Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea from East to West

7 best books like Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea from East to West (Beatrice Hohenegger): Boy, Snow, Bird, They Called Us Enemy, On Basilisk Station, Stormwarden, Shadowfane, The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt, How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee

Boy, Snow, Bird

Author	Helen Oyeyemi
ISBN	1594631395

BOY Novak turns twenty and decides to try for a brand-new life. Flax Hill, Massachusetts, isn’t exactly a welcoming town, but it does have the virtue of being the last stop on the bus route she took from New York. Flax Hill is also the hometown of Arturo Whitman –- craftsman, widower, and father of Snow....

They Called Us Enemy

Author	George Takei
ISBN	1603094504

A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself.

Long before George Takei braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke...

On Basilisk Station

Author	David Weber
ISBN	1416509372

Honor Harrington in trouble: Having made him look the fool, she's been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hates her. Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship's humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station. The aborigines of the system's only...

Stormwarden

Author	Janny Wurts
ISBN	0061054623

“The waters of the world are deep. Chart your course with care.”

Wizards, demons and coming of age story with a twist. All in a classic epic fantasy setting of the noble good against the hideous evil.

Stormwarden! What a great title, no? Yet, be warned that the wizard of wind and wave,...

Shadowfane

Author	Janny Wurts
ISBN	0061054704

ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature.

Shadowfane, the concluding volume of Janny Wurts’ Cycle of Fire trilogy is an action-packed and exciting finale. As humankind is being destroyed by demons (who we now know are aliens) Jaric has realized that he has no choice but to brave the Cycle...

The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt

Author	William Nothdurft
ISBN	0375759794

In 1911, Dr. Ernst Stromer led an expedition to Egypt’s Bahariya Oasis in the Sahara and discovered four new species of dinosaurs, including the Tyrannosaurus rex–size predator Spinosaurus. But tragically, all his work was incinerated in 1944 during the Allied bombing of Munich.

In...

How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee

Author

Bart D. Ehrman

New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus’s divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church.

The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed...