Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States
8 best books like Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States (Pete Jordan): The Ten Thousand Doors of January, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed, Deadeye Dick, In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution, The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth, Jim Thorpe, Original All-American, Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America (Free Press), Letters from an American Farmer
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
| Author | Alix E. Harrow |
| ISBN | 0316421995 |
In the early 1900s, a young woman embarks on a fantastical journey of self-discovery after finding a mysterious book in this captivating and lyrical debut.
In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke,...
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
| Author | John Vaillant |
| ISBN | 0393328643 |
When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. Five months earlier, logger-turned-activist Grant Hadwin had plunged naked into a river in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands,...
| Author | Kurt Vonnegut |
| ISBN | 0385334176 |
Deadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegut’s funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors—a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb—Rudy Waltz, aka Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany...
| Author | Susan Brownmiller |
| ISBN | 0385314868 |
Male-only admissions policies. Back-alley abortions. The pervasive belief that rape was a woman's fault. These were the shocking conditions that stirred students, mothers, businesswomen, and grandmothers to activism in the latter half of the twentieth century. In this stirring memoir, Susan...
The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth
| Author | Leigh Montville |
| ISBN | 0385514379 |
He was the Sultan of Swat. The Caliph of Clout. The Wizard of Whack. The Bambino. And simply, to his teammates, the Big Bam. From the award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Ted Williams comes the thoroughly original, definitively ambitious, and exhilaratingly colorful biography of...
Jim Thorpe, Original All-American
| Author | Joseph Bruchac |
| ISBN | 0803731183 |
Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes who ever lived. He played professional football, Major League Baseball, and won Olympic gold medals in track & field. But his life wasn’t an easy one. Born on the Sac and Fox Reservation in 1887, he encountered much family tragedy, and was sent as a young...
Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America (Free Press)
| Author | Sara M. Evans |
| ISBN | 0684834987 |
In opening the section on Women and Modernity, 1890-1920, Evans sets the scene for the response to industrialization by relating the speech given by the black reformer Frances Harper at the 1893 World's Fair at Chicago. Speaking to the role that women could play in the future of America, she was all to...
Letters from an American Farmer
| Author | J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur |
| ISBN | 0192838989 |
Written by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, the Letters from an American Farmer (1782) posed the famous question: "What, then, is the American, this new man?," as a new nation took shape before the eyes of the world. Addressing some of American literature's most pressing concerns and identity...
