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INSTANT #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the bestselling, prize-winning author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain , a spellbinding account of a family devastated by the sudden death of their nineteen-year-old son, only to discover that he had...
"In 1486, Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers in Murano, Italy. As a woman, she is not meant to blow glass--but when her father dies, she teaches herself to make beads in secret, and her work becomes the cornerstone of...
An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new researcher and writer.Why do women live longer than men? Why do women have menopause? Why are women more likely to get...
"'What this child needs is a job', prescribes the pediatrician. This is how, at age four, the spirited author becomes assistant to the delivery man at her father's pharmacy. This brilliantly told, often hilarious memoir describes a thoroughly uncon..."
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Offers a guide to understanding the appeal of the strongman as a leader and an explanation for why authoritarianism is back with a menacing twenty-first century twist. Across the world today, from the Americas to Europe and beyond, liberal...
