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A Month of Sundays: Searching for the Spirit and My Sister

10 best books like A Month of Sundays: Searching for the Spirit and My Sister (Julie Mars): Sacred Time, George W. Bushisms: The Slate Book of Accidental Wit and Wisdom of Our 43rd President, My Life in Orange, The Little Locksmith, A Quiet Storm, The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000, The Meaning of Consuelo, Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos, The Song of Names, My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath

Sacred Time
AuthorUrsula Hegi
ISBN0743255992
The bestselling author of Stones from the River delivers her most ambitious and dramatic novel yet -- the unforgettable story of an endearing, but also flawed, Italian American family. In December 1953 Anthony Amedeo's world is nested in his Bronx neighborhood, his parents' Studebaker, the Paradise...
George W. Bushisms: The Slate Book of Accidental Wit and Wisdom of Our 43rd President
AuthorJacob Weisberg
ISBN0743222229
They misunderestimated me."

Or did they?

Judge for yourself. Here are over 100 memorable misstatements by our syntactically challenged president, collected, annotated, and introduced by Slate magazine's Jacob Weisberg.

"I know the human being and fish can coexist...
My Life in Orange
AuthorTim Guest
ISBN1862077207
At the age of six, Tim Guest was taken by his mother to a commune modeled on the teachings of the notorious Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. The Bhagwan preached an eclectic doctrine of Eastern mysticism, chaotic therapy, and sexual freedom, and enjoyed inhaling laughing gas, preaching from a dentist's...
The Little Locksmith
AuthorKatharine Butler Hathaway
ISBN1558612394
The Little Locksmith, Katharine Butler Hathaway's luminous memoir of disability, faith, and transformation, is a critically acclaimed but largely forgotten literary classic brought back into print for the first time in thirty years. The Little Locksmith begins in 1895 when a specialist straps...
A Quiet Storm
AuthorRachel Howzell Hall
In this vividly written, suspense-driven novel, the secrets shared between two sisters erupt in tragedy. Rikki Moore was always the star of the family, easily outshining her younger sister, Stacy, at every turn. Smart, kind, and beautiful, it was no surprise when Rikki met and married the perfect...
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000
AuthorGore Vidal
Like his National Book Award—winning United States, Gore Vidal’s scintillating ninth collection, The Last Empire, affirms his reputation as our most provocative critic and observer of the modern American scene. In the essays collected here, Vidal brings his keen intellect, experience, and...
The Meaning of Consuelo
AuthorJudith Ortiz Cofer
ISBN0807083879
The Signe family is blessed with two daughters. Consuelo, the elder, is thought of as pensive and book-loving, the serious child-la niña seria-while Mili, her younger sister, is seen as vivacious, a ray of tropical sunshine. Two daughters: one dark, one light; one to offer comfort and consolation,...
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos
AuthorJulia de Burgos
ISBN1880684241
Song of the Simple Truth (Canción de la verdad sencilla) is the first bilingual edition of Julia de Burgos' complete poems. Numbering more than 200, these poems form a literary landmark—the first time her poems have appeared in a complete edition in either English or Spanish. Many of the verses...
The Song of Names
AuthorNorman Lebrecht
ISBN1400034892
Martin Simmonds’ father tells him, “Never trust a musician when he speaks about love.” The advice comes too late. Martin already loves Dovidl Rapoport, an eerily gifted Polish violin prodigy whose parents left him in the Simmonds’s care before they perished in the Holocaust. For a time the...
My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath
AuthorSeymour M. Hersh
ISBN0394714504
Investigative journalist Hersh made one of his earliest splashes documenting the My Lai atrocity at the height of the Vietnam War; this short, angry book summarizes his research and findings. Unfortunately for modern readers, it's a leftist polemic that spends as much time trashing the American...
Novels, 1930-1942: Dance Night / Come Back to Sorrento / Turn, Magic Wheel / Angels on Toast / A Time to Be Born
AuthorDawn Powell
ISBN1931082014
For decades after her death, Dawn Powell's work was out of print, cherished by a small band of admirers. Only recently has there been renewed awareness of the novelist who was such a vital presence in literary Greenwich Village from the 1920s to the 1960s. With these two volumes, The Library of America...
Extravagance
AuthorGary Krist
ISBN0767913310
William Tobias Merrick, an energetic young man from the provinces, travels to the big city in a time of great optimism and ferment, hoping to make his mark on a frenzied, money-crazed society obsessed with the promise of new technologies.

The city in question is London in the 1690s; but it is...
Quattrocento
AuthorJames N. McKean
ISBN0385721307
Matt O’Brien, an assistant curator and art restorer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has always been passionate about the Italian Renaissance. But when he discovers a long-neglected portrait of a beautiful woman among the museum’s miles of storage bins, he becomes obsessed--and not only because...
Rescuing Patty Hearst: Growing Up Sane in a Decade Gone Mad
AuthorVirginia Holman
ISBN0743255496
A startling memoir of a daughter's harrowing sojourn in the prison of her mother's mind and a moving portrait of a young woman defined by her mother's illness -- until at last she rekindles a family love that had lost its way.

"1974 was a bad year to go crazy," Virginia Holman writes in this astonishing,...
Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature
AuthorJan Lars Jensen
ISBN0786715626
This book isn't the typical book I'd read, but my husband gave it to me for Christmas because I'm a writer. I enjoyed the book, but it's not something I'd read again. It was a quick read (it took me a few months because I put it down to read other books). Sometimes when I read it before sleeping, I'd have dreams...
Pushkin: A Biography
AuthorT.J. Binyon
ISBN1400076528
In the course of his short, dramatic life, Aleksandr Pushkin gave Russia not only its greatest poetry–including the novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin–but a new literary language. He also gave it a figure of enduring romantic allure–fiery, restless, extravagant, a prodigal gambler and inveterate...
My Life As Author And Editor
AuthorH.L. Mencken
ISBN0679413154
While it does include a very telling look into the life of Mencken and his inner circle of aristocratic literary society, this memoir is very rough and incoherent at times. He includes an insane amount of trivial detail that would bore even the most devoted of Menckophiles--such as hyperspecific details...
Molière: A Biography
AuthorHobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor
ISBN0548869707
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...
Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals
AuthorAnne Collet
ISBN1571312447
Tales about the author's encounters with cetaceans and pinnipeds. While stories of this ilk have the potential to veer off into "new agey" territory, these absolutely do not. Collet is a marine biologist and in addition to describing various events in straightforward terms, she also uses her book...
The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion
AuthorJim Irvin
ISBN1841954381
The non-Classical long-player had a good commercial run, and The MOJO Collection, compiled by writers for the UK-published MOJO Magazine, chronologically assembles more than 1,700 definitive LP titles from the format’s history. Using brief but informative essays to highlight each album’s...
The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition
AuthorDonald Kagan
ISBN0801499402
Why did the Peace of Nicias fail to reconcile Athens and Sparta? In the third volume of his landmark four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing of the peace treaty and the destruction of the Athenian expedition to Sicily in 413 B.C. The principal...
The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age
AuthorPhilip N. Meyer
ISBN0826215688
For more than thirty years the newspaper industry has been losing readers at a slow but steady rate. News professionals are inclined to blame themselves, but the real culprit is technology and its competing demands on the public's time. The Internet is just the latest in a long series of new information...
Just a Couple of Days
AuthorTony Vigorito
ISBN0156031221
"Just a Couple of Days may be the most unusual, the most original novel I have ever read." —TOM ROBBINS

"A lyrical, thoughtful, viral meme of a book. Read it!"
—CHRISTOPHER MOORE

Join cult favorite Tony Vigorito in his award-winning underground hit chronicling the party...
The Song Reader
AuthorLisa Tucker
ISBN0743497007
Sure, we were a small family, but it wasn't lonely. We had the endless stream of my sister's customers and, of course, the music. Every day, all day, our stereo would play and Mary Beth would talk about the lyrics, what they really meant.
Leeann lives with her beautiful older sister -- the world's first...
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