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By the end of the Civil War, nearly half a million slaves had taken refuge behind Union lines in what became known as "contraband camps." This book probes what the camps were like and how former sl

Thomas De Quincey--opium eater, celebrity journalist, and professional doppelgänger--is embedded in our culture.

In 1812, when rugged English soldier Gabriel Forrester learns he has inherited a Scottish estate, he resists giving up the battlefield--until he meets raven-eyed Fiona Blackstock.

December, 1941: Manila is invaded, and Pappy Gunn is ordered to fly key military command out of the country, leaving his family at home.

John Kaag, a disillusioned philosopher, stumbles upon a trove of rare books on an old estate that once belonged to the Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking.

Native American Black Elk is known to millions from the book Black Elk Speaks. Yet the man himself faded from view, even though he witnessed momentous events in the American West.

A forty-year-old skeleton is found encased in a concrete slab at a recently decommissioned nuclear energy site.

A rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman's perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this dise

On Whidbey Island, the Gray quintuplets are the stuff of legend. Pixie and her brothers have always been bigger and blonder than their neighbors, as if they were birthed from the island itself.

When the Twin Towers suddenly reappear in the badlands of South Dakota, nobody can explain their return.

Claudio Bianchi has lived alone for many years on a hillside in Southern Italy's scenic Calabria.

Six months after Dr. Steven Hatch came to work at a hospital in Liberia, several physicians he served with were dead, and Ebola was a global crisis.

This book takes listeners inside the world of the brave men and women who popularized flying through their deadly stunts and paved the way for modern aviation.

Anne McWilliams has lost everything, so she takes to the road to ask long-lost friends and strangers a simple question, "What's your best story?" Tyler Bron seemingly has it all, but he has no life

Corta Hélio, one of the five family-corporations that rule the moon, has fallen. Only Lady Sun suspects that the last appointed heir, Lucas Corta, is not dead.