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From the author of the international bestseller Girl With a Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard, comes a stirring eighteenth-century comin...

In an exhilarating tale of historic adventure, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Confederates in the Attic retraces the voyages of Captain James...

An ALA Notable Book. A New York Times Notable Book. In Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the mystery of the human attraction to violence: W...

Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the uni...

In 1942, Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went off to fight the war. He was twenty-two. Soon recognized as a...

Originally published as Bess of Hardwick : first lady of Chatsworth, 1527-1608, London : Little, Brown, 2005. Merrie England 1520-40 -- Child bride...

The basis for the major motion picture of the same name. An entrancing memoir of how one woman's journey of self-discovery gave her the courage to ...

Roberta Gellis, acclaimed author of The Roselynde Chronicles, brings medieval London to life--and death--with her latest tale of splendor and squal...

Nathan and Erika have a chance encounter with Serge Dubois and his friends in lavender-drenched Northern Provence. Serge's mission is to stop helic...

The story of the 100,000 British children who came to Canada as child immigrants between 1870 and 1938 is not well known. Yet the descendants of th...

Tells the stories of fur traders, trappers, mountain men, Canadian Northwest Mounted Police, explorers, Indians, and miners

In the 1970s, a thousand men formed Canada's unelected government--invisible, inbred, secretive, puritanical and tough-minded business-men dedicate...

The National Bestseller, the portrait of one of the most best loved and most hated presidents in American history, whose appetites for power and se...

Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War allows us to see what really happened to American forces in Southeast Asia, separating popular myth from ex...

Set on the Nebraska prairie of the 1880s, My �ntonia tells the story of �ntonia Shimerda, daughter of a Bohemian immigrant.Through the eyes of Jim ...

The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that "hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy" (T...