The Greenlanders
7 best books like The Greenlanders (Jane Smiley): Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, Kristin Lavransdatter, Myal, The Risk Pool, Illuminations, The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45
Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border
| Author | Porter Fox |
| ISBN | 0393357090 |
America’s northern border is the world’s longest international boundary, yet it remains obscure even to Americans. The northern border was America’s primary border for centuries—much of the early history of the United States took place there—and to the tens of millions who live and work...
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
| Author | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
| ISBN | 0679733760 |
I read this book 15 years ago shortly after it won the Pulitzer, and it was amazing then, and I was equally impressed this time. In fact I was surprised as I read how much of it I could remember reading even that many years ago, so it must have made a deep impression.
I'm just in awe if LTU, the depth and...
| Author | Sigrid Undset |
| ISBN | 0143039164 |
In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset tells the life story of one passionate and headstrong woman. Painting a richly detailed backdrop, Undset immerses readers in the day-to-day life, social conventions, and political...
| Author | Erna Brodber |
| ISBN | 0901241865 |
Jamaican-born novelist and sociologist Erna Brodber describes Myal as “an exploration of the links between the way of life forged by the people of two points of the black diaspora—the Afro-Americans and the Afro-Jamaicans.” Operating on many literary levels—thematically, linguistically,...
| Author | Richard Russo |
| ISBN | 0099276496 |
The Risk Pool is a thirty-year journey through the lives of Sam Hall, a small-town gambling hellraiser, and his watchful, introspective son Ned. When Ned's mother Jenny suffers a breakdown and retreats from her husband's carelessness into a dream world, Ned becomes part of his father's seedy nocturnal...
| Author | Mary Sharratt |
| ISBN | 0547567847 |
Illuminations chronicles the life of Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179), who was tithed to the church at the age of eight and expected to live out her days in silent submission as the handmaiden of a renowned but disturbed young nun, Jutta von Sponheim. Instead, Hildegard rejected Jutta’s masochistic...
The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45
| Author | Stephen E. Ambrose |
| ISBN | 0743203399 |
The Barnes & Noble Review
Master WWII military historian Stephen Ambrose, bestselling author of such classic works as
Band of Brothers
and
D-Day
, hits the front lines again with this exciting and compelling look at the courageous young men who flew the massive B-24 bombers over Germany...
