5 Top nonfiction books like To Brave Every Danger: Epic Life of Mary Bryant by Judith Cook

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To Brave Every Danger: Epic Life of Mary Bryant

By: Judith Cook

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

Mary Bryant was a Cornish fisherman's daughter turned highway robber, a convict sentenced to death …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in To Brave Every Danger: Epic Life of Mary Bryant by Judith Cook , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Papillon

By: Henri Charrière

4.23

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

Henri Charrière, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris i… read more

Similar categories in Henri Charrière's Papillon book and Judith Cook's To Brave Every Danger: Epic Life of Mary Bryant

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"The important thing was that we were alive..."

-Henri Charrière, Papillon

"Everybody was stark naked, day and night. Luckily it was hot. They let me wear socks."

-Henri Charrière, Papillon

"You don't have to be a graduate of Saint-Cyr to know that all wrecks end up on shore."

-Henri Charrière, Papillon

"My heart was flooded with warmth: at last I had escaped from the road down the drain, and now it was for good."

-Henri Charrière, Papillon

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2. Marking Time (Cazalet Chronicles, #2)

By: Elizabeth Jane Howard

3.44

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

The wonderful sequel to The Light Years returns readers to Britain in September, 1939, as war break… read more

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3. The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and a 50 Year Search

By: Martin Sixsmith

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Judi Dench: the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoma… read more

Similar categories in Martin Sixsmith's The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and a 50 Year Search book and Judith Cook's To Brave Every Danger: Epic Life of Mary Bryant

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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4. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

By: Elisabeth Tova Bailey

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Bailey s… read more

Similar categories in Elisabeth Tova Bailey's The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating book and Judith Cook's To Brave Every Danger: Epic Life of Mary Bryant

  • biography
  • nonfiction
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5. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory

By: Ben Macintyre

4.25

Format: 127 pages,

In 1943, from a windowless London basement office, two intelligence officers conceived a plan that … read more

Similar categories in Ben Macintyre's Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory book and Judith Cook's To Brave Every Danger: Epic Life of Mary Bryant

  • history
  • nonfiction

6. Cold Comfort Farm

By: Roz Chast , Lynne Truss , Stella Gibbons

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of Bri… read more

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7. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)

By: Rachel Joyce

3.68

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

A novel of unsentimental charm, humor, and profound insight into the thoughts and feelings we all b… read more

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8. Tell No One

By: Harlan Coben

4.48

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived… read more

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9. Blood Work (Harry Bosch Universe, #8; Terry McCaleb #1)

By: Michael Connelly

4.02

Format: 240 pages,

New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly presents his most ambitious, most gripping achie… read more

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Cover of The Dark Hours (Renée Ballard, #4; Harry Bosch, #23; Harry Bosch Universe, #36) by Michael    Connelly

10. The Dark Hours (Renée Ballard, #4; Harry Bosch, #23; Harry Bosch Universe, #36)

By: Michael Connelly

4.39

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Has a killer lain dormant for years only to strike again on New Year’s Eve? LAPD Detective Renée Ba… read more

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11. All the Broken Places (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, #2)

By: John Boyne

4.50

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for dec… read more

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12. In Memoriam

By: Alice Winn

4.53

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more

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"It’s intimate."

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Call me Sidney,"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Where’s the rest of it?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Do you believe in magic?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

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13. El libro negro de las horas (Kraken, #1)

By: Eva García Sáenz de Urturi

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Alguien que lleva muerto cuarenta años no puede ser secuestrado y, desde luego, no puede sangrar. … read more

Similar categories in Eva García Sáenz de Urturi's El libro negro de las horas (Kraken, #1) book and Judith Cook's To Brave Every Danger: Epic Life of Mary Bryant

"Una cuna de páginas te adormece cada noche."

-Eva García Sáenz de Urturi, El libro negro de las horas (Kraken, #1)

"No hay premio ni aplauso al final del camino, no vivas la vida de otros."

-Eva García Sáenz de Urturi, El libro negro de las horas (Kraken, #1)

"Los patrones se repiten desde que el mundo es mundo. Ese es el poder de las historias: advertirnos. Todo está en los libros. Todo está ya escrito."

-Eva García Sáenz de Urturi, El libro negro de las horas (Kraken, #1)

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14. The Keeper of Stories

By: Sally Page

4.08

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

She can’t recall what started her collection. Maybe it was in a fragment of conversation overheard … read more

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"Perhaps guilt is like a disease. You can have it without knowing you do."

-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

"I think it's in people stories that you discover the best of what we can be."

-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

"I don't think guilt asks for permission to come in. I don't think it knocks and waits politely on the mat."

-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

"I figured out long ago that if I listen to the few people who shout at me, I'm making them more important than they are. What they say will stay with me, upset me, and those loud voices would go on a…"

-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

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15. The Satsuma Complex

By: Bob Mortimer

3.68

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more

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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."

-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex

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16. The Survivors

By: Jane Harper

3.76

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Coming home dredges up deeply buried secrets... Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day… read more

Similar categories in Jane Harper's The Survivors book and Judith Cook's To Brave Every Danger: Epic Life of Mary Bryant

  • australia
Cover of Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1) by Kerry Greenwood

17. Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)

By: Kerry Greenwood

3.84

Format: 185 pages, Kindle Edition

The London season is in full fling at the end of the 1920s, but the Honorable Phryne Fisher (she of… read more

Similar categories in Kerry Greenwood's Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1) book and Judith Cook's To Brave Every Danger: Epic Life of Mary Bryant

  • australia
"Had she been at all used to blushing, she would have blushed, but she wasn't, so she didn't."

-Kerry Greenwood, Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)

"In here, Phryne, is the nursery. Do you like babies? Phryne laughed. No, not at all. they are not aesthetic like a puppy or a kitten. In fact, they always look drunk to me. look at that one---you'd s…"

-Kerry Greenwood, Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)

Cover of To Brave Every Danger: Epic Life of Mary Bryant by Judith Cook

18. To Brave Every Danger: Epic Life of Mary Bryant

By: Judith Cook

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

Mary Bryant was a Cornish fisherman's daughter turned highway robber, a convict sentenced to death … read more

Similar categories in Judith Cook's To Brave Every Danger: Epic Life of Mary Bryant book and Judith Cook's To Brave Every Danger: Epic Life of Mary Bryant

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of Dead Lions (Slough House, #2) by Mick Herron

19. Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

By: Mick Herron

4.11

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed… read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Dead Lions (Slough House, #2) book and Judith Cook's To Brave Every Danger: Epic Life of Mary Bryant

"It’s a phrase, black swan,"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"We don’t like being out of the loop."

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"Arkady Pashkin said “Why aren’t we moving?"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"I’m sure he’s hard at work on the archive,"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

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4.36

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