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Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White: Thoughts on Religion, Morality, and Politics

10 best books like Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White: Thoughts on Religion, Morality, and Politics (Adam Hamilton): The Glass Palace, Shamed, A River Ran Wild: An Environmental History, Brother Cadfael's Herb Garden: An Illustrated Companion to Medieval Plants and Their Uses, One Well: The Story of Water on Earth, Dead Man's Walk, The Book with No Pictures, Children: The Challenge, The Burn Journals, How They Croaked

The Glass Palace
AuthorAmitav Ghosh
ISBN0375758771
Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into...
Shamed
AuthorLinda Castillo
ISBN1250142865
An Amish grandmother is murdered on an abandoned farm, her seven year old granddaughter abducted. Chief of Police Kate Burkholder plunges headlong into a case that quickly becomes a race against the clock. She knows the longer the girl is missing, the more likely a tragic outcome. The family of the missing...
A River Ran Wild: An Environmental History
AuthorLynne Cherry
ISBN0152163727
This story was selected as one of the books for the September 2012 - Ecosystems reads at the Picture-Book Club in the Children's Books Group here at Goodreads.

I nominated this book because I discovered that it was about the Nashua River and discusses the area where I grew up. For my entire childhood,...
Brother Cadfael's Herb Garden: An Illustrated Companion to Medieval Plants and Their Uses
AuthorRobin Whiteman
ISBN0821223879
Brother Cadfael is the world's best-known twelfth-century monk, a renowned herbalist and clever sleuth who has appeared in twenty novels as well as an ongoing public television series starring Derek Jacobi. Now, with this beautifully illustrated book, Cadfael fans can spend a typical year with...
One Well: The Story of Water on Earth
AuthorRochelle Strauss
ISBN1553379543
Seen from space, our planet looks blue. This is because almost 70 percent of Earth's surface is covered with water. Earth is the only planet with liquid water --- and therefore the only planet that can support life.

All water is connected. Every raindrop, lake, underground river and glacier...
Dead Man's Walk
AuthorLarry McMurtry
ISBN0684857545
Dead Man's Walk is the first, extraordinary book in the epic Lonesome Dove tetralogy, in which Larry McMurtry breathed new life into the vanished American West and created two of the most memorable heroes in contemporary fiction: Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call.

As young Texas Rangers,...
The Book with No Pictures
AuthorB.J. Novak
ISBN0803741715
A book with no pictures?

What could be fun about that?

After all, if a book has no pictures, there's nothing to look at but the words on the page.

Words that might make you say silly sounds... In ridiculous voices...

Hey, what kind of book is this, anyway?

At...
Children: The Challenge
AuthorRudolf Dreikurs
ISBN0452266556
"Children: The Challenge" gives the key to parents who seek to build trust and love in their families, and raise happier, healthier, and better behaved children. Based on a lifetime of experience with children--their problems, their delights, their challenges--Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs, one of America's...
The Burn Journals
AuthorBrent Runyon
ISBN1400096421
I don’t want to get out of bed.
I’m so stupid.
I did so many things wrong.
I don’t know what to do.
I’m going to be in so much trouble.
What am I going to do?
I’m completely screwed.

In 1991, fourteen-year-old Brent Runyon came home from school, doused his bathrobe...
How They Croaked
AuthorGeorgia Bragg
ISBN0802798179
Over the course of history men and women have lived and died. In fact, getting sick and dying can be a big, ugly mess-especially before the modern medical care that we all enjoy today. How They Croaked relays all the gory details of how nineteen world figures gave up the ghost. For example:


It...
The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
AuthorAgatha Christie
ISBN0312979738
The Witness for the Prosecution
1920s London. A murder, brutal and bloodthirsty, has stained the plush carpets of a handsome London townhouse. The victim is the glamorous and enormously rich Emily French. All the evidence points to Leonard Vole, a young chancer to whom the heiress left her vast...
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
AuthorJeff Hobbs
What does the untimely death of one man mean?

Robert Peace was born outside Newark in a ghetto known as "Illtown." His unwed mother worked long hours in a kitchen. His charismatic father was later convicted of a double murder. Peace's intellectual brilliance and hard-won determination earned...
Lion of Liberty: The Life and Times of Patrick Henry
AuthorHarlow Giles Unger
ISBN0306818868
In this action-packed history, award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger unfolds the epic story of Patrick Henry, who roused Americans to fight government tyranny—both British and American. Remembered largely for his cry for “liberty or death,” Henry was actually the first (and most colorful)...
The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder: New Tools and Techniques to Stop Walking on Eggshells
AuthorRandi Kreger
ISBN1592853633
Gentle counsel and realistic advice for families contending with one of today's most misunderstood forms of mental illness.

For family members of people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), home life is routinely unpredictable and frequently unbearable. Extreme mood swings,...
Pilgrim Strong: Rewriting my story on the Way of St. James
AuthorSteve Watkins
Why would anyone in their right mind choose to walk 500 miles across a far-away country over mountain ranges, dark forests, and barren lands, through rains, searing sun, and a white-out blizzard with nothing but hemorrhaging tendons, severe blisters, and daily aches and pains to show for it?

Truth...
Aruba: The Tragic Untold Story of Natalee Holloway and Corruption in Paradise
AuthorDave Holloway
ISBN1595550631
One father's mission to find his daughter

I am a father who has no idea what has happened to his child. The questions run through my mind all day long. They keep me awake at night. Is she dead? Is she alive? Is she being held captive somewhere? Are they hurting her? Is she crying out for me? 

These...
The Wilderness of Ruin: A Tale of Madness, Fire, and the Hunt for America's Youngest Serial Killer
AuthorRoseanne Montillo
ISBN0062273477
In late nineteenth-century Boston, home to Herman Melville and Oliver Wendell Holmes, a serial killer preying on children is running loose in the city—a wilderness of ruin caused by the Great Fire of 1872—in this literary historical crime thriller reminiscent of The Devil in the White City.

In...
Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness
AuthorNeil Swidey
ISBN0307886727
The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless tunnel hundreds of feet under Massachusetts Bay to do a nearly impossible job-with deadly results

In the 1990s, Boston built a sophisticated waste treatment plant on Deer Island that was poised to show the country how to deal...
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