Hello, I Must Be Going
10 best books like Hello, I Must Be Going (Christie Hodgen): The Body Broken, Nothing Personal: Seeing Beyond the Illusion of a Separate Self, The Double Life of Zoe Flynn, Sorrow Floats, Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous, Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave, Gumbo Ya-Ya: A Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales, That Summer in Paris: A Novel, Why Moms Are Weird, A Really Super Book about Squirrels
| Author | Lynne Greenberg |
| ISBN | 1400067421 |
At age nineteen, Lynne Greenberg narrowly survived a devastating car crash. When her broken neck healed or so everyone thought her recovery was hailed as a medical miracle and she returned to normal life. Years later, she seemed to have it all: a loving husband, two wonderful children, a peaceful home,...
Nothing Personal: Seeing Beyond the Illusion of a Separate Self
This wide ranging guide to spiritual realization "covers much of the spectrum of spiritual awakening, from the initial experience of one’s true nature to the practical challenges, which always call for a deeper seeing and deeper understanding of how spirit manifests as all of life and beyond.…Nirmala...
The Double Life of Zoe Flynn
| Author | Janet Lee Carey |
| ISBN | 0689856040 |
Zoe Flynn has a secret. She used to live in California, in a big old house -- the best house in the world really -- at 18 Hawk Road. It rambled and creaked and was full of good hiding places. She used to have a best friend named Kellen who lived right down the road, and a dog named Merlin who loved to play with her....
| Author | Tim Sandlin |
| ISBN | 1573226041 |
Able storytelling and an engaging cast of dysfunctional modern American pilgrims animate this winning tale of the road. When tipsy, 23-year-old Maurey Pierce Talbot accidentally drives through her Wyoming town with her baby on the roof of her car, she realizes just how far she has sunk since her father's...
| Author | Catherine M. Andronik |
| ISBN | 0805077839 |
Meet the rebellious young poets who brought about a literary revolution
Rock stars may think they invented sex, drugs, and rock and roll, but the Romantic poets truly created the mold.
In the early 1800s, poetry could land a person in jail. Those who tried to change the world through...
| Author | Ellen Sussman |
| ISBN | 0393064638 |
"I behave badly to set myself apart. To test myself. To push myself. To prove something. To shock someone....I behave badly because I can." That's how Ellen Sussman describes her deviant endeavors. To better understand them, she's invited 25 other bad girls to share their stories. Ann Hood lies, Mary...
| Author | Lyle Saxon |
| ISBN | 0882896458 |
my feelings toward this anthology are as complex as my feelings toward the deep south.
upon reading it, there were various chapters that inspired feelings of a nostalgic homecoming -- the voices in the tales are rich and true and sing out history in tones that are completely unique...
That Summer in Paris: A Novel
| Author | Abha Dawesar |
| ISBN | 0385517491 |
From the award-winning author of Babyji comes an utterly seductive tale of an aging writer whose involvement with a young woman forces him to face the eternal question of love.
Prem Rustum, a famous but reclusive Indian author, has spent most of his life consumed with writing. Feeling the weight...
| Author | Pamela Ribon |
| ISBN | 1416503854 |
From the acclaimed author of Why Girls are Weird comes a second hilarious and surprising novel about love and family and the weirdo inside us all.
Belinda "Benny" Bernstein doesn't brag about her life in Los Angeles, but she is proud of her independence. She's got a job and a place to live, and...
| Author | Graham Taylor |
| ISBN | 0740731777 |
Graham Taylor was sitting in his kitchen one morning, contemplating the universe over a bowl of cold cereal, when he noticed a squirrel outside the window--the same squirrel he'd seen countless times before. How nice it would be, he thought, if that squirrel could be my friend. So he jotted down a few...
| Author | Susan Perabo |
| ISBN | 0743290372 |
Behind every face in Who I Was Supposed to Be is a singular quirk to explore, a peculiarity to celebrate. In Susan Perabo's world, nothing can be taken for granted: here, a retired grocer takes up jewel theft in his twilight years; a data processor squanders her inheritance on one of Princess Diana's gowns;...
| Author | John Updike |
| ISBN | 0394747631 |
It occurred to me while reading this book that a short story is not unlike a meme: the good ones are good because they give a taste of something quintessentially relatable. The parallel really ends there, considering a meme's goal is humor, and a good short story, while sometimes funny, digs for a little...
| Author | Emily Carter |
| ISBN | 1852428244 |
From her patrician childhood on New York?s Upper East Side, to her chemical addictions downtown, and her unlikely, tenuous yet rewarding alliances on 12-step rehab programs in the Midwest, Glory gives us an uncensored and irreverent account of her experiences scoring dope on the streets and seeking...
| Author | Laura Ruby |
| ISBN | 0446578746 |
Does every second wife look like Julia Roberts? Lu Klein certainly doesn't, and her life is anything but glamorous. When she married a man with children, Lu had no idea that she was also marrying his shrewish ex-wife, Beatrix. And Beatrix had no idea that making a new home with her second husband would...
| Author | Ellen Shanman |
| ISBN | 0385340516 |
Outspoken playwright Liza Weiler left Yale with everything she thought she needed to make her mark on the New York stage. So why, nearly a decade later, is she still waiting for her “real” life to finally begin? But like any great drama, Liza’s life only needs one good twist. And that’s what happens...
| Author | Louise Kean |
| ISBN | 0061173088 |
Sunny Weston always wanted to be perfect . . . and that meant being thin. Now, after what seemed like a million years on the treadmill—and a million miles from the nearest brownie—she finally fits into those slinky black dresses she's been eyeing for years.
But being a perfect size doesn't...
| Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| ISBN | 0441206611 |
From the back cover:
Planets are for leaving.
That's an old saying in the Explorers. But for every Explorer there is somewhere a planet he will not leave. For some, the cause is love. For others, the desire to give up the strange roving life of the star wanderers who live outside of planet-time....
| Author | Millard Kaufman |
| ISBN | 1934781541 |
Jack Hopkins, an ill-fated real-estate agent with an unhappy past, doesn’t like what he does for a living. Luckily, though, he has two new job offers: Darlene Hunt wants to pay him ten million dollars to kill her husband, and her husband wants to hire him to kill Darlene Hunt. Before he can figure out...
Red Clay, Blue Cadillac: Stories of Twelve Southern Women
| Author | Michael Malone |
| ISBN | 1570718245 |
Twelve short stories of all the wrong women.
The author of First Lady and Handling Sin has given us a page turning collection of short stories, with a central theme in each of which the main character is a belle of the South whose talents include a penchant for deceit, betrayal, seduction and sometimes...
| Author | Karen E. Olson |
| ISBN | 0892960256 |
Awakened by a loud commotion, New Haven reporter Annie Seymour wanders outside to discover a favorite Italian eatery engulfed in fire. Even more shocking is the bullet-ridden body found in the debris. Then things get personal. Annie's father, a Vegas casino boss, suddenly arrives in town and the restaurant...
| Author | Jonathan Kozol |
| ISBN | 0060956453 |
This is the first of Jonathan Kozol's books that I've read, and I got a lot of inspiration from it at a time when I've really been needing just that. I own and direct an early childhood center that's populated mostly by high-risk families, and I'd been feeling frustrated and hopeless lately by the minor...
| Author | David M. Brownstone |
| ISBN | 1586635786 |
Between 1892 and the early 1950s, nearly 15 million people streamed through Ellis Island in search of a new life. Here are the stories of those extraordinary immigrants, largely in their own poignant words. Coming primarily from Southern and Eastern Europe, and from widely diverse backgrounds, the...
| Author | Liza Palmer |
| ISBN | 0446698385 |
Grace Hawkes has not spoken to her previously tight-knit family since her mother's sudden death five years ago. Well, most of the family was tight-knit--her father walked out on them when she was 13 and she and her two brothers and sister bonded together even closer with their mother as a result.
She's...
An eBook boxed set that features the first three of A.J. Jacobs's riotous—and surprisingly informative—ventures into experiential journalism.
The Know-It-All: Puzzle along with A.J. as he endeavors to read—and retain—the entire encyclopedia, and discover what exactly...
| Author | Matt Dickinson |
| ISBN | 0312989326 |
Adventurer Carl Norland and celebrity explorer Julian Fitzgerald have teamed up in an attempt to walk across Antarctica at its widest point, a crossing of some 2,000 frozen miles. Success would place their names alongside those of such polar legends as Scott, Shackleton, and Admundsen, but when their...
