Norman Dietz Audio

The name "Tom Sawyer" is synonymous with the adventures of boyhood. Bold and clever, Tom gets into...

Even compared to his fellow founders, George Washington stands tall. Our first president has long been considered a stoic hero, holding himself above the rough-and-tumble politics of his day.

The beloved humorist and bestselling author returns with his most riotous collection of essays to date.

For a person seeking a single volume to serve as a captivating introduction and a dependable guide through...

Transported back in time to the regal days of chivalry, the quick-witted, sharp-tongued Connecticut Yankee...

Forty years ago, Paul Theroux first went to Africa as a teacher in the Malawi bush.

The writings of Josephus contain one of the few historical accounts of the wars of the Jews and the...

Our most revered president gets a unique and uniquely engaging biography fashioned from the answers to the most frequent, and most unusual and surprising, questions asked about Abraham Lincoln.

The image of the Baron de Steuben training Washington's ragged, demoralized troops in the snow at Valley Forge is part of the iconography of our Revolutionary heritage, but most history fans know little more about this fascinating figure.

They began as courtiers in a hierarchy of privilege, but history remembers them as patriot-citizens in a commonwealth of equals.

Between 1775 and 1783, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown. Just over 6,800 of those men died in battle. About 25,000 became prisoners of war, most of them confined in New York City under conditions so atrocious that they perished by the thousands.

As Charles Osgood showed in his popular book Kilroy Was Here: The Best American Humor from World War II, sometimes the most intense situations yield the most unexpectedly funny stories. And few situations are more intense than a presidential campaign.

Lemuel Gulliver, a surgeon and sea captain, journeys to different islands, where he meets some of the...

Human Smoke delivers a closely textured, deeply moving indictment of the treasured myths that have romanticized much of the 1930s and '40s.

When President Thomas Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Purchase - the vast, unknown lands between...

When geologist Otto Lidenbrock discovers an ancient manuscript describing a passageway to the...

When geologist Otto Lidenbrock discovers an ancient manuscript describing a passageway to the...

In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the emperor Atahualpa had defeated his brother Huascar.

When Mark Twain was growing up, all he wanted to be was a steamboat man. And so Twain ran away...

This intimate, affectionate portrait of Pope John Paul II by his long-time secretary and confidant reveals fascinating new details about the opinions, hopes, fears, and dramatic life of this public man.

A riveting biography and unique historical record, The Man on Mao's Right recounts the heartfelt struggle of a man who loved two powerful nations that were at odds with each other.

In one of Mark Twain's most biting social satires, the allegedly pious town of Hadleyburg has its...

One of the greatest minds in American writing, Kurt Vonnegut has left an indelible impression on literature with such inventive novels as Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions.

In this revelatory, dynamic biography, Benson Bobrick, profiles George H. Thomas, arguing that he was the greatest and most successful general of the Civil War.

After the Civil War ended, Edmund McIlhenny, an ambitious and tenacious Louisiana businessman, found himself with few prospects.