Historical Nonfiction

Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 by Harald Jähner

How did Germany recover after WWII?

Skeletons on the Zahara by Dean King

A gripping account of courage, brotherhood, and survival.

Speechless by Michael Knowles

So what exactly is free speech and how did it become free?

Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller

Synopsis A wondrous debut from an extraordinary new voice in nonfiction, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, and—possibly—even murder. David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known […]

The Origins of Wizards, Witches and Fairies by Simon Webb

Synopsis This book tells the fascinating story of the origin of our ideas about wizards, witches and fairies. We all have a clear mental image of the pointed hats worn by such individuals, which are based upon actual headgear dating back 3,000 years to the Bronze Age. Carefully sifting through old legends, archaeological evidence and […]

Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton

Synopsis The harrowing true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry–with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter–in the tradition of David Grann, Nathaniel Philbrick, and Hampton Sides In August 1897, thirty-one-year-old commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail aboard the Belgica, fueled […]