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In 2003, a backhoe operator hired by the state of Washington to work on the Port Angeles waterfront discovered what a larger world would soon learn.

Living on the Edge chronicles a lifetime of experiences, observations, and achievements of Tyee Ha'wiih Earl Maquinna George, First Hereditary Chief of Ahousaht.

This is a pioneering work on "karayuki-san," impoverished Japanese women sent abroad to work as prostitutes from the 1860s to the 1920s.

Sayo Masuda has written the first full-length autobiography of a former hot-springs-resort geisha.

A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God was published in 1705 and is one of the most famous attempts at proving the existence of God.

The War of the End of the World is one of the great modern historical novels.

Kazuko Kuramoto was born and raised in Dairen, Manchuria, in 1927, at the peak of Japanese expansionism in Asia.

Told against the backdrop of World War II and the Korean War, the author recounts the events of her childhood as a foreigner in Japan and her subsequent return to Korea.

Born to a wealthy and powerful yakuza boss, Shoko Tendo lived the early years of her life in luxury.