My Cup Runneth Over: The Life of Angelica Cookson Potts

6 best books like My Cup Runneth Over: The Life of Angelica Cookson Potts (Cherry Whytock): The Awakening, Anthem, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu, Four: A Divergent Story Collection, A Boy and A Bear in a Boat

The Awakening

Author	Kate Chopin
ISBN	0543898083

When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were taken aback by Chopin's daring portrayal of a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, who seeks and finds...

Anthem

Author	Ayn Rand
ISBN	0452281253

Anthem has long been hailed as one of Ayn Rand's classic novels, and a clear predecessor to her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. In Anthem, Rand examines a frightening future in which individuals have no name, no independence, and no values. Equality 7-2521 lives in the dark...

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Author	Ben Horowitz
ISBN	0062273205

A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally honest about how hard it is to run one.

In The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs,...

The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu

Author	Dan Jurafsky
ISBN	0393240835

Why do we eat toast for breakfast, and then toast to good health at dinner? What does the turkey we eat on Thanksgiving have to do with the country on the eastern Mediterranean? Can you figure out how much your dinner will cost by counting the words on the menu?

In The Language of Food, Stanford University...

Four: A Divergent Story Collection

Author	Veronica Roth
ISBN	0062285688

Two years before Beatrice Prior made her choice, the sixteen-year-old son of Abnegation’s faction leader did the same. Tobias’s transfer to Dauntless is a chance to begin again. Here, he will not be called the name his parents gave him. Here, he will not let fear turn him into a cowering child.

Newly...

A Boy and A Bear in a Boat

Author	Dave Shelton
ISBN	0385752490

A boy and a bear go to sea, equipped with a suitcase, a comic book, and a ukulele. The bear assures the boy that they are traveling a short distance and it really shouldn't take very long. But then they encounter "unforeseeable anomalies": turbulent stormy seas! a terrifying sea monster! and the rank remains...