Everywhere hailed as a masterpiece of historical adventure, this enthralling narrative recounts the experiences of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery...Read more
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Saturday, October 1, 2016 - 02:54
Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning biographer and journalist...Read more
Saturday, October 1, 2016 - 02:53
In 1996, a revered Hawaiian elder befriended an American anthropologist, and from their rare and intimate rapport, something miraculous emerged. Through the words and teachings of the kahuna wisdom-keeper Hale Makua, Dr. Hank Wesselman...Read more
Friday, September 23, 2016 - 16:00
Eugen K. Brunner was a man of many tales, yet withheld many more secrets! Eugen seemed to possess the uncanny ability of knowing at what point in his stories to leave out details and information, to protect his secrets, himself, and his...Read more
Friday, September 23, 2016 - 15:58
At a Christie’s auction in October 1998, a battered medieval manuscript sold for two million dollars to an anonymous bidder, who then turned it over to the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore for further study. The manuscript was a...Read more
Friday, September 23, 2016 - 15:57
Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer--and the Century-long Search to Discover Its Secrets
In Decoding the Heavens, Jo Marchant tells for the first time the full story of the hundred-year quest to decipher the ancient Greek computer known as the Antikythera Mechanism. Along the way she unearths a diverse cast of remarkable...Read more
Friday, September 23, 2016 - 15:55
Built in 1927, the German ocean liner SS Cap Arcona was the greatest ship since the RMS Titanic and one of the most celebrated luxury liners in the world. When the Nazis seized control in Germany, she was stripped down for use as a...Read more
Friday, September 23, 2016 - 15:53
In the early 1800s, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most...Read more
Friday, September 16, 2016 - 17:37
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is organized around major world history stories and themes: the emergence of cities, the building of the Silk Road, the spread of major religions, the spread of the Black Death, the Age of Exploration,...Read more
Friday, September 16, 2016 - 17:35
In this important study, Abu-Lughod presents a groundbreaking reinterpretation of global economic evolution, arguing that the modern world economy had its roots not in the sixteenth century, as is widely supposed, but in the thirteenth...Read more
Friday, September 16, 2016 - 17:34
The epic history of the crossroads of the world—the meeting place of East and West and the birthplace of civilization
It was on the Silk Roads that East and West first encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to...Read more
Friday, September 16, 2016 - 17:32
From Finland to Newfoundland and Jelling to Jerusalem, follow in the wake of the Vikings―a transformative story of a people that begins with paganism and ends in Christendom.
In AD 800, the Scandinavians were just barbarians in...Read more
Saturday, September 10, 2016 - 16:13
The New Patterns in the Sky, a modern classic in the literature of star lore, is a comprehensive collection of myths, legends, and historical notes about each of the 88 constellations and the sun, moon, Milky Way, and shooting stars....Read more
Saturday, September 10, 2016 - 16:12
Twenty-five years in the ER could become a résumé for despair, but for bestselling author Dr. Robert D. Lesslie it's a foundation for inspiring stories of everyday "angels"—friends, nurses, doctors, patients, even strangers who offer...Read more
Saturday, September 10, 2016 - 16:10
The Men in Black were elevated to superstar status in 1997 in the hit movie of the same name. Although the Hollywood blockbuster was fiction, the real Men in Black have consistently attempted to silence the witnesses of UFO and...Read more
Saturday, September 10, 2016 - 16:08
In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident— unsettling and unexplained causes of death, a strange final...Read more
Saturday, September 10, 2016 - 16:07
The author of the controversial bestseller Brain Trust brings his scientific expertise to the chilling true story of unexplained phenomena on Utah's Skinwalker Ranch -- and challenges us with a new vision of reality.
For more than...Read more
Friday, September 2, 2016 - 16:56
Explores how a secret cabal of influential families has shaped the United States according to the principles of sacred geometry and Goddess veneration
- Exposes the esoteric influences behind the National Grange Order of
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Friday, September 2, 2016 - 16:39
A radical reinterpretation of Egypt’s ancient origins and its esoteric philosophy
- Explains how the “spontaneous” appearance of Egyptian civilization 5,000 years ago represents the remnants of an ancient worldwide advanced
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Friday, September 2, 2016 - 16:37
Part history, part road trip, and part biography, this is the true story of a remarkable group of men whose obsession with Bigfoot turned the giant hominid into an American icon. Award-winning journalist Michael McLeod tells of Bigfoot's...Read more