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In Sinclair Lewis groundbreaking novel, Main Street, we follow the journey of Carol Milford, a bright and ambitious young woman armed with a college education and a passion for progress. A self-sufficient librarian in St. Paul, she is swept off her feet by Will Kennicott, a country doctor who persuades her to leave her urban life behind for the rural town of Gopher Prairie. With dreams of transforming the town into a hub of art, culture, and child welfare, Carol is met with the harsh realities of small-town attitudes, ignorance, and bigotry that gradually stifle her spirit. First published in ...

Here's what we now know: John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas by Mafia contract killers hired by Louisiana mob boss Carlos Marcello. Kennedy was killed in that city because it was the only place in the country where a crime of that magnitude could be committed without fear of punishment. Long-time local district attorney Henry Wade, an LBJ crony who would have sole jurisdiction over the prosecution of those responsible, had been corrupted by the local Civello crime family. Lyndon B. Johnson, while a U.S. senator during the 1950s, had accepted bribes from the same mobsters so that they could avoid deportation.

From best-selling social commentator and cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich comes this fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture, showing that such mass festivities have been indigenous to the West since the ancient Greeks.

This audiobook features an exclusive Q&A between reader Chipo Chung and author, Dorcas Gwata 'Fascinating . . . While the rest of us are worrying about it, Dorcas Gwata is doing something about it' - Wendy Joseph, author of Unlawful Killings Through the lives of ten young people an award-winning...

à la street, c'est un podcast rigolo, une bande de copains qui non contents de dire n'importe quoi et de mentir, se permettent de parler de sujets qu'ils ne maîtrisent pas obligatoirement, mais ils le font avec panache et dérision. Ils dépassent souvent les limites, mais leur compte en banque et quelques pots-de-vin légaux, leur permettent de briser tous les tabous et de dire du mal ou du bien des grandes personnalités, et ce gratuitement depuis une loi de 1958. Actu, troll, ciné et musique sont la plupart du temps abordés de manière spontanée et les propos tenus sont souvent ...

Welcome to Back to the Streets — my real life, off the record. This is where I talk love, dating, situationships, breakups, late-night thoughts, storytimes, and everything in between. No headlines. No courtrooms. No celebrity gossip. Just me. The wins, the lessons, the messy moments, and the healing. If you’ve ever been outside, fell too fast, got your heart played with, or had to send somebody back to the streets… you’re in the right place. New episodes weekly. Come kick it with me

Have you ever been told advice from many people, but then you come across someone that conveys the same advice; however for some reason it resonates with you more than all of the others? For The Streets was created for this very reason. To have conversations regarding life, relationships, careers, goals, etc. that can give alternative perspectives, knowledge, understanding on topics that can help people take chances in life, strive to achieve their goals, understand their partner in their relationship better and/or themselves by taking a step back and viewing life through an alternative lens.

You're here now—might as well get comfortable. You’re gonna be here for a while. Street Secrets: The Podcast is a Boston/New York City based podcast where relationship myths go to die. Sex, love, trust, cheating, communication— all the messy stuff people pretend they don’t deal with? Yeah, none of it is off limits. Men and women ask real questions, and we give real answers. No therapy talk. No fake deep quotes. No feelings spared. Just honest advice, wild stories, and different perspectives that might save your relationship… or expose it. If you’ve made it this far, this podcast is...

Street Stories è il podcast di NovaHot22 in cui le storie personali diventano racconto collettivo. Aspren intervista artisti, voci e figure della scena urban afrodiscendente e diasporica italiana, andando oltre la musica per esplorare identità, vissuti, contesto sociale e visione. Conversazioni intime, dirette, senza filtri, dove la strada non è un cliché ma un punto di partenza reale. Ogni episodio è una storia a sé, costruita per ascoltare chi spesso resta ai margini del racconto mainstream.

A transformative look at the hidden work of all adult daughters who share the invisible load, from the eldest to the youngest, offering a fresh perspective on care, emotional resilience, and the power daughters have to shape healthier, more fulfilling family connections. For readers of both...

When Matthew MaGill died alone in the woods on the Florida-Georgia border, he left behind a box filled with the artifacts of an incredible life: from Broadway in the 1970s, to a 747 hijacking, to the culture of drugs and luxury cars in 1980s Florida. A series of coincidences leads reporter Eric Mennel to the box, sending him on a five-year search to understand the truth about its owner. But as Mennel learns who Matthew MaGill really was, he is confronted with questions about his own life, his own mistakes, and his own family secrets.

Conversations at the intersection of health care, homelessness and humanity, Street Side explores the themes involved in providing street-level medical and mental health care to our unhoused neighbors, the "rough sleepers." We explore the care philosophy of street medicine, clinical topics, addiction medicine, mental health, trauma, and speak with folks who have lived experience of homelessness. This podcast will bring insight and inspiration to anyone who cares about the issue of homelessness.

For fans of the Netflix show Narcos and readers of true crime, Kilo is a deeply reported account of life inside Colombia’s drug cartels, using unprecedented access in the cartels to trace a kilo of cocaine—from the fields where it is farmed, to the hit men who protect it, to the smuggling...

From TV's Real Housewives to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as materialistic and entitled. But what do we really know about those who live on "easy street"? In this penetrating book, Rachel Sherman draws on rare in-depth interviews that she conducted with 50 affluent New Yorkers - including hedge fund financiers and corporate lawyers, professors and artists, and stay-at-home mothers - to examine their lifestyle choices and their understanding of privilege.

Black Revolutionaries is an accessible yet rigorously argued history of the Black Panther Party (BPP), one of the emblematic organizations of the 1960s. Joe Street highlights the complexity of the BPP's history through three key themes: the BPP's intellectual history, its political and social activism, and the persecution its members endured. Together, these themes confirm the BPP's importance in understanding Black America's response to white oppression in the 1960s and 1970s.

Harvard Square is at the center of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is the business district around Harvard University. It’s a place of history, culture, and some of the most momentous events of the nation. But it’s also a gathering place for some of the city’s homeless. What is life like for...

Foreword by Steven Pinker Blending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Freak, a fascinating, illuminating, and witty look at what the vast amounts of information now instantly available to us reveals about ourselves and our...

ONE OF THE NEW REPUBLIC'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR “Nothing I’ve read has cut to the heart of the ’00s like Y2K.” — Bustle Perfect for fans of Jia Tolentino and Chuck Klosterman, Y2K is a delightfully nostalgic and bitingly told exploration about how the early 2000s forever changed us...

The bad*ss story of the female, queer, bi, and nonbinary skaters who charted a path to the Olympics and changed the face of skateboarding. Who gets to tell the story of skateboarding? Drop In is the first book to recognize and historicize the female, queer, bi, and nonbinary humans who blazed...

“With humor and candor, Die Hot With a Vengeance shows why beauty should be a tool of self-expression, not self-hate.” - TIME *ONE OF BUSTLE'S MOST ANTICIPATED SUMMER READS* Journalist and former Allure editor Sable Yong debuts with a sharp-toothed and hilarious essay collection about beauty...