A Southern Exposure
9 best books like A Southern Exposure (Alice Adams): My Name Is Asher Lev, Anna of Kleve: The Princess in the Portrait, The Gift of Asher Lev, The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Cafe, The Essential Rilke, Draußen vor der Tür, Don't Wait Up: Confessions of a Stay-at-Work Mom, Doom Patrol, Volume 1: Brick by Brick, The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
Author | Chaim Potok |
ISBN | 1400031044 |
Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe. Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels even when it leads him to blasphemy. In this stirring and often visionary novel,...
Anna of Kleve: The Princess in the Portrait
Author | Alison Weir |
ISBN | 1101966572 |
Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the little-known story of Henry VIII’s fourth wife, as a grieving king chooses a bride sight unseen in the fourth novel in the epic and intrigue-filled Six Tudor Queens series.
Newly widowed and the father of an infant son, Henry...
Author | Chaim Potok |
ISBN | 0449001156 |
"Rivals anything Chaim Potok has ever produced. It is a book written with passion about passion. You're not likely to read anything better this year."
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Twenty years have passed for Asher Lev. He is a world-renowned artist living in France, still uncertain of his artistic direction....
The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Cafe
Author | Mary Simses |
ISBN | 0316225851 |
A high-powered Manhattan attorney finds love, purpose, and the promise of a simpler life in her grandmother's hometown.
Ellen Branford is going to fulfill her grandmother's dying wish--to find the hometown boy she once loved, and give him her last letter. Ellen leaves Manhattan and her Kennedy-esque...
Author | Rainer Maria Rilke |
ISBN | 0060956542 |
German poet Rainer Maria Rilke(1875-1926) enjoys ever-increasing popularity. His Duino Elegies is considered on of the greatest long poems of the twentieth century. Yet translations from his native German have always presented challenges: the elusiveness of Rilke's imagery, the playful...
I'd never heard of Wolfgang Borchert until about a week before Christmas when a European Couple in their twenties came into the store and were asking for books by Ingeborg Bachmann, Max Frisch and a couple of other authors that I like and who are sort of obscure. They then asked for The Man Outside, a book...
Don't Wait Up: Confessions of a Stay-at-Work Mom
Author | Liz Astrof |
ISBN | 1982106956 |
For fans of Let’s Pretend This Never Happened and I Heart My Little A-Holes comes a candid and hilarious collection of essays on motherhood from the award-winning television comedy writer and producer of 2 Broke Girls and The King of Queens, who swears she loves her kids—when she’s not hiding...
Doom Patrol, Volume 1: Brick by Brick
Author | Gerard Way |
ISBN | 1401269796 |
The spirit of Grant Morrison's groundbreaking Doom Patrol is captured in this debut series starring the cult-favorite misfits as a part of Gerard Way's new Young Animal imprint.
Flex Mentallo, Robotman, Rebis, Crazy Jane, and more are back to twist minds and take control. This new take on a classic...
The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
Author | Gerard Way |
ISBN | 1595824626 |
Years ago, the Killjoys fought against the tyrannical megacorporation Better Living Industries, costing them their lives, save for one—the mysterious Girl. Today, the followers of the original Killjoys languish in the Desert while BLI systematically strips citizens of their individuality....