Kings of the Earth
6 best books like Kings of the Earth (Jon Clinch): Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia, Nobody's Fool, Genesis, Worst. President. Ever.: James Buchanan, the POTUS Rating Game, and the Legacy of the Least of the Lesser Presidents, Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
| Author | Casey Cep |
| ISBN | 1101947861 |
The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird.
Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help...
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
| Author | Christina Thompson |
| ISBN | 0062060872 |
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know.
For more than...
| Author | Richard Russo |
| ISBN | 0679753338 |
Richard Russo's slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat town in upstate New York—and in the life of one of its unluckiest citizens, Sully, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years.
Divorced from his own wife and carrying...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 3404242874 |
Der Astronaut Christian Brannock hat miterlebt, wie der Mensch die künstliche Intelligenz immer weiter entwickelte - bis es schließlich möglich war, die menschliche Persönlichkeit in einen Computer zu speisen und ihm auf diese Weise eine Art Unsterblichkeit zu verleihen. Als er beauftragt...
Worst. President. Ever.: James Buchanan, the POTUS Rating Game, and the Legacy of the Least of the Lesser Presidents
| Author | Robert Strauss |
| ISBN | 1493024833 |
Worst. President. Ever. flips the great presidential biography on its head, offering an enlightening and highly entertaining account of poor James Buchanan's presidency to prove once and for all that, well, few leaders could have done worse.
But author Robert Strauss does much more, leading...
| Author | Jean H. Baker |
| ISBN | 0393305864 |
Mary Todd, daughter of the founders of Lexington, Kentucky, was raised in a world of frontier violence. First abandoned at the age of six when her mother died, Mary later fled a hostile stepmother for Springfield, where she met and, after a stormy romance, married the raw Illinois attorney, Abraham...
