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10 best books like Moby Dick (Lew Sayre Schwartz): A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and Inspired Shakespeare's The Tempest, The Sea Fairies, The Wind in the Willows, Sophie's Secret, Ethan Frome and Selected Stories, The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Mostly Sunny with a Chance of Storms, Winter Door, The Basilisk’s Lair, A Wild Life: The Authorized Biography

A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and Inspired Shakespeare's The Tempest
AuthorHobson Woodward
ISBN0670020966
A gripping tale of shipwreck and survival that changed the fate of the colonies and enriched our literary legacy

In 1609, aspiring writer William Strachey set sail aboard the Sea Venture, bound for the New World. Caught in a hurricane, the ship separated from its fleet and wrecked on uninhabited...
The Sea Fairies
AuthorL. Frank Baum
ISBN1421818884
Nobody, said Cap'n Bill solemnly, "ever sawr a mermaid an' lived to tell the tale." "Why not?" asked Trot, looking earnestly up into the old sailor's face. They were seated on a bench built around a giant acacia tree that grew just at the edge of the bluff. Below them rolled the blue waves of the great Pacific....
The Wind in the Willows
AuthorMartin Woodside
ISBN1402736967
First of all, i'd like to say that it's my first experience reading english book. And whoa, because i'm not used to read in english, it was like 'trouble' for me to read english book. But honestly i'm not dissapointed at all!

I start to read in english because yeah, can i say that it's interesting...
Sophie's Secret
AuthorNancy N. Rue
ISBN0310707579
About this book:

“Sophie and her friends launch an “archaeological expedition” and make a disturbing discovery. Sophie keeps digging to uncover a shocking family secret. In light of this new revelation, will she ever be able to trust her parents again?”


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Ethan Frome and Selected Stories
AuthorEdith Wharton
ISBN1593080905
One of Edith Wharton’s few works of fiction that takes place outside of an urban, upper-class setting, Ethan Frome draws upon the bleak, barren landscape of rural New England. A poor farmer, Ethan finds himself stuck in a miserable marriage to Zeenie, a sickly, tyrannical woman, until he falls in...
The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
AuthorDaniel Defoe
ISBN0809594625
Defoe was a prolific and versatile writer, producing more than five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics, including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology, and the supernatural. We set out on the 5th of February from Ireland, and had a very fair gale of wind for some days....
Mostly Sunny with a Chance of Storms
AuthorMarion Roberts
ISBN1741758599
Sunny Hathaway—introvert, entrepreneur, inventor, poet, dog lover, and lateral thinker—has a lot on her plate. She's moving to a new house, dealing with step-siblings, and starting a dog entertainment business too.
 
Sunny and her expertly blended, thoroughly modern family are...
Winter Door
AuthorIsobelle Carmody
ISBN0375830189
In the midst of the worst winter on record, Rage is beset with worry. Her mother still hasn’t fully recovered from her car accident despite Rage’s successful quest for healing magic. Her stoic uncle seems to be having second thoughts about looking after her. The school bully, Logan, is increasingly...
The Basilisk’s Lair
AuthorR.L. LaFevers
ISBN0547238673
Nate Fludd, Beastologist, is back in the camel saddle in hot pursuit of a missing, deadly Basilisk--the King of Serpents. As if saving an entire Dhughani village from the Basilisk's poisonous gaze isn't difficult enough, Nate and Aunt Phil must begin to piece together the mystery of his parents' disappearance...
A Wild Life: The Authorized Biography
AuthorJeff Corwin
ISBN0142414034
A fascinating look at the real Jeff Corwin!

From growing up in an urban community near Boston, to falling in love with snakes, to traveling to exotic places, to becoming a beloved Emmy Award-winning television host of Animal Planet, this authorized biography will give readers a first-hand...
The Dragon in the Driveway
AuthorKate Klimo
ISBN0375855890
The Dragon Keepers have a new mission!

It's been raining for days, and dragon keepers Jesse and Daisy have been stuck inside with their dragon, Emmy. As soon as the rain stops, they are out of the house in a flash. First on their list of things to do? To find out what the villainous Dr. St. George—a...
City of Time
AuthorEoin McNamee
ISBN0375839127
CATI, THE BOLD Watcher readers met in The Navigator, returns from the shadows of time to summon Owen and Dr. Diamond, for time is literally running out. The moon is coming closer to the earth, causing havoc with weather, tides, and other natural cycles; people fear the world will end. To discover what’s...
A Kidnapped Santa Claus
AuthorAlex Robinson
ISBN0061782408
First published in 1904, "A Kidnapped Santa Claus" by L. Frank Baum, the author of The Wizard of Oz, describes the action of some uncommon events in the land of Santa. Not far from the Laughing Valley where Santa and all his magical helpers live, and beyond the Forest of Burzee, there stands a huge mountain...
Best Detective Stories of Agatha Christie
AuthorAgatha Christie
ISBN0582275237
Staigājot pa grāmatnīcu pamanīju grāmatu „Best detective stories of Agatha Christie”. Tā kā es nebiju vēl nekad lasījusi detektīvus, lai gan biju dzirdējusi par dažām Agatas Kristi filmām. Nolēmu pamēģināt izlasīt šo grāmatu. Sākumdaļā ir aprakstīts par pašu...
Samurai
AuthorJason Hightman
ISBN0060540168
Dragons. They masquerade as their victims, unrecognizable to all but a select few. In the West, Simon St. George and his father are the last living descendants of a legendary clan of dragon hunters. In the Far East, fierce Samurai warriors are bound by an oath to defeat the dragons. Now, faced with an apocalyptic...
The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems
AuthorJohn Milton
ISBN0553581104
Affordable, compact, and authoritative, this one-volume edition of The Annotated Milton encompasses the monumental sweep of John Milton’s poetry. Here are Milton’ s early works, including his first great poem, “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity,” the light and lyrical “L’Allegro”...
The Baboons Who Went This Way and That
AuthorAlexander McCall Smith
ISBN1841957720
It was a really nice book full of great tales from South Africa, this book is quite like Aesop’s fables. It mainly includes all the tapes related to animals.

They are the same stories that are being told by our grandmothers and great-grandmothers.

A complete fun-read. It invokes...
Lies My Teacher Told Me about Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrong
AuthorJames W. Loewen
ISBN1565840089
In Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus, the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me offers a graphic corrective to the Columbus story told in so many American classrooms. First published over fifteen years ago and long out-of-print, the poster and accompanying paperback book...
When the Snow Fell
AuthorHenning Mankell
ISBN0385734972
Joel Gustafson makes three important New Year's Resolutions in the cemetery at midnight: (1) he will toughen up and live to be 100, (2) he will see the sea, and (3) he will see a naked lady. Then he sets out to try to make them all come to fruition. Along the way, he introduces us to all the quirky people in his...
Who Is Mark Twain?
AuthorMark Twain
ISBN0061735000
You had better shove this in the stove," Mark Twain said at the top of an 1865 letter to his brother, "for I don't want any absurd 'literary remains' and 'unpublished letters of Mark Twain' published after I am planted." He was joking, of course. But when Mark Twain died in 1910, he left behind the largest...
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