Moods
8 best books like Moods (Louisa May Alcott): Life Among the Savages, Our Nig, Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women, The Virgin Cure, Rabbis and Wives, The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers, The Readymade Thief, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
| Author | Shirley Jackson |
| ISBN | 0140267670 |
Shirley Jackson, author of the classic short story The Lottery, was known for her terse, haunting prose. But the writer possessed another side, one which is delightfully exposed in this hilariously charming memoir of her family's life in rural Vermont. Fans of Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Cheaper...
| Author | Harriet E. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0142437778 |
Our Nig is the tale of a mixed-race girl, Frado, abandoned by her white mother after the death of the child's black father. Frado becomes the servant of the Bellmonts, a lower-middle-class white family in the free North, while slavery is still legal in the South, and suffers numerous abuses in their household....
| Author | Harriet Reisen |
| ISBN | 0805082999 |
A vivid, energetic account of the life of Louisa May Alcott, whose work has delighted millions of readers
Louisa May Alcott portrays a writer as worthy of interest in her own right as her most famous character, Jo March, and addresses all aspects of Alcott’s life: the effect of her father’s...
| Author | Ami McKay |
| ISBN | 0676979564 |
From the author of the number one Canadian bestseller The Birth House comes the story of a young girl abandoned to the streets of post-Civil War New York City.
"I am Moth, a girl from the lowest part of Chrystie Street, born to a slum-house mystic and the man who broke her heart." So begins The Virgin...
| Author | Chaim Grade |
| ISBN | 0394716477 |
There are three novellas in this book; I read the one titled "The Oath." The story is set in eastern Europe (Lithuania, Russia, Poland - the same village could have been any or all at different times) in the years of the Russian Revolution. A Jewish man is dying, leaving a wife and two children. On his deathbed,...
| Author | Adam Nicolson |
| ISBN | 1250134188 |
Life itself could never have been sustainable without seabirds. As Adam Nicolson writes: "They are bringers of fertility, the deliverers of life from ocean to land."
A global tragedy is unfolding. Even as we are coming to understand them, the number of seabirds on our planet is in freefall,...
| Author | Augustus Rose |
| ISBN | 0735221847 |
This is a superbly intricate debut novel that I absolutely adored reading. Set in Philadelphia, Lee Cuddy is the invisible girl, vulnerable to any attention that she gets to secure validation of her existence, leaving her wide open to being the fall girl, taken advantage of, and facing betrayal from...
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
| Author | Stephen Greenblatt |
| ISBN | 0393356973 |
Examining the psyche—and psychoses—of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the disasters visited upon the societies over which these characters rule. Tyrant shows...
