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10 best books like Reagan's America: Innocents at Home (Garry Wills): Hard Road West: History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail, The Warrior Queens, 1066: The Year of the Conquest, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, The Currents of Space, Forward the Foundation, Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season, No Way Down: Life and Death on K2, The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830, Bestiario

Hard Road West: History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail
AuthorKeith Heyer Meldahl
ISBN0226519600
In 1848 news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. Lured by the promise of riches, thousands of settlers left behind the forests, rain, and fertile soil of the eastern United States in favor of the rough-hewn lands of the American West. The...
The Warrior Queens
AuthorAntonia Fraser
ISBN1842126369
Antonia Fraser's Warrior Queens are those women who have both ruled and led in war. They include Catherine the Great, Elizabeth I, Isabella of Spain, the Rani of Jhansi, and the formidable Queen Jinga of Angola. With Boadicea as the definitive example, her female champions from other ages and civilisations...
1066: The Year of the Conquest
AuthorDavid Howarth
Alternate cover for ISBN 10: 0140058508 / ISBN 13: 9780140058505

Everyone knows 1066 as the date of the Norman invasion and conquest of England. But how many of us can place that event in the context of the entire dramatic year in which it took place? From the death of Edward the Confessor in early...
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
AuthorG.K. Chesterton
ISBN0375757910
G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately,...
The Currents of Space
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0553293419
High above the planet Florinia, the Squires of Sark live in unimaginable wealth and comfort. Down in the eternal spring of the planet, however, the native Florinians labor ceaselessly to produce the precious kyrt that brings prosperity to their Sarkite masters. Rebellion is unthinkable and impossible....
Forward the Foundation
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0553565079
Librarian's Note: Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here

Here, from a grand master of science fiction, is the long awaited final novel of the greatest series ever told. Completed just before his death, Forward The Foundation is the crowning achievement of a great writer's life, a stirring...
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
AuthorNick Heil
ISBN0805083103
The inside story of the deadly 2006 climbing season on Everest

On May 15, 2006, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everest while forty other climbers walked past him on their way to the summit. A week later, Lincoln Hall, a seasoned Australian climber, was...
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2
AuthorGraham Bowley
ISBN0061834785
In the tradition of Into Thin Air and Touching the Void, No Way Down by New York Times reporter Graham Bowley is the harrowing account of the worst mountain climbing disaster on K2, second to Everest in height... but second to no peak in terms of danger. From tragic deaths to unbelievable stories of heroism...
The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830
AuthorPaul Johnson
ISBN0060922826
This extraordinary chronicle of fifteen years that laid the foundations of the modern world is the history of people, ideas, politics, manners and morals, economics, art, science and technology, diplomacy, business and commerce, literature and revolution. From Wellington at Waterloo and Jackson...
Bestiario
AuthorJulio Cortázar
ISBN8466309896
In these eight masterpieces there is no room for the smallest sign of stumbling or youthful undertones: they are perfect. These stories that speak about objects and daily happenings, pass over to another dimension, one of nightmare or revelation. In each text, surprise and uneasiness are ingredients...
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
AuthorDavid Quammen
ISBN1476776628
Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life’s history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature.

In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences...
A Universal History of Iniquity
AuthorJorge Luis Borges
ISBN0142437891
In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West, as well as his horrified fascination with knife fights, political and personal betrayal,...
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
AuthorNick Lane
ISBN0199205647
If it weren't for mitochondria, scientists argue, we'd all still be single-celled bacteria. Indeed, these tiny structures inside our cells are important beyond imagining. Without mitochondria, we would have no cell suicide, no sculpting of embryonic shape, no sexes, no menopause, no aging.

In...
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
AuthorHenry Fountain
ISBN1101904062
In the tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, a riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in recorded history in North America--the 1964 Alaskan earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and obliterated the coastal village of Chenega--and the scientist sent to look for geological...
Sharon Tate and the Manson Murders
AuthorGreg King
ISBN1569801576
In this biography of Sharon Tate, Greg King recreates the story of Tate's career, her marriage to Polanski, and her relationships with Hollywood's most famous names. King also brings to vivid life the complete account of the tate murders, describes the lengthy search for the killers. and includes...
The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole (Exploration)
AuthorRoland Huntford
ISBN0375754741
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In the brilliant dual biography, the award-winning writer Roland Huntford re-examines every detail of the great race to the South Pole between Britain's Robert...
End of Term
AuthorAntonia Forest
ISBN0571057071
Thanks to Hallie, at last I get to read more Antonia Forest.

I don't know why I keep thinking of Hilary McKay when I read these. Yes I do. Though the 'feel' is different (the Marlows are more conventional than the Cassons) the complexities of the characters, the family dynamics, the friend and...
A History of the Crusades, Vol. II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East, 1100-1187
AuthorSteven Runciman
ISBN0521347718
Sir Steven Runciman's three volume A History of the Crusades, one of the great classics of English historical writing, is now being reissued. This volume describes the Frankish states of Outremer from the accession of King Baldwin I to the re-conquest of Jerusalem by Saladin. As Runciman says in his...
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