PT 109
6 best books like PT 109 (Robert John Donovan): Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War, Iron Lake, Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome, The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey, So Brave, Young and Handsome, Shackleton's Boat Journey
Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War
| Author | Jeff Shaara |
| ISBN | 0345427521 |
With his acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure, Jeff Shaara expanded upon his father's Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, The Killer Angels--ushering the reader through the poignant drama of this most bloody chapter in our history. Now, in Gone for...
| Author | William Kent Krueger |
| ISBN | 0671016970 |
William Kent Krueger joined the ranks of today's best suspense novelists with this thrilling, universally acclaimed debut. Conjuring "a sense of place he's plainly honed firsthand in below-zero prairie" (Kirkus Reviews), Krueger brilliantly evokes northern Minnesota's lake country -- and reveals...
Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome
When Tiro, the confidential secretary (and slave) of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events that will eventually propel his master into one of the most suspenseful courtroom dramas in history. The stranger is a Sicilian,...
The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey
| Author | Linda Greenlaw |
| ISBN | 0786885416 |
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER--NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK! Known to millions of readers of The Perfect Storm as the captain of the Hannah Boden, sister ship to the Andrea Gail, Linda Greenlaw is also known as one of the best sea captains on the East Coast. Here she offers an adventure-soaked tale of her...
| Author | Leif Enger |
| ISBN | 0871139855 |
A stunning successor to his best selling novel Peace Like a River, Leif Enger's new work is a rugged and nimble story about an aging train robber on a quest to reconcile the claims of love and judgment on his life, and the failed writer who goes with him.
In 1915 Minnesota, novelist Monte Becket has lost...
| Author | Frank A. Worsley |
| ISBN | 1841580635 |
This is an account of the Shackleton boat journey. The journey began in August 1914 in London and the next the world knew of Shackleton was in May 1916, when three ragged men staggered into the whaling station at Grytviken on South Georgia. On August 1, 1914, on the eve of World War I, Sir Ernest Shackleton...
