Loss

7 best books like Loss (Jackie Morse Kessler): The Rag and Bone Shop, Invictus, Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali, The Babysitters Coven, Satanism and Witchcraft: The Classic Study of Medieval Superstition, The Mystwick School of Musicraft, Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate

The Rag and Bone Shop

Author	Robert Cormier
ISBN	0440229715

Terse and terrifying, this final book from Cormier will leave a lasting impression. Jason, almost 13, is a shy, ineffectual child, who takes being bullied as a matter of course--but if he sees someone else being pushed around, he may strike back. When the seven-year-old girl who lives next door is murdered,...

Invictus

Author	Ryan Graudin
ISBN	0316503134

Time flies when you're plundering history.

Farway Gaius McCarthy was born outside of time. The son of a time-traveling Recorder from 2354 AD and a gladiator living in Rome in 95 AD, Far's birth defies the laws of nature. Exploring history himself is all he's ever wanted, and after failing his...

Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali

Author

Kris Holloway

Monique and the Mango Rains is the compelling story of a rare friendship between a young Peace Corps volunteer and a midwife who became a legend. Monique Dembele saved lives and dispensed hope in a place where childbirth is a life-and-death matter. This book tells of her unquenchable passion to better...

The Babysitters Coven

Author	Kate Williams
ISBN	0525707379

Adventures in Babysitting meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this funny, action-packed novel about a coven of witchy babysitters who realize their calling to protect the innocent and save the world from an onslaught of evil.

Seventeen-year-old Esme Pearl has a babysitters club....

Satanism and Witchcraft: The Classic Study of Medieval Superstition

Author

Jules Michelet

4,5 estrellas

Una excelente biografía de la llamada "Bruja" de la edad media. Aquella que sana, que alivia el dolor, aunque también hace el mal. Ella va cambiando su papel hasta los procesos de hechicería en la oscura edad media hasta los siglos precedentes donde la mujer cambia de bruja...

The Mystwick School of Musicraft

Author

Jessica Khoury

Humor and heart shine in this middle grade fantasy about a girl who attends a boarding school to learn how to use music to create magic, perfect for fans of Nevermoor and The School for Good and Evil series.

Amelia Jones always dreamed of attending the Mystwick School of Musicraft, where the world’s...

Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate

Author	Rose George
ISBN	0805092633

Eye-opening and compelling, the overlooked world of freight shipping, revealed as the foundation of our civilization

On ship-tracking websites, the waters are black with dots. Each dot is a ship; each ship is laden with boxes; each box is laden with goods. In postindustrial economies, we...