Let Me Finish

7 best books like Let Me Finish (Roger Angell): How Long 'til Black Future Month?, The Second Mountain, Waiting for God, Felicity, Lost and Wanted, Rosa, The Life-Writer

How Long 'til Black Future Month?
AuthorN.K. Jemisin
ISBN0316491349
In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and drawing deft parallels in the fantasy realms of her imagination. Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded city of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian...
The Second Mountain
AuthorDavid Brooks
ISBN0812993268
In The Second Mountain, David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. Our personal fulfillment depends on how well we choose and execute these commitments. In The Second Mountain,...
Waiting for God
AuthorSimone Weil
ISBN0060959703
"My dear father, I have made up my mind to write to you....I have been wondering lately about the will of God, what it means, and how we can reach the point of conforming ourselves to it completely I will tell you what I think about this." SIMONE WEIL, LETTER I, WAITING FOR GOD

Emerging from the thought-provoking...
Felicity
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN1594206767
Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems  

“If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger,”

Mary Oliver once said in an interview. Finally, in her stunning new collection, Felicity, we can immerse...
Lost and Wanted
AuthorNell Freudenberger
ISBN0385352689
'In the first few months after Charlie died, I began hearing from her much more frequently.'

Helen Clapp is a physics professor. She doesn't believe in pseudo-science, or time travel and especially not in ghosts. So when she gets a missed call from Charlie, her closest friend from university...
Rosa
AuthorJonathan Rabb
ISBN0307336190
In the last days of the First World War, socialist revolution swept across Germany, sending Kaiser Wilhelm into exile and transforming Berlin into a battleground. But for Detective Inspector Nikolai Hoffner and his young assistant, Hans Fichte, the revolution is a mere inconvenience. Four women...
AuthorDavid Constantine
The long anticipated novel from the author of the short story 'In Another Country', which inspired the Oscar/Academy Award nominated film, #45Years.

Following the death of her husband, a literary biographer
resolves to turn her professional skills to the task of piecing
together...
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