Becoming Shakespeare: How a Provincial Playwright Became the World's Foremost Literary Icon by Jack Lynch. Read Intro.

28: Stories of Aids in Africa
by Stephanie Nolen
"With a seasoned journalist's finesse, Nolen effortlessly weaves technical information-health statistics, disease data, NGO reports-into these deeply intimate glimpses of people often overlooked in the flood of contemporary media. Nolen's book packs a real emotional wallop.—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"Gives the epidemic a human face-more precisely, 28 human faces, one for each million Africans estimated to be infected with HIV...an informative and a powerful read, which will help Western readers connect personally with a crisis that too often seems remote."—Library Journal, Starred Review

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The New York Times Says Invaluable

Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past by Giles Tremlett
"Part modern social history, part travelogue, "Ghosts of Spain" is held together by elegant first-person prose that allows readers an occasional glimpse of Tremlett's personal life in Madrid...an invaluable book."—Sarah Wildman, New York Times Book Review

"Inspires both author and reader"— Time

Perfect, Once Removed: When Baseball Was all the World to Me by Phillip Hoose

"It is 1956, and Hoose is the new kid in his Indiana town, a klutzy, nearsighted third-grader who wears trousers a bit too high. Then his parents deliver the news 'on the order of a cure for polio': Don Larsen--a New York Yankee!--is his cousin once removed. The kid and the star trade letters, they meet, and Hoose gains courage and acceptance. When Larsen throws his iconic perfect game in the World Series that October, 'even a few girls came over' to the boy's desk. Hoose reconnects with the player 50 years later, expecting to find a 'half-ghost.' Instead, Larsen's joie de vivre inspires both author and reader."—Sean Gregory,Time.

New York Times Bestselling Author

"It is hard to imagine a more inviting account of the artistic civil war that raged around the Paris Salons of the 1860's and 70's, or of the outsize personalities who transformed the way the world looked at painting."—William Grimes, The New York Times

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A Dot-Com Classic

The Victorian Internet is featured in the Wall Street Journal Weekend as one of the best books to consult when asking what the internet means for business. “This dot-com cult classic...” tops their FIVE BEST column.

Sable Island's Author Wins Award

The 28th Evelyn Richardson Non-fiction Prize, the longest running writing award in Atlantic Canada, was presented to Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle for Sable Island: The Strange Origins and Curious History of a Dune Adrift in the Atlantic. Read release. Go!