A Partial History of Lost Causes

6 best books like A Partial History of Lost Causes (Jennifer duBois): Sarah Jane, Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580, Chasing Shackleton: Re-creating the World's Greatest Journey of Survival, Kirby: King of Comics, The Last Good Guy, The Healing Magic of Forest Bathing: Finding Calm, Creativity, and Connection in the Natural World

Sarah Jane

Author	James Sallis
ISBN	1641290803

A spare, sparkling tour de force about one woman's journey to becoming a cop, by master of noir James Sallis, author of Drive

Sarah Jane Pullman is a good cop with a complicated past. From her small-town chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence, court-ordered Army stint, ill-advised...

Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580

Author	Roger Crowley
ISBN	0571232302

Cervantes, of the "Don Quixote" fame, was in one of these battles. He was a 24-year-old volunteer.

Now I know that hundreds of years ago the Mediterranean Sea and its surrounding land areas were considered the center of the world and were a battleground for two great conflicting forces: the...

Chasing Shackleton: Re-creating the World's Greatest Journey of Survival

Author

Tim Jarvis

In this extraordinary adventure memoir and tie-in to the PBS documentary, Tim Jarvis, one of the world's leading explorers, describes his modern-day journey to retrace, for the first time ever—and in period clothing and gear—the legendary 1914 expedition of Sir Ernest Shackleton.In early...

Kirby: King of Comics

Author

Mark Evanier

Jack Kirby created or co-created some of comic books’ most popular characters including Captain America, The X-Men, The Hulk, The Fantastic Four, The Mighty Thor, Darkseid, and The New Gods. More significantly, he created much of the visual language for fantasy and adventure comics. There were...

The Last Good Guy

Author	T. Jefferson Parker
ISBN	0525537643

In this electrifying new thriller from three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestseller T. Jefferson Parker, Private Investigator Roland Ford hunts for a missing teenager and uncovers a dark conspiracy in his most personal case yet.

When hired by a beautiful and enigmatic woman...

The Healing Magic of Forest Bathing: Finding Calm, Creativity, and Connection in the Natural World

Author	Julia Plevin
ISBN	0399582118

An engaging guide to the art of forest bathing, inspired by the Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, for anyone who wants to explore the transformative power of nature in promoting health and happiness.

Forest bathing is the art of spending intentional time in nature and is practiced throughout...