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Space Dogs

by Meagan Logsdon

Martin Parr’s "Space Dogs" features a collection of Soviet memorabilia alongside a brief overview of the program that led to the eventual entry of humans into space. What began as a mere scientific experiment soon erupted into a... Read More

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Blood, Oil and the Axis

by Jeff Fleischer

By the spring of 1941, the Axis powers were in ascendance, with France and Russia on their heels, the United States still officially neutral, and the United Kingdom and its colonies representing the last hope for stopping Nazi domination... Read More

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Jacques Schiffrin

by Jeff Fleischer

Jacques Schiffrin was an influential publisher in Paris at the outbreak of World War II, but soon he had to flee the life he’d built and begin again in the United States. The story of his impressive rise, and of his unexpected second... Read More

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Bake from Scratch

by Rachel Jagareski

Brian Hart Hoffman’s third volume of recipes from "Bake from Scratch" magazine continues the well-designed, inspirational format of the cookbook series with another 600+ recipes that dig into the details of baking everything from the... Read More

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Bring the Rain

by Meg Nola

In JoAnn Franklin’s novel "Bring the Rain", Dart Sommers has an established career as a psychology professor at a North Carolina university. She is also the founder of The Raindrop Institute, a think tank dedicated to ending poverty.... Read More

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Shortcuts

by Aimee Jodoin

Parker Mills has a secret that she knows is both a gift and a burden: she is a psychic empath who senses the emotions of those around her. One of the few children born to parents who used a mysterious fertility treatment that has since... Read More

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