Harold Holzer & Joshua Wolf Shenk 
In Lincoln’s Hand [EPUB ebook] 

Originally published as Double Agent Snow, Hitler”s Spyis the paperback edition, which tells of how on the eve of the outbreak of the Second World War the double-agent Arthur Owens, codenamed SNOW, …

David Foster learned at a young age he was different and when the medical world was ready to throw him away he found salvation and love of his life in climbing the Sierra Nevada Mountain trails in Ca …

Can you imagine waking up one day while you”re still in high school and realize that you can”t walk? That”s what happened to me.At only 14, I was diagnosed with a disease that no one else in the w …

A true story of how living in poverty, having a dysfunctional family, and living in Syria with domestic abuse should have destroyed me, but God pulled me out of it all by giving me a will to never gi …

Biographies of two 17th-century female criminals, both celebrated in their day. These are the first editions published since the 17th century. …

On 2 June 1953, 27-year-old Princess Elizabeth of York was crowned Queen, the eyes of the world upon her as she dedicated herself to her country. It is fascinating to look back over the sixty years s …

6th September, 1942: a middle-aged Jewish refugee stands on the Swiss side of the Franco-Swiss border above Geneva. He has been living in Switzerland since he fled Vienna in November 1938, as the Naz …

”A diary is an assassin”s cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen”, wrote William Soutar in 1934. But a diary is also a place for recording everyday thoughts and special …

Edward Said, the famous Palestinian American scholar and activist, was one of the twentieth century”s most iconic public intellectuals, whose pioneering and – to some – controversial work on Orienta …