Sure, almost all kids know Benjamin Franklin as one of America’s Founding Fathers, a man with a hand in both the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. And they may even have some vague idea that he once flew a kite during a lightning storm. What Kathleen Krull sets out to do in this…
The gripping biography of a notorious Cold War villain – the German-born British scientist who handed the Soviets top-secret American plans for the plutonium bomb – showing a man torn between conventional loyalties and a sense of obligation to a greater good. German by birth, British by naturalization, Communist by conviction, Klaus Fuchs was…
She wants to level up her humdrum existence. But her next quest could spell life or death. Jen Jacobs’s nights are spent traversing a strange city finding hidden objects, slaying dragons, and tangling with a host of fellow adventurers. And her days are spent counting down the seconds until she can return to the…
New York Times and USA TODAY best-selling author Shelley Shepard Gray returns to the charming and evocative Walnut Creek Series with an unforgettable novel following one broken young woman whose search for peace leads her back to her hometown, where she rediscovers her faith and reconnects with those she loves most. Kendra Troyer always…
Finally available as an audiobook, Joyce Carol Oates’ lost classic: a satirical, often surreal, and beautifully plotted Gothic romance that follows the exploits of the audacious Zinn sisters, whose 19th-century pursuit of adventurous lives turns a lens on contemporary American culture. Set in a 19th century similar to our own, A Bloodsmoor Romance follows…
This is the astonishing true story of three teenage Dutch girls, Hannie Schaft and sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen, that has inspired many throughout the world. When Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands in World War II, these girls took up arms against the enemy by seducing high-ranking Nazi officers, luring them into the woods and…
All his life, Charles Darwin hated controversy. Yet he takes his place among the Giants of Science for what remains an immensely controversial subject: the theory of evolution. Darwin began piecing together his explanation for how all living things change or adapt during his five-year voyage on the HMS Beagle. But it took him…
In A Girl’s Story, Annie Ernaux revisits a night 50 years earlier when she found herself submerged and controlled by another person’s desire and willpower. It was the summer of 1958, the year she turned 18, and the man she had given herself to had moved on. She’d submitted her will to his and then…
Have you ever fallen in love against all odds? Discover what happens when a house has its own lessons to teach in this moving and insightful memoir that ultimately shows us how to make our homes (and lives) better. In this mesmerizing memoir-in-essays, New York Times best-selling author Erica Bauermeister renovates a trash-filled house…
Albert Einstein: His name has become a synonym for genius. His wild case of bedhead and playful sense of humor made him a media superstar – the first, maybe only, scientist-celebrity. He wasn’t much for lab work – in fact, he had a tendency to blow up experiments. What he liked to do was…