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I Have America Surrounded: A Biography of Timothy Leary

10 best books like I Have America Surrounded: A Biography of Timothy Leary (J.M.R. Higgs): From Hell, Maggie Brown & Others: Stories, Thick: And Other Essays, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance, Non-Stop, Sign of the Unicorn, Never Come Morning, The Country Between Us, The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of Bankers, Love and Shame and Love

From Hell
AuthorAlan Moore
ISBN0861661419
"I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim, subconscious underworld. A radiant abyss where men meet themselves. Hell, Netley. We're in Hell."

Having proved himself peerless in the arena of reinterpreting superheroes, Alan Moore turned...
Maggie Brown & Others: Stories
AuthorPeter Orner
ISBN0316516112
In this powerful and virtuosic collection of interlocking stories, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist takes the form to new heights.

In his orchestral and moving new book, Peter Orner, a writer who "doesn't simply bring his characters to life, he gives them souls" (New York Times...
Thick: And Other Essays
AuthorTressie McMillan Cottom
ISBN1620974363
Smart, humorous, and strikingly original thoughts on race, beauty, money, and more—by one of today's most intrepid public intellectuals

Tressie McMillan Cottom, the writer, professor, and acclaimed author of Lower Ed, now brilliantly shifts gears from running regression analyses...
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
AuthorCarolyn Forché
ISBN0525560378
The powerful story of a young poet who becomes an activist through a trial by fire

What You Have Heard is True is a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman's brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others. Written by one of the most gifted poets of her generation,...
Non-Stop
AuthorBrian W. Aldiss
ISBN1585676837
Curiosity was discouraged in the Greene tribe. Its members lived out their lives in cramped Quarters, hacking away at the encroaching ponics. As to where they were - that was forgotten. Roy Complain decides to find out. With the renegade priest Marapper, he moves into unmapped territory, where they...
Sign of the Unicorn
AuthorRoger Zelazny
ISBN0380008319
He who rules Amber rules the one true world. He who thwarts Amber invites the wrath of Amber betrayed.

An unseen enemy of immense strength has seized a Prince of the Blood, and now threatens the perfect kingdom by striking at the very core of its power - the secret knowledge of Shadow.

When...
Never Come Morning
AuthorNelson Algren
ISBN1583222790
"An unusual book and a brilliant book." —The New York Times

"One of the finest works of American literature that I have read." —James T. Farrell

"A knockout." —Saturday Review of Literature

"Never Come Morning depicts the intensity of feeling, the tawdry but potent...
The Country Between Us
AuthorCarolyn Forché
ISBN0060909269
“Here is poetry of courage and passion, which manages to be tender and achingly sensual and what is often called ‘political’ at the same time. This is a major new voice.” — Margaret Atwood

The Country Between Us opens with a series of poems about El Salvador, where Carolyn Forché...
The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of Bankers
AuthorAnn Pettifor
ISBN1786631342
What is money, where does it come from, and who controls it?

In this accessible, brilliantly argued book, leading political economist Ann Pettifor explains in straightforward terms history’s most misunderstood invention: the money system. Pettifor argues that democracies can, and...
Love and Shame and Love
AuthorPeter Orner
ISBN0316129399
Alexander Popper can't stop remembering. Four years old when his father tossed him into Lake Michigan, he was told, Sink or swim, kid. In his mind, he's still bobbing in that frigid water. The rest of this novel's vivid cast of characters also struggle to remain afloat: Popper's mother, stymied by an...
Watling Street: Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past
AuthorJohn Higgs
ISBN1474603475
A journey along one of Britain's oldest roads, from Dover to Anglesey, in search of the hidden history that makes us who we are today.
Long ago a path was created by the passage of feet tramping through endless forests. Gradually that path became a track, and the track became a road. It connected the...
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA
AuthorAmaryllis Fox
ISBN0525654976
Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while marrying and giving birth to a daughter

Amaryllis Fox was in her last year as an undergraduate at Oxford...
Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
AuthorJill Heinerth
ISBN0062691546
From one of the world’s most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth’s final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planet

More people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we know more about deep...
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