Schooling

7 best books like Schooling (Heather McGowan): Everything Leads to You, Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company, The Blue Place, Breaking Character, The Red Files, The Brutal Truth, Trouble in July

Everything Leads to You

Author	Nina LaCour
ISBN	0525425888

A love letter to the craft and romance of film and fate in front of—and behind—the camera from the award-winning author of Hold Still.

A wunderkind young set designer, Emi has already started to find her way in the competitive Hollywood film world.

Emi is a film buff and a true...

Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company

Author	Multatuli
ISBN	0140445161

Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is also a flawed idealist whose vow to protect the Javanese from cruelty ends in...

The Blue Place

Author	Nicola Griffith
ISBN	0380790882

A police lieutenant with the elite "Red Dogs" until she retired at twenty-nine , Aud Torvigen is a rangy six-footer with eyes the color of cement and a tendency to hurt people who get in her way. Born in Norway into the failed marriage between a Scandinavian diplomat and an American businessman, she now...

Breaking Character

Author	Lee Winter
ISBN	3963241136

Life has become a farcical mess for icy British A-lister Elizabeth Thornton. America’s most-hated villain stars in a top-rated TV medical drama that she hates. Now, she’s been romantically linked to her perky, new co-star, Summer, due to the young woman’s clumsiness. As a closeted actress,...

The Red Files

Author	Lee Winter
ISBN	3955333302

Ambitious Daily Sentinel journalist Lauren King is chafing on LA’s vapid social circuit, reporting on glamorous A-list parties while sparring with her rival—the formidable, icy Catherine Ayers. Ayers is an ex-Washington political correspondent who suffered a humiliating fall from grace,...

The Brutal Truth

Author

Lee Winter

Australian crime reporter Maddie Grey is out of her depth in New York, miserable, and secretly drawn to her powerful, twice-married, media mogul boss, Elena Bartell, who eats failing newspapers for breakfast. As work takes them to Australia, Maddie is goaded into a brief, seemingly harmless bet with...

Trouble in July

Author	Erskine Caldwell
ISBN	0820321052

Through the summer twilight in the Depression-era South, word begins to circulate of a black man accosting a white woman. In no time the awful forces of public opinion and political expediency goad the separate fears and frustrations of a small southern community into the single-mindedness of a mob....