Historical

"Ashes and Stones is an adventure in the form of a tour of the places and people the author encountered in a search for the stories of Scotland’s people condemned as witches.”

“By quoting contemporary letters and histories, Arman brings this woman and her world vividly to life.

“Drawing on considerable research, the author fashions a richly detailed, highly readable account of presidential leadership in perilous times.”

“Operating under its law and order banner but hiding behind dog whistle rhetoric and white hoods, the Klan infiltrated nearly every aspect of daily life throughout post-World War I Colorado

“Manguel introduces the reader to an important thinker who deserves to be far better known. It's a masterly feat . . .”

“Costigliola . . .

“Roberts tells an epic tale through these 31 stories, the evolution of a great city developed by people who wrote history with their lives.”

“Horowitz has pieced together a fascinating story of a woman who ‘lied all her life’ and died in 1954 at the age of 86 in a Hove nursing home, taking her secrets with her.”

“Tesla: Wizard at War tells of the process in which ideas—even if dismissed or of questionable credibility—develop.”

“Zhuqing Li’s Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden tells the heartrending, beautifully written, remarkable story of two sisters—Li’s aunts, inseparable as young girls—that circu

“Brown’s Jackson is a dueler, a ‘slaveholder, architect of Indian removal, and a critic of abolitionism.’”

“Benson tells this little known chapter of American Jewish history well and with passion”