Little Brown
Darktown
In 1948, the city of Atlanta hires its first African-American police officers. Although uniformed and armed, the eight new officers…
Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman’s Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany
When in November 1942, Marie Jalowicz Simon, after a failed attempt to escape Nazi Germany with a forged passport, is…
If This Is a Woman: Inside Ravensbrück: Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women
This is an exceptionally detailed history of the only concentration camp established under the Nazi regime solely for female prisoners.…
Girl in the Blue Coat
Girl in the Blue Coat is a sensitively told coming-of-age story set in the Netherlands during the German occupation. Hanneke…
Rush Oh!
Australians may be familiar with the shore whaling enterprises that operated in Twofold Bay, New South Wales, until the early…
Culloden: Scotland’s Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire
The battle that ended Bonnie Prince Charlie’s hopes in 1746 had consequences that exploded across the globe. Trevor Royle traces…
The Witches: Salem, 1692
This is a very detailed and erudite account of the infamous witchcraft frenzy which afflicted the small village of Salem,…
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny
Jiaolong speaks to her daughter: “I follow the Iron Way… the world of wushu. Of martial arts… The wushu warrior…
Early One Morning
In 1939, as families are being deported from an Italian Jewish ghetto on their way to almost certain death, a…
Minna’s Patchwork Coat
In this reworking of Mills’ picture book, The Rag Coat, Minna, a girl living in Appalachia at the turn of…
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