The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall
10 best books like The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall (Mary Elise Sarotte): The Curse of the Blue Figurine, The Mystery at Lilac Inn, The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, The Crooked Banister, The Sign of the Twisted Candles, The Haunted Bridge, The Mystery at the Moss-covered Mansion, The Quest of the Missing Map, Alcatraz! Alcatraz!: The Indian Occupation Of 1969 1971
The Curse of the Blue Figurine
| Author | John Bellairs |
| ISBN | 0142402583 |
the place: a small town. the time: America during the Korean war. the hero: little Johnny Dixon, bookish and fascinated by history, a fussy boy and a lonely one - his mother having recently died and his father off to war, leaving him in the care of his grandparents. Johnny is thoughtful and curious, which...
| Author | Carolyn Keene |
| ISBN | 1557091587 |
There was certainly a lot of action and danger for Nancy in The Mystery at Lilac Inn. As usual, multi-talented Nancy has no problem solving the case all while conveniently and artfully dodging danger. It certainly helps that luck and fate sure seem to be on her side. She always seems to have the right tools,...
The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989
| Author | Frederick Taylor |
| ISBN | 0060786132 |
On the morning of August 13, 1961, the residents of East Berlin found themselves cut off from family, friends and jobs in the West by a tangle of barbed wire that ruthlessly cut a city of four million in two. Within days the barbed-wire entanglement would undergo an extraordinary metamorphosis: it became...
| Author | Dinaw Mengestu |
| ISBN | 1594489408 |
A haunting and powerful first novel that views the streets of Washington, D.C. and Addis Ababa through the eyes of Sepha who, seventeen years ago, fled Ethiopia during the Revolution, and now runs a failing convenience store in a poor African-American neighborhood in Washington. Published as The...
| Author | Carolyn Keene |
| ISBN | 0448095483 |
Nancy, Bess and George explore a peculiar house with its fantastically crooked staircase. A bizarre serpent picture, an unpredictable robot, a broken bridge over flaming water and a hidden room with poisoned portraits are among the unusual discoveries found on this strange property. The missing...
The Sign of the Twisted Candles
| Author | Carolyn Keene |
| ISBN | 0448095092 |
They are out of print now (I'm fortunate to own all but a couple they published) but Applewood Books turned back the hands of time and gave the real Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys back to readers with these facsimile editions. The reproduction of the original dust jackets conjured up images and phrases from...
| Author | Carolyn Keene |
| ISBN | 0448095157 |
A Ghostiing We Will Go
Nancy has a golf tournament to attend, and along with her is her she brings her girlfriends, her boyfriend Ned, and her father. How exiting, golf. Not! I remember loving this book when I was much younger, and while reading it I could see why. At least the golf tournament didn’t...
The Mystery at the Moss-covered Mansion
| Author | Carolyn Keene |
| ISBN | 1557092648 |
Nancy's father Carson Drew enlists her help in tracking down a missing heiress, and Nancy, Bess and George stumble upon a mysterious moss-covered mansion. The girls learn someone was murdered near the mansion and they hear strange noises coming from inside the building. Action bounds in this thrilling...
The Quest of the Missing Map
| Author | Carolyn Keene |
| ISBN | 1557092656 |
Well, I've read 19 of the Nancy Drew books - in order. It's interesting to see the progression from the 1930s and now into the 40s. I am beginning to pick out which Carolyn Keene was writing. I believe this was a new person writing. Although I did a bit of research and Mildred Wirth is credited for writing this...
Alcatraz! Alcatraz!: The Indian Occupation Of 1969 1971
| Author | Adam Fortunate Eagle |
| ISBN | 0930588517 |
In 1969, in an effort to draw attention to the poor treatment of Native people in the Bay Area (and nationally by association), a protest was organized in which the Bay Area Indian groups reclaimed the island of Alcatraz for the Indian people. Alcatraz was in a state of limbo, transitioning out of the federal...
