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Set in 1659 with a prologue reaching back decades, this atmospheric historical mystery blends the grim reality of early modern execution law with a plot that keeps tightening toward its shocking conclusion.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2s1j0vxm576mq6nw4xr7m9.jpg?v=648b332846","LXHoB:Sg~qay9FX8s:j[^+j[Rjof",450,[868],{"id":869,"slug":870,"name":871},"01kx2s1j0chrnw59hwkmd1sq4g","oliver-potzsch-17cu","Oliver Pötzsch",[873,874,875],{"id":807,"name":808,"slug":809,"is_fiction":18},{"id":753,"name":754,"slug":755,"is_fiction":18},{"id":34,"name":35,"slug":36,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":229,"complexity":7,"audience":126,"mood":878,"themes":879,"setting_period":7,"summary":863,"content_warnings":7},[128,131,679],[557,880],"revenge",{"key":882,"params":883,"works":884},"genre",{"genre":35},[885,925,950,972,991,1014],{"id":886,"slug":887,"title":888,"description":889,"primary_cover_url":890,"cover_blurhash":891,"first_publish_year":892,"community_rating_avg":893,"community_rating_count":325,"page_count":894,"authors":895,"genres":900,"series":918,"enrichment":919},"01kjq7eyj52mbckbdar8rqvqsv","romeo-and-juliet-nsnd","Romeo and Juliet","In the streets of Verona, two great households — the Montagues and the Capulets — are locked in an ancient, bitter feud that erupts into violence at the slightest provocation. Into this poisoned world come Romeo, a lovesick Montague, and Juliet, the Capulets' cherished young daughter, who meet at a masked ball and fall instantly, helplessly in love.\n\nMarried in secret by a well-meaning friar who hopes their union might heal the rift between the families, the young lovers find their happiness colliding with the violence around them. A single fatal brawl sends events spiraling beyond anyone's control, and a desperate plan to keep them together sets in motion one of literature's most famous tragedies.\n\nWilliam Shakespeare's tragedy of \"star-crossed lovers\" remains the definitive story of young love thwarted by hatred, chance, and haste — a play whose language, characters, and heartbreak have shaped how the Western world imagines romance for more than four centuries.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kjz6s5j7x45h1rw02tte2mvz.jpg","LdJHgSf6xtoe~VWCV@ay?aayRjfj",1949,"3.88",107,[896],{"id":897,"slug":898,"name":899},"01kjq7eyjb5ehy0zsfypwhbrqj","william-shakespeare-ys9o","William Shakespeare",[901,905,906,907,911,912,913,917],{"id":902,"name":903,"slug":904,"is_fiction":18},14,"Plays","plays",{"id":34,"name":35,"slug":36,"is_fiction":19},{"id":178,"name":179,"slug":180,"is_fiction":19},{"id":908,"name":909,"slug":910,"is_fiction":18},15,"Drama","drama",{"id":213,"name":214,"slug":215,"is_fiction":18},{"id":325,"name":326,"slug":327,"is_fiction":18},{"id":914,"name":915,"slug":916,"is_fiction":18},4,"Romance","romance",{"id":329,"name":330,"slug":331,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":229,"complexity":7,"audience":552,"mood":920,"themes":922,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[921,186],"romantic",[923,924],"forbidden-love","betrayal",{"id":926,"slug":927,"title":928,"description":929,"primary_cover_url":930,"cover_blurhash":931,"first_publish_year":379,"community_rating_avg":601,"community_rating_count":13,"page_count":799,"authors":932,"genres":937,"series":946,"enrichment":947},"01kx2kejzw8emerhgyafym4fpz","sin-in-the-second-city-jqut","Sin in the Second City","Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history--and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago's notorious Levee district at the dawn of the last century, the Club's proprietors, two aristocratic sisters named Minna and Ada Everleigh, welcomed moguls and actors, senators and athletes, foreign dignitaries and literary icons, into their stately double mansion, where thirty stunning Everleigh \"butterflies\" awaited their arrival. Courtesans named Doll, Suzy Poon Tang, and Brick Top devoured raw meat to the delight of Prince Henry of Prussia and recited poetry for Theodore Dreiser. Whereas lesser madams pocketed most of a harlot's earnings and kept a \"whipper\" on staff to mete out discipline, the Everleighs made sure their girls dined on gourmet food, were examined by an honest physician, and even tutored in the literature of Balzac.Not everyone appreciated the sisters' attempts to elevate the industry. Rival Levee madams hatched numerous schemes to ruin the Everleighs, including an attempt to frame them for the death of department store heir Marshall Field, Jr. But the sisters' most daunting foes were the Progressive Era reformers, who sent the entire country into a frenzy with lurid tales of \"white slavery\"--the allegedly rampant practice of kidnapping young girls and forcing them into brothels. This furor shaped America's sexual culture and had repercussions all the way to the White House, including the formation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.With a cast of characters that includes Jack Johnson, John Barrymore, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., William Howard Taft, \"Hinky Dink\" Kenna, and Al Capone, Sin in the Second City is Karen Abbott's colorful, nuanced portrait of the iconic Everleigh sisters, their world-famous Club, and the perennial clash between our nation's hedonistic impulses and Puritanical roots. Culminating in a dramatic last stand between brothel keepers and crusading reformers, Sin in the Second City offers a vivid snapshot of America's journey from Victorian-era propriety to twentieth-century modernity.Visit www.sininthesecondcity.com to learn more!Praise for Sin in the Second City:\"Assiduously researched... [Sin in the Second City] describes a popular culture awash in wild tales of sexual abuse, crusading reformers claiming God on their side, and deep suspicion of the threat posed by \"foreigners\" to the nation's Christian values.\" --Janet Maslin, The New York Times \"Lavish in her details, nicely detached in her point of view, [and with] scrupulous concern for historical accuracy, Ms. Abbott has written an immensely readable book. Sin in the Second City offers much in the way of reflection for those interested in the unending puzzle that goes by the name of human nature.\" -- The Wall Street Journal \"Abbott's first book is meticulously researched and entertaining... a colorful history of old Chicago that reads like a novel.\" --The Atlanta Journal Constitution\"With gleaming prose and authoritative knowledge Abbott elucidates one of the most colorful periods in American history, and the result reads like the very best fiction. Sex, opulence, murder -- What's not to love?\" -- Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants\"A detailed and intimate portrait of the Ritz of brothels, the famed Everleigh Club of turn-of-the-century Chicago. 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It was her first book, and one of the first published by South End Press, an independent, np, collectively-organized publisher dedicated to advancing movements for radical social change.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx27p2wry0rer1mh14e88b95.jpg?v=16cdd5c67b","LCJNm-11J,X7}WsnWWS3wL}CNcsA",1981,206,[960],{"id":961,"slug":962,"name":963},"01kjq6xkbaaankp8vwpdsa66vm","bell-hooks-osuz","bell hooks",[965,966,967],{"id":263,"name":264,"slug":265,"is_fiction":19},{"id":161,"name":162,"slug":163,"is_fiction":19},{"id":34,"name":35,"slug":36,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":183,"complexity":7,"audience":126,"mood":970,"themes":971,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[306,130],[],{"id":973,"slug":974,"title":975,"description":7,"primary_cover_url":976,"cover_blurhash":977,"first_publish_year":978,"community_rating_avg":601,"community_rating_count":13,"page_count":7,"authors":979,"genres":984,"series":987,"enrichment":988},"01kx2cs38jh9peyvvp092mvgcr","secretariats-meadow-the-land-the-family-the-legend-dl56","Secretariats Meadow The Land The Family The Legend","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2cs392ga7gp1ptshwaatfs.jpg?v=1c208170c2","L9Dj-H100i}r1g=H,?NuJU$$NGEh",2010,[980],{"id":981,"slug":982,"name":983},"01kx2cs38ye18gx0521px6vb28","wayne-dementi-rkd5","Wayne Dementi",[985,986],{"id":161,"name":162,"slug":163,"is_fiction":19},{"id":34,"name":35,"slug":36,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":123,"complexity":7,"audience":126,"mood":989,"themes":990,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[306,269],[],{"id":992,"slug":993,"title":994,"description":995,"primary_cover_url":996,"cover_blurhash":997,"first_publish_year":771,"community_rating_avg":407,"community_rating_count":13,"page_count":998,"authors":999,"genres":1004,"series":1010,"enrichment":1011},"01kx26p9x2tr7z6y7fjg1eczxc","the-modernity-of-witchcraft-politics-and-the-occult-in-postcolonial-africa-ayto","The Modernity of Witchcraft Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa","To many Westerners, the disappearance of African traditions of witchcraft might seem inevitable wuth continued modernization. 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Geshiere explores why modern techniques and commodities, usually of Western Provenance, have become central in rumors of the occult.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx26p9xjf4zd9788rgc84ngz.jpg?v=368ad55854","L5CPV9?^8wKi0Nt7ozjZ00D%?bV@",311,[1000],{"id":1001,"slug":1002,"name":1003},"01kx26p9xdtr875q86dc85wq6r","peter-geschiere-dwaw","Peter Geschiere",[1005,1006],{"id":34,"name":35,"slug":36,"is_fiction":19},{"id":1007,"name":1008,"slug":1009,"is_fiction":19},106,"Religion","religion",[],{"pace":183,"complexity":7,"audience":126,"mood":1012,"themes":1013,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[421,128],[],{"id":1015,"slug":1016,"title":1017,"description":1018,"primary_cover_url":1019,"cover_blurhash":1020,"first_publish_year":1021,"community_rating_avg":601,"community_rating_count":13,"page_count":1022,"authors":1023,"genres":1028,"series":1035,"enrichment":1036},"01kx26t0a3tz8hpv509x3djyp8","the-bielski-brothers-the-true-story-of-three-men-who-defied-the-nazis-built-a-village-in-the-forest-and-saved-1200-jews-y9ga","The Bielski Brothers The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews","In 1941, three brothers witnessed their parents and two other siblings being led away to their eventual murders. It was a grim scene that would, of course, be repeated endlessly throughout the war. Instead of running or giving in to despair, these brothers -- Tuvia, Zus, and Asael Bielski -- fought back, waging a guerrilla war of wits against the Nazis. By using their intimate knowledge of the dense forests surrounding the Belarusan towns of Novogrudek and Lida, the Bielskis evaded the Nazis and established a hidden base camp, then set about convincing other Jews to join their ranks. As more and more Jews arrived each day, a robust community began to emerge, a \"Jerusalem in the woods.\" After two and a half years in the woods, in July 1944, the Bielskis learned that the Germans, overrun by the Red Army, were retreating back toward Berlin. More than one thousand Bielski Jews emerged -- alive -- on that final, triumphant exit from the woods.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx26t0agg1ngvkhhv9yyt2km.jpg?v=9d4bff31dd","L6BWSR1401IB~mEhVuxa02$xShtR",2004,336,[1024],{"id":1025,"slug":1026,"name":1027},"01kqn921tw9va8xzsx6y3tqy1w","peter-duffy-evzb","Peter Duffy",[1029,1033,1034],{"id":1030,"name":1031,"slug":1032,"is_fiction":18},54,"World War II","world-war-ii",{"id":161,"name":162,"slug":163,"is_fiction":19},{"id":34,"name":35,"slug":36,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":229,"complexity":7,"audience":126,"mood":1037,"themes":1038,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[131,306],[],[]]