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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

by Ronan Farrow

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I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression

by Terrence Real

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"Very good. Compelling real life case histories." — Mar 07, 2019 11:39AM

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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

by Azar Nafisi

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"So interesting. Taking a long time to read because the story spawns for me a lot of daydreams of what it would be like to live in Iran." — Mar 07, 2019 11:34AM

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“Assisted by Samuel Collins, the tsar embarked on a series of scientific and alchemical experiments, to conduct which he imported a range of new devices – phials, metals, lenses and measuring instruments – from the German lands. These were exotica in their own right, and since they had no native Russian names, many were called by their original German ones, beginning a long tradition of importing German scientific terms into the Russian language.”
― Catherine Merridale, Red Fortress: History and Illusion in the Kremlin

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“Princess Nell had to reconstruct them, learning the language, which was extremely pithy and made heavy use of parentheses.”
― Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age

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“Then Aragorn was abashed, for he saw the elven-light in her eyes and the wisdom of many days; yet from that hour he loved Arwen Undómiel daughter of Elrond.”
― Tolkien, J.R.R

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“The truth deserves a bodyguard of lies.”
― Winston S. Churchill

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“Caesar quoted in Greek two words from the Athenian comic playwright Menander: literally, in a phrase borrowed from gambling, ‘Let the dice be thrown.’ Despite the usual English translation – ‘The die is cast’, which again appears to hint at the irrevocable step being taken – Caesar’s Greek was much more an expression of uncertainty, a sense that everything now was in the lap of the gods. Let’s throw the dice in the air and see where they will fall! Who knows what will happen next?”
― Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

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