Harry S. Truman
10 best books like Harry S. Truman (Margaret Truman): The Making of the President 1960, Pale Horse, Pale Rider, A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, Straight on Till Morning: A Biography of Beryl Markham, The Switch, The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner, A Secret Life: The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland, The Movement of Stars, Enemy Women, More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen
The Making of the President 1960
| Author | Theodore H. White |
| ISBN | 0760762899 |
What is a presidential election? "The most awesome transfer of power in the world—, the power to marshal & mobilize, the power to send men to kill or be killed, the power to tax & destroy, the power to create & the responsibility to do so, the power to guide & the responsibility to heal...
| Author | Katherine Anne Porter |
| ISBN | 0151707553 |
First published in 1939, these three short novels secured the author’s reputation as a master of short fiction.
From the gothic Old South to revolutionary Mexico, few writers have evoked such a multitude of worlds, both exterior and interior, as powerfully as Katherine Anne Porter. This...
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
| Author | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. |
| ISBN | 1579124496 |
Written by one of our foremost historians and published in 1965, A Thousand Days is still considered the most complete and definitive portrait of John F. Kennedy and his administration. Handpicked by Kennedy to serve as special assistant to the president, historian and Harvard professor Arthur M....
Straight on Till Morning: A Biography of Beryl Markham
| Author | Mary S. Lovell |
| ISBN | 0312010966 |
This is truly a fair-minded piece of work by an author who travelled extensively and took the trouble to meet the woman she intended to write about. Beryl Markham was truly a complicated woman, and not always (maybe not ever) a pleasant one. I was so impressed by the book allegedly written by Markham, West...
| Author | Sandra Brown |
| ISBN | 0749932554 |
It isn't the first time that identical twins Gillian and Melina Lloyd have switched identities. Yet it's the first time as adults that they've even considered the childhood prank. Melina, the more impetuous twin, proposes that her circumspect sister take her place as a media escort to NASA astronaut...
The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner
| Author | Andrea Smith |
| ISBN | 0385336233 |
Canaan Creek, South Carolina, in the 1950s is a tiny town where the close-knit African-American community is united by long-term friendships and church ties. Bonnie Wilder has lived here, on Blackberry Corner, all her life, and would be content but for her deep desire to have a child. She and her husband...
A Secret Life: The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland
| Author | Charles Lachman |
| ISBN | 1616082755 |
The child was born on September 14, 1874, at the only hospital in Buffalo, New York, that offered maternity services for unwed mothers. It was a boy, and though he entered the world in a state of illegitimacy, a distinguished name was given to this newborn: Oscar Folsom Cleveland. The son of the future...
| Author | Amy Brill |
| ISBN | 1594487448 |
A love story set in 1845 Nantucket, between a female astronomer and the unusual man who understands her dreams.
It is 1845, and Hannah Gardner Price has lived all twenty-four years of her life according to the principles of the Nantucket Quaker community in which she was raised, where simplicity...
| Author | Paulette Jiles |
| ISBN | 0061337633 |
For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War between the States is a plague that threatens devastation, despite the family's avowed neutrality. For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family and forces her and her sisters to flee.
The treachery of...
More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen
| Author | Laurie Colwin |
| ISBN | 0060955317 |
More Home Cooking, like its predecessor, Home Cooking, is an expression of Laurie Colwin's lifelong passion for cuisine. In this delightful mix of recipes, advice, and anecdotes, she writes about often overlooked food items such as beets, pears, black beans, and chutney. With down-to-earth charm...
Unshakable Hope: Building Our Lives on the Promises of God
| Author | Max Lucado |
| ISBN | 0718096142 |
*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* What feels shaky in your world? Are you overwhelmed by the problems you’re facing or the pain you’re feeling? Maybe you feel hurt by the past. Disappointed by the present. Worried about the future. If so, you are not alone, but there is hope. You can live with security and...
| Author | Joseph P. Lash |
| ISBN | 0393349756 |
Eleanor and Franklin chronicles the evolution of Eleanor Roosevelt from an insecure girl and young woman into a woman who would impact the lives of many, many people. When visiting US installations during WWII, more than once she heard soldiers cry out "Hey, there's Eleanor!" She radiated warmth and...
| Author | Patti Davis |
| ISBN | 1559720824 |
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| Author | Carolyn G. Hart |
| ISBN | 0060724048 |
Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand mystery bookstore, is understandably upset. It isn't like her p.i. husband Max to abruptly disappear and homicide is definitely not his style. But when his car is found abandoned on a remote road with a brutally slain, once-beautiful young woman nearby and...
Night Light: A Devotional for Couples
| Author | James C. Dobson |
| ISBN | 1576736741 |
The challenge of sustaining an intimate, faith-based marriage in today's "hurry-up" society has never been greater. Now Night Light, the inspired, first-ever couples' devotional from Focus on the Family ministry founder Dr. James Dobson and his wife, Shirley, brings spouses together each evening,...
| Author | Sheri Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0609803875 |
Badly burned in a household accident when she was a child, Finch Nobles grows into a courageous and feisty loner who eschews the pity of her hometown and discovers that she can hear the voices of the people buried in her father's cemetery. Finally, when she speaks to them, they answer, telling their stories...
Ruth: Under the Wings of God
| Author | John Piper |
| ISBN | 1433514958 |
Life was bleak for Naomi. Her husband was dead, as were her sons. She found herself in a foreign land with only one friend-her daughter-in-law Ruth. But as she returned to her hometown of Bethlehem, a ray of divine hope broke through the dark clouds of providence. It was the barley harvest, and she...
| Author | Sue Grafton |
| ISBN | 0399163832 |
A collection of stories that reveal Kinsey's origins--and Grafton's past. The nine stories that open the book show how fully formed Kinsey was from the beginning. The thirteen stories in the second part, written in the decade following her mother's death, feature Kit Blue, a younger version of Grafton...
