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A powerful true story of love, loss and a family torn apart\A vivid, heart-warming story of survivalAnnie Austin’s childhood ends at the age of twelve, wh...

From bestselling author Mark Spector comes the behind-the-scenes story of the Canadian World Junior program’s journey from obscurity to the international...

The first major new book to appear from Kurt Vonnegut in nearly a decade The New York Times - A. O. Scott A Man Without a Country is a fine place to start...

The Try Guys Deliver Their First Book—an Inspirational Self-improvement Guide That Teaches You That The Path To Success Is Littered With Humiliating Detou...

Atatürk As A Young Man, 1880-1912 -- Atatürk As A Soldier, 1912-1918 -- Atatürk As A Revolutionary, 1918-1922 -- Atatürk As A Statesman, 1923-1927 -- At...

In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes y...

The Heartbreaking True Story Of A Woman Imprisoned For Having A Miscarriage-an Injustice That Galvanized A Feminist Movement And Became A Global Rallying Cr...

The era of Franklin D.Roosevelt and the New Deal was a time of depression and despair, economic rebirth and renewal, and mobilization for a war in both the ...

Three or four days a week, Jeanne Cooper drives from her Hollywood Hills home to the job she's held for more than three decades: bringing life to the chara...

The emperor Constantine changed the world by making the Roman Empire Christian. Eusebius wrote his life and preserved his letters so that his policy would...

A French Memoir In The Age Of #metoo. A Literary Sensation, Vanessa Springora's Consent Weaves Her Personal Narrative Of A Relationship During Her Childhood...

In the fall of 1942, roundups of Jews in Dąbrowa Tarnowska, Poland, lead twelve-year-old Molly Applebaum and her cousin Helen to find refuge on a nearby fa...

Charles Ritchie, one of Canada’s most distinguished diplomats, was a born diarist, a man whose daily record of his life is so well written that it leaps f...

This revealing memoir by the former president of the National Association of Japanese Canadians describes the long journey towards resolution for the hist...

A Riveting, Deeply Personal Account Of History In The Making--from The President Who Inspired Us To Believe In The Power Of Democracy In The Stirring, Highl...

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The late 1960s and early 1970s, in New York City and America at large, were years marked by political tumult, social unrest—and the best professional bas...

It's Difficult Today To Imagine How America Survived The Great Depression--only Through The Stories Of The Common People Who Struggled During That Era Can W...

WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDThe definitive memoir of one of Israel's most influential soldier-statesmen and one-time Prime Minister, Ehud ...

The Astonishing But True Story Of One Of The Most Notorious Spy Cases From The Cold War--and The International Manhunt That Seized Global Attention As It Re...

The young W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood spent, between them, the years 1928 to 1933 in Berlin. It was a crucial stage in the development of the two ...

the Shocking Secrets Of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Artwork the Recent Cleaning Of The Sistine Chapel Frescoes Removed Layer After Layer Of Centuries Of...

Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley Set Out To Ensure Food Safety. He Selected Food Tasters To Test Various Food Additives And Preservatives, Letting Them Know That...

Product Description #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, from the rise of autocracy unl...

Madame Justice Bertha Wilson, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, is an enormously influential and controversial figure in Canadian le...

American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atomic bomb,” the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led t...

The glory years for the Toronto Maple Leafs—four Stanley Cups in the 1960s—may be distant memories, but what the team lacks in recent accomplishments is...

The long-awaited memoir by one of the most important political leaders of our time For 16 years, Angela Merkel bore the governmental responsibility for Germ...

An explosive exposé of America’s lost prosperity by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Charlie LeDuffBack in his broken hometown, Pulitzer Prize-winnin...

The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates, from the journalist who has spent years studying them. Who really runs the show and, as Char...

Product Description One of the most successful Black businessmen in the country, who has led Nike’s Jordan Brand from a $200M sneaker company to a $4...

V. 1. The Prodigy, 1881-1906 -- V. 2. The Cubist Rebel, 1907-1916 -- V. 3. Triumphant Years, 1917-1932. John Richardson ; With The Collaboration Of Marilyn ...

Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another "explosive and compulsive" (Stephen Fry) thriller chroniclin...

Venice--a city of masks and riddles, where narrow streets and passageways form a giant maze that confounds the uninitiated and deepens the sense of myster...

Called 'disgraceful, ' 'third-rate, ' And 'not Nice' By Donald Trump, Nbc News Correspondent Katy Tur Reported On -- And Took Flak From -- The Most Volatile...

Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo – a stunning feat of historical sleuthing that brings to life the forgotten hero who ...

Everywhere hailed as a masterpiece of historical adventure, this enthralling narrative recounts the experiences of twelve American sailors who were shipwr...

Today’s most highly regarded writer on Indian food gives us an enchanting memoir of her childhood in Delhi in an age and a society that has since disa...

A history of National Socialist Germany is presented from the perspective of Hitler's Minister of Armaments and War Production, and offers insight into how ...

One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015 and a NYT Bestseller, and now the basis for the Netflix film 22 July, from acclaimed filmmak...

For the audience that read Maria Flook’s New York Times bestseller, Invisible Eden, this is the extraordinary story of a high-stakes murder case set in t...

WINNER OF THE 2020 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NONFICTION\“Wondrously and elegantly written in language that astonishes and moves the reader…T...

Winner of the Dafoe Book PrizeWinner of the University of British Columbia Medal for Canadian Biography1995 marked the 100th anniversary of that most chari...

In the 20th - the American - Century, no visionary stands taller than Vannevar Bush. As the inventor and public entrepreneur who launched the Manhattan Proj...

Elissa Wall Details Her Life Growing Up In The Polygamous Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints Religious Sect, Being Forced Into An Unwanted Marriage At The Age...

Warlord is the definitive chronicle of Churchill's crucial role as one of the world's most renowned military leaders, from his early adventures on the Nor...

Married at 17 to the grandson of a confirmed lunatic and widowed at 20, Catherine Parr chose a Yorkshire lord twice her age as her second husband. Caught up...

An uproarious, eye-opening history of Europe's notorious royal houses that leaves no throne unturned and will make you glad you live in a democracy. Do yo...