The Titanic Conspiracy: Cover-Ups and Mysteries of the World's Most Famous Sea Disaster
10 best books like The Titanic Conspiracy: Cover-Ups and Mysteries of the World's Most Famous Sea Disaster (Robin Gardiner): The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963, The Moon's a Balloon, The Glass Ocean, Eye of the Crow, Death in the Air, The Secret Fiend, The Company of Wolves, Vanishing Girl, Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de force of historical reportage. Following a dozen...
| Author | Barry Miles |
| ISBN | 0802138179 |
The Beat Hotel is a delightful chronicle of a remarkable moment in American literary history. From the Howl obscenity trial to the invention of the cut-up technique, Barry Miles's extraordinary narrative chronicles the feast of ideas that was Paris, where the Beats took awestruck audiences with...
| Author | David Niven |
| ISBN | 0140239243 |
One of the bestselling memoirs of all time, David Niven's The Moon's a Balloon is an account of one of the most remarkable lives Hollywood has ever seen.
Beginning with the tragic early loss of his aristocratic father, then regaling us with tales of school, army and wartime hi-jinx, Niven shows...
| Author | Beatriz Williams |
| ISBN | 0062642472 |
From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Forgotten Room comes a captivating historical mystery, infused with romance, that links the lives of three women across a century—two deep in the past, one in the present—to the doomed passenger liner, RMS Lusitania.
May 2013
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| Author | Shane Peacock |
| ISBN | 0887768504 |
Sherlock Holmes, just 13, is a misfit. His highborn mother is the daughter of an aristocratic family, his father a poor Jew. Their marriage flouts tradition, makes them social pariahs in the London of the 1860s; and son Sherlock bears the burden of their rebellion. Friendless, bullied at school, he...
| Author | Shane Peacock |
| ISBN | 0887768512 |
After the harrowing experience of losing his mother while solving a brutal murder in London’s East End, young Sherlock Holmes commits himself to fighting crime … and is soon involved in another case. While visiting his father at the magnificent Crystal Palace, Sherlock stops to watch a remarkable...
| Author | Shane Peacock |
| ISBN | 0887768539 |
It is 1868, the week that Benjamin Disraeli becomes Prime Minister of the Empire. Sherlock's beautiful but poor admirer, Beatrice, the hatter's daughter, appears at the door late at night. She is terrified, claiming that she and her friend have just been attacked by the Spring Heeled Jack on Westminster...
| Author | Peter Steinhart |
| ISBN | 0679743871 |
As wolves return to their old territory in Yellowstone National Park, their presence is reawakening passions as ancient as their tangled relations with human beings. This authoritative and eloquent book coaxes the wolf out from its camouflage of myth and reveals the depth of its kinship with humanity,...
| Author | Shane Peacock |
| ISBN | 0887768520 |
The third case in the compelling Boy Sherlock Holmes series is full of as many twists and turns as the backstreets of Victorian London.
When a wealthy young girl vanishes as if by magic in Hyde Park, Sherlock is once again driven to prove himself. In a heart-stopping race against time, an innocent...
Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
| Author | Mark Dery |
| ISBN | 0316188549 |
From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth.
But who was this...
