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A riveting, real-life equivalent of The Kite Runner—an astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about women’s rights in the Muslim world. Zakia and Ali were from different tribes, but...

*A GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN, PROSPECT AND WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2025* 'The fascinating story of ancient words … new revelations await' The Guardian 'A magisterial feat' New Scientist ________________________________ One ancient language transformed our world. This is its story. Star. Stjarna...

Brought to you by Penguin. An erudite and entertaining history of Moscow, a city whose rich past offers crucial insight into contemporary global politics Moscow stands at the centre of a nation comprising eleven percent of the globe’s landmass, eleven time zones and nearly one hundred and...

First published almost a century ago, this classic text on the history and tactics of naval warfare had a profound effect on the imperial policies of all the major powers. Kaiser Wilhelm is said to have "devoured" this book, and it was avidly read by presidents (including both Roosevelts), kings...

Set in the picturesque coastal town of Monkshaven during the 1790s, Sylvias Lovers tells the poignant story of Sylvia Robson, a young woman caught between two worlds. While she lives a simple life on her familys farm and has the affections of her earnest but uninspiring Quaker cousin Philip, her heart truly belongs to Charlie Kinraid, a dashing sailor from a whaling ship. Their secret engagement promises a bright future, but fate intervenes when Charlie is forcibly taken to sea, leaving Sylvia heartbroken and longing for a love she can’t fully claim.

Step into the haunting world of Phantom Lover, a captivating supernatural novella by Vernon Lee (the pen name of Violet Paget), first published in 1886. Set against the backdrop of a mysterious Kentish manor, the tale follows a portrait painter hired by the enigmatic squire, William Oke, to create portraits of him and his eccentric wife, Mrs. Alice Oke. However, Alice‚s striking resemblance to a woman from a long-lost seventeenth-century painting unveils a web of secrets that blurs the lines between love, art, and the supernatural. (Summary by Anthony Leslie)

Join Elbert Hubbard as he takes you on a journey, exploring the homes of esteemed individuals from all walks of life - authors, poets, social reformers, and more. These fascinating short essays, part biography and part contemplation, present a unique perspective on how their environment might have shaped them. In this volume, he offers captivating insights into the renowned love stories of notable couples like William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, Dante and Beatrice, and Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton. Listen to the heartfelt play about the tragic love tale between Ferdinand Lassalle and ...

Significant Lovers explores famous couples throughout history and pop culture. Like a slice-of-life rom-com, Mel, Kel, and Kait detail the little moments of other people’s love lives. Join us as we ship our faves, pick sides in divorces, and resurrect forgotten flames. Mel and Kel are cousins, friends, and previous hosts of the podcast 'Another Bite of Twilight.' Since 2024, we are now joined by our sister/cousin, Kaitlyn! You can find us @significantlovers on Instagram and email us at significantlovers@gmail.com.

A Foundational Conservation Story Revived. Ancient writers observed that forests always recede as civilizations develop and grow. The great Roman poet Ovid wrote that before civilization began, “even the pine tree stood on its own very hills” but when civilization took over, “the mountain...

Follow the conductor Sylvain Audinovski in an exciting musical exploration of the evolution of music. From Bach to Schoenberg, from baroque to modern, learn to recognize composers and their style!Sylvain Audinovski is a conductor who opens up music and the orchestra to as many people as possible. Enjoy a webinar on the Evolution of Music, accompanied by fascinating and informative cards on the greatest composers of our History.Find him on Sunday for exciting lives on the composition and perception of your senses: join the Music Lovers Course and you will hear music with a new ear, beyond ...

Old Timey Crimey Presents: The Murders on Lovers’ Lane Miniseries -- Kristy and Amber dig deep into the past, examining a forgotten series of murders that pre-date the term serial killer. Throughout the American Midwest in the 1920s, a murderer, or multiple murderers, stalked lonely roads at night, hunting couples just looking for privacy to be together. Then, when the terror seems to stop, another spate of murders, similar but altogether weirder, started up in Brooklyn. -- With so many competing motives, detectives were at a loss. Join Amber and Kristy as they into the murders that had ...

Brought to you by Penguin. How the modern world has understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter today The study of ancient Greek history has been central to the western conception of history since the Renaissance. The Muse of History traces the shifting patterns of this preoccupation in...

A fascinating and shocking historical exposé, The Malaria Project is the story of America's secret mission to combat malaria during World War II—a campaign modeled after a German project which tested experimental drugs on men gone mad from syphilis. American war planners, foreseeing the...

Villains of All Nations explores the 'Golden Age' of Atlantic piracy (1716-1726) and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates. Rediker introduces us to the dreaded black flag, the Jolly Roger; swashbuckling figures such as Edward Teach, better known...

We may love books, but do we know what lies behind them? In The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages - of civilizations, empires, human ingenuity, and madness. In an invitingly tactile history of this 2,000-year-old medium, Houston follows the development of writing, printing, the art of illustrations, and binding to show how we have moved from cuneiform tablets and papyrus scrolls to the hardcovers and paperbacks of today.

"I dreamed of New York, I am going there." On May 31, 1953, twenty-year-old Sylvia Plath arrived in New York City for a one-month stint at "the intellectual fashion magazine" Mademoiselle to be a guest editor for its prestigious annual college issue. Over the next twenty-six days, the bright...

In this brilliant collection, the follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, the distinguished novelist, literary critic, and essayist celebrates the pleasures of reading and pays homage to the works and writers she admires above all others, from Jane Austen and Charles...

“Fun, engrossing, and significant. . . . History in Davis’s hands is loud, coarse, painful, funny, irreverent—and memorable.”—San Francisco Chronicle Here, celebrating the twentieth anniversary of its debut as a New York Times bestseller, is the revised, updated, and expanded edition...

An eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international order The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought...

READ BY THE AUTHOR “Momaday must be ranked among the greatest of our contemporary writers.”—American Scholar From Pulitzer Prize winner and revered literary master N. Scott Momaday, a beautiful and enchanting new poetry collection, at once a celebration of language, imagination, and the...