Superman Versus The Ku Klux Klan: The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate
8 best books like Superman Versus The Ku Klux Klan: The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate (Rick Bowers): Caterpillar Summer, iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City, James Monroe, Brotherhood, Wildfire
Cat and her brother Chicken have always had a very special bond--Cat is one of the few people who can keep Chicken happy. When he has a "meltdown" she's the one who scratches his back and reads his favorite story. She's the one who knows what Chicken needs. Since their mom has had to work double-hard to keep...
iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
| Author | Jeffrey S. Young |
| ISBN | 0471787841 |
iCon takes a look at the most astounding figure in a business era noted for its mavericks, oddballs, and iconoclasts. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Jeffrey Young and William Simon provide new perspectives on the legendary creation of Apple, detail Jobs’s meteoric rise, and the devastating...
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
The computer and the internet are among the most important innovations of our era, but few people know who created them. They were not conjured up in a garret or garage by solo inventors suitable to be singled out on magazine covers or put into a pantheon with Edison, Bell, and Morse. Instead, most of the...
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
| Author | Kapka Kassabova |
| ISBN | 1555977863 |
In this extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five years previously, to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece. When she was a child, the border zone was rumored to be an easier crossing point into the West...
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
| Author | K.J. Parker |
| ISBN | 0316270792 |
This is the story of Orhan, son of Siyyah Doctus Felix Praeclarissimus, and his history of the Great Siege, written down so that the deeds and sufferings of great men may never be forgotten.
A siege is approaching, and the city has little time to prepare. The people have no food and no weapons,...
| Author | Gary Hart |
| ISBN | 0805069607 |
The former senator and presidential candidate offers a provocative new assessment of the first "national security president"
James Monroe is remembered today primarily for two things: for being the last of the "Virginia Dynasty"--following George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James...
| Author | A.B. Westrick |
| ISBN | 0670014397 |
The year is 1867, the South has been defeated, and the American Civil War is over. But the conflict goes on. Yankees now patrol the streets of Richmond, Virginia, and its citizens, both black and white, are struggling to redefine their roles and relationships. By day, fourteen-year-old Shadrach apprentices...
Newbery Honor author Rodman Philbrick sends readers straight into the nightmare of a raging wildfire as 12-year-old Sam is trapped by explosive flames and deadly smoke that threaten to take his life. Can he survive?
Flames race toward Sam Castine's summer camp as evacuation buses are loading,...
