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The Woman Who Shot Mussolini

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The astonishing untold story of a woman who tried to stop the rise of Fascism and change the course of history At 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 7, 1926, a woman...
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Everything Is Cinema
The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard

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A landmark biography explores the crucial resonances among the life, work, and times of one of the most influential filmmakers of our age When Jean-Luc...
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Voices of Time
A Life in Stories

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A striking mosaic of memories, observations, and legends that together reveal the author’s own story and a grand, compassionate vision of life itself In...
  
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Fatal Purity
Robespierre and the French Revolution

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A riveting biography of the French Revolution’s most enigmatic figure that restores him to his pivotal historic place Since his execution by guillotine...
  
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Kabul in Winter
Life Without Peace in Afghanistan

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A sharp and arresting people’s-eye view of real life in Afghanistan after the Taliban Soon after the bombing of Kabul ceased, award-winning journalist...
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A Woman in Berlin
Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary

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An astonishing find-the landmark journal of a woman living though the Russian occupation of Berlin-which has already earned comparisons to diaries by Etty...
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The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe

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A brilliant investigation into the debates surrounding Marilyn Monroe's life and the cultural attitudes that her legend reveals There are many Marilyns: sex...
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I Am Alive and You Are Dead
A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick

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From the master chronicler of psychological extremes, an unforgettable portrait of the “Shakespeare of science fiction” whose work has influenced...
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The Patron
A Life of Salman Schocken, 1877-1959

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The rags-to-riches story of one of Europe’s great entrepreneurs and a founding father of modern Jewish secular culture The name...
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Primo Levi
A Life

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Primo Levi, author of Survival in Auschwitz and The Periodic Table, wrote books that have been called the essential works of humankind. Yet he lived an...

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