Catherine Belton A chilling and revelatory expose of the KGB’s renaissance, Putin’s rise to power, and how Russian black cash is subverting the world.In Putin’s People, former Moscow correspondent and...

Fiona Carnarvon Lady Fiona Carnarvon became the chatelaine of Highclere Castle - the setting of the hit series Downton Abbey - eight years ago. In that time she's become fascinated...

Tom Shachtman Science and experimentation were at the heart of the Founding Fathers' philosophies and actions. The Founders relentlessly tinkered, invented, farmed by means of scientific principles, star-gazed, were fascinated...

Bill Bryson From one of the most beloved authors of our timeâ more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country aloneâ a fascinating excursion...

Emma Sky When Emma Sky, an intrepid young British woman, volunteered to help rebuild Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, she had little idea what she was letting herself...

Ruth Benedict A recognized classic of cultural anthropology, this book explores the political, religious, and economic life of Japan from the seventh century through the mid-twentieth, as well as personal...

Hampton Sides On July 8, 1879, Captain George Washington De Long and his team of thirty-two men set sail from San Francisco on the USS Jeanette. Heading deep into uncharted...

Isabel and Imogen Greenberg Learn everything you need to know about the Ancient Greeks, and some of the things they'd rather you didn't find out! Packed full of facts and...

Isabel and Imogen Greenberg Learn everything you need to know about the Ancient Aztecs, and some of the things they'd rather you didn't find out! Packed full of facts and...

Jackie Gaff Designed to amuse and intrigue the young reader, this addition to the I Wonder Why series answers many of the questions that children ask about deserts including: Are...

Natan Gross The story of a wealthy Jewish family living in Cracow whose idyllic life is shattered in the midst of invasion by the Nazi army in Poland. Experiencing, on...

Author: David Halberstam The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today....