Majesty: Queen Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor
8 best books like Majesty: Queen Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor (Robert Lacey): Ash, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life, Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art, The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions, Vinegar Hill, Four Tragedies and Octavia (Thyestes, Phaedra, Troades, Oedipus, Octavia), Strider, A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory
| Author | Malinda Lo |
| ISBN | 0316040096 |
Cinderella retold
In the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away, as they...
Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
| Author | Martin E.P. Seligman |
| ISBN | 1400078393 |
Known as the father of the new science of positive psychology, Martin E.P. Seligman draws on more than twenty years of clinical research to demonstrate how optimism enchances the quality of life, and how anyone can learn to practice it. Offering many simple techniques, Dr. Seligman explains how to...
Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art
| Author | Carl Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0062116150 |
The mysterious disappearance of Michael Rockefeller in New Guinea in 1961 has kept the world and his powerful, influential family guessing for years. Now, Carl Hoffman uncovers startling new evidence that finally tells the full, astonishing story.
Despite exhaustive searches, no trace...
The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions
| Author | Emily P. Freeman |
| ISBN | 0800736524 |
Nothing gets our attention like an unmade decision: Should I accept the new position? Which schooling choice is best for my kids? How can I support my aging parents? When we have a decision to make and the answer isn't clear, what we want more than anything is peace, clarity, and a nudge in the right direction.
If...
| Author | A. Manette Ansay |
| ISBN | 0060897848 |
In a stark, troubling, yet ultimately triumphant celebration of self-determination, award-winning author A. Manette Ansay re-creates a stifling world of guilty and pain, and the tormented souls who inhabit it. It is 1972 when circumstance carries Ellen Grier and her family back to Holly's Field,...
| Author | Seneca |
| ISBN | 0140441743 |
Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events are foretold and then pursued to their tragic and often bloodthirsty ends. Thyestes depicts the menace of an ancestral curse hanging over two feuding brothers, while Phaedra...
| Author | Beverly Cleary |
| ISBN | 0380728028 |
Strider has a new habit. Whenever we stop, he places his paw on my foot. It isn't an accident because he always does it. I like to think he doesn't want to leave me.Can a stray dog change the life of a teenage boy? It looks as if Strider can. He's a dog that loves to run; because of Strider, Leigh Botts finds himself...
A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory
| Author | Frederick Buechner |
| ISBN | 0310349761 |
When pain is real, why is God silent?
Frederick Buechner has grappled with the nature of pain, grief, and grace ever since his father committed suicide when Buechner was a young boy. He continued that search as a father when his daughter struggled with anorexia. In this essential collection...
