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"The Mini Museum is a collection of treasures gathered from across space and time shared by tens of thousands of people in more than 120 countries. Each item in the collection is a story connected to a childhood dream of sharing all the wonders...

"Walking and writing have always gone together. Think of the poets who walk on a rhythm for their linesand the novelists who put their characters on a path. [This volume] rounds up the most memorable walker-writers from the 1300s to the modern...

Fifteen short stories and one poem covering everything from haunted houses to concentrations camps, death and those who survive.

"Impressive . . . [Cristina García's] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the 'sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,' as...

A modern love story told through a series of dictionary-style entries is a sequence of intimate windows into the large and small events that shape the course of a romantic relationship.