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The first complete history of Redonda, a century-old literary fantasy world and actual island/former guano mine. Hybrid genres: part history, part travelogue, part literary investigation, and part memoir, The Kingdom of Redonda is a contemporary survey of (and interviews with) the many people who, today, believe themselves to be the island's "true" king/queen. Backstory: Hingston had searched for a comprehensive history of Redonda ever since ...

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A fascinating investigation of a beloved comic strip The internet is home to impassioned debates on just about everything, but there's one thing that's universally beloved: Bill Watterson's comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. Until its retirement in 1995 after a ten-year run, the strip won numerous awards and drew tens of millions of readers from all around the world. The story of a boy and his best friend -- a stuffed tiger -- was a pitch-perfect ...

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A rare, first-hand insight into the day-to-day struggle against Nazi oppression. In 1945, Ditha Bruncel met and fell in love with an escaped British POW, and together they escaped war-torn Germany.

Ditha Bruncel's detailed memory of living in Germany during the Second World War provides a rare, first-hand insight into the day-to-day struggle against Nazi oppression, when even small acts of defiance or resistance carried great personal risk. In 1945 Ditha was living with her parents in the small town of Lossen, in Upper Silesia. Close Jewish friends had vanished, swastikas hung from every building, and neighbors were disappearing in the m...