Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend
9 best books like Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend (Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina): The Art of Fielding, The Tiger's Wife, The Long Call, Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream, One Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game that Brought a Divided Town Together, After All These Years, The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food, The Boy, The Feather Thief
| Author | Chad Harbach |
| ISBN | 0316126691 |
At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended.
Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future....
| Author | Téa Obreht |
| ISBN | 0385343833 |
Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Téa Obreht, the youngest of The New Yorker’s twenty best American fiction writers under forty, has spun a timeless novel that will establish her as one of the most vibrant, original authors of her generation.
In a Balkan...
| Author | Ann Cleeves |
| ISBN | 1250204445 |
For the first time in 20 years, Ann Cleeves—international bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows—embarks on a gripping new series.
In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside...
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
| Author | H.G. Bissinger |
| ISBN | 0306814250 |
Return once again to the enduring account of life in the Mojo lane, to the Permian Panthers of Odessa -- the winningest high school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going. Socially and racially...
One Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game that Brought a Divided Town Together
| Author | Amy Bass |
| ISBN | 0316396540 |
In the tradition of Friday Night Lights and Outcasts United, ONE GOAL tells the inspiring story of the soccer team in a town bristling with racial tension that united Somali refugees and multi-generation Mainers in their quest for state--and ultimately national--glory.
When thousands...
| Author | Susan Isaacs |
| ISBN | 0060563737 |
The day after her lavish wedding anniversary bash, Rosie Meyers gets a big surprise: her nouveau riche husband, Richie, is leaving her for a sultry, sophisticated, size-six MBA. So, when he's found murdered in their exquisitely appointed kitchen, no one is surprised to find Rosie's prints all over...
The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food
| Author | Judith Jones |
| ISBN | 0307264955 |
From the legendary editor who helped shape modern cookbook publishing--one of the food world's most admired figures--an evocative and inspiring memoir.
Living in Paris after World War II, Judith Jones broke free of the bland American food she had been raised on and reveled in everyday French...
| Author | Tami Hoag |
| ISBN | 1101985399 |
Vittima o complice di un atroce delitto?
Quando il detective Nick Fourcade entra nella casa di Genevieve Gauthier, alle porte della tranquilla cittadina di Bayou Breaux in Louisiana, la scena che lo attende è la più brutale che abbia mai visto. Ma anche la più enigmatica. Il figlio di sette anni...
| Author | Kirk Wallace Johnson |
| ISBN | 1101981636 |
On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring...
