The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine--Antiquarian, Architect, and Visionary

8 best books like The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine--Antiquarian, Architect, and Visionary (Jenny Uglow): The Periodic Table, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, Kon-Tiki, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, The Zoo at the Edge of the World, Garden of Lies, The Haunted Bridge

The Periodic Table

Author	Primo Levi
ISBN	0805210415

The Periodic Table by Primo Levi is an impassioned response to the Holocaust: Consisting of 21 short stories, each possessing the name of a chemical element, the collection tells of the author's experiences as a Jewish-Italian chemist before, during, and after Auschwitz in luminous, clear, and unfailingly...

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

Author	Nathaniel Philbrick
ISBN	0670037605

HOW DID AMERICA BEGIN?

This simple question launches acclaimed author Nathaniel Philbrick on an extraordinary journey to understand the truth behind our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. As Philbrick reveals in this electrifying...

Kon-Tiki

Author	Thor Heyerdahl
ISBN	0671726528

Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure -- a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft. Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled by an ancient race from thousands of miles to the east, led by a mythical...

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Author	Lynne Truss
ISBN	1592402038

In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss, gravely concerned about our current grammatical state, boldly defends proper punctuation. She proclaims, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful...

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Author	Atul Gawande
ISBN	0312421702

A year or more ago, I mistakenly placed a review for Gawande's book Better under this title. I have fixed the mix up, and I have now read Complications.

Gawande is pure pleasure to read. His writing is fluid and full of germane examples as he addresses big issues like error and incompetence as well...

The Zoo at the Edge of the World

Author	Eric Kahn Gale
ISBN	0062125184

Marlin is not slow, or mute; what he is is a stutterer, and that makes it impossible for him to convince people otherwise. What he is also is a Rackham: the youngest son of the world-famous explorer Roland Rackham, who is the owner and proprietor of the Zoo at the Edge of the World, a resort where the well-to-do...

Garden of Lies

Author	Amanda Quick
ISBN	0399165150

The Kern Secretarial Agency provides reliable professional services to its wealthy clientele, and Anne Clifton was one of the finest women in Ursula Kern’s employ. But Miss Clifton has met an untimely end—and Ursula is convinced it was not due to natural causes.
 
Archaeologist and...

The Haunted Bridge

Author	Carolyn Keene
ISBN	0448095157

A Ghostiing We Will Go

Nancy has a golf tournament to attend, and along with her is her she brings her girlfriends, her boyfriend Ned, and her father. How exiting, golf. Not! I remember loving this book when I was much younger, and while reading it I could see why. At least the golf tournament didn’t...