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Now a journalist is following them. When Stieg Larsson died, the author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had been working on a true mystery that out-twisted his Millennium novels: the assassination on February 28, 1986, of Olof Palme, the Swedish prime minister. It was the first time in history that a head of state had been murdered without a clue who'd done it--and on a Stockholm street at point-blank range. Internationally known for his fictional villains, Larsson was well acquainted with their real-life counterparts and documented extremist activities throughout the world. For years he'd been amassing evidence that linked their terrorist acts to what he called \"one of the most astounding murder cases\" he'd ever covered. Larsson's archive was forgotten until journalist Jan Stocklassa was given exclusive access to the author's secret project. 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You have to remember because Harvard doesn't let you forget. 1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest; the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school; and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious twenty-three-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice President J. Boyd Britton, would be found bludgeoned to death in her Cambridge, Massachusetts apartment. Forty years later, Becky Cooper a curious undergrad, will hear the first whispers of the story. In the first telling the body was nameless. The story was this: a Harvard student had had an affair with her professor, and the professor had murdered her in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology because she'd threatened to talk about the affair. 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In a narrative spanning continents and epochs, Hunt tracks the origins of life with a team of NASA microbiologists a mile beneath the Black Hills, descends with an Aboriginal family into a 35,000-year-old sacred mine in the Australian outback, and more. Each adventure is woven with findings in mythology and anthropology, natural history and neuroscience, literature and philosophy. -- adapted from jacket.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kwzr8wh84pedh9gcmsvxfjge.jpg?v=99e3e225d9","L8O|FE000000-;xtxut7~o?H%2-:",2018,275,[288],{"id":289,"slug":290,"name":291},"01kwzr8wh30q91vm1m07tbft13","hunt-will-urban-adventurer-r3pz","Hunt, Will (Urban adventurer)",[293,294,298],{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},{"id":295,"name":296,"slug":297,"is_fiction":18},140,"Adventure","adventure",{"id":299,"name":300,"slug":301,"is_fiction":19},92,"Science","science",[],{"pace":151,"complexity":7,"audience":71,"mood":304,"themes":306,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[305,75],"adventurous",[307],"survival",{"id":309,"slug":310,"title":311,"description":312,"primary_cover_url":313,"cover_blurhash":314,"first_publish_year":315,"community_rating_avg":131,"community_rating_count":93,"page_count":316,"authors":317,"genres":322,"series":329,"enrichment":330},"01kx25pkaq5f71kzvcg6a68kd0","the-anatomy-of-a-moment-thirty-five-minutes-in-history-and-imagination-ncgl","The Anatomy of a Moment Thirty-five Minutes in History and Imagination","In February 1981, Spain was still emerging from Franco's shadow, holding a democratic vote for the new prime minister. 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Miss Crandall faced legal proceedings for opening her school of African American women. But her young students knew that Miss Crandall had committed no crime. They knew that the real criminals were the rich white residents of Canterbury, Connecticut, who had poisoned the school's water and set fire to the schoolhouse. But hatred could not destroy their patience and compassion. From March of 1833 to September of 1834, when persecution forced the school to close, these African American women learned that they deserved an education. What they needed was the courage to go after it. Poets Elizabeth Alexander and Marilyn Nelson have re-created the remarkable story of Prudence Crandall's school in this award-winning book, using the sonnet form with innovative style. 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In July 1916 a lone Great White left its usual deep-ocean habitat and headed in the direction of the New Jersey shoreline. There, near the towns of Beach Haven and Spring Lake--and, incredibly, a farming community eleven miles inland--the most ferocious and unpredictable of predators began a deadly rampage: the first shark attacks on swimmers in U.S. history. Capuzzo interweaves a vivid portrait of the era and meticulously drawn characters with chilling accounts of the shark's five attacks and the frenzied hunt that ensued. From the unnerving inevitability of the first attack on the esteemed son of a prosperous Philadelphia physician to the spine-tingling moment when a farm boy swimming in Matawan Creek feels the sandpaper-like skin of the passing shark, Close to Shore is an undeniably gripping saga. Heightening the drama are stories of the resulting panic in the citizenry, press and politicians, and of colorful personalities such as Herman Oelrichs, a flamboyant millionaire who made a bet that a shark was no match for a man (and set out to prove it); Museum of Natural History ichthyologist John Treadwell Nichols, faced with the challenge of stopping a mythic sea creature about which little was known; and, most memorable, the rogue Great White itself moving through a world that couldn't conceive of either its destructive power or its moral right to destroy. Scrupulously researched and superbly written, Close to Shore brings to life a breathtaking, pivotal moment in American history. Masterfully written and suffused with fascinating period detail and insights into the science and behavior of sharks, Close to Shore recounts a breathtaking, pivotal moment in American history with startling immediacy.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx25r7m7g5ze9ze1ptrmytnp.jpg?v=580bef43d4","LPDvclRkoJj]~qfRaej[xaaya|jt",2002,336,[370],{"id":371,"slug":372,"name":373},"01kx25r7m1j3b8yt3g1vsbacd4","michael-capuzzo-quv8","Michael Capuzzo",[375,376,380],{"id":295,"name":296,"slug":297,"is_fiction":18},{"id":377,"name":378,"slug":379,"is_fiction":19},93,"Nature","nature",{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":151,"complexity":7,"audience":71,"mood":383,"themes":384,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[119,153],[],[],[]]