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In November 1970, a storm set a collision course with the most densely populated coastline on Earth.

A Jewish girl grows up during a difficult time of racial discrimination and war, and discovers light in unexpected places.

Before 1871, Germany was not yet a nation but simply an idea.

Sabine Zuur, a young Dutch resistance fighter, spent over two years in three concentration camps during WWII. This true story is told by her daughter who used an archive of letters.

Grab your magical sword and take the place of your favorite fantasy character with this fun and historically accurate how-to guide to solving epic quests.

In 1944, six-year-old Tati and her four-year-old sister Andra were arrested and sent to Auschwitz.

Jeremy Dauber tells the sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their hold on the American imagination.

Taken from his Czechoslovakian home and transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, Martin Greenfield was divided forever from his family.

Sifting through newspaper articles, government records, and private letters and diaries--many never before published--Cokie Roberts brings war-torn Washington, DC, into focus through the lives of i

Jabari Asim goes beyond what's taught in the classroom and tells a fact-filled history of African Americans through politics, activism, sports, entertainment, music, and much more.

This book seeks to educate and inspire, bringing to life iconic and lesser-known female figures of Black history such as abolitionist Sojourner Truth, pilot Bessie Coleman, chemist Alice Ball, poli

From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of young rebels—poets, novelists, philosophers—who, through their epic quarrels, passion

Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years, and he has grown increasingly frustrated with the rose-tinted view of this part of the world offered up by the We

The winner of the first-ever National Press Club award for humor, Andy Borowitz has been called a "Swiftian satirist" ( The Wall Street Journal ) and "one of the country's finest satirists" ( The N

The presence of Jews in Quebec dates back four centuries.