Sorcerers & Secretaries, Vol. 2
10 best books like Sorcerers & Secretaries, Vol. 2 (Amy Kim Kibuishi): The Alcatraz Escape, Shadowshaper, The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, Washington Square, Thornhill, Tamara Drewe, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Unf*ck Your Habitat: You're Better Than Your Mess, Insignia, Re-Gifters
| Author | Jennifer Chambliss Bertman |
Sleuthing duo Emily and James tackle their most challenging mystery yet set on the haunting Alcatraz Island in Book 3 of the New York Times bestselling Book Scavenger series!
Legendary literary game-maker Garrison Griswold is back in action―this time with “Unlock the Rock.” For his...
| Author | Daniel José Older |
| ISBN | 0545591619 |
Sierra Santiago was looking forward to a fun summer of making art, hanging out with her friends, and skating around Brooklyn. But then a weird zombie guy crashes the first party of the season. Sierra's near-comatose abuelo begins to say "Lo siento" over and over. And when the graffiti murals in Bed-Stuy...
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
| Author | Neil Strauss |
| ISBN | 0060554738 |
Hidden somewhere, in nearly every major city in the world, is an underground seduction lair. And in these lairs, men trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to charm women. This is not fiction. These men really exist. They live together in houses known as Projects. And Neil...
| Author | Henry James |
| ISBN | 0451528719 |
The plot of Washington Square has the simplicity of old-fashioned melodrama: a plain-looking, good-hearted young woman, the only child of a rich widower, is pursued by a charming but unscrupulous man who seeks the wealth she will presumably inherit. On this premise, Henry James constructed one of...
Parallel plotlines, one told in text and one in art, inform each other as a young girl unravels the mystery of a ghost next door.
Mary is an orphan at the Thornhill Institute for Children at the very moment that it's closing down for good. But when a bully goes too far, Mary's revenge will have a lasting...
Tamara Drewe has transformed herself. Plastic surgery, a different wardrobe, a smouldering look, have given her confidence and a new and thrilling power to attract, which she uses recklessly. Often just for the fun of it.
People are drawn to Tamara Drewe, male and female. In the remote village...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
| Author | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| ISBN | 1416556052 |
Today, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his novels, but in his lifetime, his fame stemmed from his prolific achievement as one of America's most gifted story writers. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," a witty and fantastical satire about aging, is one of his most memorable stories.
In...
Unf*ck Your Habitat: You're Better Than Your Mess
| Author | Rachel Hoffman |
| ISBN | 1250102952 |
Finally, a housekeeping and organizational system developed for those of us who'd describe our current living situation as a “f*cking mess” that we're desperate to fix. Unf*ck Your Habitat is for anyone who has been left behind by traditional aspirational systems: The ones that ignore single...
| Author | S.J. Kincaid |
| ISBN | 0062092995 |
The earth is in the middle of WWIII in Insignia, the first entry in S. J. Kincaid's fast-paced sci-fi adventure trilogy perfect for fans of Ender's Game.
The planet's natural resources are almost gone, and war is being fought to control the assets of the solar system. The enemy is winning. The...
Jen Dik Seong, known as Dixie to her friends, well really friend (singular), is a first generation Korean American girl, who has a black belt in Hapkido - an ancient marital art. She has her first major crush, and this has left her not only distracted, but she has lost her Ki. Will she find it again?
This...
Hatter M, Volume 1: The Looking Glass Wars
Put to rest any delusions or disinformation you have of the tea guzzling madman of faux literary history and prepare to expand your consciousness as the saga of Hatter Madigan and his relentless search for the lost Princess of Wonderland unfolds on these pages.
In Frank Beddor's The Looking...
Hatter M, Volume 2: Mad With Wonder
| Author | Frank Beddor |
| ISBN | 0981873715 |
It's a mad, mad, mad world as Royal Bodyguard Hatter Madigan's maniacal quest to find Alyss continues! In Volume 2, Mad With Wonder, Hatter follows the Glow from London to the battlefields of America's Civil War in search of the Princess who must some day be Queen. The America that Hatter encounters is...
| Author | Jane Hope |
| ISBN | 1840460768 |
Informative yet ironic.
TW: images of suicide, abuse of women and orgies are in this book. Unnecessarily attacks Christianity.
I'm a Roman Catholic, yet I wished to learn more of what my Buddhist friends practiced. At first, this book was very informative and nice to learn about....
Aster and his family are adjusting to his unconventional talent for witchery; unlike the other boys in his family, he isn't a shapeshifter. He's taking classes with his grandmother and helping to keep an eye on his great-uncle whose corrupted magic wreaked havoc on the family.
Meanwhile,...
| Author | Rachel Manija Brown |
Welcome back to Las Anclas, a frontier town in the post-apocalyptic Wild West. In Las Anclas, the skull-faced sheriff possesses superhuman strength, the doctor can speed up time, and the squirrels can teleport sandwiches out of your hands.
In book one, Stranger, teenage prospector Ross...
| Author | Rachel Manija Brown |
Welcome back to Las Anclas, a frontier town in the post-apocalyptic Wild West. In this perilous landscape, a schoolboy can create earthquakes, poisonous cloud vipers flock in the desert skies, and the beaches are stalked by giant mind-controlling lobsters.
The tyrant king Voske has been...
| Author | Cecil Castellucci |
| ISBN | 1401213871 |
"This graphic novel for girls feels like a teen movie and teaches young women the joy of being original." -- USA Today on THE PLAIN JANES, Best Graphic Novels of 2007
The art attacks continue in this sequel to the acclaimed graphic novel THE PLAIN JANES. The coolest clique of misfits ever plays...
Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous
| Author | Michele Cassou |
| ISBN | 0874778107 |
Life, Paint And Passion is a deeply involving approach to using the creative process as a tool for self-discovery. With vibrant and contagious enthusiasm, the authors liberate the reader's urge to create freely and spontaneously, as a painter or an artist in another medium, purely for the process...
Destination: Simple - Rituals and Rhythms for a Simpler Daily Life
This is actually a 3.5 star book.
You can knock this tiny book over in an hour but you'll walk away with good things to think about. If you're a fan of Brooke's podcast, like I am , you'll know some of this stuff already but it's still nice to have it all in front of you. Brooke couldn't have made it simpler...
| Author | Megumi Nishizaki |
| ISBN | 1421511428 |
Think you know everything about Hot Gimmick? Well, think again! Hot Gimmick S, an original novelization inspired by the super-popular shojo series Hot Gimmick, boasts an ending that is completely different than how the manga series concludes. Hatsumi Narita, a somewhat indecisive coed, must navigate...
The Essential Guide to Practical Astrology
| Author | April Elliott Kent |
| ISBN | 1615640932 |
A down-to-earth guide about the message of the stars.
For astrology to be useful there's no need to have a crystal ball, incense, meditation, or faith. Learn the practical language of astrology in this clear, easy-to-understand exploration that goes way beyond daily horoscopes and zodiac....
STOP Not Writing: A No B.S. Guide to Avoid the Avoidance Tricks of a Non-writing Writer
Learn How to Retrain Your Brain to Become the Prolific Writer You've Always Wanted to Be...You're a writer. You know you are.You love words.You love stories.But you can't write.You've tried everything. You start, you stop and you drop... every work you've ever tried. And they all, more or less, lay...
Recess Warriors: Hero Is a Four-Letter Word
| Author | Marcus Emerson |
| ISBN | 1626727082 |
Saving the world... one playground at a time.
When imaginations go wild in the schoolyard, anything can happen. Normal kids become world-saving heroes, girls become power-hungry pirates, and zombies take over the school after being infected by the dreaded epidemic—cooties! It's up...
The Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
| Author | Robert Byrne |
| ISBN | 0449213374 |
Robert Byrne is the author of seven novels, five collections of humorous quotations, seven books on billiards, two anthologies, and an expose of frauds in the literary world. One of his novels, Thrill, was made into NBC’s Monday Night Movie, which aired for the first time on May 20, 1996. Four of his...
| Author | Keith Kachtick |
| ISBN | 0060523913 |
Carter Cox is a talented but dissipated freelance photojournalist living in New York City's East Village with his sad dog and bad habits. Though he travels to exotic places taking pictures of models and celebrities, he yearns to do more meaningful work and to mend his womanizing ways. He also wants to...
| Author | Brendan Reichs |
| ISBN | 1984838237 |
The stunning finale of the Project Nemesis trilogy from
New York Times
bestselling author Brendan Reichs.
The 64 members of Fire Lake's sophomore class have managed to survive the first two phases of the Program--and each other. Now, they alone have emerged into the dawn of a new era...
