Principles of Geology

9 best books like Principles of Geology (Charles Lyell): Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body, Anna of Kleve: The Princess in the Portrait, The American Agent, City of God, The Last Astronaut, Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, A Prefect's Uncle, Naturally Tan, The Girl Behind the Red Rope

Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

Author	Neil Shubin
ISBN	0375424474

Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are breasts, sweat glands, and scales connected in some way? To better understand the inner workings of our bodies and to trace the origins of many of today's most common diseases, we have to turn to unexpected sources:...

Anna of Kleve: The Princess in the Portrait

Author	Alison Weir
ISBN	1101966572

Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the little-known story of Henry VIII’s fourth wife, as a grieving king chooses a bride sight unseen in the fourth novel in the epic and intrigue-filled Six Tudor Queens series.

Newly widowed and the father of an infant son, Henry...

The American Agent

Author	Jacqueline Winspear
ISBN	0062436694

Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, “one of the great fictional heroines” (Parade), investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a page-turning tale of love and war, terror and survival.

When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent...

City of God

Author	Augustine of Hippo
ISBN	0140448942

This is a truly COLOSSAL book!

You know, there are two ways of getting answers in the world... there’s getting the world’s answers (and that’s sometimes doublethink) and there’s getting TRANSCENDENTAL answers!

Sub specie aeternitatis, transcendental answers are the...

The Last Astronaut

Author	David Wellington
ISBN	0356512290

Mission Commander Sally Jansen is Earth’s last astronaut–and last hope–in this gripping near-future thriller where a mission to make first contact becomes a terrifying struggle for survival in the depths of space.

Sally Jansen was NASA’s leading astronaut, until a mission to...

Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft

Author	Janet Burroway
ISBN	0321277368

The most widely used and respected text in its field, Writing Fiction, 7e guides the novice story writer from first inspiration to final revision. A bestseller through six editions, Writing Fiction by novelists Janet Burroway and Elizabeth Stuckey-French explores the elements of fiction, providing...

A Prefect's Uncle

Author

P.G. Wodehouse

A Prefect’s Uncle is Wodehouse’s second book, first published in 1903. Like Wodehouse’s other early work, this is a “school story” – a tale set at an English boarding school, probably written with younger readers in mind. Gethryn has a pretty great thing going at Beckford College: he’s...

Naturally Tan

Author	Tan France
ISBN	1250211077

In this heartfelt, funny, touching memoir, Tan France, star of Netflix's smash-hit QUEER EYE, tells his origin story for the first time. With his trademark wit, humor, and radical compassion, Tan reveals what it was like to grow up gay in a traditional Muslim family, as one of the few people of color in...

The Girl Behind the Red Rope

Author	Ted Dekker
ISBN	0800736532

Ten years ago, Grace saw something that would forever change the course of history. When evil in its purest form is unleashed on the world, she and others from their religious community are already hidden deep in the hills of Tennessee, abiding by every rule that will keep them safe, pure--and alive....