Christmas: A Candid History

9 best books like Christmas: A Candid History (Bruce David Forbes): Dead Moon, Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization, Hannibal (Military Library), Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution, Awakened, Yesterday's Gone: Episode 1, Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time, Border Wars: Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration

Dead Moon

Author

Peter Clines

In the year 2243, the Moon belongs to the dead.

The largest graveyard in the solar system, it was the perfect solution to the overcrowding and environmental problems that had plagued mankind for centuries. And the perfect place for Cali Washington to run away from her past.

But when...

Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization

Author	David Keys
ISBN	0345408764

It was a catastrophe without precedent in recorded history: for months on end, starting in A.D. 535, a strange, dusky haze robbed much of the earth of normal sunlight. Crops failed in Asia and the Middle East as global weather patterns radically altered. Bubonic plague, exploding out of Africa, wiped...

Hannibal (Military Library)

Author	Ernle Bradford
ISBN	1840222263

Hannibal had long known his fate should the Romans ever lay hands upon him. He had taken an army right through Spain and into what is now France, crossed the Alps (at a time of year when no one believed it possible), and invaded Italy. Then, for 15 years, he used the country as his battlefield and his home,...

Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore

Author	Elizabeth Rush
ISBN	1571313672

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD
A CHICAGO TRIBUNE TOP TEN BOOK OF 2018
A GUARDIAN, NPR's SCIENCE FRIDAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, AND LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2018

Hailed as "deeply felt" (New York Times), "a revelation" (Pacific Standard), and "the book on climate change...

The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution

Author	Alfred F. Young
ISBN	0807054054

George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who participated in such key events of the American Revolution as the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party, might have been lost to history if not for his longevity and the historical mood of the 1830's. When the Tea Party became a leading symbol of the Revolutionary...

Awakened

Author

James S. Murray

After years of waiting, New York's newest subway line is finally ready -- an express train that connects the city with the burgeoning communities across the Hudson River. The shining jewel of this state-of-the-art line is a breathtaking visitors’ pavilion beneath the river.  Major dignitaries,...

Yesterday's Gone: Episode 1

Author	Sean Platt
ISBN	0984338195

On October 15 at 2:15 a.m. everyone on Earth vanished.

Well, almost everyone.

A scattered few woke alone in a world where there are no rules other than survival... at any cost.

A journalist wanders the horrible reality of an empty New York in search of his wife and son.

A...

Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time

Author	Karen Armstrong
ISBN	0060598972

Muhammad was born in 570 CE, and over the following sixty years built a thriving spiritual community, laying the foundations of a religion that changed the course of world history. There is more historical data on his life than on that of the founder of any other major faith, and yet his story is little...

Border Wars: Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration

Author	Julie Hirschfeld Davis
ISBN	1982117397

Two New York Times Washington correspondents provide an inside account with never-before-told stories of the defining issue of Donald Trump’s presidency: his steadfast opposition to immigration to the US.

As his campaign rhetoric in the 2018 midterms demonstrated, no issue matters...