Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull
8 best books like Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull (Barbara Goldsmith): Harold and Maude, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest, There's Something About Sweetie, Meaty, Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure, Proper English, Red Poppies: A Novel of Tibet, Quicker Than the Eye
Author | Colin Higgins |
ISBN | 0380003856 |
Nineteen-year-old Harold Chasen is obsessed with death. He fakes suicides to shock his self-obsessed mother, drives a customized Jaguar hearse, and attends funerals of complete strangers. Seventy-nine-year-old Maude Chardin, on the other hand, adores life. She liberates trees from city sidewalks...
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest
Author | Hanif Abdurraqib |
ISBN | 1477316485 |
How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders. Seventeen years after their last album, they resurrected themselves with an intense, socially...
There's Something About Sweetie
Ashish Patel didn’t know love could be so…sucky. After he’s dumped by his ex-girlfriend, his mojo goes AWOL. Even worse, his parents are annoyingly, smugly confident they could find him a better match. So, in a moment of weakness, Ash challenges them to set him up.
The Patels insist that...
Author | Samantha Irby |
ISBN | 0988480425 |
Samantha Irby explodes onto the printed page with her debut collection of brand-new essays about trying to laugh her way through failed relationships, being black, taco feasts, bouts with Crohn's disease, and more. Every essay is crafted with the same scathing wit and poignant candor thousands of...
Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure
Author | Ryan North |
ISBN | 1101983302 |
Shakespeare’s plays weren’t meant to be read. They were meant…to be played.
What if Romeo never met Juliet? What if Juliet got really buff instead of moping around all day? What if they teamed up to take over Verona with robot suits? This choose-your-own-path version of Romeo and Juliet—packed...
A shooting party at the Earl of Witton’s remote country house is a high treat for champion shot Patricia Merton—until unexpected guests turn the social atmosphere dangerously sour.
That’s not Pat’s biggest problem. She’s visiting her old friend, the Earl’s heir Jimmy Yoxall—but...
Red Poppies: A Novel of Tibet
A lively and cinematic twentieth-century epic, Red Poppies focuses on the extravagant and brutal reign of a clan of Tibetan warlords during the rise of Chinese Communism. The story is wryly narrated by the chieftain's son, a self-professed "idiot" who reveals the bloody feuds, seductions, secrets,...
Author | Ray Bradbury |
ISBN | 0380973804 |
The internationally acclaimed author of The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury is a magician at the height of his powers, displaying his sorcerer's skill with twenty-one remarkable stories that run the gamut from total reality to light fantastic, from high...