Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels

7 best books like Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels (Barry Gifford): An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago, The Journey to the East, The White Darkness, Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing, Good Day to Die, Stieg Larssons erfenis: Zijn jacht op de moordenaar van Olof Palme, Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie

An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago

Author	Alex Kotlowitz
ISBN	1984841173

From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicago's most turbulent neighborhoods.

The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been killed and another roughly 60,000...

The Journey to the East

Author	Hermann Hesse
ISBN	0312421680

In simple, mesmerizing prose, Hermann Hesse's Journey to the East tells of a journey both geographic and spiritual. H.H., a German choirmaster, is invited on an expedition with the League, a secret society whose members include Paul Klee, Mozart, and Albertus Magnus. The participants traverse both...

The White Darkness

Author

David Grann

By the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon , a powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic, lavishly illustrated with color photographs

Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer...

Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing

Author	Elmore Leonard
ISBN	0061451460

"These are the rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what's taking place in the story."—Elmore Leonard

For aspiring writers and lovers of the written word, this concise guide breaks down the writing process with...

Good Day to Die

Author	Jim Harrison
ISBN	0440530008

Their plans were conceived in a drunken excitement and resulted in more horror than any of them could have imagined.  There was the poet able to retreat into beatific reveries of superb fishing in cold, fast streams; the Vietnam vet consumed by uppers, downers and violence; and the girl who loved...

Stieg Larssons erfenis: Zijn jacht op de moordenaar van Olof Palme

Author

Jan Stocklassa

Op 28 februari 1986 werd de Zweedse premier Olof Palme op straat in Stockholm doodgeschoten. Een moord die tot de dag van vandaag onopgelost is en waarover de meest wilde complottheorieën bestaan. Stieg Larsson, de latere auteur van de wereldberoemde Millennium-trilogie, is overtuigd van de betrokkenheid...

Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie

Author

Harold Schechter

At a remote little inn not far from the Kansas homestead of Laura Ingalls Wilder lived the Bender family. These pioneers welcomed unwary visitors with jackrabbit stew and a sledgehammer to the skull.In time, their apple orchard gave up its secrets—a burial ground for their mutilated victims, each...