Titles starting with N from Symposia Bookstore

Easily the most comprehensive and readable one-volume history of the Third Reich, this fresh study by Klaus Fischer benefits from the author's familiarity with the historical material, his cognizance of the interpretive shifts that have characterized its development as a field of study over the last 50 years, and his grasp of the significant historiographical disputes. And on top of everything else, it's a good read besides--open, accessible, lively, and interesting.

This revisionist history assesses President Franklin Roosevelt as a war leader and strategist and finds him wanting. The author charges that Roosevelt knew of the attack on Pearl Harbor and used it for his own gain; and he claims that Roosevelt misread both Hitler and Stalin.

After discovering her husband's infidelity, a woman hits and kills a bicyclist with her car, then flees the scene. Loss, betrayal, and the collapse of normalcy are the themes of Morag Joss's devastating novel.

Thomas Skelton wants to be a fishing guide and boat owner in Key West. Nichol Dance, an established guide, threatens to shoot and kill Skelton if this happens. Skelton persists, despite Dance's prior murderous record, leading to an inevitable showdown.

O'Hanlon travels to the Congo with an American scientist in search of a lost dinosaur named Mokele-mbembe. Along the way, they encounter threats that include poisonous snakes, illness, powerful magicians, and political brutality.

First published in 1910, this is Rilke's only novel--a unique and distilled narrative in diary form. Malte Laurids Brigge is a Danish poet living in Paris in the early 20th century, whose obsessions with death and strivings after a reality stripped down to its essentials prefigure much in Rilke's own poetry as well as in the modernist movement in general.