Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture
10 best books like Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture (Daniel Radosh): Seventeenth Summer, Tarnished Are the Stars, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, Love From A to Z, Dragonwyck, The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, The Steerswoman, Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
| Author | Maureen Daly |
| ISBN | 0689853831 |
Until the summer before college, Angie Morrow didn't really date. Her mother didn't like her to go out much. But no one -- not even Angie's mother -- can resist the charm of strikingly handsome Jack Duluth. His good looks grab Angies's attention from the moment in June when Jack throws Angie a smile at McKight's...
| Author | Rosiee Thor |
| ISBN | 1338312278 |
The Lunar Chronicles meets Rook in this queer #OwnVoices science-fantasy novel, perfect for fans of Marissa Meyer and Sharon Cameron.
A secret beats inside Anna Thatcher's chest: an illegal clockwork heart. Anna works cog by cog -- donning the moniker Technician -- to supply black market...
No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
| Author | Rachel Louise Snyder |
An award-winning journalist's intimate investigation of the true scope of domestic violence, revealing how the roots of America's most pressing social crises are buried in abuse that happens behind closed doors.
We call it domestic violence. We call it private violence. Sometimes we call...
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
| Author | Lawrence Wright |
| ISBN | 0307700666 |
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the now-classic study of al-Qaeda's 9/11 attack, the Looming Tower. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with both current and former Scientologists--both famous...
A marvel: something you find amazing. Even ordinary-amazing. Like potatoes—because they make French fries happen. Like the perfect fries Adam and his mom used to make together.
An oddity: whatever gives you pause. Like the fact that there are hateful people in the world. Like Zayneb’s...
| Author | Anya Seton |
| ISBN | 1556525818 |
First published in 1944, Dragonwyck was a national bestseller that was made into a major motion picture starring Gene Tierney and Vincent Price in 1946. A classic gothic romance, the story features an 18-year-old Miranda Wells who falls under the spell of a mysterious old mansion and its equally fascinating...
As a sophomore at Brown University, Kevin Roose didn't have much contact with the Religious Right. Raised in a secular home by staunchly liberal parents, he fit right in with Brown's sweatshop-protesting, fair-trade coffee-drinking, God-ambivalent student body. So when he had a chance encounter...
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
| Author | A.J. Jacobs |
| ISBN | 0743291476 |
From the bestselling author of "The Know-It-All" comes a fascinating and timely exploration of religion and the Bible.Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to dive in headfirst and attempt to obey the Bible as literally...
| Author | Rosemary Kirstein |
| ISBN | 0345357620 |
The Steerswoman is the first novel in the Steerswoman series. Steerswomen, and a very few Steersmen, are members of an order dedicated to discovering and disseminating knowledge. Although they are foremost navigators of the high seas, Steerswomen are also explorers and cartographers upon land...
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
| Author | Bart D. Ehrman |
| ISBN | 0061173932 |
Picking up where Bible expert Bart Ehrman's New York Times bestseller Misquoting Jesus left off, Jesus, Interrupted addresses the larger issue of what the New Testament actually teaches—& it's not what most people think. Here Ehrman reveals what scholars have unearthed:
•The authors...
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It
| Author | Kate Harding |
| ISBN | 0738217026 |
Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s arrest. Congressman Todd Akin’s “legitimate” gaffe. The alleged rape crew of Steubenville, Ohio. Sexual violence has been so prominent in recent years that the feminist term “rape culture” has finally entered the mainstream. But what, exactly, is it? And...
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
| Author | bell hooks |
| ISBN | 0743456084 |
Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving. In The Will to Change, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows men how to express...
| Author | Dick Gregory |
| ISBN | 0671735608 |
I read this book years ago. It was given to me by a young black man who was working to change the attitudes of white people. However, I was a young white woman and he knocked on my apartment door and asked to come in and talk about Civil Rights. It was 1964. I was a senior in high school. I asked him to come in. He...
A Year of Biblical Womanhood
Strong-willed and independent, Rachel Held Evans couldn't sew a button on a blouse before she embarked on a radical life experiment--a year of biblical womanhood. Intrigued by the traditionalist resurgence that led many of her friends to abandon their careers to assume traditional gender roles...
Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation Into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints
From the private investigator who cracked open the case that led to the arrest of Warren Jeffs, the maniacal prophet of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), comes the page-turning, horrifying story of how a rogue sect used sex, money, and power disguised under a favßade...
Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves
For much of his thirties, Jesse Bering thought he was probably going to kill himself. He was a successful psychologist and writer, with books to his name and bylines in major magazines. But none of that mattered. The impulse to take his own life remained. At times it felt all but inescapable.
...
All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership
| Author | Darcy Lockman |
| ISBN | 0062861468 |
Picking up where All Joy and No Fun left off, All the Rage sets out to understand why, in an age of so-called equality, full-time working mothers still carry.
The inequity of domestic life is one of the most profound and perplexing conundrums of our time. In an era of seemingly unprecedented feminist...
Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin
| Author | Andrea Dworkin |
| ISBN | 1635900808 |
Selections from the work of radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin, famous for her antipornography stance and role in the feminist sex wars of the 1980s.
Radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin was a caricature of misandrist extremism in the popular imagination and a polarizing figure within...
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
| Author | Linda Kay Klein |
| ISBN | 1501124811 |
From a woman who has been there and back, the first inside look at the devastating effects evangelical Christianity’s purity culture has had on a generation of young women—in a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir.
In the 1990s, a “purity industry”...
Rosemary Kirstein's acclaimed epic continues, as a servant of truth journeys through a world where the powerful rule by lies.
The steerswomen were seekers, collectors of knowledge, and whatever they learned was free for the asking. The wizards also had knowledge–the knowledge to command...
| Author | Rosemary Kirstein |
| ISBN | 0345462297 |
How do you find a person you have never seen, or have never heard described? And what if the consequences of not finding him are too terrible to imagine?
The steerswoman Rowan has learned that Slado, a mysterious wizard, has secretly been working spells of incredible power. Both the Inner Lands...
| Author | Eileen Kernaghan |
| ISBN | 1894345142 |
*Winner 2001 Aurora Award for Long Form (English)
*Chosen for 2001 "Our Choice" Canadian Children's Centre literature guide
In this reworking of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, the magical worlds of Saami shamanism and the Kalevala coexist with the polite Victorian society...
| Author | Rosemary Kirstein |
| ISBN | 0345368851 |
Two shining lights hung above, motionless in the night sky as the constellations slowly passed behind them. The common folk knew them well, and used them to count the hours, mark the seasons.
But when the steerswoman Rowan discovered a number of broken blue jewels of clearly magical origin,...
Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s
| Author | Kathleen M. Blee |
| ISBN | 0520078764 |
Ignorant. Brutal. Male. One of these stereotypes of the Ku Klux Klan offer a misleading picture. In Women of the Klan, sociologist Kathleen Blee unveils an accurate portrait of a racist movement that appealed to ordinary people throughout the country. In so doing, she dismantles the popular notion...
| Author | Vicki L. Weavil |
| ISBN | 1946202010 |
Mael Voss, a mage, has put a curse on Thyra Winther making her the snow queen. Thyra has until her eighteenth birthday to resemble a mirror for Voss or she'll become a wraith and live in a limbo for eternity like the other girls who had been cursed before her. Thyra is getting closer using her skills at math...
Signs and Meaning in the Cinema, New and Enlarged Edition
| Author | Peter Wollen |
| ISBN | 0253181410 |
"This new and enlarged edition of Peter Wollen's influential and higly regarded work explores the way in which new approaches to the cinema can be combined with a new approach to aesthetics. Divided into three sections, Part One deals with the work of S.M. Eisenstein, both as a director and theorist...
From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies
| Author | Molly Haskell |
| ISBN | 0226318850 |
For this edition of her classic study of the feminine role in film, Molly Haskell has written a new chapter addressing recent developments in the appearance and perception of women in the movies.
"An incisive, exceedingly thoughtful look at the distorted lens through which Hollywood has...
She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall
| Author | Misty Bernall |
| ISBN | 0874869226 |
In a perverse celebration of Hitler's birthday, two heavily armed students stormed through a Colorado school on April 20, 1999, killing as many people as they could. Confronting 17-year-old Cassie Bernall, they put a gun to her head and asked: Do you believe in God? She said Yes. The killer laughed and...
Trigger Warnings: political correctness and the rise of the right
| Author | Jeff Sparrow |
| ISBN | 1911617079 |
A timely examination of progressive politics in the era of radical populism.
Since 2016, western democracies have experienced a series of political earthquakes, spectacularly upending conventional political wisdom. Everywhere, outsider politicians rail against ‘the...
The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies
The stunning metamorphosis of twenty-first-century Hollywood and what lies ahead for the art and commerce of film.
In the past decade, Hollywood has endured a cataclysm on a par with the end of silent film and the demise of the studio system. Stars and directors have seen their power dwindle,...
