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Hope Against Hope

Hope Against Hopemay refer to: an autobiographical work by Nadezhda Mandelshtam covering the period of StalinismHope Against Hope (album), a noise rock album released in 1988. Source:Wikipedia

Voices of the Old Sea

After World War II, Norman Lewis returned to Spain and settled in the remote fishing village of Farol, on what is now Costa Brava. Voices of the Old Sea describes his three successive summers in that almost medieval community where life revolved around the seasonal sardine catches, Alcade’s bar, and satisfying feuds with neighboring villages.It’s …

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Liar’s Poker

American bar game that combines statistical reasoning with bluffing, and is played with the eight digits of the serial number on U.S. dollar bills

The Call of the Wild

Short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand