Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds

9 best books like Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds (Billy Collins): The Portrait of a Lady, A Lethal Inheritance: A Mother Uncovers the Science behind Three Generations of Mental Illness, Wade in the Water: Poems, All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, Yeats: The Man and the Masks, Losing My Mind: An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's, The Aran Islands, Twenty Years A-Growing, Making Bombs for Hitler

The Portrait of a Lady

Author	Henry James
ISBN	0141439637

When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. She then finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond,...

A Lethal Inheritance: A Mother Uncovers the Science behind Three Generations of Mental Illness

Author	Victoria Costello
ISBN	1616144661

Every family has secrets; only some secrets are lethal. In Victoria Costello's family mental illness had been given many names over at least four generations until this inherited conspiracy of silence finally endangered the youngest members of the family, her children.

In this riveting...

Wade in the Water: Poems

Author

Tracy K. Smith

Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection

The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States Even the men in black armor, the ones
Jangling handcuffs and keys, what elseAre they...

All Souls: A Family Story from Southie

Author

Michael Patrick MacDonald

Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in "the best place in the world"--the Irish-American Old Colony projects of South Boston--where 85% of the residents collect welfare in an area with the highest concentration of impoverished whites in the U.S.

In All Souls, MacDonald takes us deep into the...

Yeats: The Man and the Masks

Author	Richard Ellmann
ISBN	0393008592

Alternate Cover Edition can be found here.

One of the most influential poets of his age, W.B. Yeats eluded the grasp of many who sought to explain him. His life was complex in both its outer and inner events. Yeats's mystical concerns, such as his involvement with spiritualism and construction...

Losing My Mind: An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's

Author	Thomas DeBaggio
ISBN	0743205669

"We are foolish, those of us who think we can escape the traps of aging," writes Tom DeBaggio. "I was one of them, dreaming of a perfect and healthy old age....Now, at fifty-eight, I realize the foolishness of my dreams as I watch my brain self-destruct from Alzheimer's." Losing My Mind is DeBaggio's extraordinary...

The Aran Islands

Author	J.M. Synge
ISBN	0140184325

In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World. The Aran Islands, published in the same year, records his visits to the islands in 1898-1901, when he was gathering the folklore and anecdotes out of which he forged The Playboy and his other major dramas.

Yet...

Twenty Years A-Growing

Author	Maurice O'Sullivan
ISBN	1879941392

A powerful, rich, and funny book about a young man's childhood on the Great Blasket island off the west coast of Ireland. I enjoy visualizing the magical scenery where his stories are set. His humor is so understated that it sometimes takes a second read to catch it -- his wit is dry, but his characters are...

Making Bombs for Hitler

Author

Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Lida thought she was safe. Her neighbors wearing the yellow star were all taken away, but Lida is not Jewish. She will be fine, won't she?

But she cannot escape the horrors of World War II.

Lida's parents are ripped away from her and she is separated from her beloved sister, Larissa. The...