Signs and Wonders
9 best books like Signs and Wonders (Alix Ohlin): Mutant Message Down Under, Home, The Quantum Magician, Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories, Beirut Hellfire Society, The Two Hotel Francforts, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, The Book of Ballads, Everybody Has Everything
Mutant Message Down Under
| Author | Marlo Morgan |
| ISBN | 0060723513 |
Mutant Message Down Under is the fictional account of an American woman's spiritual odyssey through outback Australia. An underground bestseller in its original self-published edition, Marlo Morgan's powerful tale of challenge and endurance has a message for us all.
Summoned by a remote...
| Author | Toni Morrison |
| ISBN | 0307594165 |
America's most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war.
Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing...
| Author | Derek Künsken |
| ISBN | 1781085706 |
Belisarius is a quantum man, an engineered Homo quantus who fled the powerful insight of dangerously addictive quantum senses. He found a precarious balance as a con man, but when a client offers him untold wealth to move a squadron of warships across an enemy wormhole, he must embrace his birthright...
| Author | Deborah Eisenberg |
| ISBN | 0062864688 |
6 Hours and 55 Minutes
A much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of the form, performed by a remarkable cast: Deborah Eisenberg, Julianne Moore, Josh Hamilton, and Wallace Shawn.
At times raucously hilarious,...
| Author | Rawi Hage |
| ISBN | 1324002913 |
After his undertaker father’s death, laconic, Greek mythology– reading Pavlov is approached by a member of the mysterious Hellfire Society— an antireligious sect that, among many rebellious and often salacious activities, arranges secret burial for outcasts who have been denied last rites...
| Author | David Leavitt |
| ISBN | 1596910429 |
It is the summer of 1940, and Lisbon, Portugal, is the only neutral port left in Europe—a city filled with spies, crowned heads, and refugees of every nationality, tipping back absinthe to while away the time until their escape. Awaiting safe passage to New York on the SS Manhattan, two couples meet:...
| Author | Elizabeth McCracken |
| ISBN | 0385335776 |
From the author of the beloved novel The Giant’s House—finalist for the National Book Award—comes a beautiful new story collection, her first in twenty years. Laced through with the humor, the empathy, and the rare and magical descriptive powers that have led Elizabeth McCracken’s fiction...
| Author | Charles Vess |
| ISBN | 0765312158 |
In this graphic novel, Charles Vess illustrates many traditional folk ballads that have been rewritten by some fairly popular fantasy artists like Neil Gaiman or Emma Bull.
I didn't realize how many traditional ballads have negative interactions with strangers as their primary topic....
| Author | Katrina Onstad |
| ISBN | 0771068980 |
What happens when the tidy, prosperous life of an urban couple is turned inside out by a tragedy with unexpected consequences? After a car crash leaves their friend Marcus dead and his wife Sarah in a coma, Ana and James are shocked to discover that they have become the legal guardians of a 2½-year-old,...
