Mentor: A Memoir
10 best books like Mentor: A Memoir (Tom Grimes): Pedro Páramo, Twelfth Night, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Love You Hard: A Memoir of Marriage, Brain Injury, and Reinventing Love, Letters to a Young Poet, Jesus' Son, The Brain: The Story of You, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Under the Wide and Starry Sky
| Author | Juan Rulfo |
| ISBN | 0802133908 |
A classic of Mexican modern literature about a haunted village.
As one enters Juan Rulfo's legendary novel, one follows a dusty road to a town of death. Time shifts from one consciousness to another in a hypnotic flow of dreams, desires, and memories, a world of ghosts dominated by the figure...
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0743482778 |
Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays with love and power. The Countess Olivia, a woman with her own household, attracts Duke (or Count) Orsino. Two other would-be suitors are her pretentious steward, Malvolio, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek.
Onto...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0141026286 |
Andrew George's "masterly new translation" (The Times) of the world's first truly great work of literature
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world’s oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries....
Love You Hard: A Memoir of Marriage, Brain Injury, and Reinventing Love
| Author | Abby Maslin |
| ISBN | 1524743313 |
Abby Maslin shares an inspiring story of resilience and commitment in a deeply affecting new memoir. After her husband suffered a traumatic brain injury, the couple worked together as he recovered--and they learned to love again.
When Abby Maslin's husband, TC, didn't make it home on August...
| Author | Rainer Maria Rilke |
| ISBN | 0486422453 |
In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, requesting an assessment of their value. The older artist, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), replied to the novice in this series of letters — an amazing archive of remarkable insights into the ideas behind...
| Author | Denis Johnson |
| ISBN | 0060975776 |
Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory vision of contemporary American life unmatched in power and immediacy and marks a new level of achievement for this acclaimed writer. In their intensity of perception, their neon-lit evocation of a strange...
The Brain: The Story of You
| Author | David Eagleman |
| ISBN | 1101870532 |
Locked in the silence and darkness of your skull, your brain fashions the rich narratives of your reality and your identity. Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman for a journey into the questions at the mysterious heart of our existence. What is reality? Who are “you”? How do you make decisions?...
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.
On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range...
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
| Author | Unknown |
| ISBN | 0451528182 |
Contains the greatest "OH FUCK" moment in medieval literature!
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - listed here as written by Unknown, though I believe it may have been penned by that prolific Greek author Anonymous - is a classic tale from Arthurian legend in which the code of honor attributed...
Under the Wide and Starry Sky
| Author | Nancy Horan |
| ISBN | 0345516532 |
The passionate and turbulent story of Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny.At the age of thirty-five, Fanny van de Grift Osbourne leaves her philandering husband in San Francisco and sets sail for Belgium to study art, with her three children and a nanny in tow. Not long after...
The Iowa Baseball Confederacy
| Author | W.P. Kinsella |
| ISBN | 0618340807 |
Bearing W.P. Kinsella's trademark combination of "sweet-natured prose and a richly imagined world" (Philadelphia Inquirer), The Iowa Baseball Confederacy tells the story of Gideon Clark, a man on a quest. He is out to prove to the world that the indomitable Chicago Cubs traveled to Iowa in the summer...
Fairies: A Guide to the Celtic Fair Folk
| Author | Morgan Daimler |
| ISBN | 1782796509 |
The subject of fairies in Celtic cultures is a complex one that seems to endlessly intrigue people. What exactly are fairies? What can they do? How can we interact with them? Answering these questions becomes even harder in a world that is disconnected from the traditional folklore and flooded with...
| Author | James Siegel |
| ISBN | 0316725366 |
Advertising director Charles Schine is just another New York commuter, regularly catching the 8.43 to work. But the day he misses his train is the day that changes his life. Catching the 9.05 instead, he can't help but be drawn by the sight of the person opposite. Charles has never cheated on his wife in...
I Have Lived in the Monster: Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Serial Killers
| Author | Robert K. Ressler |
| ISBN | 0312964293 |
From their gruesome, body-strewn lairs, to the darkest regions of their twisted psyches, Robert K. Ressler shows you serial killers as you've never seen them before.
In his phenomenally successful Whoever Fights Monsters, Robert K. Ressler examined his brilliant twenty-year career hunting...
Uncle Yah Yah: 21st Century Man of Wisdom
| Author | Al Dickens |
| ISBN | 0975964682 |
Read this book and you will agree that if there ever was any One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest, it had to be Al Dickens the author of this book. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Even nature produces the uncommon or the unique at one time or another, like the duckbill platypus. So it is with this book;...
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...
| Author | John D'Agata |
| ISBN | 0393340732 |
Now a Broadway Play.
An innovative essayist and his fact-checker do battle about the use of truth and the definition of nonfiction.
How negotiable is a fact? In 2003, after publishing his book of experimental essays, Halls of Fame, John D’Agata was approached by Harper’s magazine...
