We've all gone down on the Titanic with Rose and Jack, but this book shares the stories of the two nearby ships that either rose to fame and glory for how the captain and crew reacted ... or sunk into the depths of shame. This is a clearly told, emotional look at the different ways people react to tragedy and how things play out when we're not at the center of the disaster.
After every disaster, someone has something to hide...
A few minutes before midnight on April 14, 1912, the "unsinkable" RMS Titanic, on her maiden voyage to New York, struck an iceberg. Less than three hours later she lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. While the world has remained fascinated by the tragedy, the most amazing drama of those fateful hours was not played out aboard the doomed liner but aboard the decks of two other ships, one 58 miles distant from the sinking Titanic, the other barely ten miles away.
The masters of the steamships Carpathia and Californian,…
This book made me laugh out loud and read sections to my spouse without context. Roxie and Grant know they're in a book, and they know the book's genre ... but that doesn't always help them figure out how they might be able to survive to the final page.
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Asia Mackay, author of A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage
She thought she was in a romance. Fate threw her into a thriller. Will happily-ever-after still be on the cards when fiction and reality blur for Roxie?
When Roxie makes a tongue-in-cheek wish to live out the plot of her favourite author's next novel, she has romance in mind - namely, the sweet, safe,…
I picked this up because I knew a bit about the Black Death, but I really didn't know about the Black Death. This truly is an intimate history, bringing it down to the personal level: what was it really like to live and die during the outbreak?
“Powerful, rich with details, moving, humane, and full of important lessons for an age when weapons of mass destruction are loose among us.” — Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history—even more so now, when the notion of plague has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concern.
The plague that devastated Asia and Europe in the 14th century has been of never-ending interest to both scholarly and general readers. Many books on the plague rely on statistics to tell the story:…
The story of Jack the Ripper has had continual interest since he stalked the streets of Whitechapel during the Autumn of Terror in 1888. During this time, the murders of the Canonical Five made headlines all over the world while in the modern day, the Ripper story continues to permeate all forms of media on the page, screen, in podcasts, and in fiction. We continue to search for something we will likely never, and perhaps do not even wish to discover: Jack’s true name.
This book looks at the lasting intrigue of Jack the Ripper and how his story, and the stories of the Canonical Five victims, are brought back to life through modern lenses. As psychological approaches and scientific techniques advance, the Ripper’s narrative evolves, opening a more diverse means of storytelling and storytellers. How these storytellers attempt to construct a full tale around the facts, including the burning questions of motive and identity, says more about us than the Ripper.
