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With her virtuoso translation, classicist and bestselling author Caroline Alexander brings to life Homer’s timeless epic of the Trojan War Composed around 730 B.C., Homer’s Iliad recounts the events of a few momentous weeks in the protracted ten-year war between the invading Achaeans, or...

Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort During the Time of COVID-19 is a collection of essays, poems, and interviews to serve as a lifeline for negotiating how to connect and thrive during this stressful time of isolation as well as a historical perspective that will remain relevant for years to come.

When she first read of Victorian explorer Mary Kingsley’s travels in the French colony of Gabon, Alexander knew she had to experience the present-day nation for herself. Soon she is retracing Kingsley’s route - struggling through tangled vines in humid rain forests, chugging up the churning Ogooué River in a packed steamer, and fending off gigantic cockroaches. The country she discovers is a challenging mixture of Africa’s exotic past and its practical present

Dieses Tal ist ein besonderer Ort. Geht man nach Osten oder Westen, stößt man auf die gleichen Häuser, Hügel, Straßen – doch alles ist zwanzig Jahre zeitversetzt. Nur in Trauerfällen dürfen die Grenzen passiert werden. Als die junge Odile in Besuchern aus der Zukunft die Eltern ihres Freundes Edme erkennt, weiß sie, dass er bald sterben wird. Was wäre, wenn Odile das ihr auferlegte Schweigen bricht? Ein bewegendes und außergewöhnliches Debüt über Freiheit und die Macht des Schicksals.

A New York Times Editors’ Choice “Riveting.” —The New York Times From the New York Times bestselling author, a breathtaking account of combat and survival in one of the most brutally challenging and rarely examined campaigns of World War II In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army...

Has history been wrong for 200 years? Read the startling truth about the mutiny on the Bounty, its characters, causes, and aftermath. Television rights are now in development with Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions. More than two centuries after Master’s Mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny...