Elephi: The Cat with the High IQ
10 best books like Elephi: The Cat with the High IQ (Jean Stafford): The Twenty-One Balloons, The Moon and Sixpence, Love, The Rogue Queen, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Stonekeeper's Curse, The Cloud Searchers, The Last Council, Coraline, Barefoot Gen, Volume One: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima
| Author | William Pène du Bois |
| ISBN | 0140320970 |
One month after graduating from college, I started working. That was in 1984. I am now in my 4th company and except for my paid vacation leaves and rare sick days, I have never been, even a single day, out of the corporate rate race.
27 years of working and trying to earn a living.
I know it...
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| ISBN | 1598185217 |
Based on the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is W. Somerset Maugham's ode to the powerful forces behind creative genius.
Charles Strickland is a staid banker, a man of wealth and privilege. He is also a man possessed of an unquenchable desire to create art. As Strickland pursues his artistic...
| Author | Toni Morrison |
| ISBN | 1400078474 |
Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison’s spellbinding new novel is a Faulknerian symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color and class that spans three generations of black women in a fading beach town.
In life, Bill Cosey enjoyed the affections of many women, who would do almost...
Despite the odds, Kalinda has survived it all: Marriage to a tyrant. Tournaments to the death. The forbidden power to rule fire. The icy touch of a demon.
That same demon now disguises itself as Rajah Tarek, Kalinda’s late husband and a man who has never stopped haunting her. Upon taking control...
| Author | Anthony Hope |
| ISBN | 0140621318 |
Anthony Hope transports his English gentleman hero, Rudolf Rassendyll, from a comfortable life in London to fast-moving adventures in Ruritania, a fictional land steeped in political intrigue. Rassendyll bears a striking resemblance to Rudolf Elphberg who is about to be crowned King of Ruritania....
| Author | Kazu Kibuishi |
| ISBN | 0439846838 |
In this thrilling sequel to AMULET #1: THE STONEKEEPER, Emily and her brother Navin head for Kanalis, a beautiful and mysterious city of waterfalls, where they hope to find the antidote for the poison that felled their mother. That cure lies in the eggs of a giant serpent atop Demon's Head Mountain, but...
| Author | Kazu Kibuishi |
| ISBN | 0545208858 |
An impossible journey with danger at every turn...
Emily, Navin, and their crew of resistance fighters charter an airship and set off in search of the lost city of Cielis. There they hope to find help from the Guardian Council's powerful Stonekeepers. It's a mission that Alledia's survival...
| Author | Kazu Kibuishi |
| ISBN | 0545208874 |
Kazu Kibuishi's thrilling, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling series continues!
Emily and her friends think they'll find the help they need in Cielis, but something isn't right. Streets that were once busy are deserted, and the townspeople who are left live in crippling fear. Emily is escorted to...
When Coraline steps through a door in her family's new house, she finds another house, strangely similar to her own (only better). At first, things seem marvelous. The food is better than at home, and the toy box is filled with fluttering wind-up angels and dinosaur skulls that crawl and rattle their...
Barefoot Gen, Volume One: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima
| Author | Keiji Nakazawa |
| ISBN | 0867196025 |
This harrowing story of Hiroshima was one of the original Japanese manga series. New and unabridged, this is an all-new translation of the author's first-person experiences of Hiroshima and its aftermath, is a reminder of the suffering war brings to innocent people. Its emotions and experiences...
Barefoot Gen, Volume Two: The Day After
Barefoot Gen's autobiographical story - author Keiji Nakazawa was only seven years old when the atomic bomb hit his hometown of Hiroshima - tells of ordinary people dealing with extraordinary situations, both in the last days of World War II and after the nuclear attack. Volume 1 told the story of the...
| Author | Brian W. Aldiss |
| ISBN | 0743445104 |
Having mostly enjoyed Helliconia Spring I thought I would continue on with the trilogy. (I purchased the omnibus edition.)
Events in this book take place several hundred years after the events in 'Spring'. The planet is now at it's closest approach the super giant star that it circles around...
Barefoot Gen, Volume Three: Life After the Bomb
| Author | Keiji Nakazawa |
| ISBN | 0867195940 |
Volumes 1 & 2 were powerful; Volume 3, while good, does not measure up to the other two.
The author shows that those unaffected by the bomb in Hiroshima cruelly shunned those suffering from its effects. They didn't know about radiation but they could see its painful and imminently lethal...
Barefoot Gen, Volume Four: Out of the Ashes
| Author | Keiji Nakazawa |
| ISBN | 0867195959 |
This has probably been my favorite of the Barefoot Gen series so far. The first two books in the series, dealing with the bombing and the immediate results, are easily the most "forever seared into my brain." In them were images that I cannot shake. These were strong for their visual storytelling and I'll...
| Author | José J. Veiga |
| ISBN | 8528601684 |
Manirema bij het vallen van de avond – voorboden, voortekens, geluiden. Aangedragen door de wind, die rond de straathoeken speelt, het onvermijdelijke hondengeblaf en gehuil van baby’s met oorpijn of angst voor het donker. Druk confererende kikkers, ijzer slijpende krekels, vleermuizen...
Poderosa Companhia, assim que se instala na Cidade, a todos os seus habitantes impõe regras de conduta e comportamento. A CIA não admite ser minimamente contrariada em suas rigorosas determinações. Dentro em pouco, o pânico e o medo, o terror e desconfiança, dominam o lugar. Ninguém mais pode...
Barefoot Gen, Volume Five: The Never-Ending War
| Author | Keiji Nakazawa |
| ISBN | 0867195967 |
شهران، شهران بالتمام والكمال لم أذق خلالهما متعة القراءة، كنت كمن فقد روحه، أمضي أيامي في روتين مُهلك يستنزف طاقتي ونفسيتي، حتى أتى ذلك اليوم حين مررت...
Rente mit 40: Finanzielle Freiheit und Glück durch Frugalismus
Florian Wagner ist seit fünf Jahren Frugalist: Sein Ziel ist, mit 40 Jahren finanziell unabhängig zu sein. Dafür legt er möglichst viel seines Einkommens zurück und investiert es langfristig. In seinem Buch erklärt er, wie er seine Lebensqualität durch bewussten Konsum steigert, wie er...
