Chuckling Whatsit
10 best books like Chuckling Whatsit (Richard Sala): They Called Us Enemy, Cemetery Beach, Even this Page is White, I Am Her Tribe, The Seven Ages, The Wellspring, The Unswept Room, The Orchard, Blood, Tin, Straw, The Hidden Lives of Owls: The Science and Spirit of Nature's Most Elusive Birds
| Author | George Takei |
| ISBN | 1603094504 |
A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself.
Long before George Takei braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke...
| Author | Warren Ellis |
| ISBN | 1534312234 |
A professional pathfinder breaks out of a torture cell, his only ally a disaffected young murderess, in pursuit of his worst extraction scenario ever: escaping on foot across a sprawling and secret off-world colony established a hundred years ago and filled with generations of lunatics. From Warren...
| Author | Vivek Shraya |
| ISBN | 1551526417 |
Amazingly, this is not the first book of poems by a transgender or gender fluid Canadian person-of-color that I've read in the last two weeks (the previous was A Place Called No Homeland, also highly recommended.) Another great read for National Poetry Month.
The subheadings of these poems...
| Author | Danielle Doby |
| ISBN | 1449495559 |
#IAmHerTribe creator Danielle Doby shares her poetry for the first time in a collection long anticipated by her followers.
Positive and powerful, I Am Her Tribe is a collection of poetry drawing on the viral Instagram handle and online hashtag that serves to create moments of connection through...
| Author | Louise Glück |
| ISBN | 0060933496 |
The Seven Ages was written during a ten-week period in the summer of 1999.
The fierce, austerely beautiful, and visionary voice that has become Glück's
trademark speaks in these poems of a life lived in unflinching awareness.
Many of the poems in this collection bear the familiar features...
| Author | Sharon Olds |
| ISBN | 0679765603 |
This is a beautiful collection of poems. Divided into four sections which are merely numbered, but might be crudely labelled: birth, adolescense, adulthood, and death, the poems deal with the stages of human existence, and are bold, stark, erotic, and unflinching in their descriptions of the activities...
| Author | Sharon Olds |
| ISBN | 0375709983 |
From Sharon Olds—a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor.
From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation...
| Author | Brigit Pegeen Kelly |
| ISBN | 1929918488 |
Richly allusive, the poems in Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s The Orchard evoke elements of myth in distinctive aural and rhythmic patterns. Her poetic strength lies in her ability to cast poems as modern myths and allegories. Propelled by patterned repetitions and lush cadences, the poems move the reader...
| Author | Sharon Olds |
| ISBN | 0375707352 |
From Sharon Olds—a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor.
From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation...
The Hidden Lives of Owls: The Science and Spirit of Nature's Most Elusive Birds
| Author | Leigh Calvez |
| ISBN | 1632170264 |
A naturalist probes the forest, mainly at night, to comprehend the secret lives of owls in this book that will appeal to readers of "Crow Planet "and "H is for Hawk." Join Leiigh Calvez on adventures into the world of owls: owl-watching, avian science, and the deep forest often in the dead of night. These...
| Author | Aracelis Girmay |
| ISBN | 1942683022 |
Praise for Aracelis Girmay:
"[Girmay's] every loss—she calls them estrangements—is a yearning for connection across time and place; her every fragment is a bulwark against ruin." —
O, The Oprah Magazine
Taking its name from the moon's dark plains, misidentified as seas...
The Boys, Volume 4: We Gotta Go Now
| Author | Garth Ennis |
| ISBN | 1606900358 |
The Boys plan to flush out more nefarious doings in the superhero world, and this time it's knock-off Charles Xavier who's on the hot seat.
Hughie goes undercover as a member of...well, basically a Great Value version of New Mutant team.
Of course, being Wee Hughie he finds himself...
The Boys, Volume 3: Good For The Soul
| Author | Garth Ennis |
| ISBN | 1933305924 |
In a world where costumed heroes soar through the sky and masked vigilantes prowl the night, someone's got to make sure the "supes" don't get out of line. And someone will. Billy Butcher, Wee Hughies, Mother's Milk, The Frenchman and the Female are The Boys: a CIA-backed team of very dangerous people,...
The Boys, Volume 1: The Name of the Game
| Author | Garth Ennis |
| ISBN | 9133305463 |
THIS IS GOING TO HURT! In a world where costumed heroes soar through the sky and masked vigilantes prowl the night, someone's got to make sure the "supes" don't get out of line. And someone will. Billy Butcher, Wee Hughie, Mother's Milk, The Frenchman and The Female are The Boys: A CIA backed team of very...
The Boys, Volume 2: Get Some
| Author | Garth Ennis |
| ISBN | 1933305681 |
The second volume of the acclaimed series The Boys is here by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson! Dark avenger Tek-Knight and his ex-partner Swingwing are in trouble. Big trouble. One has lost control of his terrifyingly overactive sex-drive, and the other might just be a murderer. It's up to Hughie and...
The lands between the coasts are vast, slow to change, and full of hidden magics. The town of Farmington has been destroyed sending an unwitting adventurer and his vulpine companion in search of answers to quell a coming storm that speaks his name. From author SKOTTIE YOUNG (I HATE FAIRYLAND, DEADPOOL)...
