Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
10 best books like Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? (David Rutledge): Everything Under, The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York, The Snowy Day, Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, The Little Engine That Could, 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel, Dances with Wolves, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
| Author | Daisy Johnson |
The dictionary doesn’t contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking...
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
| Author | Deborah Blum |
| ISBN | 1594202435 |
The Snowy Day
| Author | Ezra Jack Keats |
| ISBN | 0140501827 |
No book has captured the magic and sense of possibility of the first snowfall better than The Snowy Day. Universal in its appeal, the story has become a favorite of millions, as it reveals a child's wonder at a new world, and the hope of capturing and keeping...
Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
| Author | Benjamin Dreyer |
| ISBN | 0812995708 |
As authoritative as it is amusing, this book distills everything Benjamin Dreyer has...
| Author | George Saunders |
| ISBN | 0099595818 |
Have you ever driven by a car wreck and slowed down to see the emergency response vehicles, and the vehicle made to look like a damaged accordion?
Have you ever watched a reality...
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
| Author | Judi Barrett |
| ISBN | 0689707495 |
“Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” is a cult classic children’s book by Judi Barrett along with illustrations by Ron Barrett and it is about a magical town called Chewandswallow (chew and swallow, get it?) where food just falls from the sky and provides people with everything they need....
The Little Engine That Could
| Author | Watty Piper |
| ISBN | 0448405202 |
It was one of many books scattered atop our bright red plastic-‘n-steel tabletop, and she was cataloguing them for her new Public Library!
It was a bright red-letter year for us kids, too, that year - a real Book Bonanza.
And...
| Author | Jane Smiley |
| ISBN | 1400040590 |
In her inimitable style–exuberant, candid, opinionated–Smiley explores...
| Author | Michael Blake |
| ISBN | 0449000753 |
Dances With Wolves film poster.
I HAD watched Kevin Costner’s Dances With Wolves in the late ’90s and had loved it. I finally got to read Michael Blake’s novel a few days back and loved it as much. By the way, it is the first Western that I have read after the early seventies when as a schoolboy...
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
| Author | George Saunders |
| ISBN | 1594481520 |
The Year Money Grew on Trees
| Author | Aaron Hawkins |
| ISBN | 0547279779 |
| Author | Annie Sanders |
| ISBN | 0446697281 |
| Author | Dan Baum |
After Hurricane Katrina, Dan Baum moved to New Orleans to write about the city’s response to the disaster for The New Yorker. He quickly realized that Katrina was not the most...
| Author | Rob Walker |
| ISBN | 1891053019 |
| Author | Michael Ferrari |
| ISBN | 0385737157 |
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
| Author | George Saunders |
| ISBN | 1932416374 |
The Second Assistant: A Tale from the Bottom of the Hollywood Ladder
| Author | Clare Naylor |
| ISBN | 0452286107 |
No political science degree could ever prepare Elizabeth Miller for her new job as a second assistant at The Agency, whose clients include everyone you’ve never met—but you know who they’re sleeping with. A...