As Erling Kagge relates in his thrilling book, The North Pole, the world’s northernmost point has been a lifelong and nearly fatal obsession ...

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parents, spouses and siblings. Historian Judith Giesberg tells the stories of some of those families in a new book.

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Ellie Wood, author of books like "The Wildwater Women" and "The Restaurant at the Heart of the Lakes," is scheduled for April. Ellie Wood, author of books like "The Wildwater Women" is scheduled for ...

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