Over Nine Waves
8 best books like Over Nine Waves (Marie Heaney): Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, The Norse Myths, War Trash, The Táin: From the Irish Epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time, The Celtic Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends, Clockers, You Have the Right to Remain Innocent
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
| Author | Simone de Beauvoir |
| ISBN | 0060825197 |
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking...
| Author | Kevin Crossley-Holland |
Here are thirty-two classic myths that bring the Viking world vividly to life. The mythic legacy of the Scandinavians includes a cycle of stories filled with magnificent images from pre-Christian Europe. Gods, humans, and monstrous beasts engage in prodigious drinking bouts, contests of strength,...
| Author | Ha Jin |
| ISBN | 1400075793 |
Ha Jin’s masterful new novel casts a searchlight into a forgotten corner of modern history, the experience of Chinese soldiers held in U.S. POW camps during the Korean War. In 1951 Yu Yuan, a scholarly and self-effacing clerical officer in Mao’s “volunteer” army, is taken prisoner south of...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0192803735 |
The Táin Bó Cúailnge, centre-piece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's nearest approach to a great epic. It tells the story of a great cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of Medb and Ailill, queen and king of Connacht, and their allies, seeking to carry off...
| Author | Kara Jesella |
| ISBN | 0571211852 |
For a generation of teenage girls, Sassy magazine was nothing short of revolutionary—so much so that its audience, which stretched from tweens to twentysomething women, remains obsessed with it to this day and back issues are sold for hefty sums on the Internet. For its brief but brilliant run from...
The Celtic Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends
| Author | Miranda Aldhouse-Green |
| ISBN | 0500252092 |
From gods, heroes, and monsters to Druids, sorcerers, and talking animals, The Celtic Myths explores every aspect of Irish and Welsh myths in this appealing and authoritative guide. Besides vividly retelling the tales, Miranda Aldhouse-Green brings her expertise in the archaeology of the Iron...
| Author | Richard Price |
| ISBN | 0747562733 |
Novelist and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter Richard Price's bestselling second novel offers "an unforgettable picture of inner-city decay and despair" (USA Today)
At once an intense mystery and a revealing study of two men, a veteran homicide detective and an innercity crack dealer,...
You Have the Right to Remain Innocent
| Author | James Duane |
| ISBN | 1503933393 |
An urgent, compact manifesto that will teach you how to protect your rights, your freedom, and your future when talking to police.
Law professor James J. Duane became a viral sensation thanks to a 2008 lecture outlining the reasons why you should never agree to answer questions from the police—especially...
