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História, História: Two Years in the Cape Verde Islands

10 best books like História, História: Two Years in the Cape Verde Islands (Eleanor Stanford): Boat Girl: A Memoir of Youth, Love & Fiberglass, Mother and the Tiger: A Memoir of the Killing Fields, Alice Fantastic, The Gods Drink Whiskey: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment in the Land of the Tattered Buddha, Pedal, Attic Clowns, American Gangbang: A Love Story, Radical Reinvention: An Unlikely Return to the Catholic Church, Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians, Funereal

Boat Girl: A Memoir of Youth, Love & Fiberglass
AuthorMelanie Neale
"Boat Girl" is the heart-breaking memoir of growing up aboard a sailboat. Throughout the 1980's and 90's, Melanie's family lived aboard a 47-foot sailboat, spending their summers along the US East Coast and their winters in the Bahamas. But the cruising life was not all fun in the sun. The family had...
Mother and the Tiger: A Memoir of the Killing Fields
AuthorDana Hui Lim
ISBN1922200107
In 1969 the small Asian nation of Cambodia was under attack: first by US bombers as the Vietnam war spilled over the border, and then by the Khmer Rouge as they began their brutal reign of terror. Under the rule of Pol Pot, ordinary city folk were driven from their homes and banished to labour camps that eventually...
Alice Fantastic
AuthorMaggie Estep
"The storytelling has vitality and a spirit of rebellion, giving us hope for the future of all those bad girls with dirty faces and bad boys on bikes."—The New York Times

"There is about Maggie Estep's work a directness, a clear determination—a drive to cut through, to break through, to...
The Gods Drink Whiskey: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment in the Land of the Tattered Buddha
AuthorStephen T. Asma
ISBN0060834501
This is a great read that I stumbled upon while frittering time away on Amazon several years ago. Asma is a professor at Columbia College in Chicago and this book is an account of his year living in Phnom Penh, Cambodia teaching Buddhism to a group of Cambodian students. The book, though, is really about...
Pedal
AuthorChelsea Rooney
ISBN1927575567
“Chelsea Rooney has written a novel that is simultaneously lacerating and deeply empathetic. It confronts difficult material in a frank and unflinching manner, yet remains grounded in an abiding authorial intelligence. Pedal marks the debut of a hugely promising writer.”

–Steven...
Attic Clowns
AuthorJeremy C. Shipp
ISBN0984751912
BEWARE THE CLOWNS IN THE ATTIC—LEST YOU BECOME ONE YOURSELF!

Bram Stoker Award nominee Jeremy C. Shipp spins 13 tales of horror and dark humor in this highly conceptual collection. Angels and demons, husbands and wives, tormented ghosts and an army of men made of soap—all of them trapped...
American Gangbang: A Love Story
AuthorSam Benjamin
ISBN1451627785
A thoughtful, hilarious, and compulsively readable memoir by an Ivy League graduate-turned-pornographer who sets out to bring sophistication and equality to sexual cinema—only to find that he can’t change porn, but porn can certainly change him.American Gangbang heralds the arrival...
Radical Reinvention: An Unlikely Return to the Catholic Church
AuthorKaya Oakes
ISBN1593764316
As someone who clocked more time in mosh pits and at pro-choice rallies than kneeling in a pew, Kaya Oakes was not necessarily the kind of Catholic girl the Vatican was after. But even while she immersed herself in the punk rock scene and proudly called herself an atheist, something kept pulling her back...
Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians
AuthorJustin Martin
ISBN0306822261
In the shadow of the Civil War, a circle of radicals in a rowdy saloon changed American society and helped set Walt Whitman on the path to poetic immortality.

Rebel Souls is the first book ever written about the colorful group of artists— regulars at Pfaff’s Saloon in Manhattan—rightly...
Funereal
AuthorGiacomo Lee
ISBN9881219817
Soobin Shin is an aspiring young woman in a near-future version of Seoul. Ever since her college graduation, she has struggled to escape from her dead-end job in a doughnut chain. Her twin sister Hyewon is one of Korea’s most recognizable models, but Soobin just can’t seem to find her lucky break…...
Chance in Hell
AuthorGilbert Hernández
ISBN1560978333
Gilbert Hernandez's first original graphic novel from Fantagraphics follows on the heels of his acclaimed graphic novel, Sloth, from DC's Vertigo Comics in 2006. Chance in Hell tells the story about a little orphan girl who lives in the slum of slums. Nobody knows who she is or where she's from, but her...
The Nervous System
AuthorNathan Larson
ISBN1617750794
Decimal, attempting to clean up loose ends after the violent events in the first book, stumbles upon information concerning the gruesome murder of a prostitute and a prominent US senator's involvement. Immediately he finds himself chasing ghosts and fighting for his life, pursued by Blackwater-style...
Condominium
AuthorDaniel Falatko
ISBN1939987369
Charles and Sarah are a typical New York creative class couple -- he's in finance, she works at a hipster small press, yet both are indie-rock East Village veterans who aren't above snorting a little heroin on the weekends. But when they decide to take the logical next step and buy a condo in one of the glass-and-steel...
The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong
AuthorLeland Cheuk
The Pongs are an American immigrant family that has seen it all. They helped build the transcontinental railroads of the Victorian Age. They were mistakenly interned with Japanese-Americans during World War II. They may even have co-invented the landmark video game that bears the family's last name....
I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams
AuthorMark Dery
ISBN0816677735
From the cultural critic Wired called “provocative and cuttingly humorous” comes a viciously funny, joltingly insightful collection of drive-by critiques of contemporary America where chaos is the new normal. Exploring the darkest corners of the national psyche and the nethermost regions...
Barney: Grove Press and Barney Rosset, America's Maverick Publisher and His Battle against Censorship
AuthorMichael Rosenthal
ISBN1628726504
An impetuous outsider who delighted in confronting American hypocrisy and prudery, Barney Rosset liberated American culture from the constraints of Puritanism. As the head of Grove Press, he single-handedly broke down the laws against obscenity, changing forever the nature of writing and publishing...
American Transcendentalism: A History
AuthorPhilip F. Gura
ISBN0809034778
The First Comprehensive History of Transcendentalism
 
American Transcendentalism is a comprehensive narrative history of America's first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined American literature and indelibly marked American reform in the decades before and...
Burn Collector: Collected Stories from One Through Nine
AuthorAl Burian
A compilation of the first nine issues of the author’s sporadically published and widely acclaimed personal zine, this volume reflects the do-it-yourself attitude of the 1990s punk music scene and includes humorous anecdotes, philosophical musings, and nuanced descriptions of odd locales...
Leaving Mundania: Inside the Transformative World of Live Action Role-Playing Games
AuthorLizzie Stark
ISBN1569766053
Exposing a subculture often dismissed as “geeky” by mainstream America, Leaving Mundania is the story of live action role-playing (LARP). A hybrid of games—such as Dungeons & Dragons, historical reenactment, fandom, and good old-fashioned pretend—larp is thriving, and this book...
Ancient Brews: Rediscovered and Re-created
AuthorPatrick E. McGovern
ISBN0393356442
Interweaving archaeology and science, Patrick E. McGovern tells the enthralling story of the world’s oldest alcoholic beverages and the cultures that created them. Humans invented heady concoctions, experimenting with fruits, honey, cereals, tree resins, botanicals, and more. These “liquid...
The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues
AuthorJohn Strausbaugh
ISBN0062078194
Cultural commentator John Strausbaugh's The Village is the first complete history of Greenwich Village, the prodigiously influential and infamous New York City neighborhood.

From the Dutch settlers and Washington Square patricians, to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and Prohibition-era...
Birding on Borrowed Time
AuthorPhoebe Snetsinger
ISBN1878788418
From the publisher: The posthumously published memoirs of the woman who saw more birds in her lifetime than any other human being in the history of the world. Phoebe's quest to see as many birds as possible only began at the age of 34, when she first laid eyes on a resplendent Blackburnian Warbler. After...
The Angela's Ashes/'Tis Boxed Set
AuthorFrank McCourt
ISBN0743204018
Quite possibly the most perfect holiday gift -- a beautiful boxed collection of two prizewinning, perennial bestselling modern classics: "Angela's Ashes" and "'Tis." With almost 8 million copies of Frank McCourt's books in print, fans just can't get enough of their favorite author. From the heartwrenching...
Dietrich Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives
AuthorKarin Wieland
ISBN1631492284
Born at the dawn of the twentieth century, Leni Riefenstahl and Marlene Dietrich both came of age in Weimar Berlin, a time of great political ferment. Glamour and decadence thrived beside abject poverty, and the German capital’s outpouring of literature, fashion, and film marked it as the most vital...
The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock
AuthorDavid Weigel
ISBN0393356027
The Show That Never Ends is the definitive story of the extraordinary rise and fall of progressive (“prog”) rock. Epitomized by such classic, chart-topping bands as Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, and Emerson Lake Palmer, along with such successors as Rush, Marillion, Asia, Styx, and...
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