Old Is Gold

The Twenties were on their last roar when rising young vocalist Allan Dale hit the road to seek his fame singing jazz and blues on the stage-andon the popular new medium known as radio. His journey would take him through the depths of the...

Four Days in November is an extraordinarily exciting, precise, and definitive narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald. It is drawn from Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a monumental and...

The true story of a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl is torn from her home and family and thrust into one of history's greatest atrocities, the concentration camp of Auschwitz. In January of 1943, fourteen-year-old Basha Anush and her family were dragged from their home in Pruzhany,...

A BEST BOOK OF 2023TIME Magazine・NPR"A testament to the power of imagination and an investigation of empathy."--Vogue"Stunning."--Leslie Camhi, The New Yorker"A can't-miss novel."--Chicago Review of Books"Compelling."--The Washington ExaminerAnne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. It...

When eight-year-old Nora arrives at the Park Ridge School for Girls in 1932, she is sure there's been some mistake. She can't imagine why she and her little sister, Patsy, were torn from their mother only to be subjected to the cruel whims of...

Se infiltró en EstadosUnidos. Engañó a Oppenhiemer. Extrajo el secreto máspeligroso de todos los tiempos.Aunque nació en Iowa en 1913, George Koval vivió por ocho años en la URSS, lugar en el que se crio bajo el yugo de la ideología soviética. Sus cualidades...

This true crime odyssey explores a forgotten, astonishing chapter of American history, leading the reader from a free-love community in upstate New York to the shocking assassination of President James Garfield. It was heaven on earth--and, some whispered, the devil's garden. Thousands came by...

The Cellist of Dachau is an acclaimed and "masterful" novel of the Holocaust- the legacy that haunts us, and the music that binds us.In 1938, Otto Schalmik, a 19-year-old musician from a Jewish family in Vienna, is arrested by Nazi police. Transported to Dachau,...

When a mother is charged with murder in a town already convinced of her guilt, can defense attorney Powell Harrison find truth and justice in a legal system where innocence is not presumed? Emily Lloyd, a young widow in Reconstruction-era Virginia, is accused of...

Las hermanas Fernández tienen distintos anhelos, pero vivirán y sufrirán juntas las hazañas y desventuras que conlleva encontrar el propio camino y, sobre todo, la felicidad. Guerrero, principios del siglo xx. Una tragedia cambiará para siempre el destino de la familia Fernández. Tras la...

Years before Charles Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris electrified the nation, a group of daredevil pilots, most of them veterans of the World War I, brought aviation to the masses by competing in the sensational transcontinental air race of 1919. The contest...

Chosen by Rebecca Solnit for her "Secret Library of Hope: 12 Books to Stiffen Your Resolve" (Dec. 2007)."The movements in Argentina have been among the most creative and inspirational in recent years. Marina Sitrin's collection allows us to learn from the activists themselves and...

While dramatic history unfolds from Greensboro to Selma to Memphis, one man makes his own stand for justice and inclusion.Crossing the Tracks is set in the railroad yards and union halls of Kansas City during the Civil Rights Movement. It's the surprising story of...

«En esta novela vívida y conmovedora sobre destinos entrelazados y el poder perdurable del amor contra las peores probabilidades, Levensohn teje una historia saturada de precisión histórica y, sin embargo, sorprendentemente íntima. Una chica judía en París ofrece romance e intriga de sobra, pero...

2013Olivia discovers letters and a painting by her uncle William, an artist and WWII bombardier who vanished after being shot down over France just before D-Day. Inexplicably compelled, Olivia begins a personal quest to discover William's fate.1943William says goodbye to his new wife, Maddie,...

Inspired by the true story of a dangerous atomic weapon and the man who designed it, here is a stunning novel of morality, creation, and loss from the acclaimed author of The Honey Farm and Natural Killer. It is August 12, 1945. Tomorrow, August...

After a traumatic deployment in Afghanistan, twenty-three-year-old Army medic Blanca Hernandez is ready to leave the life of a soldier behind so she can help her younger brother Mateo start college. His orientation goes awry when a secret university experiment malfunctions and sends Blanca,...

Lorenz Hall at the Mendota Mental Health Institute in Madison, Wisconsin, is named for William F. Lorenz, the man who first observed, in 1916, that chemistry could treat the mentally ill. Professor of neuropsychiatry at the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Lorenz developed the fledgling...

Buck Up is the story of a young boy who finds himself alone in a busy mining town, abandoned by his father and separated from his mother. He meets Nick, a carpenter, who takes him under his wing. Suddenly, everything Jodie knows or thinks...

Against the turmoil and horror of World War II, Domenico and Antoinette, a young Italian couple of diverse backgrounds, fall in love and marry in Milan. Their marriage is blessed with the birth of twin sons, but their bliss is short-lived when Mussolini declares...