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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, a New York Times best seller and LibraryReads top pick, mortician Doughty explains how she came to her job and why we should be more accepting of death. Here she considers how other countries approach life's end, chronicling the care of mummies in rural Indonesia and Bolivia's natitas, wish-granting human skulls that puff on cigarettes. Also discussed: new rituals in America such as green burial.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In this landmark film, passion and tragedy collide on a military base as a fateful day in December 1941 draws near. Private Prewitt is a soldier and former boxer being manipulated by his superior and peers. His friend Maggio tries to help him but has his own troubles. Sergeant Warden and Karen Holmes tread on dangerous ground as lovers in an illicit affair. Each of their lives will be changed when their stories culminate in the Japanese attack on...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim-until he runs into his science-loving friend Senku! Together they plan to restart civilization with the power of science! Senku, Chrome and Magma go spelunking for a rare mineral, but can they survive the dangers of a real-life treasure dungeon and make it back alive? They...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"With the election of Donald J. Trump, many people on both the left and right feared that America's 240-year-old grand experiment in democracy was coming to an end, and that Sinclair Lewis' satirical novel, It can't happen here, written during the dark days of the 1930s, could finally be coming true. Is the democratic freedom that the United States symbolizes really secure? Can authoritarianism happen in America? [The editor] queried a number of the...
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