In this chronicle of his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, George Orwell brings to bear all the force of his humanity, passion and clarity, describing with b...
From Publishers WeeklyThe 1920s "race" to build the world's tallest building has been extensively chronicled. A former literary agent and former St. Martin's editor, Bascomb center...
SUMMARY:There's more than petty theft going on in a London youth hostel...An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime that aroused Herc...
Atticus O’Sullivan, last of the Druids, doesn’t care much for witches. Still, he’s about to make nice with the local coven by signing a mutually beneficial nonaggression treaty—whe...
From Publishers WeeklyThis moving complement to Doig's acclaimed memoir, This House of Sky, chronicles the author's childhood in Montana and Arizona in the 1940s. Copyright 1994 Re...
From Publishers WeeklyOld Havana mambos on the brink of the abyss in this chronicle of Cuba in the decades before the 1959 revolution. True-crime writer English (Paddy Whacked) pr....