Sunken Treasure: Wil Wheaton's Hot Cocoa Box Sampler
8 best books like Sunken Treasure: Wil Wheaton's Hot Cocoa Box Sampler (Wil Wheaton): Mother Night, Farnham's Freehold, The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones, A Reporter's Life, John Glenn: A Memoir, The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into The Heart Of America, Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms, Breaking the Chains of Gravity
Author | Kurt Vonnegut |
ISBN | 0385334141 |
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Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with...
Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
ISBN | 1416520937 |
Hugh Farnham was a practical, self-made man, and when he saw the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he built a bomb shelter under his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war. What he hadn't expected was that when the apocalypse came, a thermonuclear blast would tear apart the fabric of time and hurl...
The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones
Author | Anthony Bourdain |
ISBN | 1582344515 |
New York Times Bestseller
The good, the bad, and the ugly, served up Bourdain-style.
Bestselling chef and No Reservations host Anthony Bourdain has never been one to pull punches. In The Nasty Bits, he serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from...
Author | Walter Cronkite |
ISBN | 0394578791 |
"IMMEDIATELY ENGROSSING . . . [A] SPLENDID MEMOIR".
--The Wall Street Journal
"Run, don't walk to the nearest bookstore and treat yourself to the most heartwarming, nostalgia-producing book you will have read in many a year".
--Ann Landers
"Entertaining . . . The story of a modest...
Author | John Glenn |
ISBN | 0553110748 |
He was the first astronaut to orbit the Earth. Nearly four decades later, as the world's oldest astronaut, his courage reveted a nation. But these two historical events only bracketed a life that covers the sweep of an extraordinary century.
John Glenn's autobiography spans the seminal events...
The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into The Heart Of America
Author | Stephen Coonts |
ISBN | 0671038494 |
Stephen Coonts has been hailed as the best contemporary author writing about flying. In The Cannibal Queen, he turns his storytelling genius to nonfiction with an exultant account of three glorious months in the summer of ‘91 spent in the cockpit of a 1942 Stearman vintage biplane. Joining the ranks...
Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
Author | John Hodgman |
ISBN | 0525561102 |
A hilarious and honest new book in which John Hodgman, New York Times bestselling author of Vacationland, sets out to explore the strange work-land of being a somewhat famous person
After spending most of his twenties pursuing a career as a literary agent, John Hodgman decided to try his own...
Breaking the Chains of Gravity
Author | Amy Shira Teitel |
ISBN | 1472911179 |
NASA's history is a familiar story, culminating with the agency successfully landing men on the Moon in 1969. But NASA's prehistory is a rarely told tale, one that is largely absent from the popular space-age literature but that gives the context behind the lunar program. America's space agency wasn't...