ElfQuest: The Searcher and the Sword
10 best books like ElfQuest: The Searcher and the Sword (Wendy Pini): The Westing Game, Seraphina, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death, Last Night in Montreal, The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster, The Hitman's Guide to Housecleaning, The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way (And It Wasn’t My Fault) (And I’ll Never Do It Again), Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life, Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, Dictator Style: Lifestyles of the World's Most Colorful Despots
this is what i am going to do: i am going to take a red panda, and i am going to learn genetics and i dunno - neuroscience. and welding. and i am going to take a little bit of my brain, and a little bit of everyone's brain here on goodreads.com (you'll be asleep, you wont feel a thing) and then i am going to moosh it...
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In her New York Times bestselling and Morris Award-winning debut, Rachel Hartman introduces mathematical dragons in an alternative-medieval world to fantasy and science-fiction readers of all ages.
Four decades...
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition.
Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut’s body if it were pushed out of a space...
| Author | Emily St. John Mandel |
Lilia Albert has been leaving people behind for her entire life. She spends her childhood and adolescence traveling constantly and changing identities. In adulthood, she finds it impossible to stop. Haunted by an inability to remember her early childhood, she moves restlessly from city to city,...
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
| Author | Sarah Krasnostein |
| ISBN | 1250101204 |
Husband, father, drag queen, sex worker, wife. Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner is a love letter to an extraordinary ordinary life. In Sandra Pankhurst she discovered a woman capable of taking a lifetime of hostility and transphobic abuse and using it to care for some of society's most in-need...
The Hitman's Guide to Housecleaning
| Author | Hallgrímur Helgason |
With some 66 hits under his belt, Tomislav Bokšić, or Toxic, has a flawless record as hitman for the Croatian mafia in New York. That is, until he kills the wrong guy and is forced to flee the States, leaving behind the life he knows and loves. Suddenly, he finds himself on a plane hurtling toward Reykjavík,...
The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way (And It Wasn’t My Fault) (And I’ll Never Do It Again)
| Author | P.J. O'Rourke |
| ISBN | 0802121977 |
P.J. O’Rourke began writing funny things in 1960s “underground” newspapers, became editor-in-chief of National Lampoon, then spent 20 years reporting for Rolling Stone and The Atlantic Monthly as the world’s only trouble spot humorist, going to wars, riots, rebellions, and other “Holidays...
Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life
| Author | Caleb Wilde |
| ISBN | 0062465244 |
The blogger behind Confessions of a Funeral Director—what Time magazine called a "must read"—reflects on mortality and the powerful lessons death holds for every one of us in this compassionate and thoughtful spiritual memoir that combines the humor and insight of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes with...
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion
| Author | Elizabeth L. Cline |
| ISBN | 1591844614 |
Until recently, Elizabeth Cline was a typical American consumer. She’d grown accustomed to shopping at outlet malls, discount stores like T.J. Maxx, and cheap but trendy retailers like Forever 21, Target, and H&M. She was buying a new item of clothing almost every week (the national average...
| Author | Peter York |
| ISBN | 0811853144 |
Welcome to the fabulous lifestyles of the cruel and despotic. Running with the idea that our homes are where we are truly ourselves, Peter York's wildly original and scathingly funny look at the interior decorating tastes of some of history's most alarming dictators proves that absolute power corrupts...
| Author | Richard Pini |
| ISBN | 0812530438 |
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Tale of the Snowbeast by Janny Wurts - 5 stars but I wish I could give it 10!!
This little story had me from the very first line and I simply adore it!!
The elves in the holt are starving. The season of cold is worse than anyone can remember. With the storage nooks empty,...
| Author | Tom Perrotta |
| ISBN | 1250034701 |
Nine Inches, Tom Perrotta's first true collection, features ten stories―some sharp and funny, some mordant and surprising, and a few intense and disturbing. Whether he's dropping into the lives of two teachers―and their love lost and found―in "Nine Inches", documenting the unraveling of...
Advanced Style
is Ari Seth Cohen’s blog-based ode to the confidence, beauty, and fashion that can only be achieved through the experience of a life lived glamorously. It is a collection of street fashion unlike any seen before—focused on the over-60 set in the world’s most stylish locales....
| Author | Joseph Moncure March |
| ISBN | 0375706437 |
Art Spiegelman's sinister and witty black-and-white drawings give charged new life to Joseph Moncure March's Wild Party, a lost classic from 1928. The inventive and varied page designs offer perfect counterpoint to the staccato tempo of this hard-boiled jazz-age tragedy told in syncopated rhyming...
Elfquest: The Final Quest #2
Fate brings battle unasked for, and heartbreak unforeseen. Chieftess Ember's Wolfriders try to save a human town, only to lose their own mountain home and Ember and Teir's dearest wish comes true at the worst possible momentwith agonizing and far-reaching consequences! * Winner of the Golden Pen...
| Author | P.J. O'Rourke |
| ISBN | 0802128483 |
After decades covering war and disaster, bestselling author and acclaimed satirist P. J. O'Rourke takes on his scariest subjects yet--business, investment, finance, and the political chicanery behind them. Want to get rich overnight for free in 3 easy steps with no risk? Then don't buy this book....
The Pretender: My Life Undercover for the FBI
| Author | Marc Ruskin |
| ISBN | 1250068630 |
Of all the tools available to law enforcement, the living, breathing undercover operative remains the gold standard. This is true in TV shows and in the real world. In the era of electronic surveillance, UC work enforces accountability; it prevents mistakes, and of all the boots on the ground, undercover...
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
| Author | Paul Theroux |
| ISBN | 0544323521 |
One of the most acclaimed travel writers of our time turns his unflinching eye on an American South too often overlooked
Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich history and folklore of the far away. Now, for the first time, in his tenth...
Advanced Style: Older and Wiser
| Author | Ari Seth Cohen |
| ISBN | 1576877973 |
This follow-up to the bestselling
Advanced Style
features more senior street style and inspiration from all over the globe. In this new edition Ari Seth Cohen shares his work from the past few years including some of the world's best-dressed older gentlemen.
Similar in format to the...
Hit Reblog: Comics That Caught Fire (comiXology Originals)
Hit Reblog showcases the viral sensations of the webcomics world and the true stories behind their creators. Follow the ups and downs of internet fame, from IP theft to book deals, and all the trials of becoming an overnight sensation after gaining 10,000 reblogs in a single night. Learn about the origins...
The Old Man and the Swamp: A True Story About My Weird Dad, a Bunch of Snakes, and One Ridiculous Road Trip
I have nothing against snakes, provided that they’re hundreds of miles away from me. And I have nothing against my dad, given the same set of conditions.
In a fit of questionable judgment, consummate indoorsman John Sellers tags along on a journey to search for snakes with his eccentric,...
Your Child's Self-Esteem: Step-by-Step Guidelines for Raising Responsible, Productive, Happy Children
| Author | Dorothy Corkille Briggs |
| ISBN | 0385040202 |
Step-by step guidelines for raising responsible, productive, happy children. Self-image is your child's most important characteristic. How to help create strong feelings of self-worth is the central challenge for every parent and teacher. The formula for how is spelled out in Your Child's Self-Esteem.
A...
