Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World Lynsey Addario told from the perspective of

told from the perspective of a repentant former rascal

this anthology gives a glimpse of the vast richness and complexity of the disabled experience

From the American Revolution itself to the Civil Rights Movement to nuclear disarmament protests and the women's liberation movement

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Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World Lynsey Addario told from the perspective ofHistory comes alive in this textured account of the rivalry between Harry Houdini and the so called Witch of Lime Street, whose iconic lives intersected at a time when science was on the verge of embracing the paranormal. The 1920s are famous as the golden age of jazz and glamour, but it was also an era of fevered yearning for communion with the spirit world, after the loss of tens of millions in the First World War and the Spanish flu epidemic. A