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A New York Times bestseller, the true story of a girl who learns she's descended from a princess, told with the suspense of a Cold War thriller."The beautiful owner of this book is dearer to me than my life - August your protector.” This one sentence was the key to a mystery involving some of the greatest and most infamous figures in European history, from Frederick the Great to Napoleon and Hitler-and solved by the author of this book.Eve Haa...

Sweeping, humorous, and moving tales from one of contemporary China's greatest writers.The bestselling and award-winning author of novels satirizing contemporary China, Liu Zhenyun is also renowned for his short stories. Remembering 1942 showcases six of his best, featuring a diverse cast of ordinary people struggling against the obstacles-bureaucratic, economic, and personal-that life presents. The six exquisite stories that comprise this col...

An Authentic Glimpse of a North Korea We've Never Seen Before, by a Prize-Winning FilmmakerAnna Broinowski is the only Westerner ever granted full access to North Korea's propaganda machine, its film industry. Aim High in Creation! is her funny, surreal, insightful account of her twenty-one-day apprenticeship there. At the same time it is a fresh-eyed look, beyond stereotypes, at life in that most secretive of societies.When Anna learned that ...

. A coffee-table biography with 150 beautiful beautifully reproduced photos that show the career trajectory of one of the most famous faces in film.

Available in book form for the first time, the FBI's secret dossier on the legendary and controversial writer.Decades before Black Lives Matter returned James Baldwin to prominence, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI considered the Harlem-born author the most powerful broker between black art and black power. Baldwin's 1, 884-page FBI file, covering the period from 1958 to 1974, was the largest compiled on any African American artist of the Civil Rights er...

A funny and satirical guide to becoming a dictator, based on the outrageous and scandalous behaviour of dictators, both past and present.