My Hitch in Hell
8 best books like My Hitch in Hell (Lester I. Tenney): Cycle of the Werewolf, The Talisman, Skeleton Crew, UR, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival, In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
| Author | Stephen King |
| ISBN | 0451822196 |
The first scream came from the snowbound railwayman who felt the fangs ripping at his throat. The next month there was a scream of ecstatic agony from the woman attacked in her snug bedroom.
Now scenes of unbelieving horror come each time the full moon shines on the isolated Maine town of Tarker...
| Author | Stephen King |
| ISBN | 0375507779 |
On a brisk autumn day, a twelve-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is...
| Author | Stephen King |
| ISBN | 0751504386 |
In this brilliant collection of stories, Stephen King takes readers down paths that only he could imagine. A supermarket becomes the place where humanity makes its last stand against destruction. A trip to the attic becomes a journey to hell. A woman driver finds a scary shortcut to paradise. An idyllic...
Reeling from a painful break-up, English instructor and avid book lover Wesley Smith is haunted by his ex-girlfriend's parting shot: "Why can't you just read off the computer like everyone else?" He buys an e-book reader out of spite, but soon finds he can use the device to glimpse realities he had never...
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
| Author | David Halberstam |
| ISBN | 1401300529 |
"In a grand gesture of reclamation & remembrance, Mr Halberstam has brought the war back home."--NY Times
Halberstam's magisterial & thrilling The Best & the Brightest was a defining book about the Vietnam conflict. More than three decades later, he used his research & journalistic...
Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
| Author | Dean King |
| ISBN | 0316159352 |
A spectacular true odyssey through the extremes of the Sahara Desert in the early 19th century. Reader and protagonist alike are challenged into new ways of understanding culture clash, slavery and the place of Islam in the social fabric of desert-dwelling peoples.
In a calm May morning in...
In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown
| Author | Nathaniel Philbrick |
| ISBN | 0525426760 |
The thrilling story of the Revolutionary War finale from the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Valiant Ambition.
Here is the story of the remarkable year leading up to the siege of Yorktown. It sets Washington against his traitorous nemesis Benedict Arnold and...
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
| Author | Matthew B. Crawford |
| ISBN | 1594202230 |
A philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands
Called "the sleeper hit of the publishing season" (The Boston Globe), Shop Class as Soulcraft became an instant bestseller, attracting readers with its radical (and timely)...
