A Book of Light: When a Loved One Has a Different Mind
10 best books like A Book of Light: When a Loved One Has a Different Mind (Jerry Pinto): 4,000 Years of Uppity Women: Rebellious Belles, Daring Dames, and Headstrong Heroines Through the Ages, The Wish, Sparkle Boy, Shapeshifters: A Journey Through the Changing Human Body, Bipolar Battle Plan: Fighting the War Against Bipolar Disorder, Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution, Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad, Be Faithful Unto Death, Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers, Turn Your Pain Into Art
4,000 Years of Uppity Women: Rebellious Belles, Daring Dames, and Headstrong Heroines Through the Ages
| Author | Vicki León |
| ISBN | 1606710869 |
Since ancient times, irrepressible women have broken all kinds of barriers. They ruled. They invented. They cured people. They killed people. They ran cities and businesses. The won races, athletic and political. They explored. They bankrolled explorers. They even bankrolled religions. Almost...
This is my first taste of this author. Taste as this is a short story prequel to a series. I'm not sure, going in, if this will be a full short story, a scene, a few scenes loosely connected, or what. (oh, the forward, which I had already been looking at, said 'vignette').
This is 0.5 of the L.A. Metro...
| Author | Lesléa Newman |
| ISBN | 1620142856 |
Casey loves to play with his blocks, puzzles, and dump truck, but he also loves things that sparkle, shimmer, and glitter. When his older sister, Jessie, shows off her new shimmery skirt, Casey wants to wear a shimmery skirt too. When Jessie comes home from a party with glittery nails, Casey wants glittery...
Shapeshifters: A Journey Through the Changing Human Body
| Author | Gavin Francis |
| ISBN | 1541697529 |
From birth to death, a lyrical exploration of the role of transformation in human life
To be alive is to be in perpetual metamorphosis: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, physician and writer Gavin Francis considers the inevitable changes all of our bodies undergo--such as...
Bipolar Battle Plan: Fighting the War Against Bipolar Disorder
| Author | Troy Gillem |
| ISBN | 1475998678 |
"Bipolar Battle Plan by Troy Gillem is a no-holds-barred view of bipolar disorder. Gillem offers riveting first-hand descriptions of his own episodes and those of people he interviewed. Gillem provides an aggressive action plan to manage one's symptoms and life in general, covering everything...
Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution
| Author | Julia Alekseyeva |
| ISBN | 1621069699 |
Born in 1910 to a poor, Jewish family outside of Kiev, Lola lived through the Bolshevik revolution, a horrifying civil war, Stalinist purges, and the Holocaust. She taught herself to read, and supported her extended family working as a secretary for the notorious NKVD (which became the KGB) and later...
| Author | Christina Henry De Tessan |
| ISBN | 1580050700 |
For generations, literary figures from Ernest Hemingway to Frances Mayes have fueled our fantasies about the romance of expatriate life. But it’s one thing to dream about living abroad and quite another to actually do it. In Expat a diverse group of women explores in vivid detail how the reality of...
| Author | Zsigmond Móricz |
| ISBN | 1858660602 |
Written by Hungary's greatest modern novelist, Be Faithful Unto Death is the moving story of a bright and sensitive schoolboy growing up in an old, established boarding school in the city of Debrecen in eastern Hungary. Misi, a dreamer and would-be writer, is falsely accused of stealing a winning lottery...
| Author | Jane Robinson |
| ISBN | 0192802011 |
Real ladies do not travel - or so it was once said. This new collection of women's travel dispels that myth, with amusing and thrilling extracts which prove that there are few corners of the world not visited by lady travelers. Isabella Bird, Karen Blixen, Christina Dodwell, Jan Morris, Dervla Murphy,...
In this hilarious, candid, and warm debut, Icon For Hire vocalist Ariel Bloomer bares her soul and shares her struggles, coupling accessible autobiography with practical advice and inspiration for navigating the messiest parts of life.
From growing up a passionate but troubled spiritual...
The Loom of Time: A Selection of His Plays and Poems
| Author | Kālidāsa |
| ISBN | 0140455213 |
Kalidasa was the most accomplished poet and playwright in classical Sanskrit literature. This collection features his best-known work: the great poem Meghadutam (The Cloud Messenger), a haunting depiction of longing and separation; the play Sakuntala, which describes the troubled love between...
| Author | Neil Miller |
| ISBN | 1555838707 |
A unique and hugely absorbing narrative history of gay life—from Oscar Wilde to the first gay marriage performed in San Francisco in 2004—by the award-winning journalist and distinguished author of Out in the World and Sex- Crime Panic. Miller accompanies his narrative with essays and excerpts...
| Author | Edna O'Brien |
| ISBN | 0297855530 |
byron is just not that into you. it doesnt matter what you do - hes just not that into you. he might put his baby in you, but he will leave you as soon as you start going into labor and return later only to shoot bottles in your living room while you strain and bleed to produce a creature he will hardly look at. because...
| Author | Douglas Murray |
| ISBN | 0340767707 |
There is a vogue these days for biographies of minor, peripheral characters who lived on the margins of literary greatness: Tennyson's wife, for instance, or Dickens' mistress.
This new biography of Lord Alfred Douglas, the son of the Marquess of Queensbury and, most scandalously, the lover...
| Author | James Herriot |
| ISBN | 0330443569 |
The Yorkshire dales have never seemed more beautiful for James - now he has a lovely wife by his side, a partner's plate on the gate and the usual menagerie of farm animals, pets and owners demanding his constant attention and teaching him a few lessons along the way.
All of the old Darrowby friends...
The Inner History of Devices
| Author | Sherry Turkle |
| ISBN | 0262201763 |
For more than two decades, in such landmark studies as The Second Self and Life on the Screen, Sherry Turkle has challenged our collective imagination with her insights about how technology enters our private worlds. In The Inner History of Devices, she describes her process, an approach that reveals...
My Isl@m: How Fundamentalism Stole My Mind - And Doubt Freed My Soul
| Author | Amir Ahmad Nasr |
| ISBN | 1250016797 |
Amir Ahmad Nasr is a young Muslim man with something explosive in his hands: a computer connected to the Internet. And it has the power to help ignite a revolution and blow apart the structures of ignorance and politicized indoctrination that too often still imprison the Muslim mind.
Part memoir,...
Rick Steves' Germany 2013
| Author | Rick Steves |
| ISBN | 1612383939 |
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Germany.
This guidebook takes you from fairy-tale castles, alpine forests, and quaint villages to the energetic Germany of today. Get the details on cruising the romantic Rhine or summiting the Zugspitze....
My Favourite Nature Stories
| Author | Ruskin Bond |
| ISBN | 8129137682 |
"Once you have lived with mountains, there is no escape. You belong to them."
Kicked off the 2018 Reading Challenge and our very own Indian Readers' IR challenge with this profoundly simple and beautiful collection. Ruskin Bond's love for the hills and all wonderful things surrounding them...
A Shot At History: My Obsessive Journey to Olympic Gold
| Author | Abhinav Bindra |
| ISBN | 9350291126 |
About the Book: A Shot at History This revised and updated edition brings the shooters life up to date and adds to the book his experience at the London Olympics in 2012. Abhinav Bindras journey to becoming the first Indian to win an individual Olympic gold, and the first Indian to win a world championship...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Vol. 1
"I spent all my time wondering 'what if,' then one day I woke up and I was 33." She's not that bad-looking, but before she knew it, Rinko was thirty-something and single. She wants to be married by the time the Tokyo Olympics roll around in six years, but...that might be easier said than done! The new series...
Who Is to Blame? A Russian Riddle
| Author | Jane Marlow |
| ISBN | 1632991047 |
Beverly Hills Book Awards Finalist in Historical Fiction
Who is to Blame? is a historical saga of two families—one born of noble heritage and the other bound as serfs to the noble’s household. Set during the mid-1800s in the vast grainfields of Russia, Who Is to Blame? follows the lives...
What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing
Editing is an invisible art where the very best work goes undetected. Editors strive to create books that are enlightening, seamless, and pleasurable to read, all while giving credit to the author. This makes it all the more difficult to truly understand the range of roles they inhabit while shepherding...
| Author | Ben Okri |
| ISBN | 1784081477 |
This novel takes us on a journey, a magical, and a literal one. A tightly knit group of filmmakers travel from Paris together to make a documentary. Unknown to themselves they carry a lot of unwanted baggage - fear, anger, jealousy, love.
When they arrive in an idyllic Swiss village ringed by...
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform
| Author | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore |
| ISBN | 1849350884 |
Gay culture has become a nightmare of consumerism, whether it's an endless quest for Absolut vodka, Diesel jeans, rainbow Hummers, pec implants, or Pottery Barn. Whatever happened to sexual flamboyance and gender liberation, an end to marriage, the military, and the nuclear family? As backrooms...
