The Good, the Bad, and the Mad: Some Weird People in American History
9 best books like The Good, the Bad, and the Mad: Some Weird People in American History (E. Randall Floyd): Blue Shoes and Happiness, Merci Suárez Changes Gears, Agatha Heterodyne and the Hammerless Bell, Agatha Heterodyne and the Guardian Muse, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, New Spring: The Graphic Novel, Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies, Kings and Wizards, The Incorruptible Library (The Second Journey of Agatha Heterodyne Volume 3)
| Author | Alexander McCall Smith |
| ISBN | 1400075718 |
There is considerable excitement at The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. A cobra has been found in Precious Ramotswe's office. Then a nurse from a local medical clinic reveals that faulty blood–pressure readings are being recorded there. And Botswana has a new advice columnist, Aunty Emang, whose...
Merci Suárez Changes Gears
Thoughtful, strong-willed sixth-grader Merci Suarez navigates difficult changes with friends, family, and everyone in between in a resonant new novel from Meg Medina.
Merci Suarez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has...
Mechanicsburg is under siege, Baron Wulfenbach is presumed dead, and various political factions all try to take advantage of the chaos. Agatha Heterodyne is busy, trying to repair Castle Heterodyne and defend her town. Fortunately, she has Gilgamesh Wulfenbach, Tarvek of Sturmhalten, along with...
| Author | Phil Foglio |
| ISBN | 1890856533 |
This is the only webcomic I continue to read. The art and colors are fantastic, the characters are original and fun, and the story unlike anything else available. My one complaint, at least in terms of what is available in this edition, is that the story stagnated a little too much and there were so many...
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
| Author | Gordon S. Wood |
| ISBN | 0143035282 |
From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really was and makes sense of aspects of his life and career...
In the last few years before his death, Robert Jordan worked closely with Chuck Dixon and Mike Miller on the graphic adaptation of New Spring.
The eight full-color issues of New Spring, released between 2005 and 2010, tell the story of the search for the infant Dragon Reborn and of the adventures...
Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies
A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at life on Pennsylvania Avenue with America’s first families, by the man who spent nearly three decades in their midst
J. B. West, chief usher of the White House, directed the operations and maintenance of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue—and coordinated...
| Author | Phil Foglio |
| ISBN | 1890856673 |
Volume 17 of the collected Girl Genius graphic novel moves the story on quite apace. It feels like there's a lot more plot than the last couple and most exciting it was, with both the Other and the undead Storm King attacking Paris. It takes the combined efforts of Agatha, Martellus, the Master of Paris...
The Incorruptible Library (The Second Journey of Agatha Heterodyne Volume 3)
| Author | Kaja Foglio |
| ISBN | 1890856657 |
Another mixture of humour, excitement, intrigue, and action all rolled into one self-contained, steampunk world of mad science. The detail is so intricate, it’s reminiscent of the Harry Potter books. I often get lost amidst it, but never bored.
Readers were introduced to another aspect...
