The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism

5 best books like The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism (Megan Marshall): My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness, Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father, Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years, Murder in Belgravia

My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness

Author	Howard Jones
ISBN	0195393600

During the summer of 1971, in the midst of protests and demonstrations in the United States against the Vietnam War, it became evident that something horrific had happened in the remote South Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai. Three years previously, in March 1968, a unit of American soldiers engaged in seemingly...

Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father

Author	John Matteson
ISBN	0393059642

Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson, an eminent teacher and a friend of Emerson and Thoreau. He desired perfection, for the world and from his family. Louisa challenged him with her mercurial moods and yearnings for money and...

Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen

Author	Mary Norris
ISBN	1324001275

The Comma Queen returns with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea.

In her New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils and punctuation in The New Yorker’s celebrated copy department. In Greek to...

Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

Author	Julie Andrews Edwards
ISBN	0306845989

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In this follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir, Home, Julie Andrews shares reflections on her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, and Victor/Victoria.

In Home, the number one New York Times international...

Murder in Belgravia

Author

Lynn Brittney

PERFECT FOR FANS OF COSY CRIME, DOWNTON ABBEY, FOYLE’S WAR AND THE BLETCHLEY CIRCLE.

The first in an exciting new Mayfair 100 series of nostalgic crime sagas.

Set against the backdrop of WW1, Mayfair 100 is the telephone number for a small specially-formed crimebusting team based...