Hazel Richardson This fascinating new book describes how Japan grew from rule by local chieftains to an emperor-led nation with many noble families competing for prominence. Beautiful spreads and full-color...

Patrick K O'Donnell At the height of World War II, with the Third Reich’s Final Solution in full operation, a small group of Jews who were naturalized American citizens, having...

Asher CailingoldThis is the story of an orthodox Jewish girl, born in the era of the flapper and the Charleston, in 1920s London, who travelled to Jerusalem to teach in...

Art SpiegelmanMaus is the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his father's...

Michael Karpin   The Bomb in the Basement: How Israel Went Nuclear and What that Means for the Rest of the World   THE BOMB IN THE BASEMENT tells the...

Denis Avey   "The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz" is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into the concentration camp, Buna-Monowitz, known as Auschwitz III....

Gaalyah Cornfeld David Noel Freedman, Consulting Editor January 1, 1976 by Harper & Row

Eekiel LeikinOn March 20, 1911, the mutilated body of a twelve-year-old boy was discovered in a cave near Kiev, Russia. In reaction, a vicious anti-Jewish campaign was launched in the...

VS NaipaulIn 'A Writer's People', V.S. Naipaul brings unmatched clarity and rich experience to an exploration of the ways we think, see and feel.

Claire TomalinThe tumultuous life of England's greatest novelist, splendidly rendered by literary biographer Claire Tomalin. When Charles Dickens died in 1870, The Times of London successfully campaigned for his burial...

Peter and Connie Roop Presents a biography of the noted statesman and inventor, featuring excerpts from his letters, pamphlets, essays, scientific papers, and autobiography. January 1, 2001 by Scholastic Reference...

Daniel James BrownThe Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin OlympicsThe #1 New York Times–bestselling story about American Olympic triumph in...