Women of Wonder, the Classic Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s

10 best books like Women of Wonder, the Classic Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s (Pamela Sargent): The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, A Fire Upon the Deep, The Conscience of a Conservative, The Bobbsey Twins of Lakeport, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church, Beggars in Spain, The Mother Dance: How Children Change Your Life, The Five Love Languages of Children, The Bobbsey Twins' Mystery at School, The Outsider

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Author	Simon Winchester
ISBN	0060839783

The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history. The compilation of the OED, begun in 1857,...

A Fire Upon the Deep

Author	Vernor Vinge
ISBN	0812515285

Alternate Cover Edition can be found here.

A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale.

Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined...

The Conscience of a Conservative

Author	Barry M. Goldwater
ISBN	0691131171

In 1960, Barry Goldwater set forth his brief manifesto in The Conscience of a Conservative. Written at the height of the Cold War and in the wake of America's greatest experiment with big government, the New Deal, Goldwater's message was not only remarkable, but radical. He argued for the value and importance...

The Bobbsey Twins of Lakeport

Author

Laura Lee Hope

While most books in the 1001
childrens books series are timeless, The Bobbsey Twins is definitly of a time. Unfortunately this time is one of segregation and racism.

For example: The twins sort their dolls- the best doll had blond hair and blue eyes, the worst doll is black and dirty and named...

Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

Author	Rachel Held Evans
ISBN	0718022122

From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans comes a book that is both a heartfelt ode to the past and hopeful gaze into the future of what it means to be a part of the Church.


Like millions of her millennial peers, Rachel Held Evans didn't want to go to church anymore. The hypocrisy,...

Beggars in Spain

Author

Nancy Kress

Please Note: This is the original Hugo and Nebula Winning Novella

Leisha Camden is a genetically engineered ‘Sleepless.’

Her ability to stay awake all the time has not only made her more productive, but the genetic modifications have also given the ‘Sleepless’ a higher...

The Mother Dance: How Children Change Your Life

Author

Harriet Lerner

From the celebrated author of The Dance of Anger comes an extraordinary book about mothering and how it transforms us -- and all our relationships -- inside and out. Written from her dual perspective as a psychologist and a mother, Lerner brings us deeply personal tales that run the gamut from the hilarious...

The Five Love Languages of Children

Author	Gary Chapman
ISBN	1881273652

This book is brilliant! Beyond the fact that this is a book about how to love your child in the way that he or she best identifies and recognizes as love...because that alone is a smart and beautiful undertaking, this book begins by introducing the concept of learning to speak your child's love language...

The Bobbsey Twins' Mystery at School

Author	Laura Lee Hope
ISBN	0448437554

Another good Bobbsey Twins book. I am sooo enjoying these books from my childhood.

The Bobbsey's train has a problem on the way home from the seashore and almost runs into another train that has come off the tracks. A circus train. They loose a silver cup and their cat Snoop and while walking to...

The Outsider

Author

Anthony Franze

“THE OUTSIDER is as authentic and suspenseful as any John Grisham novel—and I like Grisham a lot.”—JAMES PATTERSON

A young law clerk finds himself caught in the crosshairs of a serial killer in this breathtaking thriller set in the high-pressure world of the Supreme Court, from renowned...

This Perfect World

Author

Suzanne Bugler

This book worried me, before I even opened the first page, as having been bullied many times during my youth and even beyond, I knew it was not going to be a comfortable read. As it was, I found myself examining my own behaviour and asking the question, have I ever been the perpetrator of bullying, rather...

Wait, What?: And Life's Other Essential Questions

Author

James E. Ryan

New York Times Bestseller

“What, What? is a welcome—and joyful—reminder that true wisdom comes from asking the right questions. Should you read this book? Absolutely.”

 —Clayton Christensen, bestselling author of How Will You Measure Your Life?

Based...