Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
10 best books like Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World (Robert D. Kaplan): The House of Broken Angels, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, The Woman Warrior, The Year of Decision 1846, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley, The Wife, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, Heart: A History, American Wolf
The House of Broken Angels
The definitive Mexican-American immigrant story, a sprawling and deeply felt portrait of a Mexican-American family occasioned by the impending loss of its patriarch, from one of the country's most beloved authors.
Prizewinning and bestselling writer Luis Urrea has written his Mexican...
| Author | Lesley Nneka Arimah |
| ISBN | 0735211027 |
A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home.
In “Who Will Greet You at Home,” a National Magazine Award finalist for The New Yorker, A woman desperate...
| Author | Maxine Hong Kingston |
| ISBN | 0679721886 |
This was an intense book full of both women's power and violence against women set against the backdrop of the Cultural Revolution and the emigration of many Chinese people fleeing Mao to California. It is a mixture of autobiography and folklore and is beautifully written. Maxine Hong Kingston received...
| Author | Bernard DeVoto |
| ISBN | 0312267940 |
Year of Decision 1846 tells many fascinating stories of the U.S. explorers who began the western march from the Mississippi to the Pacific, from Canada to the annexation of Texas, California, and the southwest lands from Mexico. It is the penultimate book of a trilogy which includes Across the Wide...
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
| Author | David McCullough |
| ISBN | 1501168681 |
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.
As...
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
For women in tech, Silicon Valley is not a fantasyland where millions of dollars grow on trees. It's a "Brotopia," where men hold all the cards and make all the rules. Vastly outnumbered, women face toxic workplaces rife with discrimination and sexual harassment, where investors take meetings in hot...
| Author | Meg Wolitzer |
| ISBN | 0743456661 |
"The moment I decided to leave him, the moment I thought, enough, we were thirty-five thousand feet above the ocean, hurtling forward but giving the illusion of stillness and tranquility. Just like our marriage." So opens Meg Wolitzer's compelling and provocative novel The Wife, as Joan Castleman...
| Author | David W. Blight |
| ISBN | 1416590315 |
As a young man, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time. His very existence gave the lie to slave owners: with dignity...
| Author | Sandeep Jauhar |
| ISBN | 0374168652 |
The bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tick
For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As the cardiologist and bestselling...
| Author | Nate Blakeslee |
| ISBN | 1101902809 |
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The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her
Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North America, these majestic creatures were hunted to near extinction...
There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
| Author | Casey Gerald |
| ISBN | 0735214204 |
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Somehow Casey Gerald has pulled off the most urgently political, most deeply personal, and most engagingly spiritual statement of our time by just looking outside his window and inside himself. Extraordinary." - Marlon James
"Staccato...
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
| Author | Adam Winkler |
| ISBN | 0871407124 |
We the Corporations chronicles the astonishing story of one of the most successful yet least well-known “civil rights movements” in American history. Hardly oppressed like women and minorities, business corporations, too, have fought since the nation’s earliest days to gain equal rights...
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
| Author | Daniel Mendelsohn |
| ISBN | 0385350597 |
When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist this return to the classroom is his "one last...
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
| Author | Dan Egan |
| ISBN | 0393355551 |
The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the...
