Aymond was captured at the age of five by comanches, taken by raiding Apaches at eight and rescued unwillingly at twelve by US troopers. Placed in the care of Doc Bearman, a physician living in Lizard Sands, Texas, he is later sent to the University of Virginia. While returning home, Aymond comes upon the scene of a bloody massacre made to look like the work of Indians. Aymonds knows better and with the help of a young survivor sets out to bring ...

"FAST-PACED . . . PIERCY BREATHES LIFE INTO THE ACTUAL HISTORICAL FIGURES WHO SHAPED THE REVOLUTION."<BR>--San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle <BR>In her most splendid, thought-provoking novel yet, Marge Piercy brings to vibrant life three women who play prominent roles in the tumultuous, bloody French Revolution--as well as their more famous male counterparts. <BR>Defiantly independent Claire Lacombe tests her theory: if ...

Organized by subject areas in a unique Q&A format, this book offers quick access to facts and anecdotes about Hitler's life, shedding light on his habits, beliefs, and obsessions. "A wonderful addition to the works about Hitler."--Isaiah Kuperstein, Association of Holocaust Organizations. of rare photos. ...

This candid memoir is a gripping personal tale of cultural schizophrenia. Kazuko Winter was the daughter of a high-ranking Japanese diplomat, raised and educated outside her native Japan in India, South Africa, Australia, and Oxford, England, in the 1950s and 60s. She also spent time with her parents in Nigeria and Paraguay. Never fully at home anywhere, she suffered from an increasing sense of isolation that once led her to the brink of ...

Equiano's autobiography, first published in 1789, is the most quoted, reprinted and widely-published writing by an African before the twentieth century. His powerful words spoke for the fate of millions of Africans in the era of the transatlantic slave trade.<P>Equiano was, by turns, African child, American slave, field hand, domestic servant, sailor (an explorer to the Arctic), free man and political activist in Britain, best-selling ...

David Halberstam writes of Wells' compilation: "The letters of Colie and Ann Harwell are a marvelous reflection of a time and place now long past in America -- those days during World War II, when the outcome was still uncertain, but hope and idealism remained high, and ordinary people, both those who went and those who stayed home and loved those who went, behaved with a special grace. They quietly and honorably made their sacrifices, did their ...

Nineteen-year-old Oliver Huggins is in for the tutorial of his life. For twelve afternoons, Claire St. John, a beguiling British graduate student, will reveal to him the untold story of American Constitutional history. Her message: that the Constitution was illegally written, and that its authors' inability to agree on a name for the republic muddied the document's meaning for decades to come.<P>Through these "tutorials", de Grazia also ...

"In a powerful second novel, Maureen Earl puts a new and fascinating twist on an old story: the Holocaust as experienced by a boatload of Jewish refugees who are refused entrance to Palestine and are imprisoned by the British on the tropical island of Mauritius. Her clean, flowing style and expert storytelling turn what could have been just another grim historical footnote into an extremely readable and ultimately moving novel". -- New York Times ...

French writer Roger Grenier's stunning novel tells of a group of friends in the southwest of France whose lives are forever changed by the German Occupation. The moral failings of one of them, Charles Merlin, which at first seem trivial and personal, assume more sinister dimensions when he collaborates with the Nazis. The narrator of the novel, a member of the resistance, watches Charles's decline and gains a poignant education in his own ...

A turbulent relationship between rich and poor counterpoints the epic story of a great Midwestern city drifting towards decline and the chaos of the 60s. This sweeping novel of a star-crossed romance is by the author of "The Veracruz Blues". ...