Historical Dates

New York Times bestselling author Cathy Maxwell’s glittering Marrying the Duke series continues—Twice he has been close to the altar and still no duchess. Will the third time be the charm? A duke can’t marry just anyone. His wife must be of good family, be fertile, be young. Struggling...

Since the dawn of the twentieth century, people have pushed the limits of what seems possible. This book is your day-by-day journey through those extraordinary moments. Organized by calendar date, each page highlights one remarkable world record set on that very day between 1900 and today. From blistering sprint times and towering skyscrapers to scientific breakthroughs and daring explorations, these achievements reveal how human ambition has evolved over more than a century. Open to your birthday, an anniversary, or simply today’s date and discover who rewrote history on that day. ...

Bone up on basic facts about US Presidents in this book by William Jonathan Jennings called The Presidents: Revolution by Election.

A satirical short story by Junot Diaz, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and others...

1817. Dawn breaks on a summer's day in Chalk Farm, London, and the scene is set for a duel between a lady's two ardent admirers. Paul Skillen has been teaching Mark Bowerman how to shoot properly and, although he is not sanguine of his chances, stands as his second. Although the duel is broken up, the passions behind the duel seem to spill out into the full light of day when one of the two duellists is found dead, shot between the eyes.

In Gwenda Bond's The Date from Hell, the hilarious, romantic sequel to Not Your Average Hot Guy, Callie and Luke’s date is thwarted when Lucifer gives them three days to redeem a soul...

When a crotchety, down-on-his-luck old man turns up as a temporary employee in Lindsie's father's bookshop, she and her friend Evan feel sorry for him. But after they follow him to his makeshift home, Mr. S. Kronos (aka Father Time) drags them on a wild ride through 5,000 years of hilarious history, insisting they meet the calendar's creators. Lindsie and Evan will never take the calendar for granted again.

Helen Meeker is back and has less than 30 days to stop the execution of an innocent pastor who has unbelievably confessed to being a Nazi spy. While on a case that has dynamic implications to uncovering an espionage ring operating on American and British soil, Helen defuses a hostage crisis in a bank robbery gone wrong, unearths an explosive coffin, and is introduced to a dead English hero who seems very much alive.

It began with injustice - Stalin murdered Ana Cortez's parents, idealists caught up in his purges, and assumed Ana, a mysterious Mexican woman who had a curious fascination with Russia and was 36 years his junior, would marry him to produce a communist dynasty to rule the world. When she flees Moscow, his secret police relentlessly pursue her. In a desperate game of hide-and-seek that stretches over decades and continents, she eludes them. She is up against a brutal dictator, the international resources of Soviet Russia, and loneliness.

Thirsty with greed for the spoils that the illicit rhino-horn trade bled into his pockets, a mysterious African poaching kingpin always managed to evade both detection and capture. Until he decided to turn his devastation on Tony Campbell’s beloved Zimbabwe, and put a ticking target on his back. Ruthless anti-poaching maverick Tony Campbell is well established and respected in the world of wildlife conservation. He is just about to take on a new anti-poaching role when multiple black rhino carcasses are found, brutally butchered for their valuable horn. What started out as a routine ...

Just when her family should be arranging her marriage, Kathmiya Mahmoud, a young Marsh Arab maiden, is sent from her home in Iraq's idyllic countryside to the unfamiliar city of Basra, where she must survive on her paltry earnings as a servant. Her only asset—her exquisite beauty—brings more...

“Have we really come so far, when a tour of the Continent is so desirable a thing? We’ve traded our swords for treaties, our daggers for promises—but our thirst for violence has never been quelled. And that’s the crux of it—it can’t be quelled. It’s human nature.” For her...

How to Date Throughout History: A Historical Guide for the Hopeless Romantic is a beautiful and encouraging guide of historical examples of romance. It will give you hope and ideas to ignite, rekindle, or just maintain that flame of love in your life.

Dziewięcioletni Date Masamune zdążył już poznać mroczne strony bycia dziedzicem daimyo, a jego kalectwo sprawia, że odsuwają się od niego najbliższe osoby... W młodym chłopcu zaczynają rodzić się talenty i ambicje, które w przyszłości doprowadzą go do pozycji jednego z czołowych dowódców okresu jednoczenia Japonii (1568–1603). Tymczasem jednak wygląda na to, że w jego najbliższym otoczeniu kryje się zdrajca, a porwanie chłopca to tylko początek dramatycznych wydarzeń. Czy jego wierny towarzysz i opiekun Kagetsuna zdoła ochronić go przed najgorszym?

Date Masamune był jednym z najbardziej charyzmatycznych dowódców okresu jednoczenia Japonii (1568–1603)…ale w roku 1571 ma pięć lat i jest całkiem zwyczajnym chłopcem – jeśli nie liczyć faktu, że jest synem daimyō w prowincji Mutsu. Tymczasem nad jego głową powoli gromadzą się czarne chmury, tym bardziej, że w kraju, od lat pogrążonym w wojnie, rozpoczął się proces ustalania nowego układu sił, wyłaniania zwycięzców i przegranych, a na dodatek w okolicy wybucha zaraza.