Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings and America's First Imperial Adventure

8 best books like Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings and America's First Imperial Adventure (Julia Flynn Siler): The Library of the Unwritten, Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right, Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe, White Dog Fell from the Sky, A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems, Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure, R E D, 101 Great American Poems

The Library of the Unwritten

Author	A.J. Hackwith
ISBN	1984806386

In the first book in a brilliant new fantasy series, books that aren't finished by their authors reside in the Library of the Unwritten in Hell, and it is up to the Librarian to track down any restless characters who emerge from those unfinished stories.

Many years ago, Claire was named Head Librarian...

Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right

Author	Al Franken
ISBN	0452285216

Al Franken, one of our savviest satirists (People), has been studying the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of slander, bias, and even treason. He has examined the Bush administration's policies of squandering our surplus, ravaging the environment, and alienating the rest of the...

Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

Author

Laurence Bergreen

The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage

“Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York...

White Dog Fell from the Sky

Author	Eleanor Morse
ISBN	0670026409

An extraordinary novel of love, friendship, and betrayal for admirers of Abraham Verghese and Edwidge Danticat

Eleanor Morse’s rich and intimate portrait of Botswana, and of three people whose intertwined lives are at once tragic and remarkable, is an absorbing and deeply moving story.

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A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems

Author	Lawrence Ferlinghetti
ISBN	0811200418

This is one of the best-selling poetry books of all time, and, although that is no guarantee of poetic excellence—after all, Rod McKuen and Martin Farquar Tupper both sold a lot of books in their day—it is a sign that the author had his finger on the pulse of his time, that his work embodies the yearnings...

Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure

Author	The American Poetry and Literacy Project
ISBN	0486406466

Most of us, at one time or another, have experienced wanderlust. For many, the desire to explore is almost irresistible. Now for devotees of poetry, and for those who long for the open road, this highly affordable collection contains a rich selection of poems about travel and adventure.
You’ll...

R E D

Author	Chase Berggrun
ISBN	0991429885

In their acknowledgments, Bergrrun dedicates Red to survivors of rape, sexual abuse and domestic abuse. That dedication to the narratives of survivors comes through this epic erasure poem subverting the themes of bram stoker's Dracula to dazzling effect. For survivors, this book might bring some...

101 Great American Poems

Author	The American Poetry and Literacy Project
ISBN	0486401588

What a pity I waited so long to read this. As I expected, the small volume contains excellent poems of Cummings, Emerson, Longfellow, Poe, Whitman, Dickinson, Gertrude Stein and Robert Frost.

But, the true delight was discovering unknown poets. Here are two of my favorites:

Ella...