The Blackbirder
10 best books like The Blackbirder (Dorothy B. Hughes): The Wicked Cometh, The Manchurian Candidate, Deaf Republic: Poems, Night Boat to Tangier, Year of the Monkey, A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America's Destiny, Laura, My Face for the World to See, The Body Lies, The Cockroach
| Author | Laura Carlin |
| ISBN | 1473661374 |
The year is 1831
Down the murky alleyways of London, acts of unspeakable wickedness are taking place and no one is willing to speak out on behalf of the city's vulnerable poor as they disappear from the streets.
Out of these shadows comes Hester White, a bright young woman who is desperate...
| Author | Richard Condon |
| ISBN | 0743482972 |
As compelling and disturbing as when it was first published in the midst of the Cold War, "The Manchurian Candidate" continues to enthrall readers with its electrifying action and shocking climax....Sgt. Raymond Shaw is a hero of the first order. He's an ex-prisoner of war who saved the life of his entire...
| Author | Ilya Kaminsky |
| ISBN | 1555978312 |
Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection
Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?
Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political...
| Author | Kevin Barry |
| ISBN | 0385540310 |
In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging Irishmen — Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond, longtime partners in the lucrative and dangerous enterprise of smuggling drugs — sit at night, none too patiently. It is October 23, 2018, and they are...
| Author | Patti Smith |
| ISBN | 0525657681 |
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.
Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti...
A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America's Destiny
| Author | Patrick J. Buchanan |
| ISBN | 0895261596 |
If you think Pat is just an old-school right-wing blowhard, you might be surprised by this book. It's a history of US foreign policy that he uses to argue in favor of an American First approach to the world. Pat plausibly argues that america's pre-Wilsonian approach to the world was not isolationist,...
| Author | Vera Caspary |
| ISBN | 1558615059 |
Laura Hunt was the ideal modern woman: beautiful, elegant, highly ambitious, and utterly mysterious. No man could resist her charms—not even the hardboiled NYPD detective sent to find out who turned her into a faceless corpse. As this tough cop probes the mystery of Laura’s death, he becomes obsessed...
| Author | Alfred Hayes |
| ISBN | 1590176677 |
Alfred Hayes is one of the secret masters of the twentieth century novel, a journalist, scriptwriter and poet who possessed an immaculate ear and who wrote with razorsharp intelligence about passion and its payback.
My Face for the World to See is set in Hollywood, where the tonic for anonymity...
A layered and thrilling suspense novel that grapples with how to live as a woman in the modern world - or in the pages of a book - when the stakes are dangerously high.
When a young writer accepts a job at a university in the remote countryside, it’s meant to be a fresh start, away from the big...
That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature.
Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain –...
Woke: A Guide to Social Justice
| Author | Titania McGrath |
| ISBN | 1472130847 |
In Woke, Titania McGrath demonstrates how everybody can play their part in the pursuit of social justice. As a millennial icon on the forefront of online activism, Titania is uniquely placed to guide her readers through the often bewildering array of terminology and concepts that constitute twenty-first-century...
