Confessions of a Teenage Baboon
10 best books like Confessions of a Teenage Baboon (Paul Zindel): Winesburg, Ohio, Brideshead Revisited, I Am the Cheese, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide, That Was Then, This Is Now, Deenie, Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe, Plato: A Very Short Introduction, Aristotle: A Very Short Introduction
| Author | Sherwood Anderson |
| ISBN | 0192839772 |
zut, alors! i don't even know where to begin. i had such a complicated reaction to this book. am i the only person who didn't find this depressing?? this book is life - it is tender and gentle and melancholy and real. not everything works out according to plan here, but what ever does? that's not necessarily...
| Author | Evelyn Waugh |
| ISBN | 0316926345 |
The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian...
| Author | Robert Cormier |
| ISBN | 0141300515 |
But I keep pedaling, I keep pedaling...
A photograph of Robert Cormier will show you an old man with a kind face, who was born and grew up in a small town of Leominster in Massachusetts which he never left, who graduated from a private catholic school and wrote articles for the local newspaper....
Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide
| Author | Richard Dawkins |
| ISBN | 1787631214 |
Should we believe in God? In this new book, written for a new generation, the brilliant science writer and author of The God Delusion, explains why we shouldn't.
Should we believe in God? Do we need God in order to explain the existence of the universe? Do we need God in order to be good? In twelve...
That Was Then, This Is Now
| Author | S.E. Hinton |
| ISBN | 0140389660 |
Does growing up have to mean growing apart?
Since childhood, Bryon and Mark have been as close as brothers. Now things are changing. Bryon's growing up, spending a lot of time with girls, and thinking seriously about who he wants to be. Mark still just lives for the thrill of the moment. The two...
| Author | Judy Blume |
| ISBN | 0689866100 |
When Deenie finds out that she has scoliosis, she’s scared. When she sees the brace for the first time, she wants to scream.
But the words won't come out. And Deenie, beautiful Deenie, who everyone says should be a model, is stuck wearing a brace from her neck to her hips. For four years—or...
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
| Author | David D. Burns |
| ISBN | 0380810336 |
The good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other "black holes" of depression can be cured without drugs. In Feeling Good, eminent psychiatrist, David D. Burns, M.D., outlines the remarkable, scientifically proven techniques that will immediately...
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
| Author | Roger McNamee |
| ISBN | 0525561358 |
The story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it.
If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself...
This lively and accessible book focuses on the philosophy and argument of Plato's writings, drawing the reader into Plato's way of doing philosophy and the general themes of his thinking. It discusses Plato's style of writing: his use of the dialogue form, his use of what we today call fiction, and his...
| Author | Jonathan Barnes |
| ISBN | 0192854089 |
The influence of Aristotle, the prince of philosophers, on the intellectual history of the West is second to none. In this book, Jonathan Barnes examines Aristotle's scientific researches, his discoveries in logic and his metaphysical theories, his work in psychology and in ethics and politics,...
| Author | Clyde Robert Bulla |
| ISBN | 9992829362 |
Published ahead of my time, "The Ghost Of Windy Hill" has remained among my possessions since I was about age 7. Having transitioned to "Nancy Drew", Laura Ingalls Wilder, and V.C Andrews a few years thereafter; I’m puzzled by 20 year-olds sticking to 'young adult' material! I must have been enchanted...
