The surprising story of the wine industry's role in the rise of French Algeria and the fall of empire.
There's a new drug on the street: Glow.
But as a descendant of Mormon pioneers and polygamists, I had a personal impulse to unravel it. I instinctively sensed that the ... Shortly before I began working as a reporter for Anderson, the nationally renowned Mormon muckraker had ...
The fascinating companion title to the award-winning historical novel Blood on the River: James Town 1607.
From the author of the national bestseller My Soul to Keep comes a riveting new novel of supernatural suspense -- a gripping tale that brilliantly showcases a writer at the pinnacle of her astounding storytelling abilities.
mulattoes, the customs for evoking laughter are directed, it seems, to the Philippines,” wrote Antonio Luna in his bitterly satirical “Madrid Impressions of a Filipino.” Luna described the everyday marking of his racial difference in ...
If my soul had gone out of my body , I'd have left the rolling of the ship , the stench in the closed - up ' tween deck , the rats that sometimes scuttle over my face in the night . I'd have left this living shoulder to shoulder with a ...
War tears the galaxy apart, power tests the limits of family, and violence gives way to freedom in this exhilarating sequel to Empress of a Thousand Skies.
Stuart uses her own family story—from the seventeenth century through the present—as the pivot for this epic tale of migration, settlement, survival, slavery and the making of the Americas.
A major reassessment of the development of race and subjecthood in the British Atlantic Focusing on Jamaica, Britain’s most valuable colony in the Americas by the mid-eighteenth century, Brooke Newman explores the relationship between ...
Michael Ignatieff, chair of the Cundill Prize jury, declared that Blood on the River “tells a story so dramatic, so compelling that no reader will be able to put the book down.” Drawing on nine hundred interrogation transcripts ...