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Split Ends: Sometimes the End is Really the Beginning

10 best books like Split Ends: Sometimes the End is Really the Beginning (Kristin Billerbeck): The Tsar of Love and Techno, George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution, Leaves of Grass, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, March, The Sociopath Next Door, The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride, That Summer, Ladies in Waiting, How to Love an American Man: A True Story

The Tsar of Love and Techno
AuthorAnthony Marra
ISBN0770436439
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena—dazzling, poignant, and lyrical interwoven stories about family, sacrifice, the legacy of war, and the redemptive power of art.

This stunning, exquisitely written collection introduces a cast of remarkable...
George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
AuthorBrian Kilmeade
As a Long Islander endlessly fascinated by eventsthat happened in a place I call home, I hope withthis book to give the secret six the credit they didn tget in life. The Culper spies represent all the patrioticAmericans who give so much for their country but, because of the nature of their work, will not...
Leaves of Grass
AuthorWalt Whitman
Here, in its original and complete form, is the edition of the American masterpiece that inspired Emerson to write his famous words to Whitman: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career..."

As Malcolm Cowley says in his Introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass "might be called...
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
AuthorSimon Winchester
ISBN0060839783
The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history. The compilation of the OED, begun in 1857,...
March
AuthorGeraldine Brooks
ISBN0143036661
Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize For Fiction. From the author of the acclaimed YEAR OF WONDERS, an historical novel and love story set during a time of catastrophe, on the front lines of the American Civil War. Acclaimed author Geraldine Brooks gives us the story of the absent father from Louisa May Alcott's...
The Sociopath Next Door
AuthorMartha Stout
ISBN0767915828
Who is the devil you know?

Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?
Your sadistic high school gym teacher?
Your boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings?
The colleague who stole your idea and passed it off as her own?

In the pages of The Sociopath Next Door, you will...
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
AuthorDaniel James Brown
ISBN0061348104
In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later, after joining a party of emigrants led by George Donner, they reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains as the first heavy snows...
That Summer
AuthorLauren Willig
ISBN1250014506
2009: When Julia Conley hears that she has inherited a house outside London from an unknown great-aunt, she assumes it's a joke. She hasn't been back to England since the car crash that killed her mother when she was six, an event she remembers only in her nightmares. But when she arrives at Herne Hill to...
Ladies in Waiting
AuthorLaura L. Sullivan
ISBN0547581297
Eliza dreams of being a playwright for the king’s theater, where she will be admired for her witty turns of phrase rather than her father’s wealth.

Beth is beautiful as the day but poor as a church mouse, so she must marry well, despite her love for her childhood sweetheart.

Zabby...
How to Love an American Man: A True Story
AuthorKristine Gasbarre
ISBN0061997390
A lovely, warm, and poignant true story that reads like compelling fiction, How to Love an American Man is Kristine Gasbarre’s unforgettable memoir recalling the valuable lessons on love she learned from her newly widowed grandmother—and how Grandma’s advice and memories enabled the author...
Something Right
AuthorRose Fresquez
Jake Larson is good at everything…except relationships. When his marriage ends, it leaves the firefighter with doubts he’s never experienced before. Now he’s determined to protect his crushed heart the only way he knows how: avoid falling in love at all costs. And thanks to his friend Ezra,...
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
AuthorEric Hoffer
ISBN0060505915
A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards. The True Believer -- the first and most famous of his books -- was made into a bestseller when President Eisenhower cited it during one of the earliest television...
Love Me Tender
AuthorJanice Hanna
ISBN1609360176
As "Love Me Tender" plays in the background, Debbie Carmichael determines to salvage her family's restaurant, Sweet Sal's Soda Shoppe, when her father's health fails. Teen heartthrob Bobby Conrad agrees to perform at a fundraiser concert. But just two weeks before the highly publicized event, Bobby...
Dracula, My Love: The Secret Journals of Mina Harker
AuthorSyrie James
ISBN0061923036
Acclaimed Author Syrie James Approaches Bram Stoker's Classic Dracula With A Breathtaking New Perspective-As, For The First Time, Mina Harker Records The Shocking Story Of Her Scandalous Seduction And Sexual Rebirth.

Who is this magnetic, fascinating man? And how could one woman fall...
Rawblood
AuthorCatriona Ward
ISBN0297609645
"She comes in the night. Sometimes, in mist or fog. A woman, or once a woman. White, starved...Have you not felt her? Waiting in the shadowed places outside the lamplight, at the bottom of wells. Behind you, in long dark corridors..."

I just explained this book from start to finish in full spoiler-ridden...
Lucifer's Flood
AuthorLinda Rios Brook
ISBN1599793148
 “The sensation of falling was terrifying…we tumbled out of the realm of the heavenly light into perpetual darkness. We had not seen darkness before--not like this anyway...   A strange man shows up at the office of language expert Samantha Yale with a mysterious scroll written in an even more...
One Was Lost
AuthorNatalie D. Richards
ISBN1492615749
Damaged. Deceptive. Dangerous. Darling. Are they labels or a warning? The answer could cost Sera everything.

Murder, justice, and revenge were so not a part of the plan when Sera set out on her senior camping trip. After all, hiking through the woods is supposed to be safe and uneventful.

Then...
The Sign
AuthorRaymond Khoury
ISBN0525950974
Another cutting-edge thriller set at the intersection of science, religion, and history from the bestselling author of The Last TemplarNew York Times bestselling author Raymond Khoury, whose debut novel, The Last Templar, has sold more than a million copies in the United States, and whose second,...
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