A Pug's Tale
10 best books like A Pug's Tale (Alison Pace): Pulp, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Diary, American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon, The Fever, Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping by and Get Your Financial Life Together, A Dangerous Crossing, A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons, Bingo Love Volume 1: Jackpot Edition
| Author | Robin Talley |
| ISBN | 1488095272 |
In 1955, eighteen-year-old Janet Jones keeps the love she shares with her best friend Marie a secret. It’s not easy being gay in Washington, DC, in the age of McCarthyism, but when she discovers a series of books about women falling in love with other women, it awakens something in Janet. As she juggles...
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
| Author | David Sedaris |
| ISBN | 0965904830 |
David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother’s wedding. He mops his sister’s floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn’t...
| Author | Chuck Palahniuk |
| ISBN | 1400032814 |
Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she’s now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesn’t stop his clients from threatening Misty with lawsuits over...
American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures
From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first-person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures.
America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably...
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon
| Author | Crystal Zevon |
| ISBN | 0060763450 |
When Warren Zevon died in 2003, he left behind both a fanatical cult following and a rich catalog of dark, witty rock-n-roll classics that includes "Lawyers, Guns, and Money," "Excitable Boy," and the immortal "Werewolves of London." He also left a trove of misadventures and anecdotes, a veritable...
| Author | Megan Abbott |
| ISBN | 0316231053 |
In this impossible-to-put-down "panic attack of a novel," a small-town high school becomes the breeding ground for a mysterious illness.
Deenie Nash is a diligent student with a close-knit family; her brother Eli is a hockey star, and her father is a popular teacher. But when Deenie's best...
Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping by and Get Your Financial Life Together
| Author | Erin Lowry |
| ISBN | 0143130404 |
Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck and Get Your Financial Life Together (#GYFLT)!
If you're a cash-strapped 20- or 30-something, it's easy to get freaked out by finances. But you're not doomed to spend your life drowning in debt or mystified by money. It's time to stop scraping by and take control...
| Author | Ausma Zehanat Khan |
| ISBN | 1250096766 |
For Inspector Esa Khattak and Sergeant Rachel Getty, the Syrian refugee crisis is about to become personal. Esa’s childhood friend, Nathan Clare, calls him in distress: his sister, Audrey, has vanished from a Greek island where the siblings run an NGO. Audrey had been working to fast-track refugees...
A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons
| Author | Ben Folds |
| ISBN | 1984817272 |
Ben Folds is a celebrated American singer-songwriter, beloved for songs such as "Brick," "You Don't Know Me," "Rockin' the Suburbs," and "The Luckiest," and is the former frontman of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five. But Folds will be the first to tell you he's an unconventional icon, more normcore...
Bingo Love Volume 1: Jackpot Edition
| Author | Tee Franklin |
| ISBN | 1534309837 |
2019, Texas Library Association's Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List
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It's PARENTS' DAY at the Lumberjanes camp!
Everyone at camp is super excited about the best day of the summer-Parents' Day, when they get to show their folks what they've been up to! Molly seems really worried, though, and even her friends are unsure of how to cheer her up.
This New York...
The Ballad of a Small Player
| Author | Lawrence Osborne |
| ISBN | 0804137978 |
A riveting tale of risk and obsession set in the alluring world of Macau’s casinos, by the author of the critically acclaimed The Forgiven.
As night falls on Macau and the neon signs that line the rain-slick streets come alive, Doyle – “Lord Doyle” to his fellow players – descends...
| Author | John Waters |
| ISBN | 0374251479 |
Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich--and happily horrify readers everywhere.
Role Models is, in fact, a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities--some famous, some unknown,...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer #3
★★★★★ — 5 Stars!
It was full of action and I loved it! Nothing else really to say. .
Buffy the Vampire Slayer #4
★★★★★ — 5 Stars!
A dark chapter in this ongoing saga ends in a cliffhanger leaving me dying for the next one. .
| Author | Martin Walker |
| ISBN | 1849161216 |
Martin Walker's Bruno, Chief of Police series is an acquired taste. Once the addiction manifest itself it is difficult to escape.
Truffles. How to propagate them, find them, eat them, and most of all, with the help of our police chief, how to cook them. Selling them is a story on its own. This black...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 9, Volume 2
| Author | Andrew Chambliss |
| ISBN | 1616557168 |
When Buffy is unemployed and killing fewer vampires than ever, a group of Slayer-driven special forces called Deepscan gives her hope for a more prosperous future. But Buffy can’t resist her slaying instincts in a new world where not all bad things are…bad. The world keeps changing, and the Slayer...
Buffy: Season Nine Library Edition Volume 3 (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
I really missed Spike as he was only a minor player in Buffy season 9. Let's face it, he is amazing. I did, however, like to interaction between Buffy and Illyria. I like when Angel characters interact with Buffy characters. I do wish that Illyria and Spike had have interacted. I loved their relationship....
