The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France
9 best books like The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France (Eric Jager): The Romance of Tristan and Iseult, Paper Girls, Vol. 6, Wylding Hall, The Forest for the Trees, Cold Storage, Tristan and Iseult, Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA, Altered Carbon: Download Blues, Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
| Author | M. Joseph Bédier |
| ISBN | 0679750169 |
A tale of chivalry and doomed, transcendent love, The Romance of Tristan and Iseult is one of the most resonant works of Western literature, as well as the basis for our enduring idea of romance. The story of the Cornish knight and the Irish princess who meet by deception, fall in love by magic, and pursue...
| Author | Brian K. Vaughan |
| ISBN | 1534313249 |
THE END IS HERE!
After surviving adventures in their past, present and future, the Paper Girls of 1988 embark on one last journey, a five-part epic that includes the emotional double-sized series finale. Featuring a new wraparound cover from Eisner Award-winning co-creator CLIFF CHIANG,...
| Author | Elizabeth Hand |
| ISBN | 1504007182 |
When the young members of a British acid-folk band are compelled by their manager to record their unique music, they hole up at Wylding Hall, an ancient country house with dark secrets. There they create the album that will make their reputation, but at a terrifying cost: Julian Blake, the group’s...
| Author | Betsy Lerner |
| ISBN | 1573228575 |
In this volume, Betsy Lerner, an admired American book editor, shares her editorial wisdom and provides an insider's understanding of the publishing process. From her long experience working with successful writers and discovering new voices, Lerner looks at different writer personality types...
| Author | David Koepp |
| ISBN | 0062916432 |
For readers of Andy Weir and Noah Hawley comes an astonishing debut by the screenwriter of Jurassic Park: a wild and terrifying adventure about three strangers who must work together to contain a highly contagious, deadly organism
When Pentagon bioterror operative Roberto Diaz was sent...
| Author | Rosemary Sutcliff |
| ISBN | 0374479828 |
I started writing a review of this retelling of the sad, beautiful story of Tristan and Iseult. And then the review turned into my own retelling. And then it turned into something that I didn't feel quite up to sharing with the world. And so.
If you need the bare outlines of the story, here it is....
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA
| Author | Amaryllis Fox |
| ISBN | 0525654976 |
Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while marrying and giving birth to a daughter
Amaryllis Fox was in her last year as an undergraduate at Oxford...
Altered Carbon: Download Blues
| Author | Richard K. Morgan |
| ISBN | 1524109673 |
In the distant future, the human body is a temporary and interchangeable commodity - if you can pay.
For the interstellar elite, bodies are swapped out and reused without a second thought. You never grow old; you never die.
However, some bodies are more temporary than others ...
Takeshi...
Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
| Author | Gary Krist |
| ISBN | 0770437060 |
From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans’ other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City
Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans’ thirty-years...
