A stunning behind-the-curtain look into the last years of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the United States. Long after the transatlantic slave trade was officially outlawed in the early nineteenth century by every major slave trading nation, merchants based in the United States were still sending hundreds of illegal slave ships from American ports to the African coast. The key instigators were slave traders who moved to New York City after...

Reproduces details of scuptures and paintings of cats from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, each with brief, fanciful text.

"Bill Clinton transformed American politics, and his eight years as president - a constant succession of remarkable achievements and maddening failures - spawned arguments that continue to resonate. In The Survivor, John F. Harris reveals the inner workings of the Clinton White House and provides the first comprehensive and objective analysis of Clinton's leadership and its consequences." "Harris shows Clinton entering the Oval Office in 1993 primed...

Tells the story of how, in Savannah, Georgia, in 1857 James Lord Pierpont sat down to write a song for his congregation's Thanksgiving program and, homesick for the cold New England weather he remembered, came up with an enduring classic.

Recounts the 1827 journey of a young giraffe named Belle, a gift from the Pasha of Egypt to King Charles X of France, as she makes her way by boat and land to Paris, accompanied by her devoted caretaker, Atir.

The Beatles: Get Back is the band's authorized account, in their own words, of the creation of the 1970 album Let It Be. It brings together transcribed conversations edited from over 120 hours of original sound recordings, along with superb candid photographs of the sessions, and film frames selected from 55 hours of restored footage.

The Velveteen Rabbit waits for the day when the little boy will choose him as a playmate, bringing him to life.

Tale of a long extended legal case and the havoc it wrecks in lives over various generations.