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""Recounts a covert Cold War operation led by George Minden to smuggle banned literature into Eastern Europe, focusing on the cultural and psychological battle against Soviet censorship and the role underground reading networks played in weakening ..."
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"Recounts a covert Cold War operation led by George Minden to smuggle banned literature into Eastern Europe, focusing on the cultural and psychological battle against Soviet censorship and the role underground reading networks played in weakening...
"A book about a British farmer who takes a sabbatical and goes to a tiny Norweigian island. He joins two women who are restoring eider duck nests. About quietness, natural beauty, paying attention to simple tasks. Nature writing."
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Many years ago, James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote Norwegian island. She lived and worked alone on a tiny rocky outcrop, gathering the down of wild Eider ducks: a centuries-old trade that had once made men and women rich, but had long been...
"Recommended by Madeline Maupin. How to face injustice without rancor. Incarcerated wrongly for 30 years."
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