9 must-read nonfiction books like Tailspin by John Armbruster

Cover of Tailspin by John Armbruster

Tailspin

By: John Armbruster

4.67

Format: None pages, ebook

World War II tail gunner Gene Moran fell four miles through the sky without a parachute and lived. …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Tailspin by John Armbruster , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul  Collins

1. The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars

By: Paul Collins

3.58

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Down to the Sea: An Epic Story of Naval Disaster and Heroism in World War II by Bruce   Henderson

2. Down to the Sea: An Epic Story of Naval Disaster and Heroism in World War II

By: Bruce Henderson

3.87

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

This epic story opens at the hour the Greatest Generation went to war on December 7, 1941, and foll… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Waiting: The True Story of a Lost Child, a Lifetime of Longing, and a Miracle for a Mother Who Never Gave Up by Cathy LaGrow

3. The Waiting: The True Story of a Lost Child, a Lifetime of Longing, and a Miracle for a Mother Who Never Gave Up

By: Cathy LaGrow

3.75

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable true story that will touch your heart and make you believe in love's enduring lega… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Death Stalks Door County (Dave Cubiak, #1) by Patricia Skalka

4. Death Stalks Door County (Dave Cubiak, #1)

By: Patricia Skalka

3.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Six deaths mar the holiday mood as summer vacationers enjoy Wisconsin's beautiful Door County penin… read more

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Cover of White Dresses: A Memoir of Love and Secrets, Mothers and Daughters by Mary Pflum Peterson

5. White Dresses: A Memoir of Love and Secrets, Mothers and Daughters

By: Mary Pflum Peterson

4.75

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In this riveting, poignant memoir of three generations of women and the white dresses that adorned … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

6. The Land Remembers: The Story of a Farm and Its People

By: None

3.50

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

This classic American memoir is about a farm and its people, of a boyhood on a southwestern Wiscons… read more

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7. The Only Alien on the Planet

By: Kristen D. Randle

4.30

Format: 373 pages, Mass Market Paperback

New town, new school, new friends. It was difficult for Ginny at first, but her senior year is fina… read more

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8. A Merry Heart (Brides of Lancaster County, #1)

By: Wanda E. Brunstetter

3.47

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Miriam Stoltzfus is a young Pennsylvania Amish woman once filled with dreams for a future with a ma… read more

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9. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

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  • war
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

Cover of The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I by Douglas Brunt

10. The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

By: Douglas Brunt

4.23

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

This instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • war
"But the prevailing and indelible lesson, learned through traumatic personal experience, was his understanding of the family’s security. War and industrial innovation could destroy the life a family h…"

-Douglas Brunt, The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

Cover of The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County by Claire Swinarski

11. The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County

By: Claire Swinarski

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Armed with a Crock-Pot and a pile of recipes, a grandmother, her granddaughter, and a mysterious yo… read more

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"All these kids today thought you needed so much time. Time, time, time! As if another year would show you the kind of father a person could be, or how the nightmares about battlefields in Vietnam wou…"

-Claire Swinarski, The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County

Cover of Tailspin by Sandra       Brown

12. Tailspin

By: Sandra Brown

3.84

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

A daring pilot races against time to deliver an important package -- and keep it from falling into … read more

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Cover of Bombshell: The Night Bobby Kennedy Killed Marilyn Monroe by Mike Rothmiller

13. Bombshell: The Night Bobby Kennedy Killed Marilyn Monroe

By: Mike Rothmiller

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The Night Bobby Kennedy Murdered Marilyn Monroe tells the essential truth of the death of Marilyn … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. -Marilyn Monroe, 1958"

-Mike Rothmiller, Bombshell: The Night Bobby Kennedy Killed Marilyn Monroe

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul." -Marilyn Monroe, 1958"

-Mike Rothmiller, Bombshell: The Night Bobby Kennedy Killed Marilyn Monroe

Cover of Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World by Eric Jay Dolin

14. Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World

By: Eric Jay Dolin

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The true story of five castaways abandoned on the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812―a tale of… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Figure Eight: A Northern Lakes Mystery (John Cabrelli Northern Lakes Mysteries Book 1) by Jeff Nania

15. Figure Eight: A Northern Lakes Mystery (John Cabrelli Northern Lakes Mysteries Book 1)

By: Jeff Nania

4.11

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A shattered career. A crooked lawyer. An unsolved murder. Seeking peace in the Northwoods is fraugh… read more

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Cover of Tailspin by John Armbruster

16. Tailspin

By: John Armbruster

4.67

Format: None pages, ebook

World War II tail gunner Gene Moran fell four miles through the sky without a parachute and lived. … read more

Similar categories in John Armbruster's Tailspin book and John Armbruster's Tailspin

  • american history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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17. Forty Acres Deep

By: Michael Perry

4.31

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

When farmer Harold wakes to find his wife dead beside him in bed and snow threatening to crush the … read more

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Cover of Musky Run: A Northern Lakes Mystery (John Cabrelli Northern Lakes Mysteries Book 4) by Jeff Nania

18. Musky Run: A Northern Lakes Mystery (John Cabrelli Northern Lakes Mysteries Book 4)

By: Jeff Nania

4.41

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Olympic medalist Anna MacDonald comes home to Namekagon County to emcee the Great Wilderness Race a… read more

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19. Still True

By: Maggie Ginsberg

4.28

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

One summer evening, Lib Hanson is confronted by her painful past when Matt Marlow, the forty-year-o… read more

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Cover of Regency Rumors (The Sinclair Society Series, #1) by Bethany Swafford

20. Regency Rumors (The Sinclair Society Series, #1)

By: Bethany Swafford

3.99

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

A respectable family. A few rumors. A disguise. An attempt to make things right. Meet J… read more

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Cover of Living Joy: 9 Rules to Help You Rediscover and Live Joy Every Day by Chris Stefanick

21. Living Joy: 9 Rules to Help You Rediscover and Live Joy Every Day

By: Chris Stefanick

4.35

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Joy isn't a luxury. It's a necessity. But how do we find joy—and hold onto it—when so much in our l… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Spider Lake: A Northern Lakes Mystery (John Cabrelli Northern Lakes Mysteries Book 2) by Jeff Nania

22. Spider Lake: A Northern Lakes Mystery (John Cabrelli Northern Lakes Mysteries Book 2)

By: Jeff Nania

4.17

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

A missing federal agent, suitcases full of cash, a secluded cabin in the woods. Spider Lake is no l… read more

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Cover of Squirrel Is Alive: Squirrel Is Alive: A Teenager in the Belgian Resistance and French Underground by Mary Rostad

23. Squirrel Is Alive: Squirrel Is Alive: A Teenager in the Belgian Resistance and French Underground

By: Mary Rostad

4.20

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

Squirrel is A Teenager in the Belgian Resistance and French Underground is the incredible story of… read more

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Cover of The Simulacrum (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

24. The Simulacrum (First Contact)

By: Peter Cawdron

4.48

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

Someone is altering old astronomical images. In one small patch of the sky, the digital versions do… read more

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Cover of Viviana Valentine Goes Up River (Girl Friday #2) by Emily J. Edwards

25. Viviana Valentine Goes Up River (Girl Friday #2)

By: Emily J. Edwards

3.76

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

1950, New York. Viviana Valentine–Girl Friday turned partner to New York’s top investigator, Tommy … read more

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Cover of Squatter: One Woman's Journey to Reclaim Her Spirit on the Ice Age Trail by Yolanda Deloach

26. Squatter: One Woman's Journey to Reclaim Her Spirit on the Ice Age Trail

By: Yolanda Deloach

4.52

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

None read more

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Cover of Driftless Gold (A Jim Higgins Driftless Mystery) by Sue Berg

27. Driftless Gold (A Jim Higgins Driftless Mystery)

By: Sue Berg

3.54

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

A migrant worker is discovered buried in a local quarry with an antique gold coin in his pocket nea… read more

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Cover of Driftless Deceit (A Jim Higgins Driftless Mystery) by Sue Berg

28. Driftless Deceit (A Jim Higgins Driftless Mystery)

By: Sue Berg

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

"I don't have a sister!" When an unidentified woman is found in a park in La Crosse with a four-yea… read more

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Cover of Driftless Treasure (A Jim Higgins Driftless Mystery Book 2) by Sue Berg

29. Driftless Treasure (A Jim Higgins Driftless Mystery Book 2)

By: Sue Berg

4.29

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

Detective Jim Higgins becomes suspicious when stolen Iraqi treasures from the National Museum in Ba… read more

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30. driftless treasure

By: Sue Berg

3.93

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

Detective Jim Higgins becomes suspicious when stolen Iraqi treasures from the National Museum in Ba… read more

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Cover of Driftless Desperation (A Jim Higgins Driftless Mystery) by Sue Berg

31. Driftless Desperation (A Jim Higgins Driftless Mystery)

By: Sue Berg

4.13

Format: 482 pages, Paperback

In the latest installment of the Driftless Mystery Series, Lt. Jim Higgins is stumped by a murder o… read more

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The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars

Paul Collins

3.58

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Bruce Henderson

3.87

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Cathy LaGrow

3.75

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The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

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4.23

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Victoria Houston

3.84

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Paul Doiron

4.18

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Claire Kells

3.87

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Patricia Skalka

3.98

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