Five Days At Memorial - Prijzen

Castro

The story of Fidel Castro has few parallels in contemporary history. None of the outstanding Third World leaders of the twentieth-century played such a prominent and restless part on the international...

From Slave Ship to Harvard

From Slave Ship to Harvard is the true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations. The author has reconstructed a unique narrative of black struggle and achievement from pain...

Negroland

The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicago's black elite. She calls this society 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro Am...

Media and the Cold War in the 1980s

The Cold War was a media phenomenon. It was a daily cultural political struggle for the hearts and minds of ordinary people-and for government leaders, a struggle to undermine their enemies' ability t...

Irma: A Chicago Woman's Story, 1871-1966

Crafted out of Irma Rosenthal Frankenstein's writings, this text offers an account of the life and times of an active, socially engaged woman who devoted herself to her family and her community set ag...

The Western Frontier Library Series-A Tour on the Prairies

In 1832, Washington Irving, recently returned from seventeen years' residence abroad and eager to explore his own country, embarked on an expedition to the country west of Arkansas set aside for the I...

Notes of Travel in South-Western Africa. by C. J. andersson.

Brooklyn's Sportsmens Row

In an era when horse racing reigned supreme and Brooklyn was at its very center, a remarkable collection of turf legends came to reside along one small stretch of northern Eighth Avenue in the exclusi...

Private Delhi

Santosh Wagh quit his job as head of Private India after harrowing events in Mumbai almost got him killed. But Jack Morgan, global head of the world's finest investigation agency, needs him back. Jack...

Humber Boy B

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THE WOMAN BEFORE ME'Superbly written... The plot twists and turns on the way to a nail-biting finale. A compelling read.' The SunA blur in the sky, a br...

Traitor

In the exhilarating tradition of I Am Pilgrim comes a sprawling, international high-s

The Glass Forest

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookseller comes a gripping literary suspense novel set in the 1960s about a deeply troubled family and three women who will reveal its dark truths....