The Lighthouse Stevensons: The extraordinary story of the building of the Scottish lighthouses by the ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson

7 best books like The Lighthouse Stevensons: The extraordinary story of the building of the Scottish lighthouses by the ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson (Bella Bathurst): Lessico famigliare, Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, Gods Behaving Badly, Shameless: A Sexual Reformation, Stargazing: Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper, Testimone inconsapevole, The Broken Empire Trilogy: Prince of Thorns / King of Thorns / Emperor of Thorns

Lessico famigliare

Author	Natalia Ginzburg
ISBN	8806151681

Lessico famigliare è la storia di una famiglia ebrea, quella della stessa scrittrice, che si svolge a Torino fra gli anni Trenta e Cinquanta. Natalia, l'ultima dei cinque figli Levi, è la voce narrante. Con assoluto rispetto della verità, e, per certi versi, mantenendo l'incanto della fanciullezza,...

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

Author	Dava Sobel
ISBN	0802714625

Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day—and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon...

Gods Behaving Badly

Author	Marie Phillips
ISBN	0316067628

Being a Greek god is not all it once was. Yes, the twelve gods of Olympus are alive and well in the twenty-first century, but they are crammed together in a London townhouse--and none too happy about it. And they've had to get day jobs: Artemis as a dog-walker, Apollo as a TV psychic, Aphrodite as a phone sex...

Shameless: A Sexual Reformation

Author

Nadia Bolz-Weber

Raw, intimate, and timely, Nadia Bolz-Weber’s latest book offers a full-blown overhaul of our harmful and antiquated ideas about sex, gender, and our bodies.
 
Christians are obsessed with sex. But not in a good way. For generations countless people have suffered pain, guilt, and judgment...

Stargazing: Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper

Author	Peter Hill
ISBN	1841956511

In this sublime reminiscence of the pleasures of solitude, the wonders of the sea, and the odd courses life takes, Peter Hill writes, "In 1973 I worked as a lighthouse keeper on three islands off the west coast of Scotland. Before taking the job I didn't really think through what a lighthouse keeper actually...

Testimone inconsapevole

Author	Gianrico Carofiglio
ISBN	8838918007

È stato ucciso un bambino di nove anni. Il piccolo corpo, privo di tracce di violenza sessuale, viene ritrovato nel fondo di un pozzo. Un delitto atroce, del tutto inspiegabile, di cui è accusato, dopo rapide indagini, un ambulante senegalese, Abdou Thiam, che lavora nella spiaggia vicino la casa...

The Broken Empire Trilogy: Prince of Thorns / King of Thorns / Emperor of Thorns

Author

Mark Lawrence

From being a privileged royal child, raised by a loving mother, Jorg Ancrath has become the Prince of Thorns, a charming, immoral boy leading a grim band of outlaws in a series of raids and atrocities. The world is in chaos: violence is rife, nightmares everywhere. Jorg has the ability to master the living...