Considering the incompatibility of civilization and individual happiness, the author focuses on what he perceives to be one of society\'s greatest dangers; \'civilized\' sexual morality, he asks, does repression compromise our chances of

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\"Holds many surprises for the reader who has seen the Cuban reality . . . only through the distorting prism of propaganda.\" --The New York Times Book Review, 1967 On December 31, 1958, Lee Lockwood, then a young photojournalist, went to Cuba to cover what looked to be the end of Batista\'s regime. He arrived the day before Fidel Castro took power and spent a week canvassing the island before finding

She\'s the only one who survived...and the only one who can help find the killer.Another spring, another dead girl pulled from a lake in the Appalachian foothills: the latest victim in a series of murders with few leads. But Detective Geena Brassard and her partner, Parker Reed, finally land a break when they receive a tip about a previously unknown survivor of the so-called Spring Strangler.The survivor\'s

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