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The Atlas of Art Crime
“On New Year’s Day in 1984, three men dressed in overalls hung a ‘Work in Progress’ sign at the front of St. John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta to prevent anyone from entering the church. Inside the cathedral is a breathtaking array of ornate decorative elements: intricate carvings, stunning paintings, and a whole lot of bling. Two…
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Tough as a Mother: Women in Sports, Working Moms, and the Shared Traits that Empower Us All
This is the book we needed when our kids were little, and we were first encountering all of the obstacles that working moms face in their lives,” says Jenn Hildreth, who, with Aimee Leone, wrote Tough as a Mother: Women in Sports, Working Moms, and the Shared Traits that Empower Us All (Triumph Books 2025).…
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College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight
14 years ago, Lauren Spierer, an over-served 20 year-old student at Indiana University who had been indulging in recreational drugs, walked out of her friend’s apartment building at 4 in the morning and disappeared, never to be seen again. She was barefoot, having left her shoes and cell phone at a bar. Her purse and…
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Princess of Blood
I devoured Sarah Hawley’s Servant of Earth, the first in her Shards of Magic triology, a romantasy that centers around Kenna, a young woodland girl, held in contempt in her village, who, trying to save her only friend, finds herself a slave in the opulent world of the Fae. These beautiful and magical creatures over-indulge…
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Sidney Karger: Best Men
The youngest of five children with a father who was jokester and a mother who did impressions, Sidney Karger learned early that being funny garnered attention from his parents. It also instilled in him a sense of comedic timing coupled with an obsession with both “Comedy Central” and “Saturday Night Live” as well as director…
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“Let’s Call Her Barbie” by Renee Rosen
In 1956, there were baby dolls for little girls to play with but the idea of an eleven-and-a-half-inch tall grown women with feet permanently arched to wear high heels was a totally alien concept to the men at Mattel when Ruth Handler presented the idea for Barbie. Because the times were more “Mad Men” than…
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The Story of Perfume: A Lavishly Illustrated Guide
In the beginning, perfume in the form of oils belonged to the divine, and rare scents typically sourced from resins were reserved for dedication to the gods. Used in funeral rituals and in cremation with the burning of resinous woods such as cedar, early references trace the use of scents back at least to the…
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Gothictown
In 1832, at the height of the Georgia gold rush, gold had been discovered on the banks of the Etowah River on land owned by Alfred Minette. As men flocked to work in the mine and others to supply their needs, a small town arose and Minette named it after his firstborn, a beautiful but…
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Trust Issues: A Mystery That Asks Who You Going to Trust?
“a tense, well-plotted mystery with enough twists and turns to keep the reader engaged . . .” “Something strange happened when Hazel and Kagan showed up. Ava had begun hearing her father’s voice so clearly that it sounds like he’s crawled inside her head. This isn’t the first time in her life she’s been haunted…
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Japan: The Vegetarian Cookbook
Nancy Singleton Hachisu dives deep into the Japanese food scene, having married a Japanese farmer and learning the intricacies of cooking various vegetables and other ingredients that most of us aren’t familiar with. The author of several cookbooks including Japanese Farm Food, winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2012: USA Winner for the Best…
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