The Jamestown Experiment: The Remarkable Story of the Enterprising Colony and the Unexpected Results That Shaped America
8 best books like The Jamestown Experiment: The Remarkable Story of the Enterprising Colony and the Unexpected Results That Shaped America (Tony Williams): Mostly Dead Things, We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Piercing the Darkness, In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown, No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, The Glitter Dome
| Author | Kristen Arnett |
| ISBN | 1947793306 |
One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide, right there on one of the metal tables. Shocked and grieving, Jessa steps up to manage the failing business, while the rest of the Morton family crumbles. Her mother starts sneaking into...
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading by all Marines. The Commandant's choice for 1993 was We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young.
In November 1965, some 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, under the command...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
| Author | Washington Irving |
| ISBN | 0809594080 |
“I recollect that, when a stripling, my first exploit in squirrel-shooting was in a grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side of the valley. I had wandered into it at noon time, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled by the roar of my own gun, as it broke the Sabbath stillness around,...
| Author | Frank E. Peretti |
| ISBN | 1581345275 |
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 1:5 (ESV)
It all begins in Bacon's Corner, a tiny farming community far from the interstate . . . An attempted murder, a case of mistaken-or is it covered up?-identity, and a ruthless lawsuit against a struggling...
In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown
| Author | Nathaniel Philbrick |
| ISBN | 0525426760 |
The thrilling story of the Revolutionary War finale from the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Valiant Ambition.
Here is the story of the remarkable year leading up to the siege of Yorktown. It sets Washington against his traitorous nemesis Benedict Arnold and...
No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work
The modern workplace can be an emotional minefield, filled with confusing power structures and unwritten rules. We're expected to be authentic but not too authentic. Professional but not stiff. Friendly but not an oversharer.
As organizational consultants and regular people, we know...
Like many a thriller, this reconstructed diary begins with the audience knowing that something terrible has happened. We are then transported back in time to the narrator's youth, when a clean-cut, idealistic, all-American, anti-Communist Phillip Agee first joins the CIA. Like Bolero, the books...
| Author | Joseph Wambaugh |
| ISBN | 0553263021 |
HRF Keating claims this as Wambaugh's finest work of fiction in his rundown of the best 100 works of crime and mystery; the former policeman turned author famed for his realistic portrait of the boys in blue as something less than heroic being something of a literary sensation in the 70s when coppers were...
