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The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood

by Helene Cooper

Helene Cooper is "Congo," a descendant of two Liberian dynasties -- traced back to the first ship of freemen that set sail from New York in 1820 to found Monrovia. Helene grew up at Sugar Beach, a twenty-two-room...


A Child al Confino

by Eric Lamet

Eric Lamet was only seven years old when the Nazis invaded Vienna-and changed his life and the lives of all European Jews forever. Five days after Hitler marched in, Eric Lamet and his parents fled for their...


William Lyon Mackenzie King

by lian goodall

A fascinating glimpse into the world of the man who was Canada's longest serving prime minister and one of the international scene's most important figures during the Second World War.


Wilfrid Laurier

by Roderick Stewart

Using a rare combination of the common touch and political savvy, Laurier became prime minister in 1896, a position he would hold for 15 years.


Samuel de Champlain

by Francine Legaré & Jonathan Kaplansky

Through his fierce defense of New France to those in power in France, Chaplain ensured the birth of the country that today is Canada. He is undisputedly the Father of New France.


John Franklin

by John Wilson

Franklin's exploration of Canada's arctic seacoast in 1845 ended in the demise of him and his crew, but the search for clues to their fate helped open up the North.


Jacques Plante

by Raymond Plante & Vladimir Konieczny

Jacque Plante, the first NHL goalie to regularly wear a protective facemask, won the Vezina Trophy seven times and is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.


Henry Hudson

by Edward Butts

Sailing from England in 1610, renowned explorer Henry Hudson began his search for a Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic. Hudson's questionable leadership and extreme Arctic conditions resulted in the...


James Douglas

by Julie H. Ferguson

James Douglas tells the story of the son of a Scottish plantation owner and a mixed-race woman who would become governor of the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia. Before Vancouver existed as...


Yehuda Halevi

by Hillel Halkin

Part of the Jewish Encounter series

A masterly biography of Yehuda Halevi, one of the greatest of Hebrew poets and a shining example of the synthesis of religion and culture that defined the golden age of medieval...


The Dentist of Auschwitz

by Benjamin Jacobs

" In 1941 Berek Jakubowicz (now Benjamin Jacobs) was deported from his Polish village and remained a prisoner of the Reich until the final days of the war. His possession of a few dental tools and rudimentary...


Gulag Voices: An Anthology

by Jane Ann Miller & Ms. Anne Applebaum

style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormalAnne Applebaum wields her considerable knowledge of a dark chapter in human history;and;presents a collection of the writings of;survivors of the Gulag, the Soviet...


Alexander Hamilton, American

by Richard Brookhiser

Alexander Hamilton is one of the least understood, most important, and most impassioned and inspiring of the founding fathers. At last Hamilton has found a modern biographer who can bring him to full-blooded...


Stitch of Courage: A Woman's Fight for Freedom

Trail of Thread #3

by Linda K. Hubalek

Subtitle: A Woman's Fight of Freedom, Historical Letters 1861-1865 Trail of Thread Series, Book 3 Feel the uncertainty, doubt, and danger faced by the pioneer women of Kansas as they defend their homes and pray...


Thimble of Soil: A Woman's Quest for Land

Trail of Thread #2

by Linda K. Hubalek

Subtitle: A Woman's Quest for Land, Historical Letters 1854-1860 Trail of Thread Series, Book 2 Experience the terror of the fighting and the determination to endure as you stake a claim alongside the women...


Trail of Thread

Trail of Thread #1

by Linda K Hubalek

Subtitle: A Woman's Westward Journey, Historical Letters 1854-1855 Trail of Thread Series, Book 1 Taste the dust of the road and feel the wind in your face as you travel with a Kentucky family by wagon trail...


Sisters of Fortune: America's Caton Sisters at Home and Abroad

by Jehanne Wake

As gripping as the best historical novel, Sisters of Fortune is the story of the exuberant Marianne, Bess, Louisa, and Emily Caton, the American sisters who enthralled the highest levels of English Regency society...


Johnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, the American Story

by Howard Means

This portrait of Johnny Appleseed restores the flesh-and-blood man beneath the many myths. It captures the boldness of an iconic American life and the sadness of his last years, as the frontier marched past...


The Mendelssohn Family 1729-1847 - From Letters and Journals

by Sebastian Hensel

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern...


An American Radical

by Susan Rosenberg

On a November night in 1984, Susan Rosenberg sat in the passenger seat of a U-Haul as it swerved along the New Jersey Turnpike. At the wheel was a fellow political activist. In the back were 740 pounds of dynamite...