Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History
9 best books like Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History (George Howe Colt): The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures, The Last Book Party, American Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt, Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South, The Chelsea Girls, The Lobster Chronicles: Life on a Very Small Island, Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural, Berlin, Alay-Oop: Life and Love Among the Acrobats, Told Entirely in Pictures
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
| Author | Anne Fadiman |
| ISBN | 0374525641 |
Lia Lee was born in 1982 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epilepsy. By 1988 she was living at home but was brain dead after a tragic cycle of misunderstanding, over-medication, and culture clash: "What the doctors viewed as clinical efficiency the Hmong viewed as...
| Author | Karen Dukess |
| ISBN | 1250225477 |
A propulsive tale of ambition and romance, set in the publishing world of 1980’s New York and the timeless beaches of Cape Cod.
In the summer of 1987, 25-year-old Eve Rosen is an aspiring writer languishing in a low-level assistant job, unable to shake the shadow of growing up with her brilliant...
American Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt
| Author | Stephanie Marie Thornton |
| ISBN | 0451490908 |
A sweeping novel from renowned author Stephanie Marie Thornton...
Alice may be the president's daughter, but she's nobody's darling. As bold as her signature color Alice Blue, the gum-chewing, cigarette-smoking, poker-playing First Daughter discovers that the only way for a woman to...
Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South
| Author | Deborah Gray White |
| ISBN | 0393314812 |
Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society. This new edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the scholarship on slave...
From Fiona Davis, the nationally bestselling author of The Dollhouse and The Address, the bright lights of the theater district, the glamour and danger of 1950s New York, and the wild scene at the iconic Chelsea Hotel come together in a dazzling new novel about the twenty-year friendship that...
| Author | Linda Greenlaw |
| ISBN | 0786885912 |
After 17 years at sea, Linda Greenlaw decided it was time to take a break from being a swordboat captain, the career that would earn her a prominent role in Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm and a portrayal in the subsequent film. Greenlaw decided to move back home, to a tiny island seven miles off the...
| Author | Ronald C. White Jr. |
| ISBN | 0743212991 |
As the day for Lincoln's second inauguration drew near, Americans wondered what their sixteenth president would say about the Civil War. Would Lincoln guide the nation toward "Reconstruction"? What about the slaves? They had been emancipated, but what about the matter of suffrage? When Lincoln...
| Author | Jason Lutes |
| ISBN | 1770463267 |
"If there was ever any doubt of a graphic novel’s ability to achieve a high level of storytelling, this book blows it away."—Newsday
"Astonishing in its scope, breadth and execution."—The Independent
Twenty years in the making, this sweeping masterpiece charts Berlin through...
Alay-Oop: Life and Love Among the Acrobats, Told Entirely in Pictures
. A story told in pictures: an opera singer weds a female acrobat, makes her leave show business; later, her old partner comes back and convinces her to leave her husband (with her two twin children). In the end, the singer sells fruit on the street, the male acrobat is a steel worker, and the woman and her...
