Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films

8 best books like Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films (Stephanie Harrison): Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You, Eating Animals, Pretty Monsters: Stories, Born Under a Lucky Moon, Lovable Lyle, The Great American Pin-Up, Raising Boys: Why Boys Are Different and How to Help Them Become Happy and Well-Balanced Men

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Author	Pablo Neruda
ISBN	0143039962

When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwin's incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text. Now in a black-spine Classics edition with an introduction by Cristina Garcia,...

Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You

Author	Clare Walker Leslie
ISBN	1580174930

Experience the splendor of nature with fresh eyes! Featuring an inspiring portfolio from Clare Walker Leslie’s nature journals, this guide offers easy-to-learn techniques for capturing the world around you in pictures and words. Encouraging you to make journaling a part of your daily routine,...

Eating Animals

Author	Jonathan Safran Foer
ISBN	0316069906

Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. Once he started a family, the moral dimensions of food became increasingly important.
Faced with the prospect of being unable to explain why we eat some animals and not others,...

Pretty Monsters: Stories

Author

Kelly Link

Weird, wicked, spooky and delicious, PRETTY MONSTERS is a book of tall tales to keep you up all night. Blending fairytale, fantasy, horror, myth and mischief in a delicious cocktail, Kelly Link creates a world like no other, where ghosts of girlfriends past rub up against Scrabble-loving grandmothers...

Born Under a Lucky Moon

Author	Dana Precious
ISBN	0061876879

Smart, touching, and utterly engaging, Born Under a Lucky Moon is a polished gem of contemporary women’s fiction—and it boldly announces the arrival of author Dana Precious, who immediately takes her place at the winner’s table beside Rebecca York, Jennifer Weiner, and Rebecca Wells. Not...

Lovable Lyle

Author	Bernard Waber
ISBN	0395253780

This past week I was blessed with a visit from my son and his family. All the way from Wyoming to San Diego. Such a delightful time: beach days, picnics, rollercoaster rides, tide pools, movies on base, photo adventures, and laughs galore. And of course, a trip to the library, where Grammy volunteers,...

The Great American Pin-Up

Author	Charles G. Martignette
ISBN	3822817015

Martignette, Charles, and Louis K. Meisel. The Great American Pin-up. New York ; Köln: Barnes & Noble ; Taschen, 2006. Print.

I quite enjoyed this coffee table book, which left me wanting more. Certainly wanting more pinups and glamour art but also to see the other artworks, including...

Raising Boys: Why Boys Are Different and How to Help Them Become Happy and Well-Balanced Men

Author	Steve Biddulph
ISBN	0890878536

I'm a parent educator and have read dozens of books on boys with a view to which will most help parents. Biddulphs book Raising Boys wins hands down because its readable by parents who don't have a lot of education, but its not dumbed down, he takes the best brain science, education research, and family...