Olivia Kidney and the Exit Academy
10 best books like Olivia Kidney and the Exit Academy (Ellen Potter): Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution, Petals on the Wind, A Snicker of Magic, Negroland, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, The Riot Grrrl Collection, Bad Cat: 244 Not-So-Pretty Kitties and Cats Gone Bad, Violet & Claire, Flashcards of My Life, Jelly Roll
Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution
| Author | Rachel Moran |
| ISBN | 0393351971 |
An astonishingly brave memoir of life in prostitution and its lingering influence on a woman’s psyche and life.
“The best work by anyone on prostitution ever, Rachel Moran’s Paid For fuses the memoirist’s lived poignancy with the philosopher’s conceptual sophistication. The...
| Author | V.C. Andrews |
| ISBN | 0671729470 |
They were such brave children to withstand such suffering. Such clever children to escape such terror!
For Carrie, Chris and Cathy, the attic was a dark horror that would not leave their minds, even while they built bright, promising new lives. Of course mother had to pretend they didn't exist.
And...
| Author | Natalie Lloyd |
| ISBN | 0545552702 |
Introducing an extraordinary new voice---a magical debut that will make your skin tingle, your eyes glisten . . .and your heart sing.
Midnight Gulch used to be a magical place, a town where people could sing up thunderstorms and dance up sunflowers. But that was long ago, before a curse drove...
| Author | Margo Jefferson |
| ISBN | 0307378454 |
At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac—here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author’s rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned with distancing itself from whites and the...
| Author | Gary D. Schmidt |
| ISBN | 0553494953 |
Not only is Turner Buckminster the son of the new minister in a small Maine town, he is shunned for playing baseball differently than the local boys. Then he befriends smart and lively Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from Malaga Island, a poor community founded by former slaves. Lizzie shows Turner a new...
| Author | Lisa Darms |
| ISBN | 1558618236 |
For the past two decades, young women (and men) have found their way to feminism through Riot Grrrl. Against the backdrop of the culture wars and before the rise of the Internet or desktop publishing, the zine and music culture of the Riot Grrrl movement empowered young women across the country to speak...
Bad Cat: 244 Not-So-Pretty Kitties and Cats Gone Bad
| Author | Jim Edgar |
| ISBN | 0761136193 |
Not since Kliban has there been a cat book this edgy. Edgy as in Bosco, the demonic Siamese with the out-of-focus eyes, razor-sharp fangs, and his own idea of Feng Shui. Or the half-shaved freak named Mr. Fliegel, who looks like a cross between a poodle and a lion. Mr. Fliegel shrugs and says, "Chicks dig...
| Author | Francesca Lia Block |
| ISBN | 0064472531 |
This is the book that started it all for me. A friend recommended I read it, and Francesca Lia Block made an immediate move to the top slot in my favorite authors list, where she's stayed ever since.
Violet sees life as a movie. There's always a scene, a mood, something unfolding. Though her own...
| Author | Charise Mericle Harper |
| ISBN | 0316166766 |
Sometimes the motivation behind censoring a book completely escapes me. Although I strongly believe that censorship is unnecessary and counterproductive to creating a populace that is engaged and intelligent, sometimes I can understand where the outrage comes from. Not that I ever agree, but I...
| Author | Kevin Young |
| ISBN | 0375709894 |
In this jaunty and intimate collection, Kevin Young invents a language as shimmying and comic, as low-down and high-hearted, as the music from which he draws inspiration. With titles such as “Stride Piano,” “Gutbucket,” and “Can-Can,” these poems have the sharp completeness of vocalized...
