Their Finest Hour

September 7: The London Blitz began on this day in 1940 and continued, in the city and throughout the country, for the next eight months. The defiance demonstrated by ordinary citizens throughout England became an inspiration to the nation and its allies....

Love in the Time of Global Warming

After floodwaters snatch away her entire family from their Los Angeles home, 17-year-old Penelope must navigate an underwater fantasy world to retrieve them in this engaging tale of a teenage Odysseus.

Human Chain

The final poetry collection from Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) is a triumphant swan song, making its way from the dark underworld of Virgil’s Aeneid to the kitchen of Heaney’s rural Irish childhood.