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Delve deep into the twisted mind of DC Comics' Harley Quinn with this immersive, in-world journal. After going AWOL from a dangerous mission with the Suicide Squad, Harley Quinn drops the journal in which she has been scribbling down her twisted thoughts. That's where...

Democracy and political violence can hardly be considered conceptual siblings, at least at first sight. Democracy allows people to route their aspirations, demands, and expectations of the state through peaceful methods, violence works outside these prescribed and institutionalized channels in public spaces, in the...

Derrick Cameron, antiquities dealer and adventurer, is furious when the priceless piece of Elizabethan lace he's been pursuing slips right by him, in the improbable custody of a mousy textile historian! But he will retrieve it, even if it means dragging a very skeptical,...

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Disillusioned actress Eden Riley leaves a life of Hollywood glamour, and a broken marriage, to return to her mother's childhood home in rural Virginia. Eden is full of questions about her mother, a famous children's author who died when Eden was very young. On...

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