Amy's Eyes
10 best books like Amy's Eyes (Richard Kennedy): East, Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise, The Subtle Knife, Pigs in Heaven, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, Stranger Things Happen, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, The Invisible Girls, The Second Assistant: A Tale from the Bottom of the Hollywood Ladder
| Author | Edith Pattou |
| ISBN | 0152052216 |
Rose has always been different. Since the day she was born, it was clear she had a special fate. Her superstitious mother keeps the unusual circumstances of Rose's birth a secret, hoping to prevent her adventurous daughter from leaving home... but she can't suppress Rose's true nature forever. So when...
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
| Author | Ruth Reichl |
| ISBN | 0143036610 |
Ruth Reichl, world-renowned food critic and editor in chief of Gourmet magazine, knows a thing or two about food. She also knows that as the most important food critic in the country, you need to be anonymous when reviewing some of the most high-profile establishments in the biggest restaurant town...
The second instalment in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, join Lyra as her terrifying journey continues.
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She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy?
The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer.
When she saw the answer, she relaxed at once.
Lyra...
| Author | Barbara Kingsolver |
| ISBN | 0571171788 |
Mother and adopted daughter, Taylor and Turtle Greer, are back in this spellbinding sequel about family, heartbreak and love.
Six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam during a tour of the Grand Canyon with her guardian, Taylor. Her insistence on what she has...
| Author | Sarah Ban Breathnach |
| ISBN | 0446519138 |
With the grace of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift From the Sea and the wisdom of M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled, Simple Abundance is a book of 366 evocative essays - one for every day of your year - written for women who wish to live by their own lights.
In the past a woman's spirituality has been seperated...
| Author | Kelly Link |
| ISBN | 1931520003 |
This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange, and wonderful territory. The girl detective must go to the underworld to solve...
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
| Author | H.P. Lovecraft |
| ISBN | 1450562795 |
”One night I had a frightful dream in which I met my grandmother under the sea. She lived in a phosphorescent palace of many terraces, with gardens of strange leprous corals and grotesque brachiate efflorescences, and welcomed me with a warmth that may have been sardonic. She had changed--as those...
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
| Author | Novella Carpenter |
| ISBN | 1594202214 |
Novella Carpenter loves cities-the culture, the crowds, the energy. At the same time, she can't shake the fact that she is the daughter of two back-to-the-land hippies who taught her to love nature and eat vegetables. Ambivalent about repeating her parents' disastrous mistakes, yet drawn to the idea...
| Author | Sarah Thebarge |
| ISBN | 1455523917 |
Twenty-seven-year-old Sarah Thebarge had it all - a loving boyfriend, an Ivy League degree, and a successful career - when her life was derailed by an unthinkable diagnosis: aggressive breast cancer. After surviving the grueling treatments - though just barely - Sarah moved to Portland, Oregon to...
The Second Assistant: A Tale from the Bottom of the Hollywood Ladder
| Author | Clare Naylor |
| ISBN | 0452286107 |
A fast-paced, breezy read about life at the bottom of the Hollywood food chain
No political science degree could ever prepare Elizabeth Miller for her new job as a second assistant at The Agency, whose clients include everyone you’ve never met—but you know who they’re sleeping with. A...
