* *The Thousand-Mile War*
* *Ghost Soldiers*
* *How Carriers Fought*
* *The Quest for Timbuctoo*
* *The Ghost Army of World War II*
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A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca by Andrés Reséndez
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Mudlark by Lara Maiklem
Being Seen by Elsa Sjunneson
Universe in Creation by Roy Gould
The Cooking Gene by Michael W Twitty
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Oh, yes! There are so many that never get mentioned.
**Batavia’s Graveyard** by Mike Dash is unbelievable! It’s like a real life *Lord of the Flies* but with Dutch settlers shipwrecked on their way to Java.
**Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time** by Dave Sobel. Absolutely fascinating story of how the longitude problem was solved. Also taught me that there was a longitude problem.
**The Disappearing Spoon** by Sam Keane. History of the periodic table, one element at a time. You can still hate chemistry and love this book.
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Working by studs Terkel,
Anything by Frans de Waal,
Anything by Oliver Sacks,
Facing the mountain by Daniel Brown,
.how big things get done by Bent Flyvbjerg,
Peopleware,
Because Internet by Gretchen McCullough,
Cadillac Desert,
Bowling Alone,
Flow the psychology of optimal experience by Csikzentmihalyi,
Algorithms to live by,
Bury my heart at Wounded knee,
Zoobiquity by Natterson Horowitz,
Being wrong Adventures on the Margin of error,
Leadership without easy answers by Heifetz,
Anything by John Gottman,
The unwomanly face of war by Svetlana Alexievich,
Lady death by Pavlichenko,
Thinking in pictures by Temple Grandin
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Miracle in the Andes by Nando Parrado! One of my favorites!
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Just finished Midnight in Peking. Fascinating story of the murder of a white woman in ex pat Peking just after the boxer rebellion and before the rise of the ccp
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*The Raphael Trail: The Secret History of One of the World’s Most Precious Works of Art* by Joanna Pitman
*Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans* by A. J. Baime
*Unsinkable: The Full Story of the RMS Titanic
Book by Daniel Allen Butler*
*The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece* by Jonathan Harr
*Last of the Blue and Gray: Old Men, Stolen Glory, and the Mystery That Outlived the Civil War* by Richard A. Serrano
*Blood Brotherhoods: A History of Italy’s Three Mafias* by John Dickie
*The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer* by Anne-Marie O’Connor
*Renaissance* by Andrew Graham-Dixon
*The Devil’s Mercedes: The Bizarre and Disturbing Adventures of Hitler’s Limousine in America* by Robert Klara
*The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance* by Ross King
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* *The Thousand-Mile War*
* *Ghost Soldiers*
* *How Carriers Fought*
* *The Quest for Timbuctoo*
* *The Ghost Army of World War II*
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca by Andrés Reséndez
Mudlark by Lara Maiklem
Being Seen by Elsa Sjunneson
Universe in Creation by Roy Gould
The Cooking Gene by Michael W Twitty
Oh, yes! There are so many that never get mentioned.
**Batavia’s Graveyard** by Mike Dash is unbelievable! It’s like a real life *Lord of the Flies* but with Dutch settlers shipwrecked on their way to Java.
**Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time** by Dave Sobel. Absolutely fascinating story of how the longitude problem was solved. Also taught me that there was a longitude problem.
**The Disappearing Spoon** by Sam Keane. History of the periodic table, one element at a time. You can still hate chemistry and love this book.
Working by studs Terkel,
Anything by Frans de Waal,
Anything by Oliver Sacks,
Facing the mountain by Daniel Brown,
.how big things get done by Bent Flyvbjerg,
Peopleware,
Because Internet by Gretchen McCullough,
Cadillac Desert,
Bowling Alone,
Flow the psychology of optimal experience by Csikzentmihalyi,
Algorithms to live by,
Bury my heart at Wounded knee,
Zoobiquity by Natterson Horowitz,
Being wrong Adventures on the Margin of error,
Leadership without easy answers by Heifetz,
Anything by John Gottman,
The unwomanly face of war by Svetlana Alexievich,
Lady death by Pavlichenko,
Thinking in pictures by Temple Grandin
Miracle in the Andes by Nando Parrado! One of my favorites!
Just finished Midnight in Peking. Fascinating story of the murder of a white woman in ex pat Peking just after the boxer rebellion and before the rise of the ccp
*The Raphael Trail: The Secret History of One of the World’s Most Precious Works of Art* by Joanna Pitman
*Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans* by A. J. Baime
*Unsinkable: The Full Story of the RMS Titanic
Book by Daniel Allen Butler*
*The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece* by Jonathan Harr
*Last of the Blue and Gray: Old Men, Stolen Glory, and the Mystery That Outlived the Civil War* by Richard A. Serrano
*Blood Brotherhoods: A History of Italy’s Three Mafias* by John Dickie
*The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer* by Anne-Marie O’Connor
*Renaissance* by Andrew Graham-Dixon
*The Devil’s Mercedes: The Bizarre and Disturbing Adventures of Hitler’s Limousine in America* by Robert Klara
*The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance* by Ross King
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