Devil's Dream
9 best books like Devil's Dream (Madison Smartt Bell): My Name Is Asher Lev, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief, One Thousand and One Ghosts, A Little Hatred, Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court, By the Spear: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire, Dead Lions, Slow Horses
| Author | Chaim Potok |
| ISBN | 1400031044 |
Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe. Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels even when it leads him to blasphemy. In this stirring and often visionary novel,...
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
From the internationally bestselling author of No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held assumptions about the man we know as Jesus of Nazareth.
Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher and miracle worker...
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
| Author | James M. McPherson |
| ISBN | 1594201919 |
I thought this was a good companion history to Goodwin's Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Whereas that one delves into Lincoln's relationship with his fractious cabinet, McPherson's is a chronological history of Lincoln's interactions with his generals. After reading this,...
One Thousand and One Ghosts
| Author | Alexandre Dumas |
| ISBN | 1843910829 |
Written at the height of the 1848 revolutions, Alexandre Dumas’ One Thousand and One Ghosts is a macabre collection of supernatural tales, told with unrelenting detail and almost unbearable suspense. Paralyzed with fear, a man confesses to the murder of his wife, and rather than return to the scene...
The chimneys of industry rise over Adua and the world seethes with new opportunities. But old scores run deep as ever.
On the blood-soaked borders of Angland, Leo dan Brock struggles to win fame on the battlefield, and defeat the marauding armies of Stour Nightfall. He hopes for help from the...
| Author | Jeff Shesol |
| ISBN | 0393064743 |
Roosevelt’s fiercest, most unyielding opponent was neither a foreign power nor “fear itself”—it was the U.S. Supreme Court.
During Franklin Roosevelt’s first term, a narrow conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court struck down several key elements of the New Deal legislation....
By the Spear: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire
| Author | Ian Worthington |
| ISBN | 0199929866 |
Alexander the Great, arguably the most exciting figure from antiquity, waged war as a Homeric hero and lived as one, conquering native peoples and territories on a superhuman scale. From the time he invaded Asia in 334 to his death in 323, he expanded the Macedonian empire from Greece in the west to Asia...
| Author | Mick Herron |
| ISBN | 1616952253 |
London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers. The "slow horses," as they’re called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. Maybe they messed up an op badly and can't be trusted anymore. Maybe they got in the way of...
| Author | Mick Herron |
| ISBN | 1569479011 |
Slough House is a dumping ground for British intelligence agents who’ve screwed up a case in any number of ways—by leaving a secret file on a train or blowing a surveillance. River Cartwright, one such “slow horse,” is bitter about his failure and about his tedious assignment transcribing...
