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"The award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger"-- Provided by publisher.

"1796. Cora, an orphan newly arrived from Jamaica, has never felt cold like this. In the depths of winter, everyone in her community huddles together in their homes to keep warm. So when she sees a shadow slipping through the trees, Cora thinks her eyes are deceiving her. Until she creeps out into the moonlight and finds the tracks in the snow. Agnes is in hiding. On the run from her former life, she has learned what it takes to survive alone in the...

"This is the second volume of the official records from the Salem witch trials, copied from the original documents. The Salem witch trials were a series of infamous prosecutions and court cases of those who were accused of witchcraft in Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. Over 200 people were accused of practising witchcraft, 30 of these were found guilty, and 19 were hanged for their supposed crimes. This volume contains the second...

A "work of true crime and feminist history about Elizabeth Bathory, the woman alleged to be the world's most prolific female serial killer, [but who the author believes was a widow whose large landholdings and religious beliefs made her a target for ambitious men, and who was an herbalist who used plant-based medicines, rather than a murderer]"-- Provided by publisher.

"In 1934, a young Jose Revueltas traveled to Tamaulipas to support the cotton workers' strike in Estacion Camaron, which became the basis of his landmark novel Human Mourning. In her own groundbreaking novel, Autobiography of Cotton, Cristina Rivera Garza recounts her grandparents' journey from mining towns to those same cotton fields as it intersects with Revueltas's life in a vivid and evocative history of cotton cultivation along the Mexico-US...

Napoleon war an allem schuld. Seine Machtpolitik hat zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts aus einer bescheidenen Markgrafschaft das Großherzogtum Baden geschmiedet. Verblüffend rasch kristallisierte sich in dem Land, das nie zuvor eine staatliche Einheit gebildet hatte, ein badisches Wir-Gefühl heraus, das die Südweststaat-Gründung überdauerte. Dabei war das vom Rhein geprägte Land selbst schon von frühesten Zeiten an ein Schmelztiegel. Die Kleine...

Der Harz ist eine besondere Region in der Mitte Deutschlands. Seit jeher hat dieser mythenumwobene Ort Dichter und Schriftsteller verzaubert. Und auch die Wanderer kommen voll auf ihre Kosten, Landschaft und Natur sind grandios. Als einziges Mittelgebirge war der Harz während des Kalten Krieges geteilt, nirgendwo sonst standen sich die Systeme so nahe gegenüber. Neben Wald und Tieren bietet die Gegend auch Höhlen und Bodenschätze und ist reich...

Deutschland hat nie eigene Atomwaffen gebaut – und doch war es maßgeblich an ihrer weltweiten Verbreitung beteiligt. In seinem neuen Buch analysiert Joachim Krause die widersprüchliche Haltung der Deutschen zur nuklearen Bedrohung: von der Rolle deutscher Wissenschaftler im Dritten Reich und im Exil über die Mitwirkung an ausländischen Atomprogrammen bis hin zur politischen Verdrängung nuklearer Realitäten im 21. Jahrhundert. Mit scharfem...

What’s better than one Who Was? book? Six Who Was? books!

Who Was Frederick Douglass? By April Jones Prince, read by John H. Mayer. Listen to find out more about a boy born into slavery who taught himself to read and write, a young man who escaped to freedom in the North, and the father of the civil rights movement.

Who Was Nelson Mandela? By Pam Pollack & Meg Belviso, read by Mark Bramhall. Listen...