Posts Tagged ‘history’
Sisters in the Wilderness
Catharine Parr Traill and Susanna Moodie are icons of the Canadian imagination. Yet most of what we know of these two English gentlewomen who spent their adult lives struggling in Britain’s harsh and vigorous colony comes from their own self-consciously crafted writings and from other writers’ sometimes fanciful depictions of them. But what were the…
Read MoreVillage of Secrets
From the author of the runaway bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village that helped save thousands, including many Jewish children, who were pursued by the Gestapo during World War II. High up in the mountains of the Ardèche in France lies a tiny, remote village with a huge…
Read MoreA Bold and Dangerous Family
From the bestselling author of A Train in Winter, the story of the Rosselli family, whose courage standing up to Mussolini’s fascism helped define the path of Italy in the years between the World Wars. “I had a house: they destroyed it. I had a newspaper: they closed it. I had a university chair: I…
Read MoreHuman Cargo
A new edition of this seminal book, now with a new introduction by the author on the current crisis How can society cope with the diaspora of the twenty-first century? Is there a difference between good asylum seekers and bad economic migrants? What happens to those whose applications are turned down? Caroline Moorehead has visited…
Read MoreThe Death of Money
The next financial collapse will resemble nothing in history. . . . Deciding upon the best course to follow will require comprehending a minefield of risks, while poised at a crossroads, pondering the death of the dollar. The U.S. dollar has been the global reserve currency since the end of World War II. If the…
Read MoreThe Day the World Came to Town
“For the better part of a week, nearly every man, woman, and child in Gander and the surrounding smaller towns stopped what they were doing so they could help. They placed their lives on hold for a group of strangers and asked for nothing in return. They affirmed the basic goodness of man at a…
Read MoreLove Among the Ruins
92-year activist and author of the acclaimed Harry’s Last Stand presents a unique memoir.
Read MoreThe Lost City of the Monkey God
A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world’s densest jungle. Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of…
Read MoreDunkirk
New York Times Bestseller The epic true story of Dunkirk—now a major motion picture, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, and starring Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy, and Mark Rylance In 1940, the Allies had been beaten back by the Nazis across France to the northern port of Dunkirk. In the ultimate race against time, more…
Read MorePortable North American Indian Reader
Selected writings introduce the traditions, character, and cultures of different tribes
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