Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels

8 best books like Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels (Justin Vivian Bond): Territory of Light, The Truth About Magic, Cold Storage, Happyface, More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen, The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy, The Dinosaur Hunters, Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness

Territory of Light

Author	Yūko Tsushima
ISBN	0241312191

Territory of Light is the luminous story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her three-year-old daughter. Its twelve, stand-alone fragments follow the first year of her separation from her husband. The novel is full of light, sometimes comforting and sometimes dangerous: sunlight streaming...

The Truth About Magic

Author	Atticus Poetry
ISBN	1250232813

From the internationally bestselling author of The Dark Between Stars and Love Her Wild, Instagram sensation Atticus returns with another romantic and deeply moving collection.

The Truth About Magic builds on the pains and joys of romance explored in Love Her Wild and the New York Times bestseller,...

Cold Storage

Author	David Koepp
ISBN	0062916432

For readers of Andy Weir and Noah Hawley comes an astonishing debut by the screenwriter of Jurassic Park: a wild and terrifying adventure about three strangers who must work together to contain a highly contagious, deadly organism

When Pentagon bioterror operative Roberto Diaz was sent...

Happyface

Author

Stephen Emond

Enter Happyface's journal and get a peek into the life of a shy, artistic boy who decides to reinvent himself as a happy-go-lucky guy after he moves to a new town. See the world through his hilariously self-deprecating eyes as he learns to shed his comic-book-loving, computer-game playing ways. Join...

More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen

Author	Laurie Colwin
ISBN	0060955317

More Home Cooking, like its predecessor, Home Cooking, is an expression of Laurie Colwin's lifelong passion for cuisine. In this delightful mix of recipes, advice, and anecdotes, she writes about often overlooked food items such as beets, pears, black beans, and chutney. With down-to-earth charm...

The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy

Author	Dave Madden
ISBN	0312643713

Why would someone want to create or own the mounted skin of a dead animal? That’s the question Dave Madden explores in The Authentic Animal. Madden starts his journey with the life story of Carl Akeley, the father of modern taxidermy. Akeley started small by stuffing a canary, but by the end...

The Dinosaur Hunters

Author	Deborah Cadbury
ISBN	1857029593

It may seem surprising but dinosaurs are actually a British "invention" of the early 19th century. The name dinosaur was coined in 1842 by an English anatomist Richard Owen, a highly ambitious, machiavellian schemer and villain of Deborah Cadbury's The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific...

Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness

Author	Ingrid Fetell Lee
ISBN	0316399264

Have you ever wondered why we stop to watch the orange glow that arrives before sunset or why we flock to see cherry blossoms bloom in spring? Is there a reason that people--regardless of gender, age, culture, or ethnicity--are mesmerized by baby animals and can't help but smile when they see a burst of...