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When India Selwyn Jones, a young woman from a noble family, graduates from the London School of Medicine for Women in 1900, her professors advise her to set up her practice in London's esteeme

Ron Barassi is one of the gladiators of Australian sport.

From the Publisher: When Nora Brennan, fresh to America from Ireland, lands herself a position as nursery maid to a family in Brookline, Massachusetts, she little thinks it will place her at the h

When Delia Chandler, an eighteen-year-old southern girl, marries Viscount Ivor Conisborough just before WWII, it's every girl's dream come true, but when she realizes after the birth of h

A young farm boy who possesses mysterious powers is chosen by the king to be the court's royal magician.

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa.

Carter Crossing, Mississippi. 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A coverup. A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base.

"Thessaloniki, Greece, 1917: As Dimitri Komninos is born, a fire sweeps through the thriving multicultural city where Christians, Jews, and Muslims live side by side.

Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed.

Biography of a female chess grandmaster from a poor family in Uganda.

Hope Solo is the face of the modern female athlete. She is fearless, outspoken, and the best in the world at what she does: protecting the goal of the U.S. women's soccer team.

The interwoven lives of a community in Colorado. The characters include two cattle farmers who take in a girl, thrown out of her house for becoming pregnant.

On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties.

A highly critical examination of government employee unions in the United States.

A review of five locations in the United States where economic choices beyond their control have resulted in catastrophic social conditions.