Grass for His Pillow, Episode 1: Lord Fujiwara's Treasures
10 best books like Grass for His Pillow, Episode 1: Lord Fujiwara's Treasures (Lian Hearn): Manga Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, A Place Where Sunflowers Grow (砂漠に咲いたひまわり) Japanese/ English Bilingual, Billy Budd and Other Tales, Shades of Simon Gray, Syncopated: An Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-Essays, Sang Spell, The Best Poems Ever: A Collection of Poetry's Greatest Voices, The Second Bend in the River, Poems by Robert Frost: A Boy's Will and North of Boston, Technically, It's Not My Fault: Concrete Poems
| Author | Richard Appignanesi |
| ISBN | 0810993252 |
"Now presenting Manga Shakespearethe Bards greatest plays in an accessible, lively format for a new generation of readers"
Romeo and Juliet" is ideally suited for the manga formatit has teenage heroes, scheming and villainous adults, heartbreaking tragedy, and the ultimate romantic plot...
| Author | Amy Lee-Tai |
| ISBN | 0892392150 |
Under the harsh summer sun, Mari's art class has begun. But it's hard to think of anything to draw in a place where nothing beautiful grows—especially a place like Topaz, the internment camp where Mari's family and thousands of other Japanese Americans have been sent to live during World War II. Somehow,...
| Author | Herman Melville |
| ISBN | 0451526872 |
Unbelievably, Melville had a hard time making a living from his writing.
[That was sarcasm.]
His style is overly archaic. I read a fair amount of classic literature, but this is just ridiculous. In the mid to late 19th century, were people still saying "Hark!"? And "Blah, blah,...
| Author | Joyce McDonald |
| ISBN | 0440228042 |
Simon Gray is the ideal teenager — smart, reliable, hardworking, trustworthy. Or is he? After Simon crashes his car into The Liberty Tree, another portrait starts to emerge. Soon an investigation has begun into computer hacking at Simon’s high school, for it seems tests are being printed out before...
| Author | Brendan Burford |
| ISBN | 0345505298 |
The stories in Syncopated challenge convention, provide perspective, and search out secret truths–all in the inviting, accessible form of comics.
Syncopated will give you a daringly different view of the past–from the history of vintage postcards to the glory days of old Coney Island....
| Author | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| ISBN | 0689820062 |
Josh is hitchhiking his way from Massachusetts to Dallas and a new life he didn't ask for and doesn't want, when he is beaten, robbed, and abandoned beside a remote mountain road. He awakes in a strange, primitive village called Canara, seemingly hidden from the modern world, with no cars or telephones...
| Author | Edric S. Mesmer |
| ISBN | 0439296749 |
Just in time for National Poetry Month, a fantastic collection of some of the best poems ever.
These are some of the most amazing poems ever written, touching the heart, challenging the mind, and conjuring worlds of experience and imagination.
Included are poems by:
Emily Dickinson
Edgar...
| Author | Ann Rinaldi |
| ISBN | 0590742590 |
Well that was a waste of two hours. This book is really boring and pointless. "Hey, let's spend a whole book forshadowing an awesome love story, and have it end in nothing. And then that'll just be it." It was pointless. There was no reason to even write it. Why didn't she just write on a napkin, "Hey, this...
| Author | Robert Frost |
| ISBN | 0451527879 |
The publication of A Boy’s Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914) marked the debut of Robert Frost as a major talent and established him as the true poetic voice of New England. Four of his volumes would win the Pulitzer Prize before his death in 1963, and his body of work has since become an integral part...
| Author | John Grandits |
| ISBN | 0618503617 |
An eleven-year-old boy named Robert voices typical—and not so typical—middle-grade concerns in this unique, memorable collection of hilarious poems. His musings cover the usual stuff, like pizza, homework, thank-you notes, and his annoying older sister. In addition, he speculates about...
| Author | Debra Doyle |
| ISBN | 0816769974 |
Wrapping up Randal's story. This and The Wizard's Castle, like the first two, are tied strongly to the earlier ones, and each other.
Randal, Walter, and Lys are escorted to Elfland by Madoc -- who can't come with them. They must go alone to bring back the High King's daughter and rightful heir....
| Author | Emily Dickinson |
| ISBN | 0916144224 |
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one's name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
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I...
London, 1899. As the British Empire lies in mortal jeopardy, a top-secret initiative unites several of the most illustrious (and sometimes infamous) personages of the age: Allan Quartermain, famed explorer and adventurer; Captain Nemo, master of the undersea submersible Nautilus; Dr. Henry Jekyll,...
A Life Less Ordinary: A Memoir
| Author | Baby Halder |
| ISBN | 0061255815 |
Abandoned by her mother, beaten by her father, and hurriedly married off at twelve to an abusive man twice her age, Baby Halder's early life was marked by overwhelming challenges and heartbreak. Exhausted and desperate, the young mother finally fled with her three children in 1999 to Delhi, where she...
Rogue & Gambit: Ring of Fire
| Author | Kelly Thompson |
| ISBN | 1302911600 |
Everybody's favorite X-couple is reunited! And boy, are they not happy about that... Kitty Pryde must send Rogue and Gambit on an undercover mission to fi nd a group of kidnapped mutants. What they discover on this mission will shock them. But will it also bring them closer together...? It's a high-stakes...
Fans of Sara Shepard will adore Wildenstein's suspenseful MASTERFUL series.
ROMANCE. SECRETS. LIES.
Seventeen-year-old Aster Redd is convinced her mother is hiding a gun. But no one--neither her love interest Joshua Cooper, nor her twin sister Ivy--believes her.
Until...
| Author | Ulrica Hume |
| ISBN | 0966919319 |
I won this book in a facebook giveaway by the author. I was so excited to win this too because I have a growing interests in labyrinths both as a symbol and as a walking meditation tool.
So, I received In the Labyrinth a couple of days ago. When I opened the amazon package I was surprised by how small...
| Author | Terri Brisbin |
| ISBN | 0373293356 |
There were worse things than to be shackled in marriage to a handsome, powerful lord who desired her -- but Marguerite of Alencon was bred to be consort to a king and could not abide her fate. She had great power as Henry Plantagenet's mistress, and to be set aside and promised as a bride to noble Orrick of...
Batgirl and the Birds of Prey, Volume 2: Source Code
| Author | Julie Benson |
| ISBN | 1401273807 |
The origin of the new Oracle—the super-hacker who has become an invaluable ally to the Birds of Prey—is revealed in the newest collection of BATGIRL AND THE BIRDS OF PREY!
Oracle’s connection to the mastermind known as Calculator causes stain on his relationship with Batgirl, Black...
Welcome to New Earth and Paramis Altered, where dragons and mankind are living side by side thanks to a supernatural, catastrophic event.
Justin Silas is a dragon who can change into mortal form at will. When his world, Paramis, collides with Earth, destruction wreaks havoc on both lands.
Cerras,...
| Author | Susan Harris |
| ISBN | 1634220609 |
A terrible tragedy forced Alana McCarthy to forget a year of her life. Now she is to be executed for a crime she does not remember committing — the murder of her entire family. Lost and alone, Alana is terrified of unlocking secrets buried so deep inside her mind that she's willing to forget the one person...
| Author | Hiromu Arakawa |
| ISBN | 0759531161 |
Legend speaks of seven heroes, each one bearing the power of one of the stars of the Big Dipper. Two of these stars are constantly in conflict, destined to battle and throw the world into chaos...
Not that Taitou has ever paid much attention to old stories. Headstrong and defiant, he is the last...
