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Kicking off the month with a holiday weekend is the way to go, as far as we're concerned. We've got some fun July releases, including the very appropriate Washington, DC, History for Kids, that we're excited to share with you. Music, cars, scifi, art, history—something for everyone this month! Ad
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In the wake of World War II, the US automobile industry was fully unprepared to meet the public’s growing demands. Preston Tucker—a salesman with a magnetic personality and a true love of automobiles—announced a revolutionary new car incorporating features he was convinced would become commonp…
Traveling the world during the 1920s and ’30s, Richard Halliburton climbed the Matterhorn and was the first person to swim the Panama Canal (he paid 36 cents in tonnage). He climbed Mt. Fuji and Mt. Olympus, swam the Hellespont, followed the path of Odysseus, and retraced the trail of Spanish conq…
In his searing new memoir, The Hospital Always Wins, Issa Ibrahim talks candidly about his development of severe mental illness leading to the accidental killing of his mother, his subsequent commission to Creedmoor, a mental hospital in Queens, New York, and the episodes that occurred within its wa…