Henry Reed's Journey
10 best books like Henry Reed's Journey (Keith Robertson): Horrorstör, A Winter Haunting, Henry and the Clubhouse, Early Sunday Morning: the Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941, Black Mass, Up a Road Slowly, The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire, Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry, The Halo Effect: ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers, Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans during World War II
| Author | Grady Hendrix |
| ISBN | 1594745269 |
Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring bookshelves, shattered Glans water goblets, and smashed Liripip wardrobes. Sales are down, security cameras reveal nothing, and store managers are panicking.
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| Author | Dan Simmons |
| ISBN | 0380817160 |
A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage -- and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween he has returned to the dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood home, where he hopes to find peace in isolation. But moving into a long-deserted...
Fiery Ramona Quimby and the well-meaning Henry Huggins may clash, but in this delightful and hilariously told novel by Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary, an unlikely compromise wins the day.
Henry and his friends are building a no-girls-allowed clubhouse. With a private space...
| Author | Barry Denenberg |
| ISBN | 0439555132 |
I think I would have enjoyed this book more had it been a 'real' diary of a girl who lived on Oahu during the attack on Pearl Harbor. But since this was a fictional diary, I had a hard time loving it. I feel the book gives us a possible taste of what life might have been like during this time, but the epilogue of...
| Author | Dick Lehr |
| ISBN | 0060959258 |
John Connoly and James "Whitey" Bulger grew up together on the streets of South Boston. Decades later, in the mid 1970's, they would meet again. By then, Connolly was a major figure in the FBI's Boston office and Whitey had become godfather of the Irish Mob. What happened next -- a dirty deal to being...
| Author | Irene Hunt |
| ISBN | 0425202054 |
Without a doubt, beyond compare, my favorite book ever. Up a Road Slowly is the book sent to me by my closest aunt the fall after my father died. It came with a note telling me how much she treasured the book and hoped that it would find a place in my heart too. Whether it was because the book came from such an influence...
The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire
| Author | David E. Sanger |
| ISBN | 0451497899 |
From the premiere New York Times Washington correspondent, a stunning and incisive look into how cyberwarfare is influencing elections, threatening national security, and bringing us to the brink of global war.
Behind the Russian cyberattacks that may have thrown the 2016 election; behind...
Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry
| Author | Helaine Olen |
| ISBN | 1591844894 |
If you’ve ever bought a personal finance book, watched a TV show about stock picking, listened to a radio show about getting out of debt, or attended a seminar to help you plan for your retirement, you’ve probably heard some version of these quotes:
“What’s keeping you from being rich?...
The Halo Effect: ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers
| Author | Philip M. Rosenzweig |
| ISBN | 0743291255 |
Much of our business thinking is shaped by delusions -- errors of logic and flawed judgments that distort our understanding of the real reasons for a company's performance. In a brilliant and unconventional book, Phil Rosenzweig unmasks the delusions that are commonly found in the corporate world....
| Author | Martin W. Sandler |
| ISBN | 0802722784 |
While Americans fought for freedom and democracy abroad, fear and suspicion towards Japanese Americans swept the country after Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Culling information from extensive, previously unpublished interviews and oral histories with Japanese American survivors of...
Outer Darkness, Vol. 1: Each Other's Throats
| Author | John Layman |
| ISBN | 1534312102 |
Sci-fi and horror collide in this new series from the creator of CHEW!
Mankind has colonized the galaxy, but during our interstellar travels, we've discovered a terrifying secret out in the Outer Darkness of space. Join Captain Joshua Rigg and the crew of the starship Charon as they encounter...
| Author | Don Heck |
| ISBN | 1631404636 |
Don Heck was the co-creator of Marvel's Iron Man and the long-time Avengers artist. In the 1950s Heck did a score of artistically brilliant and extremely beyond-the-pale, extremely gruesome, Pre-Code horror comic book covers and comics. The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics now gives its loving...
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor
| Author | Anthony Everitt |
| ISBN | 1400061288 |
He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome’s first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, for all of Western history to follow....
Direct Path to the CFA Charter: Savvy, Proven Strategies for Passing Your Chartered Financial Analyst Exams
Direct Path to the CFA Charter is the ultimate guide to passing the Chartered Financial Analyst exams and earning the CFA Charter. This is no ordinary "how-to" manual for CFA candidates. Written by an internationally published author who passed all three CFA exams on the first try, this book is packed...
The Warren Buffett Way: Investment Strategies of the World's Greatest Investor
| Author | Robert G. Hagstrom |
| ISBN | 0471177504 |
The Warren Buffett Way offers investors their first in-depth look at the innovative investment and business strategies behind the spectacular success of living legend Warren E. Buffett. Tracing Warren Buffett's career from the beginning, Robert G. Hagstrom, Jr., tells us exactly how, starting...
| Author | John D. Fitzgerald |
| ISBN | 0440448417 |
The year is 1898, and the best con man in Adenville, Utah, is the infamous twelve-year-old Tom Fitzgerald, "The Great Brain." A year at the Catholic Academy for Boys certainly hasn't dulled Tom's love for money—he's no sooner off the train than he begins scamming his own brother! By the end of his summer...
Modal Logic: An Introduction
| Author | Brian F. Chellas |
| ISBN | 0521295157 |
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House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
| Author | William D. Cohan |
| ISBN | 0385528264 |
On March 5, 2008, at 10:15 A.M., a hedge fund manager in Florida wrote a post on his investing advice Web site that included a startling statement about Bear Stearns & Co., the nation’s fifth-largest investment bank: “In my book, they are insolvent.”
This seemed a bold and risky statement....
