A world apart imprisonment in a soviet labor camp during world war ii

A searing, personal literary account of life in a Soviet prison camp In 1940, Gustaw Herling was arrested after he...

All we leave behind a reporter's journey into the lives of others

Winner of the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction Finalist for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing Finalist...

The chain love

A devastating personal testimony and a searing indictment of persistent misogyny. In January 2017, Chimene Suleyman was on her way...

First to leave the party my life with ordinary people... who happen to be famous

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A marvelous and compulsively readable collection of stories from the life of Salah Bachir — philanthropist, art...

The art of making money the story of a master counterfeiter

Read Jason Kersten's posts on the Penguin Blog. The true story of a brilliant counterfeiter who "made" millions, outwitted the...

The madman and the butcher the sensational wars of sam hughes and general arthur currie

Based on newly uncovered sources, The Madman and the Butcher is a powerful double biography of Sam Hughes and Arthur...

The mind of norman bethune

The mind of Norman Bethune contains the most important and revealing writings of Norman Bethune. Illustrated with over 100 contemporary...

Norman bethune

Dr. Norman Bethune fought against injustice and suffering wherever he found it. He provided mobile blood transfusions to the wounded...

Beethoven's skull dark

Beethoven’s Skull is an unusual and often humorous survey of the many strange happenings in the history of Western classical...

Beethoven

Product Description Maynard Solomon's Beethoven, first published in 1977, was instantly hailed as a major reinterpretation of the life, personality,...

River

"What is the Detroit River? It's dumps, dogpatches, ships, steamers, storms. It's monthlong salvage operations. It's the Zug Island stacks,...

A gentleman of substance the life and legacy of john redpath

A Gentleman of Substance covers the remarkable life of John Redpath. Born to humble circumstances in Scotland in 1796, he...

Jack the ripper the forgotten victims

Experts agree that Jack the Ripper murdered five London women, but how many others did he slaughter in Britain or...

Arthur and sherlock conan doyle and the creation of holmes

2018 Edgar Award Nominee Shortlisted for the H. R. F. Keating Award from the International Crime Writers Association From Michael...

Roots

The monumental bestseller! Alex Haley recaptures his family's history in this drama of eighteenth-century slave Kunta Kinte and his descendants.

Breaking ground portraits of ten garden designers

Breaking Ground takes an in-depth look at the work of ten contemporary garden designers living and working in America and...

I shall not hate a gaza doctor's journey

"What can you do? You can do a lot. You can support justice for all by speaking out loudly to...

The rasputin file

Rasputin, one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of the twentieth century, has remained cloaked in the myth of...

The halifax explosion surviving the blast that shook a nation

A boat full of explosives heads in to the harbour as a large cargo ship steams out to sea. What...

Sea people the puzzle of polynesia

A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks...

Broken shackles old man henson from slavery to freedom

In 1889, Broken Shackles was published in Toronto under the pseudonym of Glenelg. This very unique book, containing the recollections...

Policemans patrol

Mick the real michael collins

Few leaders in history have been as mythologized as Michael Collins. Before his death at 31, he had fought in...

Captain fitz fitz gibbon

The name James FitzGibbon struck terror in the hearts of U.S. soldiers and this is the dramatic story of his...