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No. 0468 Book · No fixed address

Names on the Land

George R. Stewart

Where every American place name came from, told as a narrative rather than a dictionary. Stewart runs the whole sweep — Native words remade by English mouths, Spanish saints, French traders, Dutch New York, the Puritans naming towns for the…

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No. 0254 Book · No fixed address

The Day Of The Owl

Leonardo Sciascia

A man is shot dead boarding a bus in a Sicilian town square in front of forty people, and by the time the carabinieri arrive nobody saw anything. Captain Bellodi, a northerner and a former partisan, actually investigates — which…

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