauthorized public gatherings,
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The Passion Trilogy – The Calvary, The Torture Garden & The Diary of a Chambermaid (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. Love, Lust, Scandal and Heartbreak

by Octave Mirbeau, Iona Ternby ...

Translated by Louis Rich, Alvah Bessie, Benjamin R. Tucker ...

Gathered as The Passion Trilogy, The Calvary, The Torture Garden, and The Diary of a Chambermaid trace Octave Mirbeau's obsessive anatomy of desire, domination, and social corruption. Moving from the psychological lacerations of love and war in The Calvary, to the hallucinatory, decadent allegory of cruelty in The Torture Garden, and finally to the acid realism of servant testimony in The Diary of ... Read more

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Gathered as The Passion Trilogy, The Calvary, The Torture Garden, and The Diary of a Chambermaid trace Octave Mirbeau's obsessive anatomy of desire, domination, and social corruption. Moving from the psychological lacerations of love and war in The Calvary, to the hallucinatory, decadent allegory of cruelty in The Torture Garden, and finally to the acid realism of servant testimony in The Diary of
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Religious Plurality at Princely Courts

Dynasty, Politics, and Confession in Central Europe, ca. 1555-1860

Edited by Daniel Riches, Sara Smart, Alexander Schunka, Benjamin Marschke ...

Series Book 30 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
Early modern European monarchies legitimized their rule through dynasty and religion, and ideally the divine right of the ruler corresponded with the confession of the territory. It has thus been assumed that at princely courts only a single confession was present. However, the reality of the confessional circumstances at court commonly involved more than one faith. Religious Plurality at Princely ... Read more

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Early modern European monarchies legitimized their rule through dynasty and religion, and ideally the divine right of the ruler corresponded with the confession of the territory. It has thus been assumed that at princely courts only a single confession was present. However, the reality of the confessional circumstances at court commonly involved more than one faith. Religious Plurality at Princely
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Cooperation in Economy and Society

by James Acheson, Matthew Bird, Gracia Clark, Bruce Dahlin, Malcolm Dow, E Anthon Eff, Katrina T. Greene, Julie Hogeland, Carolyn Lesorogol, Daniel Mazeau, Kathleen Millar, Rahul Oka, Benjamin Porter, Ronald Rich, Agustín Fuentes, Scott R. Hutson ...

Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
The essays in the book analyze cases of cooperation in a wide range of ethnographic, archaeological and evolutionary settings. Cooperation is examined in situations of market exchange, local and long-distance reciprocity, hierarchical relations, common property and commons access, and cooperatives. Not all of these analyses show stable and long-term results of successful cooperation. The ... Read more

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The essays in the book analyze cases of cooperation in a wide range of ethnographic, archaeological and evolutionary settings. Cooperation is examined in situations of market exchange, local and long-distance reciprocity, hierarchical relations, common property and commons access, and cooperatives. Not all of these analyses show stable and long-term results of successful cooperation. The
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Christian Zionism in Africa

by Cynthia Holder Rich, Mark Braverman, Suraya Dadoo, John M. Hubers, Jonathan Kuttab, Modestus Lukonge, Faustin Leonard Mahali, Samwel Shanga Mhajida, Marthie Momberg0, Nehemia G. Moshi1, Benjamin J. Parsalaw2, Mark Rich3, Sara Ryan4, Jörg Zehelein5 ...

Christian Zionism—a movement based on the belief that support of Israel, and Israeli ownership of and residence in Jerusalem, is a prerequisite for Christ’s return—has been a significant substratum within theologies and ecclesiologies of many churches in the US and Europe for centuries. Since the 1970s, US-based Christian Zionism organizations, encouraged by and collaborating with the Israeli ... Read more

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Christian Zionism—a movement based on the belief that support of Israel, and Israeli ownership of and residence in Jerusalem, is a prerequisite for Christ’s return—has been a significant substratum within theologies and ecclesiologies of many churches in the US and Europe for centuries. Since the 1970s, US-based Christian Zionism organizations, encouraged by and collaborating with the Israeli
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Captain Billys Whiz Bang, Vol. 2. No. 13, October, 1920 (Unabridged)

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by W. H. Fawcett ...

Narrated by Lorene Becwar, Benjamin Cokely, Bryan Rich, Jean Alaniz ...

Unabridged

1 hour 49 min

"Captain Billy's Whiz Bang" was an iconic magazine of American wit and humor launched by W.H. Fawcett in 1919. Each 64-page issue is packed with jokes, quips, and humorous bits of writing. Each year it grew in popularity, and Fawcett’s success lead to the formation of the well-known Fawcett Publications, which issued "Whiz Comics" and introduced Captain Marvel. The magazine was immortalized in a ... Read more

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"Captain Billy's Whiz Bang" was an iconic magazine of American wit and humor launched by W.H. Fawcett in 1919. Each 64-page issue is packed with jokes, quips, and humorous bits of writing. Each year it grew in popularity, and Fawcett’s success lead to the formation of the well-known Fawcett Publications, which issued "Whiz Comics" and introduced Captain Marvel. The magazine was immortalized in a
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Paris: A Love Story

by Kati Marton ...

Kati Marton’s New York Times bestselling, “enthralling” (Vogue) memoir is one “of love and painful loss” (Kirkus Reviews) as she grapples with a new stage of her life.In this remarkably honest and candid memoir, award-winning journalist and distinguished author Kati Marton narrates an impassioned and romantic story of love, loss, and life after loss. Paris is at the heart of this deeply moving ... Read more

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Kati Marton’s New York Times bestselling, “enthralling” (Vogue) memoir is one “of love and painful loss” (Kirkus Reviews) as she grapples with a new stage of her life.In this remarkably honest and candid memoir, award-winning journalist and distinguished author Kati Marton narrates an impassioned and romantic story of love, loss, and life after loss. Paris is at the heart of this deeply moving
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