Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances
10 best books like Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances (Scott T. Brown): Maine, Faceless Killers, The American Agent, Zero Day, Murder at Crossways, Green River Rising, One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future, Death of a Charming Man, Speaking Truth to Power, Defying Hitler
| Author | J. Courtney Sullivan |
| ISBN | 0307595129 |
In her best-selling debut, Commencement, J. Courtney Sullivan explored the complicated and contradictory landscape of female friendship. Now, in her highly anticipated second novel, Sullivan takes us into even richer territory, introducing four unforgettable women who have nothing in common...
| Author | Henning Mankell |
| ISBN | 1400031575 |
It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death, and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck. And as if this didn’t present enough problems for the Ystad police Inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman’s last word...
| Author | Jacqueline Winspear |
| ISBN | 0062436694 |
Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, “one of the great fictional heroines” (Parade), investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a page-turning tale of love and war, terror and survival.
When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent...
| Author | David Baldacci |
| ISBN | 0446573019 |
War hero John Puller is known to be the top investigator in the US Army’s CID. So when a family with military connections is brutally murdered in a remote area of West Virginia, Puller is called to investigate, and soon suspects the case has wider implications.
As the body count rises he teams...
In late August 1898, reporter Emma Cross attends the final fête of the Newport social season and discovers the party's over for a visiting prince . . .
The days are getting shorter as summer's end approaches, which means it's time for the Harvest Festival, the last big event of the season,...
| Author | Tim Willocks |
| ISBN | 0380723573 |
On the day Dr. Ray Klein wins his parole, the disciplinary perfection of Green River Penitentiary in Texas is torn apart by riot - more a tribal war - of unimaginable ferocity. As the inmates take over, the River sucks all inside further toward the abyss. Klein must choose. He must either claim his freedom...
One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
| Author | Ben Carson |
| ISBN | 1595231129 |
Dear Reader,
In February 2013 I gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Standing a few feet from President Obama, I warned my fellow citizens of the dangers facing our country and called for a return to the principles that made America great.
Many Americans heard and...
| Author | M.C. Beaton |
| ISBN | 0446403385 |
With this tenth book in a series that fans of British mysteries have come to relish more than fish 'n chips and a pint at the pub, M. C. Beaton returns with another baffling case for Hamish Macbeth, the stubborn, red-haired, one-man police department of the Highland village of Lochdubh.
Praised...
| Author | Anita Hill |
| ISBN | 0385476272 |
After her astonishing testimony in the Clarence Thomas hearings, Anita Hill ceased to be a private citizen and became a public figure at the white-hot center of an intense national debate on how men and women relate to each other in the workplace. That debate led to ground-breaking court decisions and...
| Author | Sebastian Haffner |
| ISBN | 0312421133 |
Written in 1939 and unpublished until 2000, Sebastian Haffner's memoir of the rise of Nazism in Germany offers a unique portrait of the lives of ordinary German citizens between the wars. Covering 1907 to 1933, his eyewitness account provides a portrait of a country in constant flux: from the rise of...
| Author | Alan Cumming |
| ISBN | 0062225073 |
Dark, painful memories can be put away to be forgotten. Until one day they all flood back in horrible detail.
When television producers approached Alan Cumming to appear on a popular celebrity genealogy show, he hoped to solve the mystery of his maternal grandfather's disappearance that...
| Author | Charles Todd |
| ISBN | 0062237187 |
A dangerous case with ties leading back to the battlefields of World War I dredges up dark memories for Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge in Hunting Shadows, a gripping and atmospheric historical mystery set in 1920s England, from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd.
A...
Death of a Travelling Man
| Author | M.C. Beaton |
| ISBN | 0804112118 |
What's the best indicator of a fine read? When you can't wait to get to the library to select the next one in the series. That's definitely the case with Death of a Travelling Man.
In this novel, two transients blow into Lockdubh in a remodeled bus, and the village is turned topsy-turvy by one of...
