The Muslim Discovery of Europe

10 best books like The Muslim Discovery of Europe (Bernard Lewis): From Here to Eternity, Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II, Death in Holy Orders, The Murder Room, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, Time To Be In Earnest: A Fragment Of Autobiography, The Dark Lord Bert, The Falcon of Sparta, Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City, The Freedom Line: The Brave Men and Women Who Rescued Allied Airmen from the Nazis During World War II

From Here to Eternity

Author	James Jones
ISBN	0517223007

Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the company's boxing team, he gets "the treatment" that may break him or kill him.

First Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden knows how to soldier better than almost anyone,...

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II

Author	Liza Mundy
ISBN	0316439894

In the tradition of Hidden Figures and The Girls of Atomic City, Code Girls is the astonishing, untold story of the young American women who cracked key Axis codes, helping to secure Allied victory and revolutionizing the field of cryptanalysis.

Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small...

Death in Holy Orders

Author	P.D. James
ISBN	0345446666

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A number of traditions come seamlessly together in P. D. James's Death in Holy Orders, another of her acclaimed mysteries featuring Scotland Yard's Commander Adam Dalgliesh. Included among those traditions are the Golden Age detective story, the police procedural,...

The Murder Room

Author	P.D. James
ISBN	1400076099

Commander Adam Dalgliesh returns to find himself enmeshed in a terrifying story of passion and mystery -- and in love.

Commander Adam Dalgliesh, P. D. James's formidable and fascinating detective, returns to find himself enmeshed in a terrifying story of passion and mystery -- and in love.

The...

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

Author	Xiaolu Guo
ISBN	0701180382

This is the semi-fictionalised diary of a 24 year old Chinese woman coming to London to learn English. It was published in 2007, five years after the author came to the UK on an educational scholarship awarded by The British Council. She knew little about her destination, and felt understandably lost...

Time To Be In Earnest: A Fragment Of Autobiography

Author	P.D. James
ISBN	0345442121

On the day she turned seventy-seven, internationally acclaimed mystery writer P. D. James embarked on an endeavor unlike any other in her distinguished career: she decided to write a personal memoir in the form of a diary. Over the course of a year she set down not only the events and impressions of her...

The Dark Lord Bert

Author

Chris Fox

How does a 1-hit-point goblin become the Dark Lord?

By accident. Bert is a tiny goblin with big dreams. He follows adventurers, and loots the copper they leave behind when they take the real loot. One day, Bert hopes, he'll have enough copper to buy a warg, and finally promote from a 1-HP critter...

The Falcon of Sparta

Author

Conn Iggulden

In the Ancient World, one army was feared above all others. This is their story.When Cyrus, brother to the Great King of Persia, attempts to overthrow his reckless sibling, he employs a Greek mercenary army of 10,000 soldiers. When this army becomes stranded as a result of the unexpected death of Cyrus,...

Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City

Author	Russell Shorto
ISBN	0385534574

An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed Island at the Center of the World

Tourists know Amsterdam as a picturesque city of low-slung brick houses lining tidy canals; student travelers know it for its legal...

The Freedom Line: The Brave Men and Women Who Rescued Allied Airmen from the Nazis During World War II

Author	Peter Eisner
ISBN	0060096632

The romance of Casablanca ... the gripping narrative of Eye of the Needle ... both come together in this enthralling true story of World War II resistance fighters and the airmen they saved.

As war raged against Hitler's Germany, an increasing number of Allied fliers were shot down onmissions...

The Bible: A Biography

Author	Karen Armstrong
ISBN	0871139693

As the work at the heart of Christianity, the Bible is the spiritual guide for one out of every three people in the world. It is also the world’s most widely distributed book, translated into over two thousand languages, and the world’s best selling book, year after year. But the Bible is a complex...

Bury the Lead

Author	David Rosenfelt
ISBN	0446612863

I watch sixteen football games over nine hours. It's an extraordinary accomplishment...With the remote secure in the palm of my hand, or more often resting on my chest, I am all powerful. I haven't missed an important play since the Carter administration. His streak of murder case acquittals made him...