The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier
10 best books like The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier (Colin Woodard): A History of the World in 6 Glasses, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, All the King's Men, Wise Blood, All Over But the Shoutin', Ava's Man, The Maine Woods (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau), D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II, David Bowie: A Life, Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
| Author | Tom Standage |
| ISBN | 0802715524 |
Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standage relates with authority and charm, six of them have had a surprisingly pervasive influence on the course of history, becoming the defining drink during a pivotal historical period.
A History...
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
| Author | George V. Higgins |
| ISBN | 1841192627 |
Eddie Coyle works for Jimmy Scalisi, supplying him with guns for a couple of bank jobs. But a cop named Foley is on to Eddie and he's leaning on him to finger Scalisi, a gang leader with a lot to hide. And then there's Dillon-a full-time bartender and part-time contract killer--pretending to be Eddie's...
| Author | Robert Penn Warren |
| ISBN | 0156004801 |
More than just a classic political novel, Warren’s tale of power and corruption in the Depression-era South is a sustained meditation on the unforeseen consequences of every human act, the vexing connectedness of all people and the possibility—it’s not much of one—of goodness in a sinful...
| Author | Flannery O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0374530637 |
Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor’s astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is a story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate faith. He falls under the spell of a "blind" street preacher...
All Over But the Shoutin'
| Author | Rick Bragg |
| ISBN | 0679774025 |
The story of a violent, war-haunted, alcoholic father and a strong-willed, loving mother who struggled to protect her three sons from the effects of poverty and ignorance that had tainted her own life.
The extraordinary gifts for evocation and insight and the stunning talent for storytelling...
| Author | Rick Bragg |
| ISBN | 0375724443 |
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All Over but the Shoutin’ continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mother’s childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent story of the man who raised her.
Charlie Bundrum...
| Author | Henry David Thoreau |
| ISBN | 0691118779 |
Qui décrira la douceur indicible et la vie immortelle de cette austère forêt, où la Nature, même au coeur de l'hiver, est toujours à son printemps, où les arbres couverts de mousse et en état de décomposition ne sont pas vieux mais semblent dotés d'une jeunesse éternelle : et la Nature bienheureuse...
The dramatic, untold true story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to sabotage the Nazis and pave the way for Allied victory in World War II.
In 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was fighting. Churchill believed...
Dylan Jones's engrossing, magisterial biography of David Bowie is unlike any Bowie story ever written. Drawn from over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators, some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie, this oral history weaves a hypnotic...
Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream
A moving true story of American struggle.
Royal, Nebraska, population eighty-one—where the church, high school, and post office each stand abandoned, monuments to a Great Plains town that never flourished. But for nearly twenty years, they had a zoo, seven acres that rose from local peculiarity...
A Concise History of the Russian Revolution
| Author | Richard Pipes |
| ISBN | 0679745440 |
A brutally painful book to read and at times just genuinely hard to process. The history of 1917-23 nightmare that Russia was subjected to under Lenin and the Bolsheviks has no precedent in history, and at times it reads like a caricature of a mad theory. But theory it was not. From dictatorship of proletariat...
Fly-Fishing Guide to the Henry's Fork
| Author | Mike Lawson |
| ISBN | 0811704718 |
"When you pull up to it in your camper, you haven't just gotten there, you have "arrived." Even to those who fish it regularly, it is 'the Henry's Fork, ' as much an idea as a trout stream. To the rest of us, it's Mecca." --John Gierach, "A View from Rat Lake"
Idaho's Henry's Fork was voted the best...
Fly-Fishing Guide to Upper Delaware River
| Author | Paul Weamer |
| ISBN | 0811708799 |
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Strip-Set: Fly-Fishing Techniques, Tactics, & Patterns for Streamers
Three years after his book ‘Dynamic Nymphing' came to the aid of nymphers everywhere with a breakdown of the discipline that combined thoroughness with clarity, George Daniel brings his same analytical approach to the fishing of lures (‘streamers’, as Americans call them) in rivers.
Admittedly,...
Fly Fishing for Trout: The Next Level
| Author | Tom Rosenbauer |
| ISBN | 0811713466 |
Fly fishers often ask Tom Rosenbauer how they can take their angling to the next level, and in his latest book the Orvis manager, expert fly fisher, instructor, tier, and award-winning author sets out to help them do just that. With forty years in the business, Rosenbauer knows the information fly fishers...
Charlie Craven's Basic Fly Tying: Modern Techniques for Flies That Catch Fish
| Author | Charlie Craven |
| ISBN | 0979346029 |
Learn to tie 17 popular nymphs, dry flies, and streamersMaster fundamental tying techniques in a series of practical lessons Charlie Craven's Basic Fly Tying is a modern course in fly-tying fundamentals covering the essential tools, materials, and techniques needed to tie a wide range of popular...
Tactical Fly Fishing: Lessons Learned from Competition for All Anglers
| Author | Devin Olsen |
| ISBN | 0811719820 |
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In the Evil Day: Violence Comes to One Small Town
| Author | Richard Adams Carey |
| ISBN | 1611687152 |
On the afternoon of August 19, 1997, John Harrigan—owner and publisher of the News and Sentinel newspaper in Colebrook, New Hampshire—arrived at his building to find the woman he loved lying dead in the parking lot. Lawyer Vickie Bunnell had been shot and killed by a local carpenter wielding an...
