An Ocean Apart, a World Away
8 best books like An Ocean Apart, a World Away (Lensey Namioka): The Diary of a Bookseller, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, The Genius of Language: Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongue, Where I Want to Be, He Said, She Said, The Repeat Year, Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs: Soft Tissues and Hard Science, Pretty Fierce
The Diary of a Bookseller
| Author | Shaun Bythell |
| ISBN | 1781258627 |
Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost ... In these...
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
| Author | Lynne Truss |
| ISBN | 1592402038 |
In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss, gravely concerned about our current grammatical state, boldly defends proper punctuation. She proclaims, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful...
The Genius of Language: Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongue
| Author | Wendy Lesser |
| ISBN | 1400033233 |
Fifteen outstanding writers answered editor Wendy Lesser’s call for original essays on the subject of language–the one they grew up with, and the English in which they write.Despite American assumptions about polite Chinese discourse, Amy Tan believes that there was nothing discreet about...
| Author | Adele Griffin |
| ISBN | 0399237836 |
Once, Jane was the big sister, teaching Lily to play make believe and protecting her from thunderstorms. But then Lily grew up. She started making friends and dating boys, while Jane wanted to go on playing make believe forever. For Jane, the line between fantasy and reality had always blurred, whereas...
Sparks will fly in this hip-hop-hot teen novel that mixes social protest and star-crossed romance, from Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Honor–winning author Kwame Alexander! He Said, She Said is perfect for fans of Walter Dean Myers and Rachel Vail alike.
He says: Omar "T-Diddy" Smalls...
| Author | Andrea Lochen |
| ISBN | 0425263134 |
Everyone has days, weeks, even months they wish they could do over—but what about an entire year? After living through the worst twelve months of her life, intensive care nurse Olive Watson is given a second chance to relive her past and attempt to discover where she went wrong…
After...
| Author | Phillip Manning |
| ISBN | 1426202199 |
Many of us have seen dinosaur bones and skeletons, maybe even dinosaur eggs...but what did those fearsome animals really look like in the flesh? Soft-tissue fossils give tantalizing clues about the appearance and physiology of the ancient animals. In this exciting book, paleontologist Phillip...
Kaia has been on the run her whole life. The daughter of professional assassins, she knows true danger—and she’ll do anything to survive. After her parents vanished during a job gone bad, Kaia’s spent the last year in hiding, trying to blend in as an ordinary teenager, and there’s no one who makes...
