Lincoln's Spymaster: Allan Pinkerton, America's First Private Eye
10 best books like Lincoln's Spymaster: Allan Pinkerton, America's First Private Eye (Samantha Seiple): Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America, Woods Runner, Sharpshooter, Chasing Lincoln's Killer, The Tournament at Gorlan, Chasing King's Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Assassin, The Plot to Kill Hitler: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Unlikely Hero, The Red Fox Clan, Swing, House Arrest
Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America
Author | Susan Campbell Bartoletti |
ISBN | 0544313674 |
What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged?
With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, this riveting biography of Mary Mallon by the Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Bartoletti looks beyond the tabloid scandal of Mary's controversial...
Author | Gary Paulsen |
ISBN | 0385738846 |
Samuel, 13, spends his days in the forest, hunting for food for his family. He has grown up on the frontier of a British colony, America. Far from any town, or news of the war against the King that American patriots have begun near Boston.
But the war comes to them. British soldiers and Iroquois...
Some things are worth fighting for.
Of all his friends, Ivan is the only one looking forward to war.
That's because Ivan has never backed down from a fight--especially when it comes to fighting for what's right. He has protected his friends from bullies for years. And now, as war erupts...
Author | James L. Swanson |
ISBN | 0545204704 |
Based on rare archival material, obscure trial manuscripts, and interviews with relatives of the conspirators and the manhunters, CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER is a fast-paced thriller about the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth: a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C.,...
Author | John Flanagan |
ISBN | 0399163611 |
When Halt and Crowley discover that the ambitious Morgarath has been infiltrating the Rangers in order to corrupt the Corps, the young Rangers travel north to find Prince Duncan, seeking a royal warrant to stop Morgarath before it is too late. By weakening the Rangers, the most powerful force in support...
Author | James L. Swanson |
ISBN | 0545723337 |
An astonishing account of the assassination of America's most beloved and celebrated civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, by NY Times bestselling author, James L. Swanson.
NAACP Image Award Nominee
Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year
Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book...
Author | Patricia McCormick |
ISBN | 0062411101 |
Perfect for fans of suspenseful nonfiction such as books by Steve Sheinkin, this is a page-turning narrative about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor and pacifist who became an unlikely hero during World War II and took part in a plot to kill Hitler. Written by two-time National Book Award finalist Patricia...
Author | John Flanagan |
ISBN | 1524741388 |
#1 New York Times bestselling author John Flanagan returns to the world of Ranger's Apprentice, continuing the story arc starring fan favorites, Will and Maddie (The Royal Ranger: A New Beginning).
Picking up where The Royal Ranger: A New Beginning left off, this next installment continues...
Author | Kwame Alexander |
ISBN | 0310761913 |
Things usually do not go as planned for seventeen-year-old Noah. He and his best friend Walt (aka Swing) have been cut from the high school baseball team for the third year in a row, and it looks like Noah’s love interest since third grade, Sam, will never take it past the “best friend” zone. Noah...
Author | K.A. Holt |
ISBN | 1452134774 |
Stealing is bad.
Yeah.
I know.
But my brother Levi is always so sick, and his medicine is always so expensive.
I didn’t think anyone would notice,
if I took that credit card,
if, in one stolen second,
I bought Levi’s medicine.
But someone did notice.
Now...