Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected
10 best books like Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (Erica Jong): Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment, Shout, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future, Confessions, The Black Sheep, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia, Homage to Catalonia, The Day of the Locust, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver, Mother Courage and Her Children
Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
| Author | Martin E.P. Seligman |
| ISBN | 0743222989 |
A national bestseller, Authentic Happiness launched the revolutionary new science of Positive Psychology—and sparked a coast-to-coast debate on the nature of real happiness.
According to esteemed psychologist and bestselling author Martin Seligman, happiness is not the result...
| Author | Laurie Halse Anderson |
A searing poetic memoir and call to action from the bestselling and award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson!
Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans...
Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
| Author | Pete Buttigieg |
| ISBN | 1631494368 |
Once described by the Washington Post as “the most interesting mayor you’ve never heard of,” Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-seven-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has now emerged as one of the nation’s most visionary politicians. With soaring prose that celebrates a resurgent American...
| Author | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| ISBN | 0192822756 |
In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile, persecuted by governments and alienated from...
| Author | Honoré de Balzac |
| ISBN | 0140442375 |
The novel begins in 1792 with a long and rather dull preamble givinge history to the Rouget family, and as it happens this is vital to understanding the last part of the tale. Agathe Rouget is the daughter of a rather nasty doctor, that seems to be putting it mildly, and Balzac laces the tale of Doctor Rouget...
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
| Author | Christina Thompson |
| ISBN | 0062060872 |
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know.
For more than...
| Author | George Orwell |
| ISBN | 0156421178 |
“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
George Orwell is one of my favourite writers. 1984 and Animal Farm were game-changers for me when I first picked them up at 12 years old, and they fostered an interest in politics...
| Author | Nathanael West |
| ISBN | 0451523482 |
The Day of the Locust is a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream turned into a sun-drenched California nightmare. Nathanael West's Hollywood is not the glamorous "home of the stars" but a seedy world of little people, some hopeful, some despairing, all twisted by...
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
| Author | Mary Oliver |
| ISBN | 0399563245 |
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.
Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted...
Mother Courage and Her Children
Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modern stage, "Mother Courage and Her Children" is Bertolt Brecht's most passionate and profound statement against war. Set in the seventeenth century, the play follows Anna Fierling -- "Mother Courage" -- an itinerant trader, as she pulls...
| Author | Gabriela Mistral |
| ISBN | 0826328180 |
The first Nobel Prize in literature to be awarded to a Latin American writer went to the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral. Famous and beloved during her lifetime all over Latin America and in Europe, Mistral has never been known in North America as she deserves to be. The reputation of her more flamboyant...
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea
| Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| ISBN | 0060763515 |
The winner of the Pushcart Prize, the Kafka Award, and the National Book Award, Ursula K. Le Guin has created a profound and transformational literature. The award-winning stories in A Fisherman of the Inland Sea range from the everyday to the outer limits of experience, where the quantum uncertainties...
| Author | Yusef Komunyakaa |
| ISBN | 0819567396 |
Best known for Neon Vernacular, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, a collection of poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam, Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets. Pleasure Dome gathers the poems in these two distinguished...
| Author | Emily Dickinson |
| ISBN | 1593080506 |
Dickinson’s poetry is remarkable for its tightly controlled emotional and intellectual energy. The longest poem covers less than two pages. Yet in theme and tone her writing reaches for the sublime as it charts the landscape of the human soul. A true innovator, Dickinson experimented freely with...
Dracula, My Love: The Secret Journals of Mina Harker
| Author | Syrie James |
| ISBN | 0061923036 |
Acclaimed Author Syrie James Approaches Bram Stoker's Classic Dracula With A Breathtaking New Perspective-As, For The First Time, Mina Harker Records The Shocking Story Of Her Scandalous Seduction And Sexual Rebirth.
Who is this magnetic, fascinating man? And how could one woman fall...
