Norman Brokaw was CEO and Chairman of the William Morris Agency from 1989 to 1997, but his legacy may lie in his ascent ......more
Fall into the sugaring underworld with Brook, who worked behind the scenes at notorious sugar daddy website SeekingArran......more
Step beyond the magical movies and explore the wider world of Studio Ghibli. Hailed as perhaps the greatest animation st......more
When Jody Olsen enlisted as a Peace Corps volunteer in Tunisia in 1966, she was fleeing familial tragedy and the stiflin......more
Freed Lowrey and his brother Mark come from a long line of Army brats -- the colloquial term for children who grew up in......more
An examination of Major General Amos Horev and his pivotal role in shaping Israel’s military and technological advanceme......more
John Haney, one of the creators of the beloved board game Trivial Pursuit, walks us through his life -- his hockey caree......more
A century ago, William Carlos Williams’s In the American Grain profiled Anglo, French, and Spanish conquistadors, tyrant......more
"In contemporary American politics, where absurdity often overshadows reality, Worse Than You Think emerges as a refresh......more
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On bullying, discipline, and power in school and beyond. What does it mean to be a bully? What does it feel like to be b......more
Using digitally restored page images from the original publications, first published in 1952 and 1886, the lives of the ......more
Using digitally restored page images of four books, of which were first published in 1908, 1922, 1952 and 1886, based on......more
"Marking a milestone for women in state government, Marlene M. Johnson became Minnesota’s first woman lieutenant governo......more
Investigating History’s Mysteries The assassination of Sheriff Pat Garrett, one of the most notorious lawmen of the Amer......more
Tales from the Sharp End: A Portrait of Chile is based on fifteen years of Natascha Scott-Stokes living and exploring th......more
What should we do with the things we inherit? In ten intimate essays as vivid as fiction and as varied as music, Melora ......more
Christie Green learned to hunt in order to complement the food she grew in her New Mexico garden. As an act of practical......more
Searching reflections on the crisis in Israel and Gaza by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Holocaust Diary of a......more
I’m sorry for what I did to you when you were younger. When Jane Epstein’s brother makes this confession, a tsunami of m......more
SABR’s book on Sandy Koufax explores what made him so special in baseball and American society through 17 insightful ess......more
Lydia Paar joined the American workforce at age fourteen, holding a wide variety of jobs (twenty-seven, at last count) b......more
While working as an English teacher and freelance journalist in South Korea for twelve years, James Card explored remote......more
Martha Derrick, born in 1934 in Orangeburg, SC, recounts her life and the life of her beloved state through some of the ......more
" After escaping from his ultra-conservative Montreal family, George Galt found ultimate success as a poet, non-fiction ......more
Translated from French by Howard Scott A young woman arrives in Quebec from France and one day embarks on a journey alon......more
This autobiography tells of a pioneer family settling and farming south eastern Australia with lots of interesting, hear......more
Following the sudden death of her brother, a former chorister and a celebrated cabaret star, the author embarks on an ex......more
Part DIY, part memoir, part musing, This Season, The Next finds Casey Knott at several intersections: starting over afte......more
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Discover the unstoppable force of women entrepreneurship with Sassy, Classy, and Badassy, a groundbreaking anthology tha......more
A funny and fascinating introduction to some of history’s most interesting women, their stories and what we can learn fr......more
Twenty two years of love, triumph, and tragedy on North America’s tallest mountain. Lisa Roderick had already forged an ......more
The Little Book of Kildare is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about this historic c......more
The story of Russell Allen, a Wisconsin dairy farmer whose life was irrevocably changed when his cattle began to fall il......more
Mysterious lights, mystical vortexes, and the Mogollon Monster Go...more
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Folktales, hidden treasures and witchcraft. The towering skyline of New Brunswick stands in stark contrast with the swam......more
Forty years on, Hilary Cave offers her Recollections of the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike from her vantage point as a member of......more
No city in America knows how to mark death with more funerary panache than New Orleans. The pageants commemorating depar......more
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There have been many books written about the great freedom fighter Dr John Garang and his crusade for South Sudan and it......more
A powerful, timely and thought-provoking exploration of the transformative role of the museum--and of art--in society to......more
Dive into the heart of a riveting spiritual journey with John Hamilton and Honest to God, an exploration of faith, exces......more
William Morris (24 March 1834 - 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, novelist, translator and socialist......more
In this poignant and introspective dual memoir, Marion Garrard Barnwell embarks on a deeply personal journey. Inspired b......more
Part memoir, part social commentary, this is a Stolen Generations story with a difference. Told from the perspective of ......more
Imagine that you wake overseas one night and think you are in hell. In this darkness you fight oriental demons and dodge......more
This book is a love letter to women longing to break free of the boxes their postcode, skin colour, gender and bank bala......more
"A rousing yet haunting portrait of journalistic idealism." --Publishers Weekly Can the unrelenting power of truth expos......more
Just Backdated - Melody Maker: Seven Years in the Seventies is a memoir by Chris Charlesworth who, between 1970 and 1977......more
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist......more
"Forest wealth is community wealth. The public’s interest in it is affected very little by the passage of timber lands i......more
Ernest Alexander "E. A." Cruikshank FRSC (29 June 1853 - 23 June 1939), was a Canadian Brigadier General, a historian wh......more
Washington Gladden (1836-1918) was a leading American Congregational pastor and early leader in the Social Gospel moveme......more
Catharine Parr Traill (born Strickland; 1802 - 1899) was an English-Canadian author and naturalist who wrote about life ......more
George William Curtis (1824 -1892) was an American writer and public speaker, born in Providence, Rhode Island, of New E......more
Robert Heywood is known as the writer of several travelogues, including: A Journey to Italy in 1826, A Journey to Americ......more
"Have you not seen in the woods on a late autumn morning a poor fungus or mushroom-a plant without any solidity, nay, th......more
Henry Spenser Wilkinson (1 May 1853 in Hulme, Manchester - 31 January 1937 in Oxford) was the first Chichele Professor o......more
Julius West (born Julius Rappoport) (21 March 1891 - 1918) was a historian, poet, and translator who prepared a Fabian T......more
Carter Godwin Woodson (December 19, 1875 - April 3, 1950) was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder......more
Joseph Smith Fletcher (7 February 1863 - 30 January 1935) was an English journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 b......more
Letters on the English (or Letters Concerning the English Nation; French: Lettres Philosophiques) is a series of essays ......more
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (born Harry Heine; 13 December 1797 - 17 February 1856) was a German poet, writer and li......more
"Here is my disconnect: the private and public self. My mind and body. The real person and curated spectacle. . . . Are ......more
Edmund John Millington Synge (16 April 1871 - 24 March 1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, writer, collector of folklor......more
William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 - May 11, 1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, n......more
George Washington Cable (October 12, 1844 - January 31, 1925) was an American novelist notable for the realism of his po......more
Samuel Pickwick is a fictional character and the main protagonist in The Pickwick Papers (1836), the first novel by auth......more
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist......more
Herbert Allen Giles (8 December 1845 - 13 February 1935) was a British diplomat and sinologist who was the professor of ......more
William Douw Lighthall KC FRSL FRSC (December 27, 1857 - August 3, 1954), often referred to as W. D. Lighthall, was a Ca......more
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 - 10 February 1932) was an English writer. He joined the army at age 21 and ......more
Frances Coke, Viscountess Purbeck (1602 - 1645) was the central figure in a notable sex scandal within the English arist......more
Russell Herman Conwell (February 15, 1843 - December 6, 1925) was an American Baptist minister, orator, philanthropist, ......more
"A celebrated author has justly remarked that Christian women can, like the guardian angels, invisibly govern the world;......more
Albert Henry Munsell (1858-1918) was an American painter, teacher of art, and the inventor of the Munsell color system. ......more
Thomas Troward (1847-1916) was an English author whose works influenced the New Thought Movement and mystic Christianity......more
William Charles Henry Wood, (1864-1947) was a Canadian historian, Scout leader and naturalist. He was born in Quebec Cit......more
William Charles Henry Wood, (1864-1947) was a Canadian historian, Scout leader and naturalist. He was born in Quebec Cit......more
"The window box across the street Is filled with scarlet flowers; They glow, like bits of sunset cloud, Across the dragg......more
Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (c. AD 56 - c. 120) was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is considered by ......more
"From Orange Court House, Virginia, the road running northeast into Culpeper crosses Morton’s Ford of the Rapidan River,......more
Alice Cunningham Fletcher (March 15, 1838 in Havana - April 6, 1923 in Washington, DC.) was an American ethnologist, ant......more
John Dewey (October 20, 1859 - June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose i......more
William Dampier (baptised 5 September 1651; died March 1715) was an English explorer, pirate, privateer, navigator, and ......more
Our new 2021 Teacher Planner is finally here! This beautiful planner is printed on high-quality interior stock. This pla......more
"I am rather glad now that I took a little dip (one could scarce call it a baptism) into the Latin, and especially into ......more
Frank Dilnot (1875-1946) was an English author and journalist, born in Hampshire. He was educated privately and began as......more
"If James M. Goodhue could revisit the earth and make a tour among the daily newspaper offices of St. Paul he would disc......more
Martin Ignatius Joseph Griffin (1842-1911) was an American Catholic journalist and historian, instrumental to the foundi......more
Growing up in a traditional Indian family in Canada, I felt suffocated by gender biases and oppression from a young age.......more
An outback story of kelpies, red dirt and the future of a family farm. Now streaming on ABC iView and Netflix. Life on t......more