Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus
10 best books like Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus (Samuel Eliot Morison): The Castle of Otranto, Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, March: Book Two, Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West, Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City, Letters from a Stoic, Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream, Lexington and Concord: The Beginning of the War of the American Revolution, Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar
| Author | Horace Walpole |
| ISBN | 0192834401 |
First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the Second Edition, "to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern." Crammed with invention,...
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone
| Author | Martin Dugard |
| ISBN | 0767910745 |
What really happened to Dr. David Livingstone? The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Survivor: The Ultimate Game investigates in this thrilling account.
With the utterance of a single line--"Doctor Livingstone, I presume?"--a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed...
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
| Author | Robert A. Caro |
| ISBN | 0394720245 |
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost...
| Author | John Lewis |
| ISBN | 1603094008 |
The #1 New York Times bestselling series continues! Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, continues his award-winning graphic novel trilogy with co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell, inspired by a 1950s comic book that helped prepare...
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
| Author | Blaine Harden |
| ISBN | 0670023329 |
A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived.
North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people are being held...
Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
| Author | Anthony Flint |
| ISBN | 1400066743 |
To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. The activist, writer, and mother of three grew so fond of her bustling community that it became a touchstone for her landmark book The Death and Life of Great...
| Author | Seneca |
| ISBN | 0140442103 |
The power and wealth which Seneca the Younger (c.4 B.C. - A.D. 65) acquired as Nero's minister were in conflict with his Stoic beliefs. Nevertheless he was the outstanding figure of his age. The Stoic philosophy which Seneca professed in his writings, later supported by Marcus Aurelius, provided Rome...
| Author | Tanya Lee Stone |
| ISBN | 0763636118 |
They had the right stuff. They defied the prejudices of the time. And they blazed a trail for generations of women to follow.
What does it take to be an astronaut? Excellence at flying, courage, intelligence, resistance to stress, top physical shape — any checklist would include these. But...
| Author | Arthur Bernon Tourtellot |
| ISBN | 0393320561 |
"Tourtellot's book is the best account we have of the day of Lexington and Concord. The actions of each individual who played a conspicuous part in the day's work are minutely traced but Mr. Tourtellot never loses the main thread of his narrative and the wealth of detail he has included gives substance...
| Author | Edvard Radzinsky |
| ISBN | 0743284267 |
Edvard Radzinsky is justly famous as both a biographer and a dramatist, and he brings both skills to bear in this vivid, page-turning, rich portrait of one of the greatest of all Romanovs. Alexander II was Russia's Lincoln -- he freed the serfs, promised a new, more liberal state for everyone, yet was...
| Author | Bradley J. Birzer |
| ISBN | 1932236201 |
Peter Jackson�s film version of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the accompanying proliferation of Rings-related paraphernalia, has once again brought the work of J. R. R. Tolkien to a popular audience. There are, however, few full and accessible treatments of the religious vision permeating...
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18
| Author | Joseph Loconte |
| ISBN | 0718021762 |
The untold story of how the First World War shaped the lives, faith, and writings of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis
The First World War laid waste to a continent and permanently altered the political and religious landscape of the West. For a generation of men and women, it brought the end of innocence—and...
A video game developer becomes obsessed with a willful character in her new project, in a mind-bending exploration of what it means to be human by the New York Times bestselling author of Recursion.
Maxine was made to do one thing: die. Except the minor non-player character in the world Riley...
Sacred Parenting: How Raising Children Shapes Our Souls
| Author | Gary L. Thomas |
| ISBN | 0310264510 |
Parenting is a school for spiritual formation—and our children are our teachers. The journey of caring for, rearing, training, and loving our children will profoundly alter us forever.Sacred Parenting is unlike any other parenting book you have ever read. This is not a “how-to” book that teaches...
