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The centerpiece of The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson is the autobiographical narrative of a 17th-century woman in an abusive and violent marriage. Composed at a time when marital disharmony was in vogue with readers and publishers, it stands out from comparable works, usually single broadsheets. In her own words, Mary recounts various dramatic and stressful episodes from her decades-long marriage to Robert Hampson and her strategies for dealing with...
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I am a girl entombed in a body that doesn't belong to me. I should be dead, yet here I am with the terrifying flashbacks of my brutal murder. I have knowledge on where my body was buried and I am aware of who is responsible for taking my life. I was really a girl and nobody believes me. My sister, Ana, was the only one who ever took the time to hear me out and tried her best to understand. She is missing... Gone, without a trace. She just disappeared...
5) Seraphim Sky
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Seraphim Sky is a fast-moving mystical adventure of sea, space, and the human spirit. In 1985, before the Space Shuttles Challenger and Columbia were tragically lost, Mike St. Pierre, a Navy intelligence officer and NASA astronaut, reaches beyond himself. He and his crewmates nearly lose their lives in space and yet this allows him an experience of flight that transcends his own body and the Earth. In the far reaches of the universe, in the depth...
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From the early 1950s to the early '60s, Malay Kumar Roy spent around ten years as a young boy in Hazaribagh in the Chhotanagpur district of Jharkhand, which was then a part of Bihar. In An Elsewhere Place, Roy reminisces about his life there, a place that 'touches a boy forever'.
In this memoir, he vividly describes Hazaribagh's tranquil landscape, its changing seasons and its unhurried pace of life. We get a glimpse of a time gone by from Roy's stories...