The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer turns his eye to the seventeenth-century Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make sense of this new place, he threw himself into the Dutch museums. Soon, he found himself unearthing the strange, inspiring and sometimes terrifying stories of the artists who shaped one of the most luminous moments in the history of human creativity, the Dutch Golden Age.

As he explored the hidden wor...

Allada, a small coastal village in Africa,its the 1700's and Irisa relishes in her affinity with the sea and the herbs and plants she collects for medicines to heal the sick.

When her family and friends are threatened, she allows the village wise-woman, Fugra to help her control her God Gift - a darkness of trapped souls that she can call forth to rid the world of those that mean them harm.

Together Irisa and her friends, face domestic abuse,slavery,female genital mutilation (FGM), rape and m...

Gurubesar Lancar Ida-Bagus presents a richly documented and captivating account of the Philippines, a country with a complex and multifaceted past. From the centuries-long struggle against colonial rule to the ongoing challenges of poverty and corruption in modern times, this book offers profound insights into the forces that have shaped the destiny of the Filipino people throughout history.

Lancar Ida-Bagus not only highlights pivotal events and figures – from national heroes like José Ri...