Books like Kepler's Witch by James A. Connor

Eyewitness account of the 1996 Mount Everest tragedy, detailing the climbers’ perilous ascent, descent, and the catastrophic events that shaped the deadliest season in the mountain’s history.

Garry Wills’s complete Penguin Classics translation of Augustine of Hippo’s spiritual classic, capturing the original’s philosophical depth and poetic power in clear, contemporary language.

Gandhi's autobiography is a profound exploration of his non-violent resistance to racism and colonialism, as well as his efforts to seek purity and truth through simple living and spiritual devotion.

Jack Weatherford’s Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World traces the rise of Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire, showing how its conquests and governance reshaped trade, technology and law across Eurasia.

A meticulously researched chronicle of Patty Hearst’s 1974 kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army and the ensuing legal and cultural storm, revealing the American media frenzy and the emergence of the term “Stockholm syndrome.”

Mildred Kalish shares her childhood on an Iowa farm during the Great Depression, blending humor, family traditions, and practical lessons about farm life, recipes, and resilience.

A concise biography of German astronomer Johannes Kepler, chronicling his discovery of the three laws of planetary motion and his impact on science.

While her mother undergoes radical cancer treatment, eleven-year-old Ella stays with her father's mother in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she learns about grammar and family history, and helps investigate the theft of an extremely rare book from her grandmother's library.

Shooting Stars follows LeBron James and his childhood teammates on their journey from the streets of Akron, Ohio, to a national high‑school basketball championship, highlighting teamwork, perseverance, and the challenges of growing up in inner‑city America.

Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick, titans of the Gilded Age, clash over power, profit, and labor as their partnership turns into rivalry, culminating in the blood‑shed Homestead strike of 1892.

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of Copernicus's sun-centered universe, he famously discovered that planets move in ellipses, and defined the three laws of planetary motion. Perhaps less well known is that in 1615, when Kepler was at the height of his career, his widowed mother Katharina was accused of witchcraft. The proceedings led to a criminal trial that lasted six years, with Kepler conducting his mother's defense. In 'The Astronomer and the Witch', Ulinka Rublack pieces together the tale of this extraordinary episode in Kepler's life, one which takes us to the heart of his changing world. First and foremost an intense family drama, the story brings to life the world of a small Lutheran community in the centre of Europe at a time of deep religious and political turmoil-- a century after the Reformation, and on the threshold of the Thirty Years' War. Kepler's defense of his mother also offers us a fascinating glimpse into the great astronomer's world view, on the cusp between Reformation and scientific revolution. While advancing rational explanations for the phenomena which his mother's accusers attributed to witchcraft, Kepler nevertheless did not call into question the existence of magic and witches. On the contrary, he clearly believed in them. And, as the story unfolds, it appears that there were moments when even Katharina's children wondered whether their mother really did have nothing to hide ...

Socio‑researcher Sudhir Venkatesh infiltrates a Chicago crack‑dealing gang, documenting urban poverty and crime from within.

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An insightful biography of Thomas Jefferson, placing him within America's history and exploring his legacy in the context of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment and the American Revolution.

A compelling look at the rise and fall of the Fox sisters and the birth of Spiritualism in America, blending historical narrative with supernatural elements.