Confessions of a Turtle Wife
10 best books like Confessions of a Turtle Wife (Anita Salzberg): The Iron Wire, Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited: AIDS and Its Aftermath, My Pet Virus: The True Story of a Rebel Without a Cure, Eavesdropping, A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned from her Student, Visions and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDS, Conscience: Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One Family--a Test of Will and Faith in World War I, Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life, Dog-Ma, the Zen of Slobber, That's Mr. Faggot to You: Further Trials from My Queer Life
| Author | Garry Kilworth |
| ISBN | 1500779423 |
In 1870 an enterprise began in Australia that was breathtaking in its ambition: to construct a single galvanised iron wire between Adelaide and Darwin, crossing two thousand miles of virtually unexplored wilderness. This was the Overland Telegraph Line, using local trees as poles, thousands of...
Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited: AIDS and Its Aftermath
| Author | Andrew Holleran |
| ISBN | 0786720395 |
Andrew Holleran’s Ground Zero, first published in 1988 and consisting of 23 Christopher Street essays from the earliest years of the AIDS crisis, was hailed by the Washington Post as “one of the best dispatches from the epidemic’s height.” Twenty years later, with HIV/AIDS long recognized...
| Author | Shawn Decker |
| ISBN | 1585425257 |
I was destined for a life of medical drama from day one," begins this comic memoir with a mission. "I was born in the month of July, and my horoscope sign is a disease (Cancer). The symbol for Cancer? A crab (the sexually transmitted critter). Not only that, my parents named me Shawn Timothy Decker, which...
| Author | Stephen Kuusisto |
| ISBN | 0393349586 |
Blind people are not casual listeners. Blind since birth, Stephen Kuusisto recounts with a poet's sense of detail the surprise that comes when we are actively listening to our surroundings. There is an art to eavesdropping. Like Annie Dillard's An American Childhood or Dorothy Allison's One or Two...
| Author | Elizabeth Stone |
| ISBN | 1565123158 |
One morning, a box was delivered to Elizabeth Stone's door. It held ten years of personal diaries and a letter that began "Dear Elizabeth, You must be wondering why I left you my diaries in my will. After all, we have not seen each other in over twenty years . . ." What followed was a remarkable year in Elizabeth's...
| Author | Dale Peck |
| ISBN | 1616954418 |
Novelist and critic Dale Peck's latest work, part memoir, part extended essay, is a foray into what the author calls 'the second half of the first half of the AIDS epidemic'. Reminiscent of Joan Didion's The White Album and Kurt Vonnegut's Palm Sunday, Visions and Revisions has been assembled from over...
It is not surprising that the World War I experiences of Norman Thomas (1884-1968) form a major part of Louisa Thomas' new book: This long-lived peace advocate was, after all, the author's great grandfather and a six-time Socialist presidential candidate. Conscience does pay due attention to her...
In Beg, Borrow, Steal Michael Greenberg regales us with his wry and vivid take on the life of a writer of little means trying to practice his craft or simply stay alive. He finds himself doctoring doomed movie scripts; selling cosmetics from an ironing board in front of a women's department store; writing...
Dog-Ma, the Zen of Slobber
| Author | Barbara Boswell Brunner |
Medalist in the 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Awards and listed as a Beck Valley Top 10 Reviewer Choice. Barbara's vivid and dramatic stories, told with a wicked sense of humor, will make you laugh out loud. She definitely gets what living with rescued dogs (nine of them!) is all about.
When...
| Author | Michael Thomas Ford |
| ISBN | 1555834965 |
In That's Mr. Faggot to You, Michael Thomas Ford continues his exploration of contemporary gay life. He does not shy away from personal revelations--he recalls his own traumatic high school experiences but recognizes that, years later, he's happier and, more importantly, a great deal more attractive...
Diary of a Penguin-napper
| Author | Sally Harris |
| ISBN | 0987416308 |
3 weeks ...
2 boys ...
1 little penguin ...
What could possibly go wrong?
When 11 (and a half) year old Marty is partnered up with Jessica on the overnight science trip, he thinks all of this dreams are about to come true. It's his big chance to impress the most beautiful girl in...
Feeding Eden: The Trials and Triumphs of a Food Allergy Family
| Author | Susan Weissman |
| ISBN | 1402781229 |
Imagine rushing your child to the hospital, terrified for his life…just because he took a mouthful of the wrong food or a few drops of milk touched his skin. Susan Weissman knows how that feels. From birth, her son Eden suffered from allergies so intense that an errant bite could be deadly: Dairy, eggs,...
| Author | Frank Spinelli |
| ISBN | 0758291329 |
In his stunningly honest and poignant memoir, Frank Spinelli recounts a childhood marked by trauma and of finding the courage that ultimately transformed his life. . .
Frank Spinelli grew up on Staten Island in the 1970s to Italian-born parents who viewed cops and priests as second only to...
The Jewel Garden: A Story of Despair and Redemption
The face of British gardening Monty Don and his wife Sarah tell the magical story of the garden they have built over the last decade THE JEWEL GARDEN is the story of the garden that over the past decade has bloomed from the muddy fields around the Dons' Tudor farmhouse, a perfect metaphor for the Monty and...
Washing Cars & Wasting Time
Have you ever been given the impromptu offer to buy a crossbow from a random stranger? Has your life ever been threatened over $1.75 in quarters? Can you say that you have ever been so bored that sifting through broken glass and cigarette butts constituted an accepted pastime? Those are just a sampling...
Ann Cleeves' bestselling series of crime novels, featuring Detective Jimmy Perez, and now also adapted for a major BBC television series, draw their inspiration from the place in which they take place: Shetland.
An archipelago of more than a hundred islands, it is the one of the most remote...
The Bride Price (An African Romance, #1)
A teenage girl, Myrna Chitundu, dreams of becoming a doctor someday. She dreams of leaving the dusty African town of Blancville behind her and really changing the world, but she knows it will take a lot of hard work. Her hard work pays off when she is admitted to the Royal Academy – the first girl to ever...
Stairlift to Heaven (The journal of an OAP.) Don’t miss this one!. Although Stairlift to Heaven is written by an old age pensioner, non-coffin dodgers should not be put off by this. Everyone will be old someday, if they’re lucky, and there are valuable lessons in coping with old age to be learned here....
My name is Jessica Scott. I am a soldier. I am a mother. I am a wife.
In 2009, Army second lieutenant Jessica Scott deployed to Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn. She thought deploying was the hardest thing she'd ever do.
She was wrong.
This is...
Leadership: Building Highly Effective Teams How to Transform Teams into Exceptionally Cohesive Professional Networks - a practical guide (Leadership Influence Project and Team Book 1)
Smart Concise Empowering - An Amazon Bestseller - NEW 3rd edition
** Leadership: building highly effective teams is a breakthrough practical guide to creating more powerful teams! Updated advanced edition includes a REAL, nowhere else found, trainer step by step two day workshop description...
| Author | Eric Arvin |
| ISBN | 1615816747 |
Can the idyllic simplicity of a garden change a life forever? It's a question three men on a vacation to the small seaside town of Beechwood will find the answer to when they stay at a B&B with an expansive and breathtakingly beautiful garden. A garden with an air of the supernatural. Jerry's there...
| Author | Olaudah Equiano |
| ISBN | 0141025441 |
In an adventurous and extraordinary life, Equiano (c.1745-c.1797) criss-crossed the Atlantic world, from West Africa to the Caribbean to the USA to Britain, either as a slave or fighting with the Royal Navy. His account of his life is not only one of the great documents of the abolition movement, but...
When widow Sally Lightfoot hits 50 she joins the Land of the Invisible where even street charity chuggers avoid her. So her crazy, rock chick friend's challenge to get back out there and lose her wididity, her born-again virginity, falls on deaf ears. Why would she want to go through the dating hell her...
Minimize Me: 10 Diets to Lose 25 lbs in 50 Days
The autobiographical tale of a serial crash-dieter who came up with a cunning plan to overcome the monotony of dieting. Andy realised that every diet he had ever been on had failed because he got bored.
What if he were to tackle the boredom head on? Surely he would have a better chance of success...
The Seven Streets of Liverpool
| Author | Maureen Lee |
| ISBN | 1409140628 |
Historically accuracy wise, I think this has a lot of truth to it but it also misses things out like the agricultural rules and the government’s attitudes towards having your own vegetable gardens. But besides that, this is a very good character driven story that is *so Liverpool*. And I looked up about...
