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by Michael Kammen
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
During the twenty years before the American Revolution, thirty-seven men acted as paid agent or lobbyists for the American colonies in England. The most famous among them were Benjamin Franklin, who represented four different colonies and served for seventeen years as agenet for Pennsylvania, and...
The Boys from Dolores
Fidel Castro's Classmates from Revolution to Exile
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
From the author of Chasing Che, here is the remarkable tale of a group of boys at the heart of Cuba's political and social history. Chosen in the 1940s from among the most affluent and ambitious families in eastern Cuba, they were groomed at the elite Colegio de Dolores for achievement and leadership....
by Jill Lepore
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called “The Oral History of Our Time.”
Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant historian...
Valkyrie
The Story of the Plot to Kill Hitler, by Its Last Member
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
When the Second World War broke out, Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, then 25-years-old, fought enthusiastically for Germany as a cavalry officer. But after discovering Nazi crimes, von Boeselager’s patriotism quickly turned to disgust, and he joined a group of conspirators who plotted to kill Adolf...
38 Nooses
Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
In August 1862, after decades of broken treaties, increasing hardship, and relentless encroachment on their lands, a group of Dakota warriors convened a council at the tepee of their leader, Little Crow. Knowing the strength and resilience of the young American nation, Little Crow counseled caution,...
The Triple Agent
The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
A stunning narrative account of the mysterious Jordanian who penetrated both the inner circle of al-Qaeda and the highest reaches of the CIA, with a devastating impact on the war on terror.
In December 2009, a group of the CIA’s top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret base in Khost, Afghanistan,...
by Neil Sheehan
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
In the opening years of the Vietnam War, a small group of American military advisors and their South Vietnamese allies were facing down the Viet Cong. The confident Americans were there to do what seemed elementary: help the South Vietnamese army defeat a ragtag guerrilla enemy. They were assured...
The Winter Family
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
A Globe & Mail Top 100 Book of 2015
Longlisted for The 2015 Giller Prize
A Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Prize
"Sadistic but mesmerizing..."
-- The New York Times Book Review
Tracing a group of ruthless outlaws from its genesis during the American Civil War...
Trains and Lovers
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
The rocking motion of the train as it speeds along, the sound of its wheels on the rails . . . There’s something special about this form of travel that makes for easy conversation, which is just what happens to the four strangers who meet in Trains and Lovers.
As they journey by rail from...
by Dennis Bock
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
After two acclaimed historical novels, one of Canada’s most celebrated young writers now gives us the vibrant, contemporary story of a man studying the suddenly confusing shape his life has taken, and why, and what his responsibilities—as a husband, a father, a brother, and an uncle—truly...
The Long Exile
A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
In 1952, the Canadian government forcibly relocated three dozen Inuit from their flourishing home on the Hudson Bay to the barren, arctic landscape of Ellesmere Island, the most northerly landmass on the planet. Among this group was Josephie Flaherty, the unrecognized, half-Inuit son of filmmaker...
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
From the acclaimed translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky comes a new translation of the first great prison memoir: Fyodor Dostoevsky’s fictionalized account of his life-changing penal servitude in Siberia.
In 1849 Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years at hard labor in a Siberian...
American Scripture
Making the Declaration of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Pauline Maier shows us the Declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation. It is truly "American Scripture," and Maier tells us how it came to be -- from the Declaration's birth in the hard and tortuous struggle by...
The Red Squad
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
A wonderfully comic novel about the interwoven lives of a group of 1960s grad students who, forty years later, learn that they were under FBI surveillance during their activist days.
There’s Anka, who enraged the right-thinking newspaper with her outspoken politics; Kevin, a priest in the process...