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10 best books like The Vintage Mencken (H.L. Mencken): The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal, How the Mind Works, The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century, Writings: The Autobiography / Poor Richard’s Almanack / Bagatelles, Pamphlets, Essays & Letters, Peach Blossom Pavillion, Copycat, Collected Essays, Stillness Is the Key, All of Me, Stars in the Night

The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
AuthorDavid E. Hoffman
ISBN0385537603
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA’s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War

While...
How the Mind Works
AuthorSteven Pinker
ISBN0393318486
In this extraordinary bestseller, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists, does for the rest of the mind what he did for language in his 1994 book, The Language Instinct. He explains what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy...
The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century
AuthorDavid Reynolds
ISBN0393088634
One of the most violent conflicts in the history of civilization, World War I has been strangely forgotten in American culture. It has become a ghostly war fought in a haze of memory, often seen merely as a distant preamble to World War II. In The Long Shadow critically acclaimed historian David Reynolds...
Writings: The Autobiography / Poor Richard’s Almanack / Bagatelles, Pamphlets, Essays & Letters
AuthorBenjamin Franklin
ISBN0940450291
Note: When first issued, the Library of America edition of Franklin's Writings was collected in one large volume; later, it was published as two separate volumes.

The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes,...
Peach Blossom Pavillion
AuthorMingmei Yip
ISBN0758220146
In a sunny California apartment, a young woman and her fiancé arrive to record her great-grandmother's story. The story that unfolds of Precious Orchid's life in China, where she rises from a childhood of shame to become one of the most successful courtesans in the land, is unlike any they've heard...
Copycat
AuthorErica Spindler
ISBN0778323129
Five years ago, three young victims were found murdered, posed like little angels. No witnesses, no evidence left behind. The Sleeping Angel Killer called his despicable acts 'the perfect crimes.' The case nearly destroyed homicide detective Kitt Lundgren's career - because she let the killer get...
Collected Essays
AuthorAldous Huxley
ISBN0060902469
There are essays here on pretty much anything that struck Huxley's interest - which is, in itself, inspiring and admirable - but the unspoken theme running through much of the book is an effort to reconcile humanism with the colder truths of the 20th century (i.e. the long view of history, the long view...
Stillness Is the Key
AuthorRyan Holiday
ISBN0525538585
In The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, bestselling author Ryan Holiday made ancient wisdom wildly popular with a new generation of leaders in sports, politics, and technology. In his new book, Stillness Is the Key, Holiday draws on timeless Stoic and Buddhist philosophy to show why slowing...
All of Me
AuthorAndrea Smith
USA Today Best Selling Author Andrea Smith brings you her debut BBW Romance!


Dirk Sexton is a thirty year old playboy with a conscience.

He wants the sex without feeling the guilt of his meaningless one night stands.

Deciding to take a chance, he finally takes the...
Stars in the Night
AuthorCara C. Putman
ISBN1609360117
Hollywood 1942. When attorney Audra Schaeffer's sister disappears, Audra flies to Hollywood to find her but instead must identify her body. Determined to bring the killer to justice, Audra takes a job with the second Hollywood Victory Caravan. Together with Robert Garfield and other stars, she crisscrosses...
Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
AuthorSteven Pinker
ISBN0753810255
Steven Pinker's work is generally very readable, and so he has become something of a champion popularizer of linguistics and all the fun, quirky, nifty tidbits of knowledge that come with the field. Unfortunately, he also does two things that annoy the hell out of me:

1) He writes from a controversial...
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