BooksList.Best
Search

Apocalypse 2012: A Novel

10 best books like Apocalypse 2012: A Novel (Robert Gleason): Raptor, Mad Amos, Pope Joan: Translated & Adapted from the Greek, The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind, Archy and Mehitabel, 100 Malicious Little Mysteries, Greyhaven, The Pinkish, Purplish, Bluish Egg, In Paul Klee's Enchanted Garden, Calvin and Hobbes 1: Thereby Hangs a Tale

Raptor
AuthorGary Jennings
ISBN0553562827
AN ADVENTURER UNLIKE ANY OTHER--THE RAPTOR...
HE BOLDLY EMBRACED THE PASSION AND VIOLENCE OF AN EMPIRE AS CORRUPT AS IT WAS MAGNIFICENT

An abandoned waif, the blond, gray-eyed Goth was called simply Thorn. From his unorthodox sexual awakening in a monastery and a convent to his exciting...
Mad Amos
AuthorAlan Dean Foster
ISBN0345393627
MOVE OVER, PAUL BUNYAN--MAKE WAY FOR MAD AMOS MALONE!

Strange things lurk up in the mountains and out in the plains and deserts of the West, but few are as unique as the giant mountain man named Amos Malone, the man some call Mad Amos, though not to his face. But when the world gets weird, there's...
Pope Joan: Translated & Adapted from the Greek
AuthorEmmanuel Rhoides
ISBN0720610656
In this brilliant adaptation of a novel by the 19th century Greek author Emmanuel Royidis, Lawrence Durrell traces the remarkable history of a young woman who travelled across Europe in the ninth century disguised as a monk, acquired great learning, and ruled over Christendom for two years as Pope...
The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind
AuthorJustin Pollard
ISBN0670037974
The astonishing story of the ancient city that invented the modern world

Founded by Alexander the Great and built by Greek pharaohs, the city of Alexandria at its height dwarfed both Athens and Rome. It was the marvel of its age—legendary for its vast palaces, safe harbors, and magnificent...
Archy and Mehitabel
AuthorDon Marquis
ISBN0385094787
When newspapers were the dominant medium, were fun, and didn't take themselves so goddam seriously, there were great columnists.

Don Marquis was one. archy was his alter ego, a cockroach with the soul of a poet who threw himself on the typewriter keys to express his thoughts. Hence no caps--you...
100 Malicious Little Mysteries
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN1402711018
Charmingly insidious and satisfyingly devious, these 100 baffling little mysteries—selected by such prominent authors as Isaac Asimov—are just the thing to suit your most malevolent mood. These tales come from the pen of many well-known writers in the field, including Michael Gilbert, Edward...
Greyhaven
AuthorMarion Zimmer Bradley
ISBN0879978155
Somewhere in Northern California there is a house where all the dimensions of time and space and distant worlds come together: This house, whose exact location is known to a very special few, is called Greyhaven..it is the spiritual home of an ever-growing 'family' of imaginative writers. Diana Paxson,...
The Pinkish, Purplish, Bluish Egg
AuthorBill Peet
ISBN0395361729
For those who have read Peet's work "Zella, Zack and Zodiac" this is almost the same type of story and follows about the same plot but with a change of events as well as the predominant characters. Unlike the former book, this one doesn't follow a young character who takes over parenting but instead one...
In Paul Klee's Enchanted Garden
AuthorAudun Eckhoff
ISBN3775721010
Many call Paul Klee a magician. He was no such thing; he did not conjure up anything. He was a creator who found beauty in the world around him, wrote one of Klee's students from the legendary Bauhaus. The Swiss-born painter, like many of his contemporaries--Kandinsky among them--was interested in Transcendentalism...
Calvin and Hobbes 1: Thereby Hangs a Tale
AuthorBill Watterson
ISBN0751505080
If you have read the first Calvin and Hobbes directory that was published in the 80's, then you have read this one.
It is a paperback version of half the first book. With classic strips.

Was inspired to read it after watching "Dear Mr. Watterson" documentary on Netflix.

I missed...
Viva la Repartee: Clever Comebacks and Witty Retorts from History's Great Wits and Wordsmiths
AuthorMardy Grothe
ISBN0060789484
For most of us, that perfect retort or witty reply often escapes us when we need it most, only to come to mind with perfect clarity when it's too late to be useful. The twentieth-century writer Heywood Broun described this all-too-common phenomenon when he wrote "Repartee is what we wish we'd said."

In...
Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students
AuthorAnders Henriksson
ISBN0761122745
Mangled Moments of Western Civilization from Term Papers & Blue Book Exams

Did You Know:
Cesar was assassinated on the Yikes of March when he is reported to have said, "Me too, Brutus!"
Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Truman were known as the "Big Three"
Rasputin was a pheasant...
Live and Learn and Pass It on: People Ages 5 to 95 Share What They've Discovered about Life, Love, and Other Good Stuff
AuthorH. Jackson Brown Jr.
ISBN1558531564
کتابی عالی که تجربیات افراد مختلف را نه در قالب پند بلکه در قالب صحبت هایی دوستانه بیان می کند و مخاطب احساس همزاد پنداری با تمام گویند گان جملات این کتاب می...
Highwaymen: Robbers and Rogues
AuthorJennifer Roberson
ISBN0886777321
Enter a sweeping world of charm, wit, and deceit with this new anthology of dashing and intriguing anti-heroes who have long been a staple of fantasy and romance fiction. Inspired by Alfred Noyes's famous poem, and spanning subjects from the strictly human to the supernatural, this book will take readers...
The Medici Giraffe and Other Tales of Exotic Animals and Power
AuthorMarina Belozerskaya
ISBN0316525650
Exotic animals as tools of diplomacy did not start with giant pandas. Belozerskaya delves back into the days of Alexander the Great to look at the various ways highly valued species (war elephants) or individual animals of particular charm (the titular giraffe) have influenced history. This was an...
The Mammoth Book of Pirates: Over 25 True Tales of Devilry and Daring by the Most Infamous Pirates of All Time
AuthorJon E. Lewis
ISBN0786717297
Awash with skullduggery, malice, terror, and opportunism, here are 28 first-hand memoirs and contemporary reports of the most famous pirates to sail the seven seas, including Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, ‘Calico Jack' Rackham, Anne Bonney, and Jean Lafitte. These range from the Golden Age of piracy,...
'Isms & 'Ologies: All the Movements, Ideologies and Doctrines That Have Shaped Our World
AuthorArthur Goldwag
ISBN0307279073
Have you ever wondered about the difference between Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism and which influenced the other? Do you know where Post-modernism stops and Post-structuralism begins? Would you like to? From Platonism to New Historicism, humankind is constantly coming up with fresh schools...
Aztec & Maya: The Complete Illustrated History
AuthorCharles Phillips
ISBN1435105265
Aztec & Maya: The Complete Illustrated History details the greatest civilizations of ancient Central America with 1000 photographs, paintings, and maps. Uncovers the rise and fall of the many different empires of Mexico and Central America – their political and military campaigns, their...
The Histories of Middle Earth, Volumes 1-5
AuthorJ.R.R. Tolkien
ISBN0345466454
5 book box set containing:
The Lays of Beleriand
The Book of Lost Tales, Part One
The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two
The Lost Road and Other Writings
The Shaping of Middle-Earth: The Quenta, the Ambarkanta and the Annals

The Book of Lost Tales (Part One and Two) not only contains...
The Stone Arrow
AuthorRichard Herley
ISBN0688029205
Stone Age England. The ancient, nomadic way of life is coming to an end; the agricultural revolution has begun. When the farmers of Burh attack the sleeping nomad tribe, Tagart is the only survivor. Twenty-five and heir to the chief, his sole inheritance now is his tribal honour – and it demands revenge....
The Dragon and the Fair Maid of Kent
AuthorGordon R. Dickson
ISBN0812562720
Jim Eckert, the Dragon Knight, must now confront the three disasters that lie in wait for any visitor to the English Middle Ages: war, plague, and Plantagenets.
The plagues is caused by a covert invasion of shape-shanging goblins with plague-tipped spears that seek to take over the world. Meanwhile,...
The Sicilian/Omerta
AuthorMario Puzo
ISBN0091904099
Puzo was born in a poor family of Neapolitan immigrants living in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York. Many of his books draw heavily on this heritage. After graduating from the City College of New York, he joined the United States Army Air Forces in World War II. Due to his poor eyesight, the military...
About
Feedback
© BooksList.Best 2024