Rachel Calof's Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains
10 best books like Rachel Calof's Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains (Rachel Calof): The Cracked Spine, The Corset, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, Romancing the Werewolf, Slacks and Calluses: Our Summer in a Bomber Factory, The Exile Book of Yiddish Women Writers: An Anthology of Stories That Looks to the Past So We Might See the Future, My Disillusionment in Russia, A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America, Come and Join the Dance
| Author | Paige Shelton |
| ISBN | 1250057485 |
In need of a good adventure, Delaney Nichols takes the leap and moves to Edinburgh, Scotland to start a job at The Cracked Spine. She doesn't know much about what she's gotten herself into, other than that the work sounds exciting, and that her new boss, Edwin MacAlister, has given her the opportunity...
| Author | Laura Purcell |
| ISBN | 1408889617 |
The new Victorian chiller from the author of Radio 2 Book Club pick, The Silent Companions.
Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer? Victim or villain?
Dorothea and Ruth. Prison visitor and prisoner. Powerful and powerless. Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy and beautiful....
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly English children. When her employment agency sends her to the wrong address, her life takes an unexpected turn. The alluring nightclub singer, Delysia LaFosse, becomes her new employer, and Miss Pettigrew...
| Author | Peter Handke |
| ISBN | 1590170199 |
Peter Handke's mother was an invisible woman. Throughout her life, which spanned the Nazi era, the war, and the postwar consumer economy, she struggled to maintain appearances, only to arrive at a terrible recognition: "I'm not human any more." Not long after, she killed herself with an overdose of...
Werewolf in trouble...
Biffy, newly minted Alpha of the London Pack, is not having a good Christmas. His Beta abandoned him, his werewolves object to his curtain choices, and someone keeps leaving babies on his doorstep.
Professor Randolph Lyall returns home to London after twenty...
Slacks and Calluses: Our Summer in a Bomber Factory
| Author | Constance Bowman Reid |
In 1943 two spirited young teachers decided to do their part for the war effort by spending their summer vacation working the swing shift on a B-24 production line at a San Diego bomber plant. Entering a male-dominated realm of welding torches and bomb bays, they learned to use tools that they had...
The Exile Book of Yiddish Women Writers: An Anthology of Stories That Looks to the Past So We Might See the Future
| Author | Frieda Johles Forman |
| ISBN | 1550963112 |
Presenting a comprehensive collection of influential Yiddish women writers with new translations, this anthology explores the major transformations and upheavals of the 20th century. Short stories, excerpts, and personal essays are included from 13 writers, and focus on such subjects as family...
My Disillusionment in Russia
| Author | Emma Goldman |
| ISBN | 1419136011 |
A teenager when she and her family emigrated to the United States, Emma Goldman (1869–1940) was so greatly affected by Chicago's Haymarket Square tragedy in 1886 that she became a revolutionary and campaigned for such then-controversial transformations in society as higher wages, the eight-hour...
A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America
| Author | Kirsten Fermaglich |
| ISBN | 1479867209 |
Winner, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society
A groundbreaking history of the practice of Jewish name changing in the 20th century, showcasing just how much is in a name
Our thinking about Jewish name changing tends to focus on clichés: ambitious...
I had a few questions along the way - a few points where I was unsure what she was (literally) trying to say on the micro level. Macro level? Artfully composed. The lines of tension are perfect. Our protagonist is a universal character coming of age at a time when women weren't allowed to come of age. This...
The marble quilt: stories
| Author | David Leavitt |
| ISBN | 0395902444 |
In these nine masterly stories, David Leavitt surveys the complicated politics of human relationships in families and communities, in the present day and over the course of the last century. A "wizard at blending levity and pathos" (Chicago Tribune), Leavitt displays here his characteristic grace...
| Author | David Leavitt |
| ISBN | 1596910402 |
The extraordinary true story of the discovery of one of the greatest mathematicians January, 1913, Cambridge. G.H. Hardy - eccentric, charismatic and considered the greatest British mathematician of his age - receives a mysterious envelope covered with Indian stamps. Inside he finds a rambling...
| Author | Sarah Leon |
| ISBN | 1590519256 |
An exceptional debut novel that explores the stifled, unspoken feelings of a music teacher and his former student, and the damage done by their years of silence
Hermin, a composer and instructor, leads a secluded life near the Bourbonnais Mountains in France, composing an homage to Schubert....
Love Poems for People with Children
| Author | John Kenney |
| ISBN | 0593085248 |
In the spirit of his wildly popular New Yorker pieces and the New York Times bestseller Love Poems for Married People, Thurber-prize winner John Kenney presents a hilarious new collection of poetry for people with children.
With the same brilliant wit and hilarious realism that made Love...
Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
| Author | Mark Dery |
| ISBN | 0316188549 |
From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth.
But who was this...
Enough: Notes from a Woman Who Has Finally Found It
| Author | Shauna M. Ahern |
| ISBN | 1632172178 |
For women everywhere, a collection of fierce and often funny personal essays on finding enough, from writer Shauna M. Ahern, of Gluten-Free Girl fame.
Like so many American women, Shauna M. Ahern spent decades feeling not good enough about her body, about money, and about her worth in this...
Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story
| Author | John Yorke |
| ISBN | 1846146437 |
Into The Woods is a revelation of the fundamental structure and meaning of all stories, from the man responsible for more hours of drama on British television than anyone else, John Yorke.
We all love stories. Many of us love to tell them, and even dream of making a living from it too. But what is a story?...
Encounter on the Great Plains: Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930
| Author | Karen V. Hansen |
| ISBN | 0199746818 |
In 1904, the first Scandinavian settlers moved onto the Spirit Lake Dakota Indian Reservation. These land-hungry immigrants struggled against severe poverty, often becoming the sharecropping tenants of Dakota landowners. Yet the homesteaders' impoverishment did not impede their quest to acquire...
