Laura Ingalls Wilder: Young Pioneer (Childhood of Famous Americans)
10 best books like Laura Ingalls Wilder: Young Pioneer (Childhood of Famous Americans) (Beatrice Gormley): Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams?, Cry, the Beloved Country, Trust Exercise, Orange World and Other Stories, Imagining the Balkans, Play It As It Lays, Happily Ever Ninja, The Forever War, The Wind Is Not a River, Girl About Town (Lulu Kelly Mystery #1)
| Author | Jean Fritz |
| ISBN | 0698114167 |
My boys say this should actually be 4 1/2 stars. They really enjoyed this quick introduction to Sam Adams. My 6-yr-old loved the mention of his dog, Queue, and was upset when the dog died. We learned a lot about Sam and the events leading up to the revolution.
Although things like the Stamp Act and...
Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty.
Cry, the beloved country, for the...
| Author | Susan Choi |
| ISBN | 1250309883 |
Pulitzer Finalist Susan Choi's narrative-upending novel about what happens when a first love between high school students is interrupted by the attentions of a charismatic teacher
In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle...
Orange World and Other Stories
| Author | Karen Russell |
| ISBN | 1984892215 |
From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell's extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination.
Karen Russell's...
| Author | Maria N. Todorova |
| ISBN | 0195087518 |
"If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. This book traces the relationship between the reality and the invention. Based on a rich selection of travelogues, diplomatic accounts, academic surveys,...
| Author | Joan Didion |
| ISBN | 0374529949 |
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil - literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren...
There are three things you need to know about Fiona Archer… I would tell you what they are, but then I’d have to kill you.
But I can tell you that Fiona’s husband, the always irrepressible and often cantankerous Greg Archer, is desperately in love with his wife. Yet as the years pass, Greg...
| Author | Dexter Filkins |
| ISBN | 0307266397 |
From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable book that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time.
Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prizewinning New York Times correspondent whose work was hailed by David Halberstam...
| Author | Brian Payton |
| ISBN | 0062279971 |
The Wind Is Not a River is Brian Payton's gripping tale of survival and an epic love story in which a husband and wife—separated by the only battle of World War II to take place on American soil—fight to reunite in Alaska's starkly beautiful Aleutian Islands.
Following the death of...
Girl About Town (Lulu Kelly Mystery #1)
| Author | Adam Shankman |
| ISBN | 1481447874 |
Not too long ago, Lucille O’Malley was living in a tenement in New York. Now she’s Lulu Kelly, Hollywood’s newest It Girl. She may be a star, but she worries that her past will catch up with her. Back in New York she witnessed a Mafia murder, and this glamorous new life in Tinseltown is payment for her...
| Author | Roberto Escobar Gaviria |
| ISBN | 0446178926 |
"I have many scars. Some of them are physical, but many more are scars on my soul. A bomb sent to kill me while I was in a maximum security prison has made me blind, yet now I see the world more clearly than I have ever seen it before. I have lived an incredible adventure. I watched as my brother, Pablo Escobar,...
| Author | Robert Lewis Dabney |
| ISBN | 1929241003 |
Stonewall Jackson. His very name evokes the image of the solid, immovable Confederate general whose sobriquet, earned at the Battle of First Manassas, no longer requires quotation marks. In this volume, Stonewall's pious Christian character, service to the church, unwavering commitment to duty,...
| Author | Julie Salamon |
| ISBN | 0306811235 |
"A definitive portrait of the madness of big-time moviemaking."--Newsweek
When Brian De Palma agreed to allow Julie Salamon unlimited access to the film production of Tom Wolfe's best-selling book The Bonfire of the Vanities, both director and journalist must have felt like they were...
| Author | Karen Kingsbury |
| ISBN | 1534412158 |
Mom was right. Your best friends are the ones around the dinner table each night.
Much-loved storyteller Karen Kingsbury’s Baxter Family books have captured the hearts of millions who have come to think of the Baxter family as their own. Now Karen Kingsbury and her son Tyler Russell tell...
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Where the Cherry Tree Grew: The Story of Ferry Farm, George Washington’s Boyhood Home
| Author | Philip Levy |
| ISBN | 0312641869 |
Noted historian pens biography of Ferry Farm—George Washington's boyhood home—and its three centuries of American history
In 2002, Philip Levy arrived on the banks of Rappahannock River in Virginia to begin an archeological excavation of Ferry Farm, the eight hundred acre plot of...
| Author | Amy Lloyd |
| ISBN | 1780898924 |
A thrilling new novel of psychological suspense from the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of
The Innocent Wife
Charlotte wants to start fresh. She wants to forget her past, forget prison and, most of all, forget Sean. But old habits die hard. Despite the ankle monitor...
| Author | Gerald Coffee |
| ISBN | 0399134166 |
Great book. Very moving in parts as the author talks about his harrowing experiences as a POW. He is frank about some things a few other authors have left out in their stories.
As an aside, it was interesting how the Vietnamese would raise puppies till they were a few months old then a few of them...
