A Mapmaker’s Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice

9 best books like A Mapmaker’s Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice (James Cowan): What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War, Voyage dans la Lune, The Moon of Gomrath, Filthy Rich, The Job: True Tales from the Life of a New York City Cop, Passage to Dawn

What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism

Author

Dan Rather

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do.” —Dan Rather

At a moment of crisis over our national identity, venerated journalist Dan Rather has emerged as a voice of reason and integrity, reflecting...

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

Author	Alan Garner
ISBN	0152017666

When Colin and Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge, they are saved by the Wizard. He takes them into the caves of Fundindelve, where he watches over the enchanted sleep of one hundred and forty knights. But the heart of the magic that binds them - Firefrost, also known as the Weirdstone...

Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash

Author

Elizabeth Royte

A brilliant exploration into the soiled heart of the American trash can.

Into our trash cans go dead batteries, dirty diapers, bygone burritos, broken toys, tattered socks, eight-track cassettes, scratched CDs, banana peels … But where do these things go next? In a country that consumes...

The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War

Author	Joanne B. Freeman
ISBN	0374154775

The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War

In The Field of Blood, Joanne Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, Freeman shows that the Capitol was...

Voyage dans la Lune

Author	Cyrano de Bergerac
ISBN	2080702327

Cyrano de Bergerac was a real person. He wrote poetry, plays, and books, as well as being the inspiration for Edmond Rostand's best known work, the play titled Cyrano de Bergerac.

In the fascinating introduction to A Voyage To The Moon, we learn more about Cyrano: he did serve in the Guards (an...

The Moon of Gomrath

Author	Alan Garner
ISBN	0152017968

The Moon of Gomrath is the name of the one night of the year when the Old Magic is at its most powerful. Had Colin and Susan known this, they would have never obeyed the strange compulsion that drove them to light a fire on the Beacon. But now it is too late--the horsemen called the Wild Hunt are awake and on the...

Filthy Rich

Author

James Patterson

A shocking true crime tale of money, power, and sex from the world's most popular thriller writer.

Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City's financial elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers--and for people--Epstein amassed his wealth...

The Job: True Tales from the Life of a New York City Cop

Author	Steve Osborne
ISBN	0385539622

“HOW YA DOIN’?”

With these four syllables, delivered in an unmistakably authentic New York accent, Steve Osborne has riveted thousands of people at the legendary storytelling venue The Moth (and many tens of thousands more via YouTube) with his hilarious, profane, and touching tales...

Passage to Dawn

Author	R.A. Salvatore
ISBN	0786907509

Six years. Not so long in the lifespan of a drow. And yet--in counting the months, the weeks, the days, the hours--it seemed to me as if I had been away from Mithril Hall a hundred times that number. The place was another lifetime, another way of life, a mere stepping stone to...

To what? To where?

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