Books like Rough and Ready by Elizabeth Oldfield

In 2044, teenager Wade Watts lives for the virtual utopia OASIS, where he hunts legendary puzzles from old pop culture for a hidden prize that could change the world.

Jared Diamond explains how geography, biology, and human ingenuity shaped the world’s unequal societies in his Pulitzer‑winning study of civilization and social evolution.

A collection of linked short stories that follows a platoon of American soldiers and their experiences, thoughts, and burdens during the Vietnam War.

Italian banker Bruno Falcucci swoops into a bank where Martine works, intent on conquering her even as she resists his advances.

When Jemma meets the charismatic Leon Stephanades, she finds love that burns fiercely—but a no‑strings agreement turns into a painful choice, forcing her to decide whether devotion can survive the cost of letting him go.

Emily Seymour falls in love with a professor, but he seems to be planning a winter wedding for a different woman.

John Keegan’s authoritative history of the Great War traces the political failures, battlefield campaigns, and human cost that reshaped Europe and the world.

Miss Phillipa "Pippa" Cranville, a headstrong beauty, refuses an arranged match and courts the charming Mr. Sidney Ottway, despite her guardian Sir Anthony Seymour-Croft's warnings, setting a lively Regency romance in motion.

In a high‑stakes love story, a hardened street warrior teams with an ambitious physician to protect youth and fight injustice—unearthing a fierce, hopeful bond that tests their courage and destiny.

Nothing made any sense to Ginny ! She'd been dutifully helping one of her domestic agency's clients by running 17 children to school--then wham! Not only was Ginny kidnapped along with the children by their dynamically attractive uncle Ross Hamilton--even worse, she was being treated as if she and the children's father were the criminals. There seemed to be no escape from this man who'd suddenly disrupted her life--though Ginny tried. And by then, she wasn't sure she wanted to!

Raphael explains the central purpose of his "people's history" thusly: "By uncovering the stories of farmers, artisans, and laborers, we discern how plain folk helped create a revolution strong enough to evict the British Empire from the thirteen colonies. And by digging deeper still, we learn how people with no political standing -- women, Native Americans, African Americans -- altered the shape of a war conceived by others." After carefully reconstructing the histories of all these groups, he concludes: "The story of our nation's founding, told so often from the perspective of the 'founding fathers,' will never ring true unless it can take some account of the Massachusetts farmers who closed the courts, the poor men and boys who fought the battles, the women who followed the troops, the loyalists who viewed themselves as rebels, the pacifists who refused to sign oaths of allegiance, the Native Americans who struggled for their own independence, the southern slaves who fled to the British, the northern slaves who negotiated their freedom by joining the Continental Army". Raphael's account rings true: these people made the American Revolution. - Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh.

She just had to do something Nicole didn't know quite how Chase Tarrant had managed to persuade her boss, Aston, to part with his new racing sloop. She was quite convinced, though, that it wasn't honestly. Although Aston didn't seem prepared to take any action, Nicole just wasn't going to sit idly by, especially when she knew Chase was going to race Enchantress from Florida to Barbados. By a fluke, Nicole got herself on board, pretending to be the crew. But that was only the first of a series of errors. Why was it, Nicole fumed, that Chase was always the winner?

"The Rough Riders (1899) is the story of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, the regiment Roosevelt led to enduring fame in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Roosevelt recounts how the regiment was raised from an unusual mixture of hardened southwestern frontiersmen and privileged northeastern college graduates, and how it trained in Texas and then sailed "southward through the topic seas toward the unknown." Writing at a time when war could still be seen as a romantic adventure, Roosevelt describes the confusion of fighting in the jungle; the heat, hunger, rain, mud, and malaria that tested his men; and his "crowded hour" of triumph on the San Juan Heights." "In An Autobiography (1913), Roosevelt recalls his lifelong fascination with natural history, his love of hunting and the outdoors, and his adventures as a cattleman in the Dakota Badlands, as well as his career in politics as a state legislator, civil service reformer, New York City police commissioner, assistant secretary of the navy, governor of New York, and president. Roosevelt writes of his battles against corruption and machine rule, efforts to establish America as a world power, historic achievements in conservation, and his growing conviction that only a strong national government and an energetic presidency could protect the public against the rapacious greed of modern corporations."--BOOK JACKET.