Manassas
10 best books like Manassas (James Reasoner): I Am the Cheese, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal, Salt Creek, The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln, For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne had won at Saratoga, The Male Brain, The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins, The Neandertal Enigma: Solving the Mystery of Human Origins, The Counter-Creationism Handbook, Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
| Author | Robert Cormier |
| ISBN | 0141300515 |
But I keep pedaling, I keep pedaling...
A photograph of Robert Cormier will show you an old man with a kind face, who was born and grew up in a small town of Leominster in Massachusetts which he never left, who graduated from a private catholic school and wrote articles for the local newspaper....
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
| Author | Jared Diamond |
| ISBN | 0060845503 |
Another great book from Jared Diamond. I found this to be just as engaging as Guns, Germs, and Steel, and also an easier read. I find that his books have so much information that it is helpful for me to outline them as I go. Here are my favorite bullet points from The Third Chimpanzee. Not at all a comprehensive...
| Author | Lucy Treloar |
| ISBN | 1743533195 |
1855. Failed entrepreneur Stanton Finch moves his family from Adelaide to the remote Coorong area of Southern Australia, in pursuit of his dream to become a farmer.
Housed in a driftwood cabin, they try to make the best of their situation. The children roam the beautiful landscape of Salt Creek;...
From the best-selling author of The Emperor of Ocean Park and New England White, a daring reimagining of one of the most tumultuous moments in our nation’s past
Stephen L. Carter’s thrilling new novel takes as its starting point an alternate history: President Abraham Lincoln survives...
| Author | Robert Sobel |
| ISBN | 1853675040 |
For Want of a Nail is an alternate history classic. The outcome of one battle in the American Revolution diverges from reality, and sparks an unstoppable chain of events which affects the history of the whole North American continent. In reality, the British general John Burgoyne, heavily outnumbered...
| Author | Louann Brizendine |
| ISBN | 0767927532 |
From the author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller The Female Brain, here is the eagerly awaited follow-up book that demystifies the puzzling male brain.
Dr. Louann Brizendine, the founder of the first clinic in the country to study gender differences in brain, behavior,...
| Author | Alan C. Walker |
| ISBN | 0679747834 |
"Fascinating. . . . As engaging an explanation of how scientists study fossil bones as any I have ever read." --John R. Alden, Philadelphia Inquirer
In 1984 a team of paleoanthropologists on a dig in northern Kenya found something extraordinary: a nearly complete skeleton of Homo erectus,...
| Author | James Shreeve |
| ISBN | 0380728818 |
This prehistoric journey through Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, addressing the controversy surrounding the fate of the Neandertals, is "an extraordinarily clear presentation of the issues and the scientists behind them." -- New York Times Book Review. "Reading The Neanderthal Enigma is...
| Author | Mark Isaak |
| ISBN | 0520249267 |
Those opposed to the teaching of evolution often make well-rehearsed claims about the science that sound powerful and convincing. And many people who support the teaching of evolution—students, teachers, parents, administrators—do not have the background to respond. They know that scientists...
| Author | Donald R. Prothero |
| ISBN | 0231139624 |
Over the past twenty years, paleontologists have made tremendous fossil discoveries, including fossils that mark the growth of whales, manatees, and seals from land mammals and the origins of elephants, horses, and rhinos. Today there exists an amazing diversity of fossil humans, suggesting we...
The Conception of Terror: Tales Inspired by M. R. James - Volume 1
A collection of four ghostly tales inspired by M. R. James.
Casting the Runes - adapted by Stephen Gallagher
When academic Jo Harrington (Anna Maxwell Martin) is sent a paper - The Truth of Alchemy, by Anton Karswell - for peer review, she pulls no punches. It has no place in a serious...
| Author | Clive Cussler |
| ISBN | 0735219028 |
From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of adventure, a brand new mission for Kurt Austin and the NUMA crew--based on a remarkable historical incident.
January 1968Two submarines--one French, one Israeli--vanish in the Mediterranean within days of each other. Extensive search-and-rescue...
