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independent country nestled within the city of Rome

soothes herself with booze and younger men

The Fair Folk poses questions about how we care for our children

a Jewish historian—but not an historian of the Jews—is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition

A Funny Sort of Minister Steel independent country nestled within theAt a train station on her way to meet her friends Marie and Leo to recover her pet rock, Madame Charlotte accidentally picks up the Prime Minister's elephant hide bag instead of her own. As it contains important documents and the politician is due to make an important speech on children's education, Miss Charlotte hoping that she might get a ministerial job out of this embarks on a quest to track him down. Along the way, Miss Charlotte cannot help