Laurel Tharcher Ulrich PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, "A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so foreign, and...

Svetlana Alexievich New English translation of original 1985 book by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.The long-awaited translation of the classic oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World...

Kate Thompson 'A splendid warm-hearted novel' - Rachel HoreLondon, 1944.Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While the world remains at war, in East London Clara has created the country's only...

Yaffa Ganz Sand and Stars: The Jewish Journey Through Time A Jewish History for Young People January 1, 1994 by Shaar Press TRANSLATE with x English Arabic Hebrew Polish Bulgarian...

Margaret Visser Eating is a strange phenomenon, if you think about it: to survive, we must kill and then incorporate other living things into ourselves. It is this basic strangeness...

Niall Ferguson Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles...

Jon Krakauer Jon Krakauer’s literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of...

Herbert Ashbury The history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. If the precious yellow metal hadn't been discovered . . . the...

Cassell Books The finest Britain has to offer, brilliantly commented on by its best writers and personalities. From the heroic (Winston Churchill's 1940 Speeches by Andrew Roberts) and the literary (The...

Leslie Maitland Leslie Maitland is an award-winning former New York Times investigative reporter whose mother and grandparents fled Germany in 1938 for France, where, as Jews, they spent four years as refugees,...

Time for Kids TIME For Kids continues the success of That's Awesome! to create, That's Incredible!, a book filled with brand-new and impressive facts combined with colorful and attention-grabbing photos...

Eldorado Ink The Decades of the Twentieth Century is an informative and richly illustrated portrait of the last one hundred years. All the important events between 1900 and 2000 are...