Pierre Berton's War of 1812
10 best books like Pierre Berton's War of 1812 (Pierre Berton): Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, The Terror, The Lost Hero, The Son of Neptune, The Red Pyramid, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, Hope Never Dies, Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime, Batman: The Killing Joke, The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
| Author | Dee Brown |
| ISBN | 0805066691 |
Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling history The New York Times called "Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down."
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account...
| Author | Dan Simmons |
| ISBN | 0316017442 |
The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set forth. As they enter a second summer in the Arctic...
Jason has a problem.
He doesn’t remember anything before waking up in a bus full of kids on a field trip. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper, and a best friend named Leo. They’re all students at a boarding school for “bad kids.” What did Jason do to end up here? And where is here, exactly?
Piper...
| Author | Rick Riordan |
| ISBN | 1423140591 |
Percy is confused. When he awoke from his long sleep, he didn't know much more than his name. His brain fuzz is lingering, even after the wolf Lupa told him he is a demigod and trained him to fight with the pen/sword in his pocket. Somehow Percy manages to make it to a camp for half-bloods, despite the fact...
| Author | Rick Riordan |
| ISBN | 1423113381 |
Since his mother's death six years ago, Carter Kane has been living out of a suitcase, traveling the globe with his father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane. But while Carter's been homeschooled, his younger sister, Sadie, has been living with their grandparents in London. Sadie has just...
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
| Author | Barack Obama |
| ISBN | 1921351438 |
Nine years before the Senate campaign that made him one of the most influential and compelling voices in American politics, Barack Obama published this lyrical, unsentimental, and powerfully affecting memoir, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller when it was reissued in 2004. Dreams from My...
This mystery thriller reunites Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama for a political mashup full of suspense, intrigue, and laugh out loud bromance.
Vice President Joe Biden is fresh out of the Obama White House and feeling adrift when his favorite railroad conductor dies in...
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
| Author | John Heilemann |
| ISBN | 0061733636 |
“It’s one of the best books on politics of any kind I’ve read. For entertainment value, I put it up there with Catch 22.” —The Financial Times
“It transports you to a parallel universe in which everything in the National Enquirer is true….More interesting is what...
| Author | Alan Moore |
| ISBN | 0930289455 |
For the first time the Joker's origin is revealed in this tale of insanity and human perseverance. Looking to prove that any man can be pushed past his breaking point and go mad, the Joker attempts to drive Commissioner Gordon insane.
After shooting and permanently paralyzing his daughter...
The Slow Regard of Silent Things
| Author | Patrick Rothfuss |
| ISBN | 0756410436 |
Deep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a broken web of ancient passageways and abandoned rooms. A young woman lives there, tucked among the sprawling tunnels of the Underthing, snug in the heart of this forgotten place.
Her name is Auri, and she is full of mysteries.
The...
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
| Author | Peter Pomerantsev |
| ISBN | 1610394550 |
In the new Russia, even dictatorship is a reality show.
Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, suicidal supermodels, Hell’s Angels who hallucinate themselves as holy warriors, and oligarch revolutionaries: welcome...
The Trial of Henry Kissinger
| Author | Christopher Hitchens |
| ISBN | 1859843980 |
With the detention of Augusto Pinochet, and intense international pressure for the arrest of Slobodan Milosovic, the possibility of international law acting against tyrants around the world is emerging as a reality. In this incendiary book, Hitchens takes the floor as prosecuting counsel and mounts...
| Author | Hannah Arendt |
| ISBN | 0226025985 |
A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Condition is a in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable....
The Bonfire of the Vanities
| Author | Tom Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0553381342 |
Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low close in on him,...
| Author | Arthur Herman |
| ISBN | 0060534257 |
To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history. From the navy's beginnings under Henry VIII to the age of computer warfare and special ops, historian Arthur Herman tells the spellbinding tale of great...
| Author | J.F.C. Fuller |
| ISBN | 0306813300 |
"A thrilling portrayal of Alexander's military career and genius."--American Historical Review
In a brief and meteoric life (356-323 BC) the greatest of all conquerors redirected the course of world history. Alexander the Great accomplished this feat with a small army-no more than...
Living the French Revolution, 1789-1799
| Author | Peter McPhee |
| ISBN | 0230574750 |
McPhee was educated at Caulfield Grammar School and Trinity College while studying at the University of Melbourne, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees, a Diploma in Education and a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
He later taught at LaTrobe University (1975–79)...
| Author | Joe Haldeman |
| ISBN | 1852865318 |
NEVER BEFORE.....
Had the Enterprise been betrayed by its own technology. Never before had their systems, instruments and weapons failed to respond. And never before had Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the rest of the crew faced a total breakdown of science and sanity....until they stumbled on the...
