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10 best books like Where Did You Go? Out What Did You Do? Nothing (Robert Paul Smith): The Story of a Bad Boy, Ain't No Grave: The Life and Legacy of Brother Claude Ely, The High and the Mighty, Mister Roberts, The Rattle-Rat, Spacer and Rat, The Cincinnati Red Stalkings, A Fine Old Conflict, A Rose for Virtue, The ABCs of Handwriting Analysis: The Complete Guide to Techniques and Interpretations

The Story of a Bad Boy
AuthorThomas Bailey Aldrich
ISBN1406806641
In a time when children's books were populated with well-behaved little gentlemen, Thomas Bailey Aldrich dared to present an alternative point of view - childhood as he remembered it. Tom Bailey is no angel. At times a bully, a vandal, and a troublemaker, he has a healthy zest for life and a perhaps over-developed...
Ain't No Grave: The Life and Legacy of Brother Claude Ely
AuthorMacel Ely II
ISBN0981734227
Once described as the King Recording Label's "Gospel Ranger," Brother Claude Ely (1922-1978) was known and loved throughout the Appalachian mountains as both a religious singer-songwriter and a Pentecostal-Holiness preacher.

Few people, however, knew the details of his childhood,...
The High and the Mighty
AuthorErnest K. Gann
ISBN0671827634
I had a hard time deciding whether to give this book 5 stars or no stars.

Reasons for 1 star:

Unbelievable plot --
-Very sexist -- Women are "girls", stewardess, mistresses or hysterical.
-Politically incorrect ("slant-eyed", "Orientals")
-Unsympathetic characters...
Mister Roberts
AuthorThomas Heggen
ISBN0140075585
Probably all of us have seen the classic Mister Roberts play or movie. The book is better. It captures the mind-numbing tedium much better, and the humor is scorched with irony and paradoxical pain. The hero, Mr. Roberts, spends his time on board trying to leave the safety of his cargo transport's milk-runs,...
The Rattle-Rat
AuthorJanwillem van de Wetering
ISBN1569471037
Douwe Scherjoen was a well-to-do livestock dealer from the remote Dutch province of Friesland. Then his corpse was found, half-charred by flames, floating in a dory in Amsterdam's harbor. No one knows why he was in the nation's capital, far from the bucolic pleasures of his native village of Dingjum....
Spacer and Rat
AuthorMargaret Bechard
ISBN1596430583
Jack knows who belongs out in the Black. And who doesn't -- until Kit comes walking into the pub and changes everything he believes about the Black, about the people who live there, about what it takes to be a human being. Margaret Bechard set out to write an adventure story with laser guns ad spaceships....
The Cincinnati Red Stalkings
AuthorTroy Soos
ISBN1575664089
The lazy days of June 1921 are dark ones for baseball fans as the trial of the Chicago "Black Sox" players accused of throwing the 1919 World Series begins. But utility infielder Mickey Rawlings thinks he has something to cheer about -- playing for the team that won that series, the Cincinnati Reds. Until...
A Fine Old Conflict
AuthorJessica Mitford
ISBN0394726154
'A Fine Old Conflict' is the sequel to 'Hons and Rebels' the first part of Jessica Mitford's extraordinary life story. It tells of her experiences in the Communist Party which she joined in California during World War II and left in 1958, illustrating, with biting humour, a neglected chapter of American...
A Rose for Virtue
AuthorNorah Lofts
ISBN0385008457
Hortense Beauharnais finds herself rubbing shoulders with royalty as her mother remarries to become Napoleon Bonaparte's wife. As Napoleon struggles for power on the battlefields of Europe, so Hortense charts her way through the French court -- a chessboard world where the motives are jealousy...
The ABCs of Handwriting Analysis: The Complete Guide to Techniques and Interpretations
AuthorClaude Santoy
ISBN1569243468
The ABCs of Handwriting Analysis is an indispensable tool for anyone hoping to peer behind the letters on a page—professionals responsible for hiring and managing other employees, and hobbyists looking to uncover the truths we reveal through our writing. It demonstrates proven techniques for...
On Language
AuthorWilliam Safire
ISBN0812909372
William Safire is the most widely read writer on language in America. In his witty way, Mr. Safire enlightens us concerning proper usage, correct pronunciation, the roots of our daily discourse, and the vacuous vogue lingo in which "subsume" is co-opting "co-opt," wood-burning stoves become "energy...
The Man Who Kept The Secrets: Richard Helms And The CIA
AuthorThomas Powers
ISBN0394507770
Richard Helms is the quintessential CIA man. For 30 years--from the very inception of the Central Intelligence Agency & before--he occupied pivotal positions in that shadowy world: OSS operator, spymaster, planner, plotter, &, finally, for over 6 years, Agency director. No other was so...
With Friends Like These...
AuthorGillian Roberts
ISBN0345465350
Well-known Broadway playwright and TV producer Lyle Zacharias is throwing himself a lavish birthday party in his hometown of Philadelphia. Guests include his current wife, ex-wives, friends, former partners -- not to mention Amanda Pepper and her own irrepressible mother, Bea. Yet when Lyle drops...
Murder at the Feast of Rejoicing
AuthorLynda S. Robinson
ISBN0345395328
Foul play once again stalks the court of King Tut in the third historical whodunit featuring ancient Egyptian sleuth Lord Meren.

When the murder of his beautiful cousin-in-law shatters Lord Meren's homecoming celebration, the man who is "the Eyes and Ears of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun" plunges...
House of Getty
AuthorRussell Miller
ISBN0030037697
The tormented saga of the Getty family reads like the script for Dynasty, interweaving boardroom battles, sex, money, drugs, power, crime, tragedy, and family intrigue.

At the center stands the figure of John Paul Getty, the grandfather, an eccentric oil billionaire believed to have been...
A Tapestry of Murders
AuthorPaul Doherty
ISBN0747209677
Another excellent read in the Canterbury Pilgrims dark and disturbing tales series from Paul Doherty.
The author really knows his subject, his scenes of description are never wasted on the mindlessly trivial - he makes the otherwise trivial street descriptions fascinating.
The Man at Law...
The Evolution of a State or Recollections of Old Texas Days
AuthorNoah Smithwick
ISBN0292720459
"I was but a boy in my nineteenth year, and in for adventure when I started out from Hopkinsville, Kentucky, with all my worldly possessions, consisting of a few dollars in money, a change of clothes, and a gun, of course, to seek my fortune in this lazy man's paradise."

Noah Smithwick was an old...
The Voice at the Back Door
AuthorElizabeth Spencer
In the mid-1950s, the town of Lacey in the Mississippi hill country is a place where the lives of blacks and whites, though seemingly separate, are in fact historically and inevitably intertwined. When Lacey's fair-haired boy, Duncan Harper, is appointed interim sheriff, he makes public his private...
Naked Came I: A Novel Of Rodin
AuthorDavid Weiss
ISBN0340178221
Naked Came I portrays Rodin as driven to be an artist because his temperament would allow him to be nothing else. It shows him as a friend with other Parisian artists such as Edgar Degas, Auguste Renoir, Édouard Manet, and those of the Second French Empire associated with the Salon des Refusés: they...
The Four of Hearts
AuthorEllery Queen
ISBN0060976047
Edited@2018: after the rereading I downgrade the rating into 3 stars.

Murder mystery in the 1930s Hollywood! Two starlet families at war! Poker cards death threats! Last but not least, Ellery Queen, our novelist/detective has a crush on a pretty lady during investigation again! All of these...
Works of W. Somerset Maugham
AuthorW. Somerset Maugham
This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books, stories and poems. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download,...
Trouble in July
AuthorErskine Caldwell
ISBN0820321052
Through the summer twilight in the Depression-era South, word begins to circulate of a black man accosting a white woman. In no time the awful forces of public opinion and political expediency goad the separate fears and frustrations of a small southern community into the single-mindedness of a mob....
"The Rest of Us": The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews
AuthorStephen Birmingham
ISBN0815606141
I had read Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York by Stephen Birmingham several years ago and enjoyed it immensely. When I found this book hiding on my bookshelves (I don't even remember buying it) I jumped right on it and discovered that it was equally as interesting.

It is the history...
Another Lousy Day in Paradise
AuthorJohn Gierach
ISBN0684831473
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Tyrants History's 100 Most Evil Despots & Dictators
AuthorNigel Cawthorne
ISBN0760775672
Tyrants: History's 100 Most Evil Despots & Dictators is a study in depravity. It delves into the darkest recesses of the minds of the most vile men and women ever to seize power. With provocative insights into their shameful deeds, committed under a threadbare cloak of spurious legality, Tyrants...
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