Ta-Nehisi Coates In the 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, the story of race and America has remained a brutally...

Naomi Pasachoff and Robert J LittmanHow does this Jewish history book differ from all others? Instead of burdening the reader with endless details about every single aspect of Jewish history,...

Bill Bryson Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. "A Short...

Peter Mayle   NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old...

Tim Cole In Selling the Holocaust, Tim Cole examines three of the Holocaust's most emblematic figures–Anne Frank, Adolf Eichmann, and Oskar Schindler–and three of the Holocaust's most visited sites–Auschwitz, Yad...

Elie WieselBorn in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to Auschwitz concentration camp, and...

Gershom Gorenberg A senior columnist for The Jerusalem Report focuses on the religious passions that make fundamentalists of three major religions--Christianity, Judaism, and Islam--battle over the Temple Mount in Jerusalem...

David Howard Bain A dramatic history of the construction of America's first transcontinental railroad chronicles three seminal decades in American history, describing the vast enterprise to build a railroad from...

Terence Prittie and Walter Henry Nelson269 pages, HardcoverPublished Random House (NY)

Charles SalaAn in-depth look at the life and work of the impetuous, solitary, tireless creator who, in asserting his freedom to create on his own terms, was the prototype of...

Mark LillaEuropean history of the past century is full of examples of philosophers, writers, and jurists who, whether they lived in democratic, communist, or fascist societies, supported and defended totalitarian...

Ian KershawIan Kershaw's Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-41 offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second...