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Pages: 352
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-21 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Language: en
Pages: 0
Pages: 0
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-21 - Publisher: National Geographic Books
“A fierce tale of conspiracy and retribution… Thanks to Tucker’s sympathetic necromancy and her luscious resurrection of everyday detail, even in gilded p
Language: en
Pages: 337
Pages: 337
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-03-21 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
"Excellent…Tucker’s chronicle of the world of 17th-century science in London and Paris is fascinating." —The Economist In December 1667, maverick physicia
Language: en
Pages: 442
Pages: 442
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-05 - Publisher: Crown
The gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris. As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts
Language: en
Pages: 244
Pages: 244
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Pregnant Fictions explores the complex role of pregnancy in early-modern tale-telling and considers how stories of childbirth were used to rethink gendered "tru