Black Glass
10 best books like Black Glass (Karen Joy Fowler): The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography, Vampires in the Lemon Grove, In Mad Love and War, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms, The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District, Dying: A Memoir
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
| Author | Simon Singh |
| ISBN | 0385495323 |
In his first book since the bestselling Fermat’s Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo...
Vampires in the Lemon Grove
| Author | Karen Russell |
| ISBN | 0307957233 |
Named a Best Book of the Year by:
The Boston Globe
O, The Oprah Magazine
Huffington Post
The A.V. Club
A Washington Post Notable Book
An NPR Great Read of 2013
From the author of the novel Swamplandia!—a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—comes a magical and...
Joy Harjo is a powerful voice for her Creek (Muscogee) tribe (“a stolen people in a stolen land”), for other oppressed people, and for herself. Her poems, both sacred and secular, are written with the passions of anger, grief, and love, at once tender and furious. They are rooted in the land; they...
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
| Author | Adrienne Maree Brown |
How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls “pleasure activism,” a politics of healing...
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
| Author | Hannah Fry |
| ISBN | 0393357368 |
When it comes to artificial intelligence, we either hear of a paradise on earth or of our imminent extinction. It’s time we stand face-to-digital-face with the true powers and limitations of the algorithms that already automate important decisions in healthcare, transportation, crime, and commerce....
The dramatic events of the Trojan War are legend—but Homer’s epic poem, Iliad, is devoted entirely to a few mundane weeks at the end of a debilitating, waning ten-year campaign. The story’s focus is not on drama but on a bitter truth: both armies want nothing more than to stop fighting and go home....
Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Houston’s ranch becomes her sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of parental...
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
| Author | Adrienne Maree Brown |
| ISBN | 1849352607 |
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent...
The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
| Author | James Rebanks |
| ISBN | 0385682840 |
Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd himself, he and his family have lived and worked in and around the Lake District for generations. Their way of life is ordered by the seasons and the work they demand,...
Cory Taylor is one of Australia’s celebrated novelists, the author of the brilliant Me and Mr Booker (winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Pacific region), and My Beautiful Enemy (shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award).
At the age of sixty, she is dying of melanoma-related brain...
Three brand new short stories by Hugo, Nebula & World Fantasy Award nominated author N.K. Jemisin, set in the world of the Inheritance trilogy.
From the shadows of the greater stories, away from the bright light of Sky and wending 'round the sagas of the Arameri, come three quieter tales....
