A Tale of One January by Albert Maltz is a historical-fiction story of two women who escaped from a Nazi death March in January, 1945...
I felt that the book is most poignant when the characters are interacting. The sense of desperation they feel everyday is something that’s felt on every page...
Save What’s Left can best be described as the “un-beach read.” It pulls back the curtain on life in a beach town, revealing the true cost of a pretty view...
John Gay (30 June, 1685 – 4 December, 1732) was a poet and dramatist from England. Mr. Gay is known for his 1728 ballad The Beggar’s Opera....
The Rail Splitter is expertly researched, books like this should be the standard for historical fiction. One could learn a lot from books like this...
A a non-fiction book, documenting the struggles the author had after the death of his infant daughter. Mr. Orsted is an award-winning wildlife photographer...
Anna Akhmatova (23 June, 1889 – 5 March, 1966) is considered to be a significant poets. Known for Requiem, a poem about the Stalinist terror....
If this wasn’t a history book, I would have thought that The Death of a President by William Manchester is a Shakespearean tragedy...
Night by Ellie Wiesel is a memoir of the author’s experiences with his father in the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald...
Giovanni Boccaccio (June 16,1313) was an Italian poet, writer, and humanist. He became well known for his works called The Decameron...