The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars

10 best books like The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars (Andrew X. Pham): The Sympathizer, The Sorrow Of War: A Novel of North Vietnam, Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon, The Jesus I Never Knew, Sailing Alone around the World, Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind, The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family, I'd Rather We Got Casinos: And Other Black Thoughts, Why New Orleans Matters, Forever and Ever, Amen: A Memoir of Music, Faith, and Braving the Storms of Life

The Sympathizer

Author	Viet Thanh Nguyen
ISBN	0802123457

It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los...

The Sorrow Of War: A Novel of North Vietnam

Author	Bảo Ninh
ISBN	1573225436

The Future Lied To Us

A reminiscence, rather than a memoir, tumbling between the time before war, eleven years of brutal fighting, and then its aftermath. Shifting from first to third person, with the occasional second person letter, the story is as unstructured as the lives involved. And...

Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon

Author	Edward Dolnick
ISBN	0060955864

Drawing on rarely examined diaries and journals, Down the Great Unknown is the first book to tell the full, dramatic story of the Powell expedition.

On May 24, 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran, John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American...

The Jesus I Never Knew

Author

Philip Yancey

Philip Yancey helps reveal what two thousand years of history covered up

What happens when a respected Christian journalist decides to put his preconceptions aside and take a long look at the Jesus described in the Gospels? How does the Jesus of the New Testament compare to the new, rediscovered...

Sailing Alone around the World

Author	Joshua Slocum
ISBN	0140437363

The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas – the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly.

Joshua Slocum’s autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one of the most remarkable – and entertaining – travel narratives of all time. Setting...

Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind

Author	Loung Ung
ISBN	0060733950

After enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten-year-old Loung Ung became the "lucky child," the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother to America while her one surviving sister and two brothers remained behind. In this poignant and elegiac...

The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family

Author	Duong Van Mai Elliott
ISBN	0195137876

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow illuminates recent Vietnamese history by weaving together the stories of the lives of four generations of her family. Beginning with her great-grandfather, who rose from rural poverty to become an influential landowner,...

I'd Rather We Got Casinos: And Other Black Thoughts

Author	Larry Wilmore
ISBN	1401309550

From the host of Comedy Central's newest program, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, comes the first paperback reprint of his funny and provocative musings on race in America and other nightly topics--updated with new material for this edition. Now boasting three new chapters and an introduction...

Why New Orleans Matters

Author	Tom Piazza
ISBN	0061124834

Every place has its history. But what is it about New Orleans that makes it more than just the sum of the events that have happened there? What is it about the spirit of the people who live there that could produce a music, a cuisine, an architecture, a total environment, the mere mention of which can bring...

Forever and Ever, Amen: A Memoir of Music, Faith, and Braving the Storms of Life

Author	Randy Travis
ISBN	1400207983

Filled with never-before-told stories, Forever and Ever Amen tells Randy Travis's story as only he can. 

From a working-class background in North Carolina to a job as a cook and club singer in Nashville to his "overnight success" with his smash 1986 album Storms of Life--which launched the...