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''Trask's exemplary translation . . . makes the real Casanova accessible in English . . . as strange, as diverse, as compelling as fiction.''–John Simon, Book Week In volumes 7 and 8, Casanova is now...

Henry Knighton, a canon of St Mary's Abbey, Leicester, wrote his Chronicle between 1378 and 1396. Leicester was a fief of the duchy of Lancaster, and the abbey was closely in touch with the...

In the eighteenth century, Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams greatly admired the Persian Empire, while Iranians regarded America as an ideal their own government might emulate. Beginning there,...

Do you or your church Bible study group want to engage more closely with the Jesus of the Bible? Would you like to travel further along the path of faith in a way that is true to the original...

Can Modern DNA Science Crack this Cold Case?The 1978 murder of actor and American icon Bob Crane remains one of the most high-profile unsolved celebrity murders of all time. Thirty-eight years after...

NEW EDITIONS AVAILABLE: Paperback ISBN 978-0804012362 / Electronic ISBN 978-0804041201 Joe Thorndike was managing editor of Life at the height of its popularity immediately following World War II. He...

This book is a must read, a real page turner, accompanied by wartime photographs. 95 year old Bomber Command veteran John Henry Meller describes beautifully what it was like to live through the...

1863. The last occupant of Fort Sedgewick, Lieutenant John Dunbar watches over the American frontier. A thousand miles back east, his comrades are locked in battle with the Confederates, but out here...

In the footsteps of Catch Me If You Can and The Wolf of Wall Street . . .RSKY BZNS is the incredible true story of the charming rogue swindler John James Illidge, whose...

John Tietjen's close account of the conflict within a Christian body moves with the skill, the drama, and the characterization of a novel. But there is no shred of fiction here. The author stood at...

Count Your Dead is the first novel written about the Vietnam War by a professional soldier. A fictional story with drama, violence, strong characters and poignant moments, Count Your Dead is closely...

John Weir, author of The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket, a defining novel of 1980s New York in its response to the global AIDS crisis, has written a story collection that chronicles the long...

How can we prepare ourselves for meeting with death? How can we help those experiencing the death of someone close to them? Anyone who has been present at the death of a human being will sense...