The Big Book for Peace

10 best books like The Big Book for Peace (Ann Durell): The Book of Three, Riddley Walker, The Story of English, Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color, A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch, The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean, Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley, Microscripts, The Exquisite Corpse Adventure, The Second Worst Restaurant in France

The Book of Three

Author	Lloyd Alexander
ISBN	0805080481

Taran wanted to be a hero, and looking after a pig wasn't exactly heroic, even though Hen Wen was an oracular pig. But the day that Hen Wen vanished, Taran was led into an enchanting and perilous world. With his band of followers, he confronted the Horned King and his terrible Cauldron-Born. These were...

Riddley Walker

Author	Russell Hoban
ISBN	0253212340

Fionnuala wrote: "Ah, you wouldn't be 'fixing' it, not, but you know that of course!
No, you'd be doing an interesting exercise for yourself, maybe for me who'd be curious to read your 'transliteration', even a pag..."

Alan is sure it would be ruined but he's a writer, who aren't necessarily...

The Story of English

Author	Robert McCrum
ISBN	0142002313

Now revised, The Story of English is the first book to tell the whole story of the English language. Originally paired with a major PBS miniseries, this book presents a stimulating and comprehensive record of spoken and written English—from its Anglo-Saxon origins some two thousand years ago to...

Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color

Author	Chandler O'Leary
ISBN	1632170574

This gorgeously illustrated letterpress-inspired book combines feminist history with a vision for a better future. Based on the beloved Dead Feminists letterpress poster series, this illuminating look at 27 women who ve changed the world features a foreword by Jill Lepore, author of The Secret...

A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch

Author

Jill Murphy

Mildred is growing, but so is her special, unfortunate ability to get herself into trouble. Sometimes she asks for it, sometimes she doesn’t—just trying to do what seems best—but regardless, her intentions are always right.

In this third book in The Worst Witch series, Mildred tries...

The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean

Author

Alexander McCall Smith

When Harriet Bean's father mentions that he has five sisters—whom Harriet has never met—she is immediately intrigued. Harriet is determined to uncover the whereabouts of her five lost aunts, but with nothing more than an unfinished family portrait and a few outdated clues, will she be able to...

Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley

Author	Robert Sheckley
ISBN	1590174941

Robert Sheckley was an eccentric master of the American short story, and his tales, whether set in dystopic city­scapes, ultramodern advertising agencies, or aboard spaceships lighting out for hostile planets, are among the most startlingly original of the twentieth century. Today, as the new...

Microscripts

Author	Robert Walser
ISBN	0811218805

Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper (many of them written during his hospitalization in the Waldau sanatorium) covered with tiny ant-like markings only a millimeter or two high, came to light only after the author’s...

The Exquisite Corpse Adventure

Author

M.T. Anderson

Ever heard of an Exquisite Corpse? It's not what you might think. An Exquisite Corpse is an old game in which people write a phrase on a sheet of paper, fold it over to conceal part of it and pass it on to the next player to do the same. The game ends when someone finishes the story, which is then read aloud.

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The Second Worst Restaurant in France

Author	Alexander McCall Smith
ISBN	1846974216

Renowned Scottish cookbook writer Paul Stuart is hard at work on his new book, The Philosophy of Food, but complicated domestic circumstances, and two clingy cats, are making that difficult.

So when Paul's eccentric cousin Chloe suggests that he join her at the house she's rented in the French...

Lock No. 1

Author	Georges Simenon
ISBN	0141396105

Cars drove past along with the trucks and trams, but by now Maigret had realised that they were not important. Whatever roared by like this along the road was not part of the landscape. . . . What really counted was the lock, the hooting of the tugs, the stone crusher, the barges and the cranes, the two pilots’ bars,...