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With memories as a roadmap and nostalgia as a guide, best-selling author Isabel Allende takes us on a tour of a place based on Chile but rooted in her imagination. She explores how the politics, myth, and magic of her homeland have shaped her life and books.
Isabel Allende, author
In 1947, a massive explosion ripped through the thriving port of Texas City, Texas, killing hundreds of people and injuring thousands. Veteran journalist and presidential biographer Bill Minutaglio writes about this nearly forgotten disaster and the landmark legal battles against the U.S. government that followed.
Bill Minutaglio, author, former journalist, and presidential biographer
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