Janet van der Lee

6 books

The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks by Steven Johnson

The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks

Steven Johnson

320 pages • paperback • 2006

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Forgotten Histories, and a Sense of Home by Sadia Shepard

The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Forgotten Histories, and a Sense of Home

Sadia Shepard

364 pages • 2008

nonfiction biography memoir challenging reflective slow-paced
So, Anyway... by John Cleese

So, Anyway...

John Cleese

392 pages • hardcover • 2014

nonfiction autobiography memoir adventurous funny lighthearted slow-paced
Whatever Makes You Happy by William Sutcliffe

Whatever Makes You Happy

William Sutcliffe

292 pages • paperback • 2008

fiction contemporary reflective medium-paced
The Great Survivors: How Monarchy Made It Into the Twenty-First Century by Peter Conradi

The Great Survivors: How Monarchy Made It Into the Twenty-First Century

Peter Conradi

383 pages • paperback • 2012

nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

Simon Winchester

432 pages • paperback • 2003

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced