Half Wild: Stories
8 best books like Half Wild: Stories (Robin MacArthur): Bunny, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, and Advice for Living Your Best Life, Burning Bright, The Secret Commonwealth, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law, Selected Poems, Jane and Prudence, Don't Ever Tell
| Author | Mona Awad |
| ISBN | 0525559736 |
Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique...
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, and Advice for Living Your Best Life
Ali Wong's heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters (the two she put to work while they were still in utero), covering everything they need to know in life, like the unpleasant details of dating, how to be a working mom in a male-dominated profession, and how she trapped their dad.
In...
| Author | Ron Rash |
| ISBN | 0061804118 |
New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Ron Rash is "a storyteller of the highest rank" (Jeffrey Lent) and has won comparisons to John Steinbeck, Cormac McCarthy, and Gabriel García Márquez. It is rare that an author can capture the complexities of a place as though it were a person, and...
| Author | Philip Pullman |
| ISBN | 1448194512 |
It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey.
It is seven years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end...
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
| Author | Haben Girma |
| ISBN | 1478992816 |
The incredible life story of Haben Girma, the first deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, and her amazing journey from isolation to the world stage.
Haben grew up spending summers with her family in the enchanting Eritrean city of Asmara. There, she discovered courage as she faced off...
| Author | Theodore Roethke |
| ISBN | 1931082782 |
Selected Poems includes poems from six collections by Theodore Roethke, including:
Open House
,
The Lost Son & Other Poems
,
Praise to the End!
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The Waking: Poems: 1933 - 1953
,
Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse
,
The Far Field
. In addition, this selection includes Roethke's Poems...
| Author | Barbara Pym |
| ISBN | 1559212268 |
If Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem an unlikely pair to be walking together at an Oxford reunion, neither of them are aware of it. They couldn't be more different: Jane is a rather incompetent vicar's wife, who always looks as if she is about to feed the chickens, while Prudence, a pristine hothouse...
Never make a promise you can’t afford to keep…
This is a story about Charlotte – a mother and a wife with the perfect job, the perfect life… at least, that’s how it looks from the outside.
But behind closed doors, the marriage is breaking, and Charlotte’s husband Tris doesn’t...
