The “compelling [and] vivid” (The New York Times Book Review) true story of a man who claimed to be a survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India, his elaborate...
"Narrator Josh Hamilton expertly captures what two prominent Americans, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, may have sounded like. While this audiobook focuses on their friendship,...
**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** “Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important African-American of the nineteenth...
When Myrtle Rae Forberg steps from her father’s boat to the floating dock at Rock Bay, BC, and walks along the board walk to school, she takes her first steps from the...
This is a book for people who wake up at 5am (or 4am or 3am) worrying. Maybe you don’t call it worrying, maybe you call it planning or organising. Sometimes it is helpful....
‘The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass’ was published in 1845; it is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by the famous author and former slave Frederick...
Abraham Lincoln called "Billy" Herndon, “My man always above all other men on the globe.” They were business partners for 16 years. After Lincoln's assassination Herndon did...
I have survived a plane which caught on fire over the Tasman, have lived with a tribe in pre-Indenpendence Papuan New Guinea.I have hugged a three toed sloth in Colombia and...
Wallis Simpson is known as the woman at the center of the most scandalous love affair of the 20th century, but in this “unputdownable…lively and detailed” (The...
What is your mother tongue? Sometimes the simplest questions take a book to answer. Such is the case with Tania Romanov’s story of exile, emigration and immigration and how...