Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life

9 best books like Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life (Bill Minutaglio): The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present, The Secret Commonwealth, The Public Library: A Photographic Essay, The Cat's Table, Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, Trainspotting: A Screenplay (Based on the Novel by Irvine Welsh), Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir, Vermilion, Cobalt

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
AuthorDavid Treuer
A sweeping history--and counter-narrative--of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.

Dee Brown's 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee was the first truly popular book of Indian history ever published. But it promulgated the impression that American Indian...
The Secret Commonwealth
AuthorPhilip Pullman
ISBN1448194512
It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey.

It is seven years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end...
AuthorRobert Dawson
A gorgeous visual celebration of America's public libraries including 150 photos, plus essays by Bill Moyers, Ann Patchett, Anne Lamott, Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, and many more.

Many of us have vivid recollections of childhood visits to a public library: the unmistakable musty scent,...
The Cat's Table
AuthorMichael Ondaatje
ISBN0224093614
A spellbinding story - by turns poignant and electrifying - about the magical, often forbidden, discoveries of childhood and a lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a spectacular sea voyage.

In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England....
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
AuthorSendhil Mullainathan
ISBN0805092641
Audiobook: 8 hrs and 47 mins

A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcity—and our flawed responses to it—shapes our lives, our society, and our culture

Why do successful people get things done at the last minute? Why does poverty persist? Why do organizations get...
AuthorJohn Hodge
ISBN0786882212
Trainspotting, based on the novel by Irvine Welsh


Trainspotting is a phenomenal work that has achieved cult status, provocative, challenging, intriguing, creative, humorous, edgy as it is, the motion picture that has launched the career of a few excellent performers, from Ewan McGregor...
AuthorJanice Erlbaum
ISBN0812974565
At fifteen, sick of her unbearable and increasingly dangerous home life, Janice Erlbaum walked out of her family’s Brooklyn apartment and didn’t look back. From her first frightening night at a shelter, Janice knew she was in over her head. She was beaten up, shaken down, and nearly stabbed by a...
Vermilion
AuthorNathan Aldyne
ISBN1555834345
A dead young hustler is found on the lawn of a queer-baiting legislator. Boston's political and queer communities are up in arms about the matter, and police are bent on finding the killer -- fast. Best friends Daniel Valentine and Clarisse Lovelace team up and hit the streets of Boston. Through a sinister...
Cobalt
AuthorNathan Aldyne
ISBN1555834418
The two sometime-detectives from Vermilion have teamed up again for a summer of fun in Provincetown. While Valentine browses for Mr. Right, Clarisse nabs a hunky cop all her own. But suddenly suspicion burns hotter than the sun as a string of murders mars the merriment. And somewhere in the endless secrets,...
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