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“Fast-paced, fair-minded, and fascinating, Tim Weiner’s Enemies turns the long history of the FBI into a story that is as compelling, and important,...
Poignant in its honesty and grim in its details, Escape from Sobibor offers stunning proof of resistance--in this case successful--by victims of the Holocaust. The smallest of the extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany during World War II,...
A new collection of prophetic essays from one of the sharpest practitioners of the form
Mark Slouka writes from a particular vantage point, one invoked by Thoreau, who wished 'to improve the nick of time . . . to stand on the meeting of two...
It is estimated that in the USA alone around five to seven million citizens have been involved in a "cult" at some point in their lives This book describes the history of cults, delving into their more gruesome aspects and documenting the horror...
Essays on memory by the author of Out of Egypt.
We remember not because we have something we wish to go back to, nor because memories are all we have. We remember because memory is our most intimate, most familiar gesture. Most people are convinced...
"Dan Fante is an authentic literary outlaw." - New York Times
From Dan Fante, son of novelist John Fante, comes an exploration of his family's legacy - one of boozing, passion, writing, and survival. Long before his father achieved literary...
On the 100th anniversary of the Titanic’s sinking, a prominent Titanic researcher offers a final chance to see the ship before it disappears forever
The Titanic was the biggest, most luxurious passenger ship the world had ever seen; the...