Hadley Freeman After October 7, many on the left justified, dismissed or championed acts and beliefs they otherwise view as unconscionable. Why?‘October 7 was horrific. Then came October 8, and...

Alan Furst  NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[Furst] glides gracefully into an urbane pre–World War II Europe and describes that milieu with superb precision.” —Janet Maslin, The New York TimesIn the...

Julius FastThis classic book introduces kinetics, the science of non-verbal communication, which is used to analyze the common gestures we use and observe every day, gestures which reveal our deepest...

Ernesto Che Guevara

Conn Iggulden January 1, 2009 by Harper

Marion F SturkeyBonnie-Sue: A Marine Corps Helicopter Squadron in Vietnam"Bonnie-Sue" begins as a timeless classic, a story of men in combat. Yet, the book soars above the mud of war....

Manuel RivasOn 19 August 1936 Hercules the boxer stands on the quayside at Coruña and watches Fascist soldiers piling up books and setting them alight. With this moment a young...

Author: Robert Coram John Boyd may be the most remarkable unsung hero in all of American military history. Some remember him as the greatest U.S. fighter pilot ever -- the...

David Metzenthen Henry is heading up to stay with friends at Saint Helena Bay when his car breaks down just outside a country town. Forced to stay over in the...

Andy McNab This is McNab's account of the mission - a chronicle of courage, endurance and dark humour in the face of extreme cold, enemy attack, capture, and torture of...

Liz MurrayIn the vein of The Glass Castle, Breaking Night is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen was living on the streets, and who eventually...

Mieko KawakamiOn a hot summer's day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsuko, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko's teenage daughter Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing...