Nonfiction
Rejected Princesses: Tales of History’s Boldest Heroines, Hellions & Heretics
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From 1500 BCE to the 20th century, this compendium is packed with famous as well as lesser-known women of history who, in the animator-turned-author’...Read Review
The Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill
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The birth of the Berlin Wall is well-known, and the fall of The Berlin Wall is equally well documented. What hasn’t been ...Read Review
Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 – A World on the Edge
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Rappaport tells the story of the Russian Revolution through a different perspective: that of the foreigners residing in or visiting St. Petersburg (renamed ...Read Review
A History of Britain in 21 Women: A Personal Selection
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Dame Jenni Murray, writer and doyenne of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, here offers brief but highly illuminating biographies of 21 determined, pioneering ...Read Review
Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Sherlock
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This is the fascinating story of how Arthur Conan Doyle developed one of the most beloved characters in English literature, Sherlock Holmes. Sims ...Read Review
Out West: Travels Through the American West—Past and Present
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British writer and filmmaker Tim Slessor created documentaries featuring the American West for the BBC for over 40 years. He became so intrigued by ...Read Review
Release Your Inner Roman: A Treatise by Nobleman Marcus Sidonius Flax
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Struggling with raising your unruly children, getting that raise at work, or finding a balance between happiness and letting luxuries dull your senses? ...Read Review
Isabella of Castile: Europe’s First Great Queen
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Isabella of Castile was certainly a formidable queen. You may know her only from a whirlwind Western Civilization class as the Spanish queen ...Read Review
Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas de Quincey
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Thomas De Quincey is most famous for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and for his friendship with the Romantic poets, especially William ...Read Review
Spitalfields: The History of a Nation in a Handful of Streets
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If streets could talk… Cruickshank focuses like a laser beam upon the buildings of one of London’s best-known neighbourhoods, chronicled in an ...Read Review
