Even as a child, Suzanne Berne understood the source of her father’s terrible melancholy: he’d lost his mother when he was a little boy. Decades later, with her father now elderly and ailing, she...
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality...
1969 was a momentous year for the world and especially America. It was a year when man first set foot on the moon and in an equally amazing feat, the New York Mets won baseballs coveted World Series.While...
Writing a book? If you are like most people, you start with a blank page and write your entire manuscript. According to author and acquisitions editor Terry Whalin, your approach is backwards. About 80...
Folklorist, writer, editor, regionalist, cultural activist—Benjamin Albert Botkin (1901–1975) was an American intellectual who made a mark on the twentieth century, even though most people may be...
In what began as two episodes of NPR's This American Life , Akbar recounts his pilgrimage to his home country with precocious wisdom and insight, taking readers from palaces ...
