The Big Shuffle
10 best books like The Big Shuffle (Laura Pedersen): Good Fortune, A Beginner's Guide to Bear Spotting, Stadt aus Trug und Schatten, QR Codes Kill Kittens: How to Alienate Customers, Dishearten Employees, and Drive Your Business Into the Ground, Dayworld Rebel, Blind Faith, Skunk Girl, The Language of Goldfish, The Catalogue of the Universe, No Such Thing as the Real World: Stories About Growing Up and Getting a Life
| Author | Noni Carter |
| ISBN | 1416984801 |
Brutally kidnapped from her African village and shipped to America, Ayanna Bahati struggles to come to terms with her new life as a slave. Rising from the cotton fields to her master's house, Anna is threatened by the increasingly dangerous world of the plantation. Risking everything, she escapes...
| Author | Michelle Robinson |
| ISBN | 1681190265 |
Do you dream of seeing some real, live bears? Then this essential guide to bear spotting, filled with offbeat humor and quirky illustrations, is for you!
In this perfect read-aloud, sure to delight kids and parents alike, a young aspiring bear spotter ventures into bear country . . . But coming...
| Author | Mechthild Gläser |
| ISBN | 3785574029 |
Flora Gerstmann hat alle Hände voll zu tun mit dem Leben, das sie tagsüber führt. Schule, Freunde und eine chaotische Familie sind für ihren Geschmack genügend Herausforderungen für eine 17-Jährige. Dann aber erfährt sie, dass sie noch ein zweites Leben hat: Nacht für Nacht findet sich...
| Author | Scott Stratten |
| ISBN | 1118732758 |
Easy to digest tips and tools on how not to run a business Experts are constantly telling us what we need to be doing to improve our businesses. Hundreds of books in the market are filled with advice from these experts. But how can you filter out all of the bad advice, misinformation, and misuse of business...
| Author | Philip José Farmer |
| ISBN | 0441140025 |
2.5 stars, Metaphorosis Reviews
This second volume follows closely on the model of its predecessor, but with more assurance. It’s less concerned with laying out the structure of the world than in sending its protagonist through a series of adventures. It’s smoother but less interesting...
| Author | Ellen Wittlinger |
| ISBN | 1416902732 |
"I might as well tell you before you hear it someplace else...My mother is dying. She has leukemia and she came here to die."
Nathan and his adorable little sister just moved in across the street from Liz Scattergood, and both of them could use a friend. Liz just isn't sure she's the right person....
| Author | Sheba Karim |
| ISBN | 0374370117 |
If Nina Khan were to rate herself on the unofficial Pakistani prestige point system – the one she's sure all the aunties and uncles use to determine the most attractive marriage prospects for their children – her scoring might go something like this:
+2 points for getting excellent grades...
Carrie Stokes doesn’t like change. After she moves to a new place and has to adjust to a new school, new people in her life, and the challenges of growing up she loses it. Something within her just can’t take it anymore and she starts blacking out, passing out, wandering for hours with no idea of where...
Angela and Tycho seem an unlikely pair -- she is beautiful and confident, he is awkward and quietly intellectual. They have long shared a passion for deciphering the universe outside their own personal struggles. Like the great philosophers they study, to Angela and Tycho it seems the universe can...
| Author | An Na |
| ISBN | 0061470589 |
Graduation from high school?
A senior thesis?
A betrayal by someone you love?
A loss of innocence?
The death of a parent?
Losing the family you always wished you had?
Facing a harsh reality?
What's the line that separates childhood from...
| Author | Barbara Hall |
| ISBN | 0385733283 |
At the age of 16, it's standard procedure for every girl at Lynnie Russo's posh Los Angeles prep school to get a car. So on her 16th birthday, Lynnie is startled when she opens the small gift box from her father—it doesn't contain the shiny new set of keys she was expecting. Instead she finds a worn-out...
| Author | Cath Crowley |
| ISBN | 0330364561 |
STAR (noun): any large body like the sun, intensely hot and producing its own energy by nuclear reactions SOCCER STAR (noun): Gracie Faltrain
Goal-kicking, super-girl, soccer star. Gracie Faltrain is on her way. To the National Championships. To Nick. To everything she's ever wanted. Or...
| Author | Catherine Clark |
| ISBN | 0061367141 |
There's nothing more annoying than working in a coffee shop inside a gas station—and not being able to drive. And having to deliver coffee to your bus driver.
Kamikaze Bus Driver sips his coffee, then charges back into traffic before I can even take a seat. I reach out for a seat back to hold on...
Shortlisted for the 2009 Melbourne Prize, Best Writing Award. Fifteen-year-old Sabiha has a lot to deal with: her mother's mental health issues, her interfering aunt, her mother's new boyfriend, her live-in grandfather and his chess buddy, not to mention her arrogant cousin Adnan. They all want...
| Author | Jennifer Gooch Hummer |
| ISBN | 1280120681 |
Apron Bramhall has come unmoored. Fortunately, she's about to be saved by Jesus. Not that Jesus-the actor who plays him in Jesus Christ Superstar. Apron is desperate to avoid the look-alike Mike, who's suddenly everywhere, until she's stuck in church with him one day. Then something happens-Apron's...
| Author | Carleen Brice |
| ISBN | 0345499077 |
The author of the #1 Denver Post bestseller and Essence Book Club Pick Orange Mint and Honey explores the connection between love and race, and what it really means to be a family.
Trish Taylor’s white ancestry never got in the way of her love for her black ex-husband, or their mixed race son, Will....
| Author | Megan Shull |
| ISBN | 0786856912 |
Gorgeous teen superstar Grace Kincaid has it all--an electric smile, million-dollar endorsement deals, and blond cover-girl looks. But what happens when America's "It" girl doesn't want "It" anymore? With the paparazzi stalking her every move, Grace quietly slips out of a TEEN PEOPLE photo shoot,...
| Author | Scott Lasser |
| ISBN | 1423393090 |
The story of a woman’s search for her brother’s lost son, orphaned in the wake of his sudden death, drives Scott Lasser’s riveting novel - a work of stunning economy and momentum about a woman’s quest and a family’s longing for wholeness and completion.
Cat is a single mother living...
| Author | Xu Bing |
| ISBN | 9868786010 |
Twenty years ago I made "Book from the Sky," a book of illegible Chinese characters that no one could read. Now I have created "Book from the Ground," a book that anyone can read.--Xu Bing
Following his classic work " Book from the Sky," the Chinese artist Xu Bing presents a new graphic novel --...
The Book, the Film, the T-shirt
| Author | Matt Beaumont |
| ISBN | 0007127685 |
Matt Beaumont is one of the funniest writers I've come across - his book E and sequels are some of the funniest stories I've read. He used to work in advertising and this book, like E, is set in his old stomping ground. A British ad agency is shooting a tyre commercial starring a couple Hollywood soap opera...
| Author | Olivia Gardner |
| ISBN | 0061544620 |
Olivia Gardner, a northern California teenager, was severely taunted and cyber-bullied by her classmates for more than two years. News of her bullying spread, eventually reaching two teenage girls from a neighboring town, sisters Emily and Sarah Buder. The girls were so moved by Olivia's story that...
| Author | Sven Nordqvist |
| ISBN | 3789143073 |
Man soll nie zu viel versprechen. Sonst geht es einem am Ende wie dem alten Pettersson. Seit der seinem Kater nämlich vom Weihnachtsmann erzählt hat, hat Findus nur noch einen Wunsch: dass der Weihnachtsmann auch zu ihm kommt. Klar, dass Pettersson ihn nicht enttäuschen möchte. Im Tischlerschuppen...
| Author | Masha Hamilton |
| ISBN | 1932961836 |
A woman in New York awakens knowing, as deeply as a mother’s blood can know, that her grown son is in danger. She has not heard from him in weeks. His name is Jonas. His girlfriend, Vic, doesn’t know what she has done wrong, but Jonas won’t answer his cell phone. We soon learn that Jonas is isolated in...
| Author | Ulf Stark |
| ISBN | 1877467588 |
- Jaha, sa læreren, - vi får vel ønske den nye gutten Simon Kroll velkommen i klassen.
Den nye gutten! Simon! Med ett gikk det opp for meg at det var meg hun snakket om. Det var det idiotiske navnet Simone som hadde skylden. Skulle jeg si det som det var? "Unnskyld, men det må være en feiltakelse....
| Author | Ian Falconer |
| ISBN | 1416996745 |
look at all of my olivias!! the one in the middle who looks all dirty actually is very dirty, because she is supposed to be wearing red footie pajamas, but they keep falling off because she is a little nudist.
bad olivia!
anyway, look at that signature!!awesome ariel lied to ian falconer...
