Nonfiction Works Story Briefs

Many of the world's greatest books are non-fiction works. This Collection will help you to explore both famous and not-so-famous titles.

Learn about hurricanes, weather predictions and an unexpected weather phenomenon known as "The Perfect Storm" which claimed the lives of six fishermen...

The last days of the Romanov family begins with these words: ''At midnight, Yakov Yurovsky, the leader of the executioners, came up the stairs to awak...

In 793 - about six years after commencing raids - Vikings (probably Norwegians) invaded England. Were they seeking to plunder only - or - did some of ...

On 28 March 1941, Virginia Woolf, the famous British author, drowned in a river near her home. A single recording of her voice survives. The BBC has r...

As more and more whales were depleted in the North Atlantic, whaling men traveled to the Pacific. Near the equator, they had found many sperm whales i...

How much power should America's branches of government have?

M.N. ("Nick") McDonald, one of the Dallas police officers who arrested Oswald, says of this book: As I read "With Malice," I found myself once again c...

The young life of this past pope took place in Nazi occupied Poland.

Karol had to get a job acceptable to the Nazi authorities running Poland.

The Germans tolerated no descent from the Polish clergy.

After Karol Wojtyla told his friends he was going to be a priest, they tried to change his mind.

As soldiers stormed into houses, rounding up young men, people were more afraid than ever.

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