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The Afterlife of Anne Frank

The Diary of Anne Frank

a play by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, adapted by Wendy Kesselman, directed by James Lapine. at the Music Box Theater, New York City

An Obsession with Anne Frank: Meyer Levin and the Diary

by Lawrence Graver

The Stolen Legacy of Anne Frank: Meyer Levin, Lillian Hellman, and the Staging of the Diary

by Ralph Melnick


The End of the Troubles?

“The question on which the future of Northern Ireland depends is whether, without the reward of power, an undefeated paramilitary army can be persuaded to trade the epic certainties of violence for the unglamorous ambiguities of peaceful politics.”

Behind the Mask: The IRA and Sinn Fein

by Peter Taylor

Before the Dawn: An Autobiography

by Gerry Adams


Dangerous Liaisons

White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South

by Martha Hodes


The Myth of W.B. Yeats

W.B. Yeats: A Life

Volume I: The Apprentice Mage and R.F. Foster

The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats

Volume II: 1896-1900, edited by Warwick Gould and John Kelly and Deirdre Toomey


The Vatican Monarchy

Nearer, My God: An Autobiography of Faith

by William F. Buckley Jr.

The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara

by David I. Kertzer

Mary Through the Centuries: Her Place in the History of Culture

by Jaroslav Pelikan

Man of the Century: The Life and Times of Pope John Paul II

by Jonathan Kwitny

Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes

by Eamon Duffy

Lives of the Popes: The Pontiffs from Saint Peter to John Paul II

by Richard P. McBrien

The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism

by Michael W. Cuneo

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Fantasia

Jack Maggs

by Peter Carey

Oscar and Lucinda

a film directed by Gillian Armstrong


Verrocchio: The New Cicerone

The Sculptures of Andrea del Verrocchio

by Andrew Butterfield


Delightful Tears

Angels and Absences: Child Deaths in the Nineteenth Century

by Laurence Lerner


The Truth About Dictatorship

Transitional Justice: How Emerging Democracies Reckon with Former Regimes Studies, 780 pp.; Volume III: Laws, Rulings, and Reports, 834 pp.,

Volume I: General Considerations, 604 pp.; Volume II: Country, edited by Neil J. Kritz

Politik und Schuld: Die zerstörerische Macht des Schweigens [Politics and Guilt: The Destructive Power of Staying Silent]

by Gesine Schwan

Die Enquete-Kommission 'Aufarbeitung von Geschichte und Folgen der SED-Diktatur in Deutschland' im Deutschen Bundestag [Inquiry Commission in the German Bundestag (for the) 'Treatment of the Past and Consequences of the SED-Dictatorship in Germany']

Spór o PRL [The Controversy about the Polish People's Republic]


Bosnia: Breaking the Machine

Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime

by Jan Willem Honig and Norbert Both

The Serbs: History, Myth & the Resurrection of Yugoslavia

by Tim Judah

Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia

by Chuck Sudetic

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