20th Century
Boss of Bosses
This is the story of Bernardo Provenzano, Italy’s most notorious criminal. Provenzano was initiated into the Mafia in the 1950s…
Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler
While book shops and libraries remain choked with works on the Nazis and the military aspects of the Second World…
Jack London in Paradise
A reimagining of the last year of Jack London’s life (1915-16), follows filmmaker and aging matinee idol Hobart Bosworth as…
Angel of Vilcabamba
Angel of Vilcabamba begins as human rights investigator John Alexander (JA) has volunteered to rescue Andalucía Gonzáles-Chuca of Cueca, Ecuador,…
The Help
Editors' choice
In 1962 in Jackson, Mississippi, Skeeter, a young white aspiring journalist, comes home from Ole Miss and decides to document…
After the Train
In the summer of 1955, thirteen-year-old Peter Liebig is excited about helping his father, an architect, rebuild the bombed-out church…
The Last Days of the Romanovs
On 17 July 1918, in Ekaterinburg, Bolsheviks brutally murdered Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and their children: Olga, Tatiana,…
Kiyo’s Story: A Memoir
“Last year, my winning essay, ‘What America Means to Me,’ placed in our school’s finals. This year I am branded…
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London’s Jazz Age
For American readers, the phrase “lost generation” conjures up the names Hemingway and Fitzgerald and other arty types who spent…
American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the “It” Girl and the Crime of the Century
Florence Evelyn Nesbit was born in the mid-1880s to a middle-class family, but her fortune took a turn upon the…
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