Helen Scales is a self-described nerd who studies the ocean as an enthusiast as well as a scientist.
Atlantic Monthly Press
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Endpapers is an invaluable gift to literature, mainly but not only for the quotations, details, and beguilingly written scenes of publisher Kurt Wolff’s life scattered throughout
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Mary-Beth Hughes’s penetrating glimpses into the depths of her characters’ lives make us more deeply aware of our own.
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In all of his books, John Julius Norwich remembered that history is a story.
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