Marcus of Umbria: What an Italian Dog Taught an American Girl about Love
9 best books like Marcus of Umbria: What an Italian Dog Taught an American Girl about Love (Justine van der Leun): Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, The Ghost Bride, Saturn Run, This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class, My Squirrel Days, Trieste and The Meaning of Nowhere, The Family Moskat, My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
Author | Eric Metaxas |
ISBN | 1595551387 |
As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the inside. One of these was Dietrich Bonhoeffer--a pastor and author, known as much for such spiritual...
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax...
Author | Yangsze Choo |
ISBN | 0062227327 |
"One evening, my father asked me if I would like to become a ghost bride..."
Though ruled by British overlords, the Chinese of colonial Malaya still cling to ancient customs. And in the sleepy port town of Malacca, ghosts and superstitions abound.
Li Lan, the daughter of a genteel but...
Author | John Sandford |
ISBN | 0399176950 |
The year is 2066. A Caltech intern inadvertently notices an anomaly from a space telescope—something is approaching Saturn, and decelerating. Space objects don’t decelerate. Spaceships do.
A flurry of top-level government meetings produces the inescapable conclusion: Whatever...
This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class
The fiery U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and bestselling author offers a passionate, inspiring book about why our middle class is under siege and how we can win the fight to save it
Senator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America’s middle class, and by the time the people...
Author | Ellie Kemper |
ISBN | 1501163345 |
Comedian and star of The Office and
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious, refreshing, and inspiring collection of essays “teeming with energy and full of laugh-out-loud moments” (Associated Press).
“A pleasure. Ellie Kemper is the kind of stable, intelligent,...
Author | Jan Morris |
ISBN | 0306811804 |
Here's a book for lovers of all things Italian. This city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After visiting Trieste for more than half a century, she has come to see it as a touchstone for her interests and preoccupations: cities, seas, empires. It...
Author | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
ISBN | 0374530645 |
The vanished way of life of Eastern European Jews in the early part of the twentieth century is the subject of this extraordinary novel. All the strata of this complex society were populated by powerfully individual personalities, and the whole community pulsated with life and vitality. The affairs...
My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward
Author | Mark Lukach |
ISBN | 0062422936 |
A heart-wrenching, yet hopeful, memoir of a young marriage that is redefined by mental illness and affirms the power of love.
Mark and Giulia’s life together began as a storybook romance. They fell in love at eighteen, married at twenty-four, and were living their dream life in San Francisco....