The High and the Mighty
10 best books like The High and the Mighty (Ernest K. Gann): The Andromeda Strain, George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Tulip Fever, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Fatherland, A Briefer History of Time, A Mango-Shaped Space, The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World, Fosse
| Author | Michael Crichton |
| ISBN | 0060541814 |
The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the...
George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
As a Long Islander endlessly fascinated by eventsthat happened in a place I call home, I hope withthis book to give the secret six the credit they didn tget in life. The Culper spies represent all the patrioticAmericans who give so much for their country but, because of the nature of their work, will not...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twain's 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians...
| Author | Deborah Moggach |
| ISBN | 0385334923 |
A tale of art, beauty, lust, greed, deception and retribution -- set in a refined society ablaze with tulip fever.
In 1630s Amsterdam, tulipomania has seized the populace. Everywhere men are seduced by the fantastic exotic flower. But for wealthy merchant Cornelis Sandvoort, it is his young...
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
| Author | John le Carré |
| ISBN | 0143119788 |
A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy begins George Smiley's chess match of wills and wits with Karla, his Soviet counterpart.
It is now beyond a doubt that a mole, implanted decades ago by Moscow Centre, has burrowed...
| Author | Robert Harris |
| ISBN | 0061006629 |
It is twenty years after Nazi Germany's triumphant victory in World War II and the entire country is preparing for the grand celebration of the Führer's seventy-fifth birthday, as well as the imminent peacemaking visit from President Kennedy.
Meanwhile, Berlin Detective Xavier March...
A Briefer History of Time
| Author | Stephen Hawking |
| ISBN | 0553804367 |
Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author's engaging voice is one reason, and the compelling subjects he addresses is another; the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, the history and future of the...
| Author | Wendy Mass |
| ISBN | 0316058254 |
Having strong synesthesia myself, I was not very pleased with the way it is portrayed in this book. I understand that Mass does not have synesthesia herself and that this lack of experience clearly makes it difficult for her to portray the condition accurately. Nonetheless, throughout the novel, she...
The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World
| Author | Marti Olsen Laney |
| ISBN | 0761123695 |
Do you "zone out" if too much is going on? Are you energised by spending time alone? In meetings, do you need to be asked for your opinions and ideas? Do you tend to notice details that other people miss? Is your ideal celebration a small get-together, rather than a big party? Do you often feel like a tortoise...
| Author | Sam Wasson |
| ISBN | 0547553293 |
More than a quarter-century after his death, Bob Fosse’s fingerprints on popular culture remain indelible. The only person ever to win Oscar, Emmy, and Tony awards in the same year, Fosse revolutionized nearly every facet of American entertainment, forever marking Broadway and Hollywood with...
