Nonfiction
Cleopatra: The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity
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Popular Italian historian Angela’s docudrama covers a crucial fourteen years of Roman history, complete with feasts, battles, and two legendary love affairs. ...Read Review
The Auschwitz Photographer: Based on the True Story of Wilhelm Brasse, Prisoner 3444
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Wilhelm Brasse, a Polish prisoner at Auschwitz in 1941, is recruited by the SS to take photographs of all the new arrivals. This is ...Read Review
Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy
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Anne Sebba’s biography of Ethel Rosenberg, a woman snared by a capricious justice system, lives up to its subtitle of “An American ...Read Review
The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation
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You probably know Peter Cozzens as the author of The Earth is Weeping, his monumental study of the Indian Wars in the western ...Read Review
Princes of the Renaissance: The Hidden Power Behind an Artistic Revolution
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This gorgeous illustrated book tells many wonderful stories. Its main characters are “princes” in the broad sense of powerful rulers, as Machiavelli and ...Read Review
First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery
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This eye-opening look at the world of U.S. newspapers and the anti-slavery movement in the decades before the Civil War is an ...Read Review
The NHS: The Story So Far
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This is a revised version of a book first published in 2018 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the NHS. The ...Read Review
The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames: A Foundling’s Story
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Before it became acceptable to have a child outside of marriage, the legitimacy of their son or daughter brought shame both to the ...Read Review
Climate Change: An Archaeological Study
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The thesis of this book is that climate change is nothing new, even during the few tens of thousands of years that mankind ...Read Review
The Lockhart Plot: Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin’s Russia
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Bruce Lockhart, a British diplomat and secret agent, is at the center of a conspiracy involving American, British, and French operatives to murder ...Read Review