The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues

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Salman Rushdie

In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age.

Inspired by the Cervantes...

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James Martin

James Martin, SJ, gifted storyteller, editor at large of America magazine, popular media commentator, and New York Times bestselling author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything, brings the Gospels to life in Jesus: A Pilgrimage, and invites believers and seekers alike to experience Jesus...

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Dave Van Ronk

Dave Van Ronk (1936-2002) was one of the founding figures of the 1960s folk revival, but he was far more than that. A pioneer of modern acoustic blues, a fine songwriter and arranger, a powerful singer, and one of the most influential guitarists of the '60s, he was also a marvelous storyteller, a peerless...

Author	Ryan Gattis
ISBN	0062378791

29 avril-4 mai 1992.Pendant six jours, l’acquittement des policiers coupables d’avoir passé à tabac Rodney King met Los Angeles à feu et à sang.Pendant six jours, dix-sept personnes sont prises dans le chaos.Pendant six jours, Los Angeles a montré au monde ce qui se passe quand les lois n’ont...

Author	Russell Shorto
ISBN	0385534574

An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed Island at the Center of the World

Tourists know Amsterdam as a picturesque city of low-slung brick houses lining tidy canals; student travelers know it for its legal...