Pretty Monsters: Stories

7 best books like Pretty Monsters: Stories (Kelly Link): How to Be an Antiracist, Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You, My Sweet Audrina, The Blood of the Vampire, Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films, Raising Boys: Why Boys Are Different and How to Help Them Become Happy and Well-Balanced Men, The Old Nurse's Story

How to Be an Antiracist

Author	Ibram X. Kendi
ISBN	0525509283

Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist...

Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You

Author	Clare Walker Leslie
ISBN	1580174930

Experience the splendor of nature with fresh eyes! Featuring an inspiring portfolio from Clare Walker Leslie’s nature journals, this guide offers easy-to-learn techniques for capturing the world around you in pictures and words. Encouraging you to make journaling a part of your daily routine,...

My Sweet Audrina

Author	V.C. Andrews
ISBN	0671729462

V.C. Andrews, author of the phenomenally successful Dollanganger series, has created a fascinating new cast of characters in this haunting story of love and deceit, innocence and betrayal, and the suffocating power of parental love.
Audrina Adare wanted so to be as good as her sister. She knew...

The Blood of the Vampire

Author	Florence Marryat
ISBN	1934555657

Miss Harriet Brandt, daughter of a mad scientist and a voodoo priestess, comes of age and leaves her home in Jamaica for the first time, travelling to Europe. Beautiful and talented, Harriet will gain the affections of many of the men and women she meets and a bright future seems assured for her.

But...

Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films

Author	Stephanie Harrison
ISBN	1400053145

An Eclectic Collection of Fiction That Inspired Film
Memento, All About Eve, Rear Window, Rashomon, and 2001: A Space Odyssey are all well-known and much-loved movies, but what is perhaps a lesser-known fact is that all of them began their lives as short stories. Adaptations gathers together...

Raising Boys: Why Boys Are Different and How to Help Them Become Happy and Well-Balanced Men

Author	Steve Biddulph
ISBN	0890878536

I'm a parent educator and have read dozens of books on boys with a view to which will most help parents. Biddulphs book Raising Boys wins hands down because its readable by parents who don't have a lot of education, but its not dumbed down, he takes the best brain science, education research, and family...

The Old Nurse's Story

Author	Elizabeth Gaskell
ISBN	0141397373

This is exactly why I bought this collection: to find authors I may not have normally come across. I love Gaskell’s style of writing, and I will most certainly be reading more of her work in the future. These two stories are everything I adore in Victorian literature; they are gothic and fear evoking,...