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An award-winning best-seller from the UK recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery.
"As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle...
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"Archaeologist Riley Smith has been obsessed with Helen of Troy since she was a small girl, trailing her professor father all over the world looking for the tomb of the world's most beautiful woman. Professor Smith set out to prove that, instead of a myth, Helen had been a living, breathing queen who inspired Homer to write The Iliad. Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has the unusual skills needed to recreate the face that launched a thousand ships--revealing...
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When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn't Disneyland, but Denmark, a land often thought of by foreigners as consisting entirely of long dark winters, cured herring, Lego and pastries. What is the secret to their success? Are happy Danes born, or made? Helen decides there is only one way to find out:...
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Harriet Beecher Stowe.--Helen Hunt Jackson.--Lucretia Mott.--Mary A. Livermore.--Margaret Fuller Ossoli.--Maria Mitchell.--Louisa M. Alcott.--Mary Lyon.--Harriet G. Hosmer.--Madame de Stael.--Rosa Bonheur.--Elizabeth Barrett Browning.--"George Eliot."--Elizabeth Fry.--Elizabeth Thompson Butler.--Florence Nightingale.--Lady Brassey.--Baroness Burdett-Coutts.--Jean Ingelow.
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