The Acorn People
9 best books like The Acorn People (Ron Jones): Johnny Tremain, Drive, Restart, Road to Perdition, A Day No Pigs Would Die, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, The Walking Dead, Vol. 32: Rest In Peace, Serafina and the Twisted Staff, Slacker
| Author | Esther Forbes |
| ISBN | 0440442508 |
Probably the greatest book ever written, by both man and child, woman and other writing entity, Johnny Tremain tells the story of a young genius who becomes a silversmith and burns the crappin' hell out of his hand. He's always embarrassed by his sort of melty hand and keeps it in his pockets or in his mother's...
| Author | James Sallis |
| ISBN | 0156030322 |
Set mostly in Arizona and L.A., Drive is about a man who does stunt driving for movies by day and drives for criminals at night. Sallis combines murder, treachery and payback in a sinister plot with resonances of 1940s pulp fiction and film noir. Told through a cinematic narrative that weaves back and...
| Author | Gordon Korman |
| ISBN | 1338053779 |
Chase's memory just went out the window.
Chase doesn't remember falling off the roof. He doesn't remember hitting his head. He doesn't, in fact, remember anything. He wakes up in a hospital room and suddenly has to learn his whole life all over again . . . starting with his own name.
He...
| Author | Max Allan Collins |
| ISBN | 1563894491 |
The basis for the major motion picture, ROAD TO PERDITION is an enthralling crime noir story of revenge, morality and family loyalty. Michael O'Sullivan is a deeply religious family man who works as an Irish mob family's chief enforcer. But after his elder son witnesses one of his father's hits, the...
| Author | Robert Newton Peck |
| ISBN | 0394482352 |
Out of a rare American tradition, sweet as hay, grounded in the gentle austerities of the Book of Shaker, and in the Universal countryman's acceptance of birth, death, and the hard work of wresting a life from the land comes this haunting novel of a Vermont farm boyhood.
In the daily round of his...
| Author | Peter Biskind |
| ISBN | 0684857081 |
However much is true, however much really happened that way, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How The Sex 'N' Drugs 'N' Rock 'N' Generation Saved Hollywood by Peter Biskind remains one of my favorite non-fiction reads. For those who hear "film history" and think Titanic, in 1967, the major American film studios...
The Walking Dead, Vol. 32: Rest In Peace
| Author | Robert Kirkman |
| ISBN | 1534312412 |
It’s… over?
Wha… no foolin’!? Sweet zombie jesus!
Yup, the series that became like the rotting, shambling corpses featured in its pages has finally come to a long overdue end. I kinda feel like Kent Brockman – why now, why not five years ago??
So after years of saying...
Serafina and the Twisted Staff
| Author | Robert Beatty |
| ISBN | 1484775031 |
Serafina's defeat of the Man in the Black Cloak has brought her out of the shadows and into the daylight realm of her home, Biltmore Estate. Every night she visits her mother in the forest, eager to learn the ways of the catamount. But Serafina finds herself caught between her two worlds: she's too wild...
| Author | Gordon Korman |
| ISBN | 0545823153 |
Cameron Boxer is very happy to spend his life avoiding homework, hanging out with his friends, and gaming for hours in his basement. It's not too hard for him to get away with it . . . until he gets so caught up in one game that he almost lets his house burn down around him.
Oops.
It's time for...
