Florence Nightingale: The Making of an Icon
10 best books like Florence Nightingale: The Making of an Icon (Mark Bostridge): The Daughter of Time, The Pact, Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast, The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean, The African Queen, Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over, American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood, The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale, The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran
| Author | Josephine Tey |
| ISBN | 0684803860 |
In 1951, Josephine Tey wrote her 5th novel in the Inspector Grant series. In 1990, this mystery novel was named the greatest mystery novel of all time by the British Crime Writers' Association. After reading it, I can definitely see why.
For one thing, during the entire novel, Inspector Alan...
| Author | Jodi Picoult |
| ISBN | 0061150142 |
For eighteen years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other, sharing everything from Chinese food to chicken pox to carpool duty—they've grown so close it seems they have always been a part of each other's lives. Parents and children alike have been best friends, so it's no surprise...
| Author | Robin McKinley |
| ISBN | 0064404773 |
A strange imprisonment...
Beauty has never liked her nickname. She is thin and awkward; it is her two sisters who are the beautiful ones. But what she lacks in looks, she can perhaps make up for in courage.
When her father comes home with the tale of an enchanted castle in the forest and...
| Author | Trevor Corson |
| ISBN | 0060555599 |
In this intimate portrait of an island lobstering community and aneccentric band of renegade biologists, journalist Trevor Corson escorts the reader onto the slippery decks of fishing boats, through danger-filled scuba dives, and deep into the churning currents of the Gulf of Maine to learn about...
| Author | C.S. Forester |
| ISBN | 0316289108 |
A classic story of adventure and romance - the novel that inspired the legendary movie starring Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart
A fast-moving tale and a very good yarn...Mr Forester again and again proves himself a master of suspense - New York Times Book Review
As World War...
Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over
| Author | Geraldine Brooks |
| ISBN | 0385483732 |
As a young girl in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longed to discover the places where history happens and culture comes from, so she enlisted pen pals who offered her a window on adolescence in the Middle East, Europe, and America. Twenty years later Brooks, an...
American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood
| Author | Marie Arana |
| ISBN | 0385319630 |
In her father’s Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mother’s American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chicken’s neck for dinner. Arana shuttled easily between these deeply separate cultures for years. But only when she immigrated...
| Author | Cecil Woodham-Smith |
| ISBN | 0140012788 |
Nothing in British campaign history has ever equalled the tragic farce that was the Charge of the Light Brigade. In this fascinating study, Cecil Woodham-Smith shows that responsibility for the fatal mismanagement of the affair rested with the Earls of Cardigan and Lucan, brothers-in-law and sworn...
| Author | Cecil Woodham-Smith |
| ISBN | 0689706529 |
I don't usually write reviews because I feel I can never do the book justice. But for this one I'm going to try.
If I could give this book 10 stars, I would. Incredibly well-written, well organized, and obviously well researched.
I love reading biographies but I've often found the biographer...
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran
| Author | Hooman Majd |
| ISBN | 0385523343 |
A revealing look at Iran by an American journalist with an insider’s access behind Persian walls
The grandson of an eminent ayatollah and the son of an Iranian diplomat, now an American citizen, Hooman Majd is, in a way, both 100 percent Iranian and 100 percent American, combining an insider’s...
Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object
| Author | Laurie Colwin |
| ISBN | 0060958960 |
When Sam Bax, that charming daredevil of a Boston lawyer, sails his boat into a storm off the coast of Maine, Elizabeth "Olly" Bax, his wife and ardent sidekick, becomes a widow at the edge of twenty-seven. With no pretense of "courage", Olly grieves, coping with the warmth and awkwardness of family...
