The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon

7 best books like The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon (Robert Whitaker): Stag's Leap: Poems, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race, No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir, Good Kids, Savages, Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America, The Titanic Secret

Stag's Leap: Poems

Author	Sharon Olds
ISBN	0375712259

Stag’s Leap is stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom.

In this wise and intimate telling—which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending—Sharon Olds opens her heart...

Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

Author	Lara Prior-Palmer
ISBN	1948226197

For fans of Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk, this is the extraordinary debut memoir of a young woman who traveled to Mongolia to compete in the world’s longest, toughest horse race, and emerged as its youngest and first-ever female winner.

At the age of nineteen, Lara Prior-Palmer discovered...

No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir

Author	Ani DiFranco
ISBN	0735225176

A memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco

In her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of music, feminism, political activism, storytelling,...

Good Kids

Author	Benjamin Nugent
ISBN	1439136599

The critically acclaimed author of American Nerd makes his fiction debut with this romantic tragicomedy about a teenage boy and girl who discover his dad is having an affair with her mom. For readers of Chad Harbach and Jennifer Egan, and fans of filmmakers like Noah Baumbach.At fifteen, Josh Paquette...

Savages

Author	Joe Kane
ISBN	0679740198

I was a slap-happy travel writer looking forward to experiencing the most bio-diverse country on the plant for its size. Ecaudor is touted as a paradise for nature lovers with 46 different eco-systems, home to 1,600 bird species, 250 mammals, 358 amphibians 345 reptiles and 4,500 butterflies. Then...

Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America

Author	Adam Winkler
ISBN	0393077411

Gunfight promises to be a seminal work in its examination of America's four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. In the tradition of Gideon's Trumpet, Adam Winkler uses the landmark 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller, which invalidated a law banning handguns...

The Titanic Secret

Author

Clive Cussler

Both a prequel and a sequel to Clive Cussler's first bestselling phenomenon, Raise the Titanic!, the new Isaac Bell novel is a thrilling action-adventure novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.A century apart, Dirk Pitt and Isaac Bell team up to unlock the truth about the most famous maritime...