God's Secretaries : The Making of the King James Bible
10 best books like God's Secretaries : The Making of the King James Bible (Adam Nicolson): The Foreign Correspondent, The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London, In the Enemy's House, The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels, Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia, Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil, Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths, Love Isn't Supposed to Hurt, The Sumerton Women, One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon
The Foreign Correspondent
| Author | Alan Furst |
| ISBN | 0812967976 |
From Alan Furst, whom The New York Times calls “America’s preeminent spy novelist,” comes an epic story of romantic love, love of country, and love of freedom–the story of a secret war fought in elegant hotel bars and first-class railway cars, in the mountains of Spain and the backstreets of...
The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London
| Author | Judith Flanders |
| ISBN | 1848877951 |
From the critically acclaimed author of The Invention of Murder, an extraordinary, revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets of Dickens' London.
The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London. In only a few decades, the...
| Author | Howard Blum |
| ISBN | 0062458272 |
The New York Times bestselling author of Dark Invasion and The Last Goodnight once again illuminates the lives of little-known individuals who played a significant role in America’s history as he chronicles the incredible true story of a critical, recently declassified counterintelligence...
The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
An enchanting journey into history, recreating a time when the actions of a small band of people had repercussions that are still felt today.
The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization has done it again. In The Gifts of the Jews Thomas Cahill takes us on another enchanting...
Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia
| Author | Michael Korda |
| ISBN | 0061712612 |
T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935) first won fame for his writings and his participation in the British-sponsored Arab Revolt of WWI, but the adventurer known even in his day as "Lawrence of Arabia" is remembered today mostly as the subject of the 1962 film masterpiece based on his life. This splendid page-turner...
Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil
| Author | Paul Bloom |
| ISBN | 0307886840 |
From John Locke to Sigmund Freud, philosophers and psychologists have long believed that we begin life as blank moral slates. Many of us take for granted that babies are born selfish and that it is the role of society—and especially parents—to transform them from little sociopaths into civilized...
| Author | Bruce Feiler |
| ISBN | 0060838663 |
Both immediate and timeless, Abraham is a powerful, universal story, the first-ever interfaith portrait of the man God chose to be his partner. Thoughtful and inspiring, it offers a rare vision of hope that will redefine what we think about our neighbors, our future, and ourselves.
In this...
| Author | Christi Paul |
| ISBN | 1613751230 |
“I felt like I was being shredded... one painful, hateful word at a time.” Like millions of other women, CNN’s HLN and truTV’s In Session anchor Christi Paul blamed herself for the emotional abuse heaped on her by her first husband, whose violent, profanity-laced tirades left her feeling as...
| Author | D.L. Bogdan |
| ISBN | 0758271379 |
Orphaned at age eight, Lady Cecily Burkhart becomes the ward of Harold Pierce, Earl of Sumerton. The charming Lord Hal and his wife, Lady Grace, immediately welcome sweet-natured Cecily as one of their own. With Brey, their young son, Cecily develops an easy, playful friendship. But their intensely...
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon
| Author | Charles Fishman |
| ISBN | 1501106295 |
The remarkable story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic mission to reach the moon.
President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that the United States should land a man on the Moon by 1970. No group was more...
Constantine's Bible: Politics and the Making of the New Testament
| Author | David L. Dungan |
| ISBN | 0800637909 |
Most college and seminary courses on the New Testament include discussions of the process that gave shape to the New Testament. Now David Dungan re-examines the primary source for this history, the Ecclesiastical History of the fourth-century Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea, in the light of Hellenistic...
What It's Like to Be a Dog: And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience
| Author | Gregory Berns |
| ISBN | 0465096247 |
"Dog lovers and neuroscientists should both read this important book." --Dr. Temple Grandin
What is it like to be a dog? A bat? Or a dolphin? To find out, neuroscientist and bestselling author Gregory Berns and his team did something nobody had ever attempted: they trained dogs to go into an...
Religion in American Politics: A Short History
| Author | Franklin T. Lambert |
| ISBN | 0691128332 |
The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention blocked the establishment of Christianity as a national religion. But they could not keep religion out of American politics. From the election of 1800, when Federalist clergymen charged that deist Thomas Jefferson was unfit to lead a "Christian...
| Author | Emylia Hall |
| ISBN | 0778314650 |
From the highly acclaimed author of The Book of Summers comes a tale of love, lies and innocence lost.
For Hadley Dunn, life has been predictable and uneventful. But that is before she spends her second year of college abroad in Lausanne, a glamorous Swiss city on the shores of Lake Geneva. Lausanne...
| Author | Maxine Temple Jones |
| ISBN | 1463527276 |
I've always known that Hot Springs, AR, had a "colorful" history, but it was fascinating to get the backstory of Maxine Jones, brothel proprietor extraordinaire, and the most important and connected woman in the South (to hear her tell it). The book is Maxine's own narrative, and it felt more like I was...
| Author | Annie Dillard |
| ISBN | 0061239534 |
In spare, elegant prose, Dillard traces the lives of Toby and Lou Maytree. She presents willed bonds of loyalty, friendship, and abiding love. Warm and hopeful, The Maytrees is the surprising capstone of Annie Dillard's original body of work.
Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle...
The British in India: A Social History of the Raj
| Author | David Gilmour |
| ISBN | 0374116857 |
An immersive portrait of the lives of the British in India, from the seventeenth century to Independence
Who of the British went to India, and why? We know about Kipling and Forster, Orwell and Scott, but what of the youthful forestry official, the enterprising boxwallah, the fervid missionary?...
| Author | David Dickinson |
| ISBN | 0786716967 |
In February 1902, a feast is held at the Inns of Court, during which senior barrister Alexander Dauntsey collapses and dies. When a second barrister is shot dead shortly after, Lord Francis Powerscourt is summoned to conduct a discreet investigation. His inquiries take him to the heart of legal London,...
