Rita Gabis comes from a family of Eastern European Jews and Lithuanian Catholics. She was close to her Catholic grandfather as a child and knew one version of his past: prior to immigration he had fou
Sports revolve around two things: narrative and numbers. You need the narrative, otherwise why would anyone care? Rivalries, emotions, and sports legends all require it. But you also need numbers. Wit
On September 11, 1973, President Salvador Allende of Chile was deposed in a violent coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. The coup had been in the works for months, even years. Shortly after giving a
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From bestselling author Jeffrey Masson, an eye-opening book about the animals at the top of the food chain--orcas, big cats, sharks, among others--and what they can teach us about the origins of good
In 1836 in East Texas, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches. She was raised by the tribe and eventually became the wife of a warrior. Twenty-four years after her capture, she wa
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The chilling, little-known story of the rise of Nazism in Los Angeles, and the Jewish leaders and spies they recruited who stopped it.No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles,
An innovative exploration of the origins, impact, and consequences of the First and Second World Wars, from Peter Clarke, one of our foremost historians."War is the locomotive of history," claimed Tro
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Here are fifty boyfriends so bad you’ll toast to being single.Tired of watching your man play X-Box all day? Does he cruise match.com when you’re not home? When he takes you back to his p
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The recipes that one of New York’s best young chefs cooks in his own kitchen: a cookbook full of soulful, sophisticated food and delicious storiesWhile waiting for construction to finish on his
By 1933, after an initial brush with integration in the late 1920s, all black players had either left or been forced out of the National Football League. The influence of powerful owners and the collu
It is 1905 and Luis Bernardo Valenca, a thirty-seven-year-old bachelor and owner of a small shipping company, is revelling in Lisbon’s luxurious high society. But his life is turned upside down
From celebrated historian John Ferling, the underexplored history of the second half of the Revolutionary War, when, after years of fighting, American independence seemed very nearly lost. It was 1778
At first light on 7 July 1685, the last battle ever fought on English soil was already under way. On one side of the watery pasture at Sedgemoor, in Somerset, was the dashing 36-year-old Duke of Monmo
