The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey
5 best books like The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey (Douglas Brinkley): The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, Everfair, Spiral Hunt, The Ugly American, Heart of Iron
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
| Author | David McCullough |
| ISBN | 1501168681 |
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.
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An alternate history / historical fantasy / steampunk novel set in the Belgian Congo, from noted short story writer Nisi Shawl.
Everfair is a wonderful Neo-Victorian alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo...
| Author | Margaret Ronald |
| ISBN | 0061662410 |
Some people have the Sight. Genevieve Scelan has the Scent. They call her "Hound," and with her unique supernatural sense Evie can track nearly anything—lost keys, vanished family heirlooms . . . even missing people. And though she knows to stay out of the magical undercurrent that runs beneath Boston's...
| Author | William J. Lederer |
| ISBN | 0393356728 |
A piercing exposé of American incompetence and corruption in Southeast Asia, The Ugly American captivated the nation when it was first published in 1958. The book introduces readers to an unlikely hero in the titular “ugly American”—and to the ignorant politicians and arrogant ambassadors...
In a Russia where the Decembrists' rebellion was successful and the Trans-Siberian railroad was completed before 1854, Sasha Trubetskaya wants nothing more than to have a decent debut ball in St. Petersburg. But her aunt's feud with the emperor lands Sasha at university, where she becomes one of its...
