Norman Lock

A brilliant and original investigation into the medical origins of LSD and how the Nazis and the CIA turned it into a weapon, by the author of the bes

Beethoven’s life and legacy in 100 recordings

A postmodern tale of adventure that reshapes the parameters of time and space, thought and action. In a metaphorical Africa, replete with nostalgia (b

Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott meet the horrors of the Civil War as they minister to its casualtiesAfter the Union Army’s defeat at Fredericksburg

In the sixth American Novels series book, a bankrupt merchant encounters Herman Melville and is pursued through the depths of Gilded Age Manhattan by

Beethoven’s life and legacy in 100 recordings

De langverwachte opvolger van culinaire klassieker Polpo: het allerlekkerste uit de keuken van Florence'Als je dit jaar maar één kookboek koopt, kies

From the author of the million-copy selling Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation and the bestselling John Lennon: The Life comes a revealing portra

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Ralph Waldo Emerson battles dementia while debating whether to intercede in a Black soldier’s unjust arrestIn 1879, toward the end of his life, the Sa

"[Lock's fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights." --NPR "[Lock] is one of the most interesting writers out ther

A young artist meets Stephen Crane as America’s hunger for empire draws them both into warOliver Fischer, a self-styled bohemian, boardwalk caricaturi

In the eighth American Novels series book, Nathaniel Hawthorne pens a new tale to exact revenge on his ancestor, a notorious judge of the Salem witch

"Make[s] Huck and Jim so real you expect to get messages from them on your iPhone." --SCOTT SIMON, NPR Weekend Edition "Brilliant...The Boy in His Wi

A young surgical assistant faces his doppelganger in a chilling tale featuring Edgar Allan Poe and a "lost" Poe story.

A nineteenth-century army chaplain confesses his loss of faith in god and country to his first love, poet Emily Dickinson.

A young woman joins Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Barnum’s circus to rescue her infant from the KKKIn the seventh stand-alone book of