American Weather (U.S.)
10 best books like American Weather (U.S.) (Charles McLeod): Just in Time, Abraham Lincoln, Madeline at the White House, Zero, The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars, Eight Pieces of Empire: A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse, Waterline, Laura Warholic or, the Sexual Intellectual, The Great Frustration, Mad Science: Einstein's Fridge, Dewar's Flask, Mach's Speed, and 362 Other Inventions and Discoveries that Made Our World, The Christmas Kid: And Other Brooklyn Stories
| Author | Patricia Polacco |
| ISBN | 0399254714 |
Michael and Derek don't expect the adventure of a lifetime visiting a Civil War museum with their grandmother. But the mysterious museum keeper invites them to play a game, and before they know it, they're walking through a door straight into a very realistic depiction of 1863. They see the destruction...
| Author | John Bemelmans Marciano |
| ISBN | 0670012289 |
Readers will see Washington, D.C., as never before, when Madeline takes a midnight sightseeing tour on a magic carpet of cherry blossoms. Invited to the White House by Candle, the president's lonely only daughter, for the annual Easter Egg hunt and roll, Madeline and the other little girls have a rollicking...
| Author | Ignácio de Loyola Brandão |
| ISBN | 1564783316 |
Against a backdrop of political corruption Jose lives an ordinary life, working a dead-end job catching mice in a dingy movie theater. Everything changes when he meets his wife Rosa thanks to the help of the Happy Heart Marriage Agency. They seem to have an understanding: Jose isn't bothered by Rosa's...
| Author | Maurice Dekobra |
| ISBN | 1612190588 |
One of the biggest bestsellers of all time, and one of the first and most influential spy novels of the twentieth century, is back in print for the first time since 1948
Alan Furst fans will note that train passengers in his bestselling thrillers are often observed reading The Madonna of the Sleeping...
| Author | Lawrence Scott Sheets |
| ISBN | 0307395839 |
Not with a bang, but with a quiet, ten-minute address on Christmas Day, 1991: this is how the Soviet Union met its end. But in the wake of that one deceptively calm moment, conflict and violence soon followed. Some of the emergent new countries began to shed totalitarianism while other sought to revive...
| Author | Ross Raisin |
| ISBN | 0670917354 |
Ross Raisin wrote one of my favourite books of last year, and indeed of all time, God's Own Country, so I'd had his second novel Waterline pegged as a must-read since its release. Although I found it equally impossible to put down - reading the book from cover to cover in one sitting - Waterline is a very different...
Laura Warholic or, the Sexual Intellectual
| Author | Alexander Theroux |
| ISBN | 1560977981 |
Eugene Eyestones, an erudite sex columnist for a Boston cultural magazine, becomes enmeshed in the messy life of a would-be artist named Laura Warholic. Repulsing and fascinating him at the same time, she becomes a mirror in which he not only sees himself but through which he is forced to face his own...
| Author | Seth Fried |
| ISBN | 1593764162 |
Channeling Steven Millhauser by way of George Saunders, The Great Frustration is a sparkling debut, equal parts fable and wry satire. Seth Fried balances the dark—a town besieged, a yearly massacre, the harem of a pathological king—with moments of sweet optimism—researchers unexpectedly...
| Author | Randy Alfred |
| ISBN | 0316208191 |
365 days of inventions, discoveries, science, and technology, from the editors of Wired Magazine.
On January 30, Rubik applied for a patent on his cube (1975). On the next day, 17 years earlier, the first U.S. Satellite passed through the Van Allen radiation belt. On March 17, the airplane...
| Author | Pete Hamill |
| ISBN | 0316232734 |
Never before collected in one volume, here are Pete Hamill's stories about Brooklyn, the borough in which he was born and grew up, and the one closest to his heart.
A young boy with a mysterious past forever transforms the lives of the neighborhood toughs. A man returns to his old haunts to avenge...
40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering
| Author | Alice Waters |
| ISBN | 0307718263 |
Chez Panisse opened its doors in 1971. Founded by Alice Waters, the restaurant is rooted in her conviction that the best-tasting food is organic, locally grown, and harvested in ecologically sound ways by people who are taking care of the land for future generations. The quest for such ingredients...
| Author | John N. Gray |
| ISBN | 0374175063 |
At the heart of human experience lies an obsession with the nature of death. Religion, for most of history, has provided an explanation for human life and a vision of what comes after it. But in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such beliefs came under relentless pressure as new ideas—from...
| Author | Melody Beattie |
| ISBN | 1616491884 |
This highly anticipated workbook will help readers put the principles from Melody Beattie's international best seller Codependent No More into action in their own lives.
The Codependent No More Workbook was designed for Melody Beattie fans spanning the generations, as well as for those...
| Author | Alex Shakar |
| ISBN | 0743207254 |
In the wake of her sister Ivy's widely publicized suicide attempt, Ursula Van Urden arrives in the metropolis of Middle City with hopes of starting her own life anew. In an attempt to understand the events leading up to her sister's breakdown, Ursula meets Ivy's mysterious boyfriend, Chas Lacouture,...
| Author | Roger Rosenblatt |
| ISBN | 0061965618 |
Multiple award-winner Roger Rosenblatt has received glowing critical acclaim for his exceptional literary works—from the hilarious novels Lapham Rising and Beet to his poignant, heartbreaking, ultimately inspiring memoir Making Toast. With Unless It Moves the Human Heart, the revered novelist,...
Big Butts, Fat Thighs, and Other Secrets to Success: Empowering Women to Be Real in Business and in Life
Big butts and fat thighs are simply metaphors for those things that we dislike about ourselves. From cottage-cheese thighs to the belief that we are a failure because our position was eliminated, our big butts too often become our big buts.
With humor and insight, Big Butts, Fat Thighs, and...
| Author | Philip Schultz |
| ISBN | 0393079643 |
An inspiring memoir of a Pulitzer Prize winner's triumph over disability.
Despite winning the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2008, Philip Schultz could never shake the feeling of being exiled to the "dummy class" in school, where he was largely ignored by his teachers and peers and not expected...
Alternate Cover Edition: 0980753201 (ISBN13: 9780980753202)
An ambitious plan to switch two planes in mid-air began as an online game...but now it is more...much more. It is one of a select number of plans to mastermind the perfect crime and only a chosen few will play for real.
From...
| Author | Bruce McAllister |
| ISBN | 0812510984 |
Young Army nurse Mary Damico dreams the deaths of soldiers before they happen, but cannot save them. Only when she is recruited for a secret unit of other ESP "talents"--one run by a rogue CIA psychiatrist who may be a "talent" himself--can she become the psychic warrior she needs to be to stop the insanity...
Foundation (Credence, #1)
A detective investigating an impossible murder suspects a future corporation where believers are used for space travels.
What lies behind the seemingly impossible murder of a famous neuroscientist and his wife? What about the monster powers that were able to send a 350,000 ton cargo spaceship...
| Author | Stanley Ager |
| ISBN | 0385344708 |
Perched on an island off the shores of Cornwall, England, the soaring castle of St. Michael’s Mount has been home to the St. Aubyn family since 1647. For nearly thirty years, Stanley Ager, one of the most esteemed butlers of the twentieth century, ensured that St. Michael’s Mount was an impeccable...
| Author | Joseph Pittman |
| ISBN | 0758276958 |
One final Christmas wish could change their lives forever…
Nora Connors Rainer has returned to her hometown, Linden Corners, to tend to her elderly but spunky pie-baking mother—and to nurse a broken heart. To keep busy, Nora opens “A Doll’s Attic,” a consignment shop where locals...
The Seven Victories of the Divine Child: Claiming Your Divine Inheritance
| Author | Michael Jones |
| ISBN | 0983778019 |
The Seven Victories of the Divine Child – A Practical Guide to Eliminate Fear, Anxiety and Worry, while Gaining a Sense of Lasting Inner Peace.
Are you ready to take meaningful significant steps on your path of spiritual growth and discovery? If so, be ready to be inspired and motivated...
The...
Alibi's Ghosts, The Larger-Than-Life Small World of a Medium's Daughter
| Author | L.S. Hullinger |
| ISBN | 0985186224 |
Alexandra 'Alibi' Vernon is the eleven-year-old daughter of a psychic medium whose behavior is repeatedly influenced by kids from the Other Side. From building sub sandwiches in her sleep to sneaking into a stranger's attic, Alibi has her innocence challenged on a regular basis. Since her mother...
| Author | Katherine Garbera |
| ISBN | 0373732090 |
The irony of working on a matchmaking reality TV show hosted by the guy who broke her heart in high school has producer Willow Stead tied in knots. Not only that, but Jack Crown even has the nerve to ask her out. Should she risk taking him up on his offer?Jack sees Willow Stead all grown up and has to have her....
