Fourteen yr-old orphan, Cassandra Stone, had a miserable childhood being shuffled between foster homes, always alone with only a grocery-bag of clothes and a growing rock collection. At twelve, she…

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In Reimagining Zen in a Secular Age Andre van der Braak uses Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age to describe the encounter between Japanese Zen Buddhism and Western modernity. He proposes…

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From cult loves like The Early November to giants like My Chemical Romance, O'Shea explores what it was that made Indie & Emo touch the hearts of so many people…

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Discover the true story of Quinn, the prehensile-tailed porcupine with an irresistibly squishy, soft velvet, marshmallow nose that captured worldwide and over 80 million views.

Armando Rodriguez spoke no English when he first set foot in the US. But with parents who emphasized the importance of education, he became fluent in English, received a doctorate…