The Trivia Lover's Guide to the World: Geography for the Lost and Found
10 best books like The Trivia Lover's Guide to the World: Geography for the Lost and Found (Gary Fuller): A Short History of the World, A Place Called Armageddon, The Normans: From Raiders to Kings, Jane Carver of Waar, Summer of Fire, Winter, Dead Politician Society, First, There Is a River, From the Ashes, Retirementology: Rethinking the American Dream in a New Economy
A Short History of the World
| Author | Christopher Lascelles |
An interesting concept--condensing human history into 150 pages of readable prose--but unevenly executed. First, the positives. Lascelles correctly focused more space on recent history as that tends to be neglected in public schools and imperfectly understood by the populous. Also, his writing...
| Author | C.C. Humphreys |
| ISBN | 1409114864 |
To the Greeks who love it, it is Constantinople. To the Turks who covet it, the Red Apple. Safe behind its magnificent walls, the city was once the heart of the vast Byzantine empire.
1453. The empire has shrunk to what lies within those now-crumbling walls. A relic. Yet for one man, Constantinople...
"Lars Brownworth’s 'The Normans' is like a gallop through the Middle Ages on a fast warhorse. It is rare to find an author who takes on a subject so broad and so complex, while delivering a book that is both fast-paced and readable."
Bill Yenne, author of Julius Caesar: Lessons in Leadership...
| Author | Nathan Long |
| ISBN | 1597803960 |
Jane Carver is nobody's idea of a space princess.
A hard-ridin', hard-lovin' biker chick and ex-Airborne Ranger, Jane is as surprised as anyone else when, on the run from the law, she ducks into the wrong cave at the wrong time-and wakes up butt-naked on an exotic alien planet light-years away...
| Author | Linda Jacobs |
| ISBN | 1932815295 |
A Strong 3.75 Star Read
1988 was indeed a Summer of Fire. I remember watching the news and seeing the Western states ablaze, especially in and around Yellowstone National Park. Over 2 Million acres burned in around the park, as accurately documented in Linda Jacobs’ fictional novel. Fifty-two...
| Author | Rod Rees |
| ISBN | 1849163022 |
The Demi-Monde is the most advanced computer simulation ever devised. Created to prepare soldiers for the nightmarish reality of urban warfare, it is a virtual world locked in eternal civil war. Its thirty million digital inhabitants are ruled by duplicates of some of history's cruellest tyrants:...
| Author | Robin Spano |
| ISBN | 1550229427 |
When the mayor keels over dead in the middle of a speech, a clandestine student society immediately takes credit for his demise. Their mission is to create a perfect political system by any means at their disposal. Clare Vengel, a rookie officer fresh from the police academy and beyond bored with her...
| Author | Kathy Steffen |
| ISBN | 1932815937 |
This was a riveting story about Emma's escape from an abusive, delusionary husband who uses his belief in God as justification for heinous crimes and mistreatment of others. It seems like a coming of age story, of sorts, as Emma regains her self-confidence and emerges as a confident, spirited woman....
| Author | Jeremy Burns |
| ISBN | 1936558327 |
A DEADLY CONSPIRACY
Graduate students Jonathan and Michael Rickner, sons of eminent archaeologist Sir William Rickner, are no strangers to historical mysteries and archaeological adventures. But when Michael is discovered dead in his Washington, D.C. apartment, Jon refuses to believe the...
Retirementology: Rethinking the American Dream in a New Economy
| Author | Gregory Salsbury |
| ISBN | 0137056532 |
"A superb introduction to the necessary financial planning no American over 40 can afford to ignore." Publishers Weekly "It's time for many individual investors to make some hard choices. Baby Boomers are learning to deal with the fact that they really can't have it all--at least not all at once. Retirementology...
| Author | Sylvia Nobel |
| ISBN | 0966110587 |
In exchange for an exclusive story, feisty, flame-haired reporter Kendall O'Dell agrees to accompany 20-year old Angela Martin to claim her inheritance-a remote gold mining town in southern Arizona. But the bargain soon proves perilous as Kendall delves into the girl's past and unearths a family...
| Author | Robert Dunn |
| ISBN | 0970829353 |
In the early 1960s, the girl group The Annas ruled rock ‘n’ roll with their wild beehive hair-dos, soaring harmonies, and bad-girl attitudes. Narrated by their songwriter, Dink Stephenson, this suspenseful tale follows the rollercoaster life and mysterious death of the haunted-eyed and raven-haired...
| Author | Laurel Dewey |
| ISBN | 1884820859 |
I got this for free in one of the Barnes and Noble Free Friday giveaways so I guess I can't complain too much.
The story's not bad and the writing's not terrible but, if you're looking for an original storyline, this isn't it. Detective Jane Perry, like every other character in the book, is a walking...
| Author | Michael John Sullivan |
| ISBN | 1936558440 |
What if you had a chance to ask a loved one for forgiveness after they died? What would you say? Would you give up your own lifetime of happiness for someone else? Michael Stewart confronts these questions as he travels back in time through a mysterious tunnel in an old church when the Romans ruled with brutal...
The Crime of Julian Wells
| Author | Thomas H. Cook |
| ISBN | 0802126030 |
With THE CRIME OF JULIAN WELLS, Thomas H. Cook, one of America's most acclaimed suspense writers, has written a novel in the grand tradition of the twisty, cerebral thriller. Like Eric Ambler's A COFFIN FOR DIMITRIOS and Graham Greene's THE THIRD MAN, it is a mystery of identity, or assumed identity,...
| Author | Yvonne Montgomery |
| ISBN | 1614174253 |
Denver stockbroker, Finny Aletter, dreams of quitting her cutthroat job to restore historic houses, but the murder of her boss—and ex-lover—Elliot Fulton keeps her in the world of scavengers.
When a prized manuscript that once belonged to Elliot surfaces, Finny tops the list of possible...
| Author | Dale Brown |
| ISBN | 0061713023 |
New York Times bestselling author Dale Brown (“The best military adventure writer in the country” —Clive Cussler) joins forces once again with Jim DeFelice for another electrifying Dreamland novel, Raven Strike. In this breathtaking international thriller, Dreamland’s elite Whiplash...
Dylan Hunter has it made. At 29, he has great friends, a huge job, all the women he can handle, and no commitments. A public relations executive, Dylan has dashed up the ladder of success by mastering the art of the spin bending the truth to his and his clients’ needs. But when a former lover steps back...
| Author | Michael Malone |
| ISBN | 1402201478 |
Curse you, Michael Malone! CURSE YOU for keeping me up late at night and making me deplete half my stock of tissues.
I read his novel The Four Corners of the Sky, which, despite it not being typical of my usual reading preferences, I thoroughly enjoyed. When this was offered as a Free Fridays pick...
| Author | Ernesto Mallo |
| ISBN | 1904738567 |
"This is not simply a triumph of style; it is both a reflection on a time of bloodshed and a raw vision of human misery."—Guillermo Saccomanno, winner of the Argentine National Literature Prize
"This man knows. He knows about guns, knows about women, knows about dead bodies. . . . But above...
| Author | Glen Cook |
| ISBN | 0812533763 |
It has ended. It begins again.
In Kavelin: Lady Nepanthe's new life with the wizard Varthlokkur is disturbed by visions of her lost son, while King Bragi Ragnarson and Michael Trebilcock scheme to help the exiled Princess Mist re-usurp her throne - under their thumb.
In Shinsan: a...
The Everything Family Christmas Book: Stories, Songs, Recipes, Crafts, Traditions, and More
| Author | Yvonne Jeffrey |
| ISBN | 1598695614 |
This holiday collection is a treasury of Christmas traditions, stories, songs, and recipes that promises to bring readers young and old together to celebrate the spirit of the season. Everyone will enjoy this delightful guide to all things Christmas, featuring: the perennial classic Christmas...
| Author | Kenneth C. Davis |
| ISBN | 0060932570 |
What is an Egyptian pyramid doing on the U. S. dollar bill?
Did a pharaoh inspire Moses to worship one God?
What’s a Canaanite demoness doing at a rock concert?
Since the beginning of time, people have been insatiably curious. They’ve asked questions about where we come from, why...
| Author | Frank Deford |
| ISBN | 1402208960 |
"In men like Traveler and Alcazar we find the beating heart and struggling soul of baseball..."
-Jeff MacGregor, Sports Illustrated; author of Sunday Money
Howie Traveler never made it as a player-his one major league hit and .091 batting average attest to that. He was
cursed with that...
| Author | Caroline Taggart |
| ISBN | 1843173093 |
If you've forgotten the capital city of Chile; the basics of osmosis; how to solve a quadratic equation; the names of the Bennet sisters in Pride and Prejudice; who wrote the famous poem about daffodils; the use of a conjunction or the number of continents in the world, I Used to Know That will provide all...
