Island of Hope, Island of Tears: The Story of Those Who Entered the New World through Ellis Island-In Their Own Words
7 best books like Island of Hope, Island of Tears: The Story of Those Who Entered the New World through Ellis Island-In Their Own Words (David M. Brownstone): The Deeds of the Disturber, At Home: A Short History of Private Life, All Over But the Shoutin', Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival, If You Were Here, Breakfast at Sally's: One Homeless Man's Inspirational Journey, Mortal Fear
The Deeds of the Disturber
| Author | Elizabeth Peters |
| ISBN | 0380731959 |
Can fear kill? There are those who believe so but Amelia Peabody is skeptical. A respected Egyptologist and amateur sleuth, Amelia has foiled felonious schemes from Victoria's England to the Middle East. And she doubts that it was a Nineteenth-Dynasty mummy's curse that caused the death of a night...
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
| Author | Bill Bryson |
| ISBN | 0767919386 |
“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.”
Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew...
All Over But the Shoutin'
| Author | Rick Bragg |
| ISBN | 0679774025 |
The story of a violent, war-haunted, alcoholic father and a strong-willed, loving mother who struggled to protect her three sons from the effects of poverty and ignorance that had tainted her own life.
The extraordinary gifts for evocation and insight and the stunning talent for storytelling...
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
| Author | Peter Stark |
| ISBN | 0062218298 |
In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeleton in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, three-year journey to forge an American empire on the Pacific Coast. Peter Stark offers a harrowing saga in which a band of explorers battled...
| Author | Alafair Burke |
| ISBN | 0062208357 |
Magazine journalist McKenna Wright is chasing the latest urban folktale-the story of an unidentified woman who heroically pulled a teenaged boy from the subway tracks, seconds before an oncoming train. When McKenna locates a short video snippet that purportedly captures part of the incident, she...
Breakfast at Sally's: One Homeless Man's Inspirational Journey
| Author | Richard LeMieux |
| ISBN | 1602392935 |
One day, Richard LeMieux had a happy marriage, a palatial home, and took $40,000 Greek vacations. The next, he was living out of a van with only his dog, Willow, for company. This astonishingly frank memoir tells the story of one man's resilience in the face of economic disaster. Penniless, a failed suicide,...
| Author | Robin Cook |
| ISBN | 0330307606 |
Very entertaining - much better than some of the other Robin Cook books I have read recently. Action-packed and suspenseful - even if it is far from believable!
Released in 1988 and for some reason, in Cook's 1988 Boston, discos are still a thing. Also, apparently they didn't care too much about...
