Heaven Cracks, Earth Shakes: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Death of Mao's China

5 best books like Heaven Cracks, Earth Shakes: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Death of Mao's China (James Palmer): Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, Zeitoun, A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

Author	Nathaniel Philbrick
ISBN	0670037605

HOW DID AMERICA BEGIN?

This simple question launches acclaimed author Nathaniel Philbrick on an extraordinary journey to understand the truth behind our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. As Philbrick reveals in this electrifying...

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

Author	G.K. Chesterton
ISBN	0375757910

G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately,...

The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

Author	David McCullough
ISBN	1501168681

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.

As...

Zeitoun

Author	Dave Eggers
ISBN	1934781630

The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.

Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates...

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

Author

Sonia Purnell

In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her."

The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston...