Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists

10 best books like Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists (Jean H. Baker): The Bird King, Metaphysics, When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love and Revolution, Wonder Woman & Justice League Dark: The Witching Hour, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Lagom: Not Too Little, Not Too Much, Just Right: The Swedish Guide to Creating Balance in Your Life, The Golden Lane: How Missouri Women Gained the Vote and Changed History, The Mighty Captain Marvel, Vol. 1: Alien Nation, Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America

The Bird King
AuthorG. Willow Wilson
New from the award-winning author of Alif the Unseen and writer of the Ms. Marvel series, G. Willow Wilson

Set in 1491 during the reign of the last sultanate in the Iberian peninsula, The Bird King is the story of Fatima, the only remaining Circassian concubine to the sultan, and her dearest friend...
Metaphysics
AuthorAristotle
ISBN1888009039
I have very mixed feelings about Aristotle.

On the one hand, he's so tedious and uninspiring. This is only partially his fault: everything we have of his are lecture notes, and so it is no surprise that they are stylistically wanting. Many scholars think that Metaphysics contains many sections...
AuthorJeanne Cordova
ISBN1935226517
A sweeping memoir, a raw and intimate chronicle of a young activist torn between conflicting personal longings and political goals. When We Were Outlaws offers a rare view of the life of a radical lesbian during the early cultural struggle for gay rights, Women’s Liberation, and the New Left of the...
Wonder Woman & Justice League Dark: The Witching Hour
AuthorJames Tynion IV
ISBN1401290736
An ancient force of dark magic is stirring and the Justice League Dark stands in its way. The only problem? The source of its power lies deep inside one of their own--the soul of their leader, Wonder Woman!

Hecate, the witch-goddess of magic, always knew that this day would come, when the monsters...
AuthorDylan Thomas
I’d always been vaguely or half aware of at least some of the lines contained in this poem – embedded such as they now are in our popular culture and so often used (in film, TV, radio etc). I had however neither read the poem in full, nor made any attempt to understand it, nor even knew that it was written...
Lagom: Not Too Little, Not Too Much, Just Right: The Swedish Guide to Creating Balance in Your Life
AuthorNiki Brantmark
ISBN0062748793
Uncover the secrets of the Swedish philosophy of life called Lagom – meaning ‘just enough’. At its core is the idea that we can strike a healthy balance with the world around us without having to make extreme changes, and without denying ourselves anything.
This delightful book, written...
The Golden Lane: How Missouri Women Gained the Vote and Changed History
AuthorMargot Ford McMillen
ISBN1609490134
It was June 14, 1916, a warm, sticky Wednesday morning. The Democratic Convention would soon meet in St. Louis. Inside the Jefferson Hotel, the men ate breakfast and met with their committees. Outside the hotel, thousands of women quietly took their places along both sides of Locust Street. They stood...
The Mighty Captain Marvel, Vol. 1: Alien Nation
AuthorMargaret Stohl
ISBN1302906054
Behold the mightiest, fightiest super hero there is! Captain Marvel returns to her helm as Alpha Flight commander with the world cheering her on. She's the biggest hero in the world - but has Captain Marvel become someone Carol Danvers no longer recognizes? New York Times bestselling author Margaret...
Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
AuthorJ.K. Rowling
I decided to catch up on all the things I missed on Pottermore in the last two years I have been inactive on the said site. Here’s what I picked: Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It follows the story of Isolt “Morrigan” Sayre, one of the founders of the said magic school, an Irish witch...
From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America
AuthorBeth L. Bailey
ISBN0801839351
Excellent monograph tracking the changing contours of courtship behavior from the early 20th century through the mid-Sixties, when the "sexual revolution"--Bailey explains precisely what she means by the term--fundamentally altered the nature of the beast. The primary change had to do with the...
The Harry Potter books from Severus Snape’s perspective
AuthorJ.K. Rowling
Per quanto io odi Severus Snape come personaggio, trovo interessante queste scene, questi dietro le quinte dei vari romanzi, raccontati dal suo punto di vista.
Scoprire scene nuove che ovviamente prima non potevamo sapere, visto che i romanzi ovviamente sono dal punto di Harry.
Una cosa...
The Magical Congress of the United States of America (MACUSA)
AuthorJ.K. Rowling
See also: Robert Galbraith
Although she writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers...
Soul Eater, Vol. 06
AuthorAtsushi Ohkubo
ISBN0316071099
Death the Kid and Black*Star race after Free and Eruka, ready to do whatever it takes to stop the Black Blood before it is used to revive the slumbering First Kishin. Meanwhile, Maka has allowed herself to slip into madness in an effort to reach Crona’s troubled soul. In addition to being horribly embarrassing,...
Adam's Gift: A Memoir of a Pastor's Calling to Defy the Church's Persecution of Lesbians and Gays
AuthorJimmy Creech
ISBN0822348853
Jimmy Creech, a United Methodist pastor in North Carolina, was visited one morning in 1984 by Adam, a longtime parishioner whom he liked and respected. Adam said that he was gay, and that he was leaving The United Methodist Church, which had just pronounced that “self-avowed practicing homosexuals”...
Soul Eater, Vol. 04
AuthorAtsushi Ohkubo
ISBN0759531277
At Maka's request, she and Soul meet with Doctor Stein for an intensive tutoring session. Although Stein warns that they may never be able to resonate again if they fail to complete the training, Maka insists, desperate to become stronger so that Soul is never hurt again. But Soul's strange nightmares...
Soul Eater, Vol. 05
AuthorAtsushi Ohkubo
ISBN0316071072
On the night of DWMA’s anniversary celebration, every meister and weapon in Death City has gathered at the school for an evening of music and dancing. Little do they know that the witch Medusa is about the crash Shinigami-sama’s party. Trapping the meisters inside, the witch makes her way to the...
Black Butler, Vol. 2
AuthorYana Toboso
ISBN0316084255
As high society's social calendar opens up and the Season draws to a close, London is gripped by fear. Someone has taken to stalking women of the night and painting the town red...in their blood. The name on everyone's lips seems to be "Jack the Ripper" - and as a result, the name on Queen Victoria's lips...
Soul Eater, Vol. 02
AuthorAtsushi Ohkubo
ISBN0759530483
The remedial assignment continues as Soul and Maka confront Dr. Franken Stein, the man behind Sid-sensei's unfortunate transformation and the strongest meister ever to graduate from Death Weapon Meister Academy. Even without a weapon, his massive soul dwarfs them all-even big shot Black*Star!...
Cleopatra: A Biography
AuthorDuane W. Roller
ISBN0195365534
Few personalities from classical antiquity are more famous--yet more poorly understood--than Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt. In this major biography, Duane Roller reveals that Cleopatra was in fact a learned and visionary leader whose overarching goal was always the preservation of her dynasty...
Soul Eater, Vol. 03
AuthorAtsushi Ohkubo
ISBN0759530645
Tsubaki and Black*Star set off on their most difficult mission yet: a battle with the Uncanny Sword Masamune, a soul on the brink of becoming a Kishin. But this fight holds personal significance for Tsubaki - their target is her older brother. Jealous of her inherited talents, Masamune is holding nothing...
World of Warcraft: Dark Mirror
AuthorSteve Danuser
Nathanos Blightcaller has faithfully served the Banshee Queen, Sylvanas Windrunner, both in life and in undeath. This service has demanded great sacrifice—and difficult choices. His unlife has been measured out in many conquests as champion of the Forsaken, but the burden of his duty to the Dark...
World of Warcraft - Windrunner - Three Sisters
AuthorSteve Danuser
After returning home to Azeroth, Alleria Windrunner calls upon her estranged siblings—Sylvanas, the warchief of the Horde, and Vereesa, ranger-general of the Silver Covenant—to join her in a quest to retake their ancestral home, Windrunner Spire, from the undead who have overrun the place....
Introducing Islam
AuthorZiauddin Sardar
ISBN1840465824
Islam is one of the world's great monotheistic religions. Islamic culture, spanning 1,500 years, has produced some of the finest achievements of humanity. Yet the religion followed by a fifth of humankind, including millions from diverse ethnic backgrounds in the US and Europe, is largely seen in...
Islam in Historical Perspective
AuthorAlexander D. Knysh
ISBN0321398777
Islam in Historical Perspective organically integrates the history of Islamic societies with a discussion of how Muslim scriptures, laws, moral values and myths have shaped the lives and thought of individual Muslims and various Muslim communities from the rise of Islam until today. It provides...
Captain Marvel (1989) #1
AuthorDwayne McDuffie
Dwayne McDuffie was an American writer of comic books and television. His notable works included creating the animated series Static Shock, writing and producing the animated series Justice League Unlimited, and co-founding the comic book company Milestone Media.

He co-hosted a radio...
Avengers (1998-2004) #2
AuthorKurt Busiek
Kurt Busiek is an American comic book writer notable for his work on the Marvels limited series, his own title Astro City, and his four-year run on Avengers.

Busiek did not read comics as a youngster, as his parents disapproved of them. He began to read them regularly around the age of 14, when...
Spiderman and Captain America
AuthorMarvel Comics
Marvel Publishing, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media. Marvel Entertainment, Inc., a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, owns Marvel Publishing (since 2009).

Marvel counts among its characters such well-known...
Captain Marvel (2012-2013) #8
AuthorKelly Sue DeConnick
Hey lookie what do we have here, Carol Danvers, Captain Marvel herself with Guest-star Monica Rambeau and Frank! And both new and old Captain Marvel join hands to defeat the giant robot which frankly looks like Jaeger from Pacific Rim movies. Wonderful action and this was second and final part of a special...
Avengers (1998-2004) #3
AuthorKurt Busiek
Kurt Busiek is an American comic book writer notable for his work on the Marvels limited series, his own title Astro City, and his four-year run on Avengers.

Busiek did not read comics as a youngster, as his parents disapproved of them. He began to read them regularly around the age of 14, when...
Captain Marvel: Free Your Mind
AuthorDwight D. Coye
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