7 Best history books like Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters by Cary J. Griffith

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Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters

By: Cary J. Griffith

3.88

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

Stories from survivors of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness’s epochal weather disaster   O…

If you liked the history plot in Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters by Cary J. Griffith , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Canoeing with the Cree

By: Eric Sevareid , Ann Bancroft

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1930 two novice paddlers--Eric Sevareid and Walter C. Port--launched a secondhand 18-foot canvas… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

2. Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894

By: Daniel James Brown

3.80

Format: 220 pages,

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3. Call of the Wild

By: Guy Grieve

3.48

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Guy Grieve's life was going nowhere - trapped in a job he hated, commuting 2,000 miles a month and … read more

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4. Dear Jacob: A Mother's Journey of Hope

By: Patty Wetterling

4.60

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

With stunning detail, Patty Wetterling shares the untold story of the 27-year search for her son Ja… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. Girl Gone Missing (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #2)

By: Marcie R. Rendon

3.98

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Nothing in Renee Blackbear’s world had prepared her for college or for the hurt that happens in the… read more

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"But this is the country I know. This Valley. This river. This flat land that goes on forever. The dang wind chill every winter. The wind blowing across this prairie we bend over and walk into. We get…"

-Marcie R. Rendon, Girl Gone Missing (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #2)

"Happens more than we want to know. There are Indian kids, just like your brother, heck just like me, all over this Valley. Fostered out, adopted out, working their fingers to the bone--heck, many of …"

-Marcie R. Rendon, Girl Gone Missing (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #2)

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6. Sinister Graves (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #3)

By: Marcie R. Rendon

3.97

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Set in 1970s Minnesota on the White Earth Reservation, Pinckley Prize–winner Marcie R. Rendon’s gri… read more

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7. The End of Drum-Time

By: Hanna Pylväinen

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An epic love story in the vein of Cold Mountain and The Great Circle, about a young reindeer herder… read more

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8. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

By: Hampton Sides

4.51

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

By: Melissa L. Sevigny

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, acc… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. The Long Call (Two Rivers, #1)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.95

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outsi… read more

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"His thoughts were wheeling and dipping like the gulls over the estuary, groping for an explanation, feeling at last he was making sense of what lie behind Walden's death..."

-Ann Cleeves, The Long Call (Two Rivers, #1)

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11. Murder on the Red River (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #1)

By: Marcie R. Rendon

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Set in 1970s along Red River Valley, Marcie R. Rendon's gripping new mystery follows the life of a … read more

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12. Forsaken Country (Detective Max Rupert, #5)

By: Allen Eskens

4.24

Format: None pages, Audiobook

11 hours, 9 minutes Three fathers collide far beyond the reach or safety of the law in this bre… read more

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13. Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America

By: Steve Inskeep

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Writing history is a relay, which is also true of history itself. We build, if we can, on the legacies that are left us."

-Steve Inskeep, Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America

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14. The Girls Left Behind

By: Emily Gunnis

4.24

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Dear Daisy, I miss you so much. I'm sorry I broke my promise to never be separated from you. I have… read more

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15. The Prospectors

By: Ariel Djanikian

3.67

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping rags-to-riches story of survival and greed across American history following a family tr… read more

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"How easy it was to adjust to extravagance."

-Ariel Djanikian, The Prospectors

"Secrets have a way of nudging against their enclosures and bumping playfully against the walls."

-Ariel Djanikian, The Prospectors

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16. Doorman Wanted

By: Glenn R. Miller

4.33

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Henry Franken has a problem with money-he has too much of it. When his unprincipled father dies, th… read more

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17. Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A disappearance and a dead body put Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twe… read more

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18. Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters

By: Cary J. Griffith

3.88

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

Stories from survivors of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness’s epochal weather disaster   O… read more

Similar categories in Cary J. Griffith's Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters book and Cary J. Griffith's Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters

  • history
  • outdoors
  • nonfiction
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19. Last Entry Point: Stories of Danger and Death in the Boundary Waters

By: Joe Friedrichs

4.17

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Hypothermia, lightning strikes, high winds, medical emergencies, miscalculations—the dangers are re… read more

Similar categories in Joe Friedrichs's Last Entry Point: Stories of Danger and Death in the Boundary Waters book and Cary J. Griffith's Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters

  • nonfiction
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20. Where They Last Saw Her

By: Marcie R. Rendon

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From the award-winning author of the Cash Blackbear series, a harrowing novel of a Native American … read more

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Cover of Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry by Austin Frerick

21. Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry

By: Austin Frerick

4.20

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyo… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

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4.26

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4.60

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4.37

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