Imagine the Angels of Bread: Poems

10 best books like Imagine the Angels of Bread: Poems (Martín Espada): The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, Sawkill Girls, Lighthead, Solitaire, Illegal, The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League, The Woman Who Can't Forget: The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science, My Wicked Wicked Ways: Poems, Rivals! Frenemies Who Changed the World, The Tent

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Author

Lawrence Wright

A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright's remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews...

Sawkill Girls

Author	Claire Legrand
ISBN	0062696602

Beware of the woods and the dark, dank deep.

He’ll follow you home, and he won’t let you sleep.

Who are the Sawkill Girls?

Marion: the new girl. Awkward and plain, steady and dependable. Weighed down by tragedy and hungry for love she’s sure she’ll never find.

Zoey:...

Lighthead

Author	Terrance Hayes
ISBN	0143116967

Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry

In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With one foot firmly grounded in the everyday and the other hovering in the air, his poems braid dream and reality into a poetry that is both dark and buoyant....

Solitaire

Author

Alice Oseman

In case you’re wondering, this is not a love story.

My name is Tori Spring. I like to sleep and I like to blog. Last year – before all that stuff with Charlie and before I had to face the harsh realities of A-Levels and university applications and the fact that one day I really will have to start...

Illegal

Author

Eoin Colfer

This is a powerful and timely story about one boy's epic journey across Africa to Europe, a graphic novel for all children with glorious colour artwork throughout. From Eoin Colfer, previously Irish Children's Laureate, and the team behind his bestselling Artemis Fowl graphic novels. Ebo: alone.His...

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

Author

Jeff Hobbs

What does the untimely death of one man mean?

Robert Peace was born outside Newark in a ghetto known as "Illtown." His unwed mother worked long hours in a kitchen. His charismatic father was later convicted of a double murder. Peace's intellectual brilliance and hard-won determination earned...

The Woman Who Can't Forget: The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science

Author	Jill Price
ISBN	1416561765

This book sounded like it could have been awesome, but it wasn't. Maybe if the lady with amazing memory had done something exciting, like use her skills to decode secret terrorist mission orders for the CIA, it would have been worth reading. But unfortunately, she's just a normal nice lady who remembers...

My Wicked Wicked Ways: Poems

Author	Sandra Cisneros
ISBN	0679418210

This is the book and the poet responsible for me becoming totally hooked on poetry. I think it had a lot to do with the familiarity of the subject of the poems, growing up in working class Latino neighborhoods, the culture and just surviving the ever present cruelty of childhood.

Beautiful free...

Rivals! Frenemies Who Changed the World

Author

Scott McCormick

"Each volume of four 30-minute histories will dig into the petty name-calling and grumbling grudges that led to many of the world's greatest advancements, all delivered with a cheeky sense of humor."

Did you know that most of our dinosaur fossils were discovered because two grown men absolutely...

The Tent

Author	Margaret Atwood
ISBN	0385516681

One of the world's most celebrated authors, Margaret Atwood has penned a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays, in the genre of her popular books Good Bones and Murder in the Dark, punctuated with wonderful illustrations by the author. Chilling and witty, prescient and personal,...

Finding Baba Yaga: A Short Novel in Verse

Author

Jane Yolen

A young woman discovers the power to speak up and take control of her fate—a theme that has never been more timely than it is now…

You think you know this story.
You do not.

A harsh, controlling father. A quiescent mother. A house that feels like anything but a home. Natasha gathers...