The Best American Travel Writing 2012

10 best books like The Best American Travel Writing 2012 (William T. Vollmann): Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, Because You Are Mine, Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11, Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012, Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde, Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters, Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction, Letting Go, When I'm with You

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
AuthorLawrence Wright
ISBN0307700666
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the now-classic study of al-Qaeda's 9/11 attack, the Looming Tower. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with both current and former Scientologists--both famous...
Because You Are Mine
AuthorBeth Kery
ISBN0425266451
NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY Bestselling Author Beth Kery presents Because You Are Mine, an exciting tale of erotic obsession.

When they met, the instant attraction was unmistakable…a purely, exquisitely physical charge. Succumbing to their desires is the easy part. But when passion...
Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
AuthorMitchell Zuckoff
Years in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative is an unforgettable portrait of 9/11.

This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York; at the Pentagon; and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania,...
Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses
AuthorBess Lovejoy
ISBN1451654987
IN THE LONG RUN, WE’RE ALL DEAD. But for some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure.

The famous deceased have been stolen, burned, sold, pickled, frozen, stuffed, impersonated, and even filed away in a lawyer’s office. Their fingers, teeth,...
AuthorDan Ariely
ISBN0547799535
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The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special...
Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde
AuthorJohn Boessenecker
The New York Times Best Seller!

“Frank Hamer, last of the old breed of Texas Rangers, has not fared well in history or popular culture. John Boessenecker now restores this incredible Ranger to his proper place alongside such fabled lawmen as Wyatt Earp and Eliot Ness. Here is a grand adventure...
Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters
AuthorJames M. Tabor
ISBN0393061744
Ten days passed with no rescue attempt, while more than half an expedition was stranded and dying at 20,000 feet during a vicious Arctic storm. The bodies were never recovered. And, for reasons that have remained cloudy, there was no proper official investigation of the catastrophe.This book begins...
Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction
AuthorChuck Klosterman
ISBN0735217920
Microdoses of the straight dope, stories so true they had to be wrapped in fiction for our own protection, from the best-selling author of But What if We're Wrong?

A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs...
Letting Go
AuthorMaya Banks
Josslyn found perfection once, and she knows she’ll never find it again. Now widowed, she seeks the one thing her beloved husband couldn’t give her. Dominance. Lonely and searching for an outlet for her grief and wanting only a brief taste of the perfection she once enjoyed, she seeks what she’s...
When I'm with You
AuthorBeth Kery
ISBN0425269353
Out-of-control party girl and wealthy socialite Elise Martin has come to Chicago to prove to herself and the rest of the world that her life is truly worthwhile. But she never dreamed she’d find herself at the erotic mercy of the dynamic and wealthy Lucien Lenault, her girlhood crush, an irresistible...
Breathe
AuthorLauren Jameson
ISBN0451466632
Two people learn what it really means to give up control in the sizzling new novel from the author of Blush and Surrender to Temptation.…

When business mogul Elijah Masterson travels to the Mexican coast for his chain of luxury resorts, he purchases an emerald green glass sculpture for one...
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