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"An exceptionally good book . . . worthy to stand on the nature shelf of anyone interested in mountainous America." - The New York Times.

Can anyone even see me? As a woman, it’s so easy to feel invisible. Amid the exhaustion of day-to-day life, it’s hard not to wonder: Does anyone see my effort, my struggles?

Her central themes are the classics, universities, and teaching - and much else besides.

Longlisted for the Diverse Book Awards - YA.

Chinatown, U.S.A.: a state of mind, a world within a world, a neighborhood that exists in more cities than you might imagine.

On the morning of September 2, 1798, just after first light, the back door to Carpenters' Hall is discovered ajar.

Who qualifies as the worst of Roman emperors and why? Join L. J. Trafford for a tour of the very worst leadership in ancient Rome featuring Caligula, Commodus, and many more.

An "obsessive, mystical, terrifying" exploration of the shadowy world of the anesthetized mind—and what it can teach us about the nature of memory and consciousness (*New Yorker*).

From 1910 to 1940, over half a million people sailed through the Golden Gate, hoping to start a new life in America.

"An invaluable complement to an immortal testimony." - Kirkus Reviews. The first biography of the girl whose fate has touched the lives of millions.

A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering Prizes.

One of the world's leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life the vibrant—and violent—society of fifteenth-century Florence.

Award-winning novelist Reynolds Price provides a vivid portrait of his life in the mid-1950s leading up to the publication of his first novel, A Long and Happy Life.

In a remote corner of the Arctic in 1941, a meteor shower flashed across the sky for an unusually long time. Taking this to be a sign, one of the local Inuit proclaimed himself Jesus Christ.

"The most complete and engrossing biography yet of this exotic Southern girl...Excellent." —Liz Smith. She was the sex symbol who dazzled all the other sex symbols.