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One Hundred Years of Solitude: The story of Latin America
Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez’s modern classic that fuses the magical with real life

Rabindranath Tagore: The Bard of Bengal
A portrait of the prolific writer who was an environmental thinker before his time

Pauline Viardot: 19th-Century diva
The Franco-Spanish singer and composer who charmed European society on and off stage

The One Thousand and One Nights
The ancient magical tales whose origins stretch from India to Persia to Arabia

Adventures with dentures: The story of dentistry
The painful early roots of a profession we all rely on

BR Ambedkar: The Dalit hero of India
The life of perhaps the greatest social reformer in 20th-century India

Making waves: the history of swimming
Different strokes for different folks, embracing the story of swimming around the world

Abraham Maslow’s psychology of human needs
An influential 20th-century thinker who identified what motivates us

The Kalevala: the Finnish epic that inspired a nation
The collection of folk songs and poetry that articulated Finnish independence

Sister Juana, a great mind of Mexico
An outspoken nun who was also a daring poet