Mattaponi Queen

9 best books like Mattaponi Queen (Belle Boggs): The Strange Library, Leaving Atlanta, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age, The Light Years: A Memoir, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval, Enemy Women, Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island, All the Beautiful Sinners

The Strange Library

Author	Haruki Murakami
ISBN	0385354304

From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami—a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library.
 
Opening the flaps on this unique little book, readers will find themselves immersed in the strange world of best-selling Haruki Murakami's...

Leaving Atlanta

Author	Tayari Jones
ISBN	0446690899

For me, this is the first story that I can ever remember reading that shared my voice as a child growing up in a major Southern city. It took place at a time when, first of all, it's tough growing up and being eleven years old and then to deal with a real-live nationally-known bogeyman lurking around the city...

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Author	Jenny Odell
ISBN	1612197493

This thrilling critique of the forces vying for our attention re-defines what we think of as productivity, shows us a new way to connect with our environment and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see about our selves and our world.

When the technologies we use every day collapse...

Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age

Author	Mary Pipher
ISBN	1632869608

A New York Times Bestseller

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Reviving Ophelia--a guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they age.

Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy...

The Light Years: A Memoir

Author	Chris Rush
ISBN	0374294410

The Light Years is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent times in American history

Chris Rush was born into a prosperous, fiercely Roman Catholic, New Jersey family. But underneath the gleaming mid-century house, the flawless hostess mom, and the...

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

Author	Saidiya V. Hartman
ISBN	0393285677

In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer...

Enemy Women

Author	Paulette Jiles
ISBN	0061337633

For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War between the States is a plague that threatens devastation, despite the family's avowed neutrality. For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family and forces her and her sisters to flee.

The treachery of...

Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island

Author	Regina Calcaterra
ISBN	0062218832

The book's a genuine tear-jerker. Five little children all abused, a couple of them worse than the others with beatings and imprisonment, starvation and whatever else their mother (their five fathers were not present) could think up when she was present and not off on one of her months-long jaunts....

All the Beautiful Sinners

Author	Stephen Graham Jones
ISBN	1590710088

Nazareth, Texas
Deputy Sheriff Jim Doe plunges into a renegade manhunt after the town's sheriff is gunned down. But unbeknownst to him, the suspect--an American Indian--holds chilling connections to the disappearance of Doe's sister years before. And the closer Doe gets to the fugitive's trail,...