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7 best books like Diamond Mask (Julian May): India: A History, Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, Dragondrums, Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods, Letters to a Young Muslim, In the Beginning...Was the Command Line, Shades in Shadow

India: A History
AuthorJohn Keay
ISBN0802137970
John Keay's India: A History is a probing and provocative chronicle of five thousand years of South Asian history, from the first Harrapan settlements on the banks of the Indus River to the recent nuclear-arms race. In a tour de force of narrative history, Keay blends together insights from a variety...
Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach
AuthorKelly Robson
Discover a shifting history of adventure as humanity clashes over whether to repair their ruined planet or luxuriate in a less tainted past.

In 2267, Earth has just begun to recover from worldwide ecological disasters. Minh is part of the generation that first moved back up to the surface of...
Dragondrums
AuthorAnne McCaffrey
ISBN0689860064
Dear Mrs. McCaffrey,

What were you thinking? You had done a brilliant job with the first two books in this "trilogy", so please do explain why you felt compelled to switch your focus from our beloved heroine Menolly to her rambunctious sidekick, Piemur? This is no trilogy. Do you think you can...
Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods
AuthorChristine Byl
ISBN0807001007
A lively and lyrical account of one woman’s unlikely apprenticeship on a national-park trail crew and what she discovers about nature, gender, and the value of hard work
 
Christine Byl first encountered the national parks the way most of us do: on vacation. But after she graduated from...
Letters to a Young Muslim
AuthorOmar Saif Ghobash
ISBN1250119847
"In a series of personal letters to his sons, Omar Saif Ghobash offers a short and highly readable manifesto that tackles our current global crisis with the training of an experienced diplomat and the personal responsibility of a father. Today's young Muslims will be tomorrow's leaders, and yet too...
In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
AuthorNeal Stephenson
This is "the Word" -- one man's word, certainly -- about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering that the "one man" is Neal Stephenson, "the hacker Hemingway" (Newsweek) -- acclaimed novelist, pragmatist, seer, nerd-friendly philosopher, and nationally...
Shades in Shadow
AuthorN.K. Jemisin
Three brand new short stories by Hugo, Nebula & World Fantasy Award nominated author N.K. Jemisin, set in the world of the Inheritance trilogy.

From the shadows of the greater stories, away from the bright light of Sky and wending 'round the sagas of the Arameri, come three quieter tales....
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