The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire
10 best books like The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire (Mark Arax): Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style, The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love, When the Killing's Done, Encounters with the Archdruid, Poor Man's Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking, A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns, The Parade, Out of Spite, Out of Mind, The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
| Author | Marc Reisner |
| ISBN | 0140178244 |
The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecologic and economic disaster. In Cadillac Desert Marc Reisner writes...
Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
| Author | Benjamin Dreyer |
| ISBN | 0812995708 |
A witty, informative guide to writing "good English" from Random House's longtime copy chief and one of Twitter's leading enforcers of proper grammar--a twenty-first-century
Elements of Style.
As authoritative as it is amusing, this book distills everything Benjamin Dreyer has...
The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love
| Author | Kristin Kimball |
| ISBN | 1416551603 |
"This book is the story of the two love affairs that interrupted the trajectory of my life: one with farming—that dirty, concupiscent art—and the other with a complicated and exasperating farmer."
Single, thirtysomething, working as a writer in New York City, Kristin Kimball was living...
| Author | T. Coraghessan Boyle |
| ISBN | 0670022322 |
From the bestselling author of The Women comes an action- packed adventure about endangered animals and those who protect them.
Principally set on the wild and sparsely inhabited Channel Islands off the coast of Santa Barbara, T.C. Boyle's powerful new novel combines pulse-pounding adventure...
| Author | John McPhee |
| ISBN | 0374514313 |
The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in...
| Author | Elissa Altman |
| ISBN | 1452107599 |
From James Beard Award-winning writer Elissa Altman comes a story that marries wit to warmth, and flavor to passion. Born and raised in New York to a food-phobic mother and food-fanatical father, Elissa was trained early on that fancy is always best. After a childhood spent dining everywhere from Le...
| Author | Archie Bongiovanni |
| ISBN | 1620104997 |
Archie, a snarky genderqueer artist, is tired of people not understanding gender neutral pronouns. Tristan, a cisgender dude, is looking for an easy way to introduce gender neutral pronouns to his increasingly diverse workplace. The longtime best friends team up in this short and fun comic guide...
| Author | Dave Eggers |
| ISBN | 0735277524 |
From a beloved author, a spare, powerful story of two men, Western contractors sent to work far from home, tasked with paving a road to the capital in a dangerous and largely lawless country.
Four and Nine are partners, working for the same company, sent without passports to a nation recovering...
Out of Spite, Out of Mind
When you discover the world is a computer program, and you figure out that by altering the code you can time travel and perform acts that seem like magic, what can possibly go wrong?
Pretty much everything.
Just ask Brit, who has jumped around in time with such abandon that she has to coexist...
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
| Author | John Perkins |
| ISBN | 1626566747 |
Shocking Bestseller: The original version of this astonishing tell-all book spent 73 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has sold more than 1.25 million copies, and has been translated into 32 languages.
New Revelations: Featuring 15 explosive new chapters, this expanded edition of...
