Young Lilly Haswell stands on Honeystreet Bridge in a small town in the Wiltshire district of Regency-era England, searching the barges and narrow boats for a familiar face. Her mother’s run off, leaving her father, the apothecary... Read More

The sinking of the USS Indianapolis in the waning days of World War II, just after the ship delivered the components for the bomb that would later be dropped on Hiroshima, resulted in the loss of almost 900 sailors. The event has raised... Read More

Fame, of course, is fleeting, but immortality belongs to those bold enough to chase it. At least in sheer volume of images, Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868—1952) will never be surpassed as the greatest photographer of Native Americans in... Read More

Those far-sighted enough to have snapped up Overlook Press’s 2005 re-issue of the *Mortdecai Trilogy—*Kyril Bonfiglioli’s powerfully comedic, high-octane send-ups of the bon-viveur-cum-sleuth detective story—may have hoped that... Read More

Originally published in Spanish in 2004 this is the most recent novel by an author generally agreed to be among the foremost Latin American literary figures at work today. Nicaraguas premier living writer Sergio Ramirez has played an... Read More

One dark and fateful night in 1886, eight-year-old Maelle Gallagher’s world changed forever. After a tenement fire claims the lives of her Irish-immigrant parents, and she and her siblings, Mattie and Molly, are sent west for adoption... Read More

Perhaps God could create the world in His image in only six days; it took slightly longer for three mortal men to totally remake it in theirs. The three were the most powerful leaders in the world—Franklin Roosevelt, Josef Stalin and... Read More

“It has come to Our attention that the Christians of New Thule…are in grave danger of returning to the benighted days of heathendom…a vicious cycle in which the Eye of Faith recognizes the work of the Devil…” Cardinal... Read More