Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere: A Memoir

8 best books like Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere: A Memoir (Poe Ballantine): Blue Highways, The Lager Queen of Minnesota, Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber, Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe, The Boys of My Youth, Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body, The Shortest History of Germany, Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads

Blue Highways

Author

William Least Heat-Moon

Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads.
William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map-if they get on at...

The Lager Queen of Minnesota

Author	J. Ryan Stradal
ISBN	0399563059

A novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate and the secrets of making a world-class beer.

Two sisters, one farm. A family is split when their father leaves their shared inheritance entirely to Helen, his younger daughter. Despite baking award-winning pies at the local nursing home,...

Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber

Author	Mark Twight
ISBN	0898868874

2001 Banff Mountain Literature Award Winner

Mark Twight's collected works, some never before published in North America Includes dramatic black and white mountaineering photos Features brand new epilogues to all of the stories They call him Dr. Doom.

Raving and kicking against...

Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

Author	Roger McNamee
ISBN	0525561358

The story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it.

If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself...

The Boys of My Youth

Author	Jo Ann Beard
ISBN	0316085251

Rarely does the debut of a new writer garner such attention & acclaim. The excitement began the moment "The Fourth State of Matter," one of the fourteen extraordinary personal narratives in this book, appeared in the pages of The New Yorker. It increased when the author received a prestigious Whiting...

Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body

Author	Michael Matthews
ISBN	1938895274

If you want to be muscular, lean, and strong as quickly as possible without steroids, good genetics, or wasting ridiculous amounts of time in the gym and money on supplements...then you want to read this book.

Here's the deal:

Getting into awesome shape isn't nearly as complicated...

The Shortest History of Germany

Author	James Hawes
ISBN	1910400416

The West is in full retreat. The Anglo-Saxon powers, great and small, withdraw into fantasies of lost greatness. Populists all over Europe cry out that immigration and globalisation are the work of a nefarious System, run by unseen masters with no national loyalties. From the Kremlin, Tsar Vladimir...

Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads

Author	Paul Theroux
ISBN	0544323521

One of the most acclaimed travel writers of our time turns his unflinching eye on an American South too often overlooked

Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich history and folklore of the far away. Now, for the first time, in his tenth...