From This Day Forward
10 best books like From This Day Forward (Cokie Roberts): The Rape of Nanking, The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All For the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II, Inside Out, Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Cafe, This Is NPR: The First Forty Years, Needles and Pearls, Familiar Strangers, The Denim Blue Sea, Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
Author | Iris Chang |
ISBN | 0140277447 |
In December 1937, the Japanese army invaded the ancient city of Nanking, systematically raping, torturing, and murdering more than 300,000 Chinese civilians.
This book tells the story from three perspectives: of the Japanese soldiers who performed it, of the Chinese civilians who endured...
The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All For the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
Author | Gregory A. Freeman |
ISBN | 0451222121 |
I'm very biased about this book because my dad, Joseph Peter Hoffman, was one of the forgotten 500. I'm so appreciative to Gregory Freeman for bringing this event to a potentially large audience. My father never spoke much about his experience, but we would hear more about it from the more vocal crew members...
Author | Demi Moore |
ISBN | 0062049534 |
Famed American actress Demi Moore at last tells her own story in a surprisingly intimate and emotionally charged memoir.
For decades, Demi Moore has been synonymous with celebrity. From iconic film roles to high-profile relationships, Moore has never been far from the spotlight—or the...
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
Author | Julie Andrews Edwards |
ISBN | 0786865652 |
Since her first appearance on screen in Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews has played a series of memorable roles that have endeared her to generations. But she has never told the story of her life before fame. Until now.In Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, Julie takes her readers on a warm, moving, and often humorous...
The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Cafe
Author | Mary Simses |
ISBN | 0316225851 |
A high-powered Manhattan attorney finds love, purpose, and the promise of a simpler life in her grandmother's hometown.
Ellen Branford is going to fulfill her grandmother's dying wish--to find the hometown boy she once loved, and give him her last letter. Ellen leaves Manhattan and her Kennedy-esque...
This Is NPR: The First Forty Years
Author | National Public Radio |
"Always put the listener first" has been NPR's mantra since its inception in 1970. Now celebrating its 40th anniversary, NPR's programming attracts over 27 million listeners every week. This beautifully designed volume chronicles NPR's storied history, featuring dozens of behind-the-scenes...
Author | Gil McNeil |
ISBN | 0747581657 |
The warm and witty sequel to The Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn Club Slip one . . .
Two weddings and a year after her husband's funeral, Jo Mackenzie is finally starting to get the hang of being a single parent. The boys are thriving, the yarn shop is doing well--thanks to Jo's improvements--and...
'I took you, Becca. You’re not my daughter.'
Since Becca Wall’s mother was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s, every day Becca loses a little more of the loving, caring mother who would do anything for her only daughter. But when one day Nancy Wall confesses that Becca is not her...
New York Times bestselling author Joanne DeMaio returns to seaside Stony Point in this novel filled with beach friends, love, and the enchantment of a sandy boardwalk winding along the shore.
During two August weeks, denim designer Maris Carrington and coastal architect Jason Barlow prepare...
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
Author | David Roberts |
ISBN | 0393347788 |
“An important missing story from the heroic age of Antarctic exploration.”—Laurence Gonzales, author of Deep Survival
On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp....
A tryst of bondage. A lover's murder. Investigator Jon Frederick returns in a search to uncover the identity of a killer creeping through communities along I-94 in Minnesota, targeting couples who store their fetish photos online. The killer taunts Jon with hidden messages embedded in local...
Author | John J. Nance |
ISBN | 0449220354 |
SABOTAGE....ACCIDENT....OR MURDER BY OMISSION?
The airline told passengers flying to Kansas City the skies were safe. They lied. On a rain-slashed night, Flight 255 crashes at Kansas City Airport -- triggering one of the most horrifying aviation disasters of the decade. Put simply, it...
They Named Me Marjorie: The Brave Journey of an Orphan Train Rider
Author | Ann Zemke |
ISBN | 0977969908 |
This appears to be a book the author put together for her family from her grandmother's journals that were found after her death. It seems to be in the grandmother's own words and not done by a professional author. The grandmother didn't talk about being an orphan and it wasn't discovered until after her...
The Prodigal Is Coming Home
It’s been a long time since Colt Stafford shrugged off his cowboy legacy for shiny Manhattan loafers and a promising career on Wall Street. But when stock market manipulations leave him financially strapped, the oldest son of legendary rancher Sam Stafford decides...
Author | Ruth Logan Herne |
ISBN | 1601427794 |
A cowboy romance with a heart of gold, in Home on the Range author Ruth Logan Herne returns readers to the Double S Ranch where God and family are first, but love is certain to follow the Stafford menfolk. Nick made all the wrong choices for all the wrong reasons. His father had failed at marriage and fatherhood....
Author | Susan Bishop Crispell |
ISBN | 1250089077 |
A story of love, hot chocolate, and one little girl's wish for her mother that will make your heart swell.
At twenty-seven, Penelope Dalton is quickly ticking off items on a bucket list. Only the list isn’t hers. After her eight year-old daughter Ella is given just six months to live thanks...
The Ghost Garden: Inside the Lives of Schizophrenia's Feared and Forgotten
Author | Susan Doherty |
ISBN | 0735276501 |
A rare work of narrative non-fiction that illuminates a world most of us try not to see: the daily lives of the severely mentally ill, who are medicated, marginalized, locked away and shunned.
Susan Doherty's groundbreaking book brings us a population of lost souls, ill-served by society,...
Bailout Over Normandy: A Flyboy's Adventures with the French Resistance and Other Escapades in Occupied France
This is the remarkable, newfound memoir of a U.S. fighter pilot, who after his escapades of shooting down German troops in France found himself shot down by them in turn, thence to begin an even greater adventure.
Ted Fahrenwald was a 22-year-old daredevil pilot in the famed 352nd Fighter Group...