Gaining Daylight: Life on Two Islands
10 best books like Gaining Daylight: Life on Two Islands (Sara Loewen): Dread Nation, The Daughter of Time, The Institute, This Tender Land, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, Wish, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement, Her Royal Spyness, Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout, Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
| Author | Justina Ireland |
| ISBN | 0062570609 |
Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville—derailing the War Between the States and changing America forever. In this new nation, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Reeducation Act require...
| 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 | Stephen King |
| ISBN | 1982110562 |
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window....
| Author | William Kent Krueger |
| ISBN | 1476749299 |
For fans of Before We Were Yours and Where the Crawdads Sing, a magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression, from the New York Times bestselling author of Ordinary Grace.
1932, Minnesota—the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds...
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
| Author | Ronan Farrow |
| ISBN | 0316486639 |
In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hellbent on covering up the truth, at any cost.
In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to...
| Author | Barbara O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0374302731 |
Listening Length: 4 hours and 41 minutes
Eleven-year-old Charlie Reese has been making the same secret wish every day since fourth grade. She even has a list of all the ways there are to make the wish, such as cutting off the pointed end of a slice of pie and wishing on it as she takes the last bite....
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
| Author | Jodi Kantor |
| ISBN | 0525560343 |
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment and abuse for the New York Times, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the thrilling untold story of their investigation and its consequences for the #MeToo movement
For many years, reporters...
| Author | Rhys Bowen |
| ISBN | 0425215679 |
Georgie, aka Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, cousin of King George V of England, is penniless and trying to survive on her own as an ordinary person in London in 1932.
So far she has managed to light a fire and boil an egg... She's gate-crashed a wedding... She's making money by secretly...
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
| Author | Philip Connors |
| ISBN | 0061859362 |
A decade ago Philip Connors left work as an editor at the Wall Street Journal and talked his way into a job far from the streets of lower Manhattan: working as one of the last fire lookouts in America. Spending nearly half the year in a 7' x 7' tower, 10,000 feet above sea level in remote New Mexico, his tasks...
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
| Author | Christopher Ryan |
| ISBN | 0061707803 |
Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science--as well as religious and cultural institutions--has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man's possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman's fertility...
| Author | Paul Theroux |
| ISBN | 0618658947 |
First published in 1975, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains -- the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local,...
| Author | Ariel Levy |
| ISBN | 0812996933 |
When thirty-eight-year-old New Yorker writer Ariel Levy left for a reporting trip to Mongolia in 2012, she was pregnant, married, financially secure, and successful on her own terms. A month later, none of that was true.
Levy picks you up and hurls you through the story of how she built an unconventional...
In 1995, Nate Romanowski was in a Special Forces unit abroad when his commander, John Nemecek, did something terrible. Now the high-ranking government official and cold-blooded sociopath is determined to eliminate anyone who knows about it—like Nate, who’s hidden himself away in Wyoming’s...
| Author | C.J. Box |
| ISBN | 0399157352 |
The extraordinary new Joe Pickett novel from the Edgar Award-winning author. When Earl Alden is found dead, dangling from a wind turbine, it's his wife, Missy, who is arrested. Unfortunately for Joe Pickett, Missy is his mother-in- law, a woman he dislikes heartily, and now he doesn't know what to do-especially...
History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
| Author | Brad Meltzer |
| ISBN | 0761177450 |
It's an irresistible combination: Brad Meltzer, a born storyteller, counting down the world's most intriguing unsolved mysteries. And to make this richly illustrated book even richer, each chapter invites the reader along for an interactive experience through the addition of removable facsimile...
| Author | C.J. Box |
| ISBN | 0399156453 |
Joe Pickett's in his last week as the temporary game warden in the town of Baggs, Wyoming, but there have been strange things going on in the mountains, and his conscience won't let him leave without checking them out: reports of camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. And then there's the runner...
To those who lurk in the shadows, he’s known as the Gray Man. He is a legend in the covert realm, moving silently from job to job, accomplishing the impossible and then fading away. And he always hits his target. Always.But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. Forces like money. And power....
| Author | John Saul |
| ISBN | 0440114756 |
The Pendleton family arrive at their new home in Paradise Point (a village a couple of hours northeast of Boston). Dr. Calvin Pendleton has switched jobs, from working at a hospital in Boston, to a small clinic in Paradise Point. After treating a small boy in Boston who had an accident and died (he fell...
The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II
| Author | Alex Kershaw |
| ISBN | 0451490053 |
The New York Times bestselling author of The Liberator and Avenue of Spies returns with an utterly immersive, adrenaline-driven account of D-Day combat.
"Meet the assaulters: Pathfinders plunging from the black, coxswains plowing the whitecaps, bareknuckle Rangers scaling sheer rock......
The past isn’t real. It is simply a story we tell ourselves. And sometimes, we lie.
The result of my first foray into C.J. Tudor’s world, a story teetering on the precipice of being something truly great. One little nudge—or in this case, more in regards to the why—would have sent this...
| Author | James Patterson |
| ISBN | 1478969776 |
THE WORLD'S #1 BESTSELLING WRITER - 3 pulse-pounding thrillers in 1 book!
The House Next Door (with Susan DiLallo): Married mother of three Laura Sherman was thrilled when her new neighbor invited her on some errands. But a few quick tasks became a long lunch-and now things could go too far with...
| Author | Hilary Mantel |
| ISBN | 0007172893 |
One dark and stormy night in 1956, a stranger named Fludd mysteriously turns up in the dismal village of Fetherhoughton. He is the curate sent by the bishop to assist Father Angwin-or is he?
In the most unlikely of places, a superstitious town that understands little of romance or sentimentality,...
13-Minute Murder: Dead Man Running / 113 Minutes / 13 Minute Murder
| Author | James Patterson |
| ISBN | 1780899734 |
What do a psychiatrist, a mother, and an expert hitman have in common? Their time is running out in these three fast-paced thrillers from the World's #1 Bestselling Writer, James Patterson.
DEAD MAN RUNNING: Psychiatrist Randall Beck specializes in PTSD cases--and his time is limited. Especially...
All The Wild Children: A noir memoir
| Author | Josh Stallings |
| ISBN | 1482601915 |
nominated for an ANTHONY AWARD. From the author of the critically acclaimed Moses McGuire crime series comes a brutally honest memoir. Raised in the 60's counter-culture, a teen in the 70's, and a father in the go go 80's. White boy in a ghetto high school. Guns. Drugs. Sex. Fatherhood. Heart warming,...
North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey
| Author | Shannon Huffman Polson |
| ISBN | 0310328764 |
After her parents are killed in a rare grizzly attack, the author is forced into a wilderness of grief. Turning to loves she learned from her father, Polson explores the perilous terrain of grief through music, the natural world, and her faith. Her travels take her from the suburbs of Seattle to the concert...
| Author | James Patterson |
| ISBN | 1538733048 |
Sometimes it only takes a few minutes for the perfect murder to take place. Here are two fast-paced thrillers that will have you reading for just a minute longer.
13-MINUTE MURDER: He can kill anybody in just minutes–from the first approach to the clean escape. His skills have served him well,...
Secret of the Mountain Dog
| Author | Elizabeth Cody Kimmel |
| ISBN | 0545603692 |
The mysterious dog showed up at Jax's door just when she needed an adventure. But adventure sometimes brings trouble--and dangers that even a great dog can't help you escape.
In the Catskill Mountains, mystery is waiting....
Just when she needs it most, a little excitement comes...
The Streak: Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken Jr., and Baseball's Most Historic Record
| Author | John Eisenberg |
| ISBN | 0544107675 |
The fascinating story of baseball’s most legendary “Iron Men,” Cal Ripken Jr. and Lou Gehrig, who each achieved the coveted and sometimes confounding record of most consecutive games played
When Cal Ripken Jr. began his career with the Baltimore Orioles at age twenty-one,...
For Crew and Country: The Inspirational True Story of Bravery and Sacrifice Aboard the USS Samuel B. Roberts
| Author | John F. Wukovits |
| ISBN | 0312681895 |
In For Crew and Country, John Wukovits tells of the most dramatic naval battle of the Pacific War and the incredible sacrifice of the USS Samuel B. Roberts.
On October 25, 1944, the Samuel B. Roberts, along with the other twelve vessels comprising its unit, stood between Japan's largest battleship...
In this tense, riveting mind game, New York Times bestselling novelist Nelson DeMille delivers a suspenseful short story in the tradition of his classic military novels The General's Daughter and Word of Honor. A band of troops in its last month of service in Vietnam goes out on a patrol through enemy...
