Kids These Days
9 best books like Kids These Days (Drew Perry): House of Sand and Fog, Autobiography of a Face, Truth and Beauty, The Breadwinner, The Chelsea Girls, The Welsh Girl, Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life, Bettyville, A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
| Author | Andre Dubus III |
| ISBN | 0393356345 |
In this “page-turner with a beating heart” (Boston Globe), a recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck struggles to hold on to her home in California. But this becomes contested territory when a recent immigrant from the Middle East—a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force—becomes...
| Author | Lucy Grealy |
| ISBN | 0060569662 |
I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor...
| Author | Ann Patchett |
| ISBN | 0060572159 |
Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work. In Grealy’s critically acclaimed memoir Autobiography of a Face, she wrote about losing part of her jaw...
| Author | Deborah Ellis |
| ISBN | 0888994168 |
Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, 11-year-old Parvana has rarely been outdoors. Barred from attending school, shopping at the market, or even playing in the streets of Kabul, the heroine of Deborah Ellis's engrossing children's novel The Breadwinner is trapped inside her family's one-room...
From Fiona Davis, the nationally bestselling author of The Dollhouse and The Address, the bright lights of the theater district, the glamour and danger of 1950s New York, and the wild scene at the iconic Chelsea Hotel come together in a dazzling new novel about the twenty-year friendship that...
| Author | Peter Ho Davies |
| ISBN | 0618007008 |
From the acclaimed writer Peter Ho Davies comes an engrossing wartime love story set in the stunning landscape of North Wales during the final, harrowing months of World War II.
Young Esther Evans has lived her whole life within the confines of her remote mountain village. The daughter of a...
Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life
| Author | Natalie Dykstra |
| ISBN | 0618873856 |
The hidden story of one of the most fascinating women of the Gilded Age
Clover Adams, a fiercely intelligent Boston Brahmin, married at twenty-eight the soon-to-be-eminent American historian Henry Adams. She thrived in her role as an intimate of power brokers in Gilded Age Washington, where...
| Author | George Hodgman |
| ISBN | 0525427201 |
When George Hodgman leaves Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Missouri, he finds himself—an unlikely caretaker and near-lethal cook—in a head-on collision with his aging mother, Betty, a woman of wit and will. Will George lure her into assisted living? When hell freezes over. He can’t bring...
A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS
| Author | Jennet Conant |
| ISBN | 1439168504 |
Bestselling author Jennet Conant brings us a stunning account of Julia and Paul Child’s experiences as members of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in the Far East during World War II and the tumultuous years when they were caught up in the McCarthy Red spy hunt in the 1950s and behaved with bravery...
