Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941

Ian Kershaw

In 1940 the world was on a knife-edge. The hurricane of events that marked the opening of the Second World War meant that anything could happen. For the aggressors there was no limit to their ambitions; for their victims a new Dark Age beckoned. Over the next few months their fates would be determined. ...

Country Doctor A

Jewett Sarah Orne

A hundred and thirty years after it was first published, Sarah Orne Jewettas story of a young medical woman remains an incisive rendering of the dilemmas of gender, society, and self. Nan Prince first becomes interested in medicine as a child, as the ward of the widowed physician Dr. Leslie. In time she...

The City of Ember

Jeanne DuPrau

A gripping and intriguing thriller set in an all-too-possible future - a world where the lights have gone out for ever-Many hundreds of years ago, the city of Ember was created by the Builders to contain everything needed for human survival. It worked - but now the storerooms are almost out of food, cro...

Capital: Volume I

Karl Marx

One of the most influential political and philosophical texts ever writtenOne of the most notorious works of modern times, as well as one of the most influential, Capital is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates. Living in exile in England, where this work was la...