The Book of Jezebel: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Lady Things
10 best books like The Book of Jezebel: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Lady Things (Anna Holmes): The Far Reaching Tentacles of N'rygoth, Pretty Deadly, Vol. 1: The Shrike, Sacred, How to Live with a Huge Penis: Advice, Meditations, and Wisdom for Men Who Have Too Much, A Dead Djinn in Cairo, Telegraph Avenue, High Fantasies, A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary, Demons, Animals
The Far Reaching Tentacles of N'rygoth
| Author | Kurtis J. Wiebe |
| ISBN | 1632150409 |
If anything, I liked the second volume of Rat Queens even more than the first. (Something that is rarely the case.)
It focuses more on the backstories of the characters without sacrificing the fun and action of the first book, and features art from one of my favorite artists: Stjepan Šejić....
Pretty Deadly, Vol. 1: The Shrike
| Author | Kelly Sue DeConnick |
| ISBN | 1607069628 |
Kelly Sue DeConnick (Avengers Assemble, Captain Marvel) and Emma Rios (Dr. Strange, Osborn) present the collected opening arc of their surprise-hit series that marries the magical realism of Sandman with the western brutality of Preacher. Death's daughter rides the wind on a horse made of smoke...
| Author | Dennis Lehane |
| ISBN | 0380726297 |
Dennis Lehane won a Shamus Award for A Drink Before the War, his first book about working-class Boston detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. His second in the series, Darkness, Take My Hand, got the kind of high octane reviews that careers are made of. Now Lehane not only survives the dreaded third-book...
How to Live with a Huge Penis: Advice, Meditations, and Wisdom for Men Who Have Too Much
| Author | Richard Jacob |
| ISBN | 1594743061 |
Is Bigger Really Better?
Here at last is the first self-help book for men with Oversized Male Genitalia (OMG), a genetic birth defect that grows the penis to absurd proportions. Every year, thousands of men are diagnosed with OMG. Sadly, most are banished to the fringes of society, victims...
| Author | P. Djèlí Clark |
| ISBN | 0765389444 |
Egypt, 1912. In an alternate Cairo infused with the otherworldly, the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities investigate disturbances between the mortal and the (possibly) divine. What starts off as an odd suicide case for Special Investigator Fatma el-Sha’arawi leads...
| Author | Michael Chabon |
| ISBN | 0061493341 |
Telegraph Avenue is the great American novel we've been waiting for. Generous, imaginative, funny, moving, thrilling, humane, triumphant, it is Michael Chabon's most dazzling book yet.
As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there - longtime...
The Queens are back! Palisade is still a rat-infested hell hole, and Violet, Hannah, Dee, Betty, and the brand-new Queen, Braga are the only hope of saving it! It’s been a long time since they’ve done a good slaughter, so join them as they get back to the basics of killing monsters and drinking away...
A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary
| Author | Alain de Botton |
| ISBN | 1846683599 |
A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary, Alain de Botton
In the summer of 2009, Alain de Botton was installed in the middle of Heathrow's Terminal Five on a raised platform with a laptop connected to screens, enabling passengers to see what he was writing and to come and share their stories. He provides...
| Author | Kurtis J. Wiebe |
| ISBN | 1632157357 |
Things I like:
-Fantasy stories
-Exotic and magical locales
-Ass-kicking lady adventurers
-Macaroni & Cheese (not relevant to this story; I just really like it)
All of these elements are present in this tale of our favorite rodentian royalty, and, yet, I found...
| Author | Emma Jane Unsworth |
| ISBN | 1443433055 |
Laura and Tyler are two young women who have been tearing up the city streets for ten years, leaving a trail of angry drug dealers and spent men in their wake. Now Laura is engaged to be married and her teetotal classical pianist fiancé, Jim, is away overseas. Tyler wants to keep the party going but Laura...
The further adventures of the booze guzzling, death dealing battle maidens-for-hire in the business of killing all the gods’ creatures for profit. Hannah the Rockabilly Elven Mage, Violet the Hipster Dwarven Fighter, Dee the Atheist Human Cleric, Betty the Hippy Smidgen Thief and Braga the Orc...
Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
| Author | Cinzia Arruzza |
| ISBN | 1788734424 |
From three of the organisers of the International Women's Strike US: a manifesto for when 'leaning in' is not enough.
Recent years have seen the emergence of massive feminist mobilizations around the world, offering an alternative to the liberal feminism that has become the handmaiden of...
The Great American Pin-Up
| Author | Charles G. Martignette |
| ISBN | 3822817015 |
Martignette, Charles, and Louis K. Meisel. The Great American Pin-up. New York ; Köln: Barnes & Noble ; Taschen, 2006. Print.
I quite enjoyed this coffee table book, which left me wanting more. Certainly wanting more pinups and glamour art but also to see the other artworks, including...
Colorama: Il mio campionario cromatico
| Author | Cruschiform |
| ISBN | 8867223003 |
Dall'azzurro limpido di un cielo sereno al rosso vivo dei papaveri, dal verde delicato di un lichene al giallo acceso dei mezzi da cantiere, dal piumaggio rosa dei fenicotteri al viola intenso della barbabietola... Colorama, il mio campionario cromatico ci svela i segreti di tante sfumature: da dove...
1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Think
| Author | Robert Arp |
| ISBN | 1476705739 |
Drawing on a wide spectrum of topics-including politics, cosmology, the arts, philosophy and religious beliefs, 1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Think traces the exponential growth of human knowledge across the centuries. Ranging from the ancient wisdom of Confucius and Plato to the cutting-edge...
The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
| Author | Will Buckingham |
| ISBN | 0756668611 |
To the complete novice, learning about philosophy can be a cause for dread-"I won't understand" is a common reaction to the mere mention of the subject, which is often assumed to be too complex and confusing for the average reader.
DK's The Philosophy Book will show that philosophy doesn't...
The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together
| Author | Adam Nayman |
| ISBN | 1419727400 |
From such cult hits as Raising Arizona (1987) and The Big Lebowski (1998) to major critical darlings Fargo (1996), No Country for Old Men (2007), and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), Ethan and Joel Coen have cultivated a bleakly comical, instantly recognizable voice in modern American cinema. In The Coen...
Lonely Planet's Best Ever Photography Tips
| Author | Richard I'Anson |
| ISBN | 1743218478 |
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*
Whether you're wielding a phone or a full-size DSLR, Lonely Planet's Best Ever Photography Tips will sharpen your skills and your pictures. Award-winning photographer Richard I'Anson has travelled the world for 30 years and founded...
Looking at Photographs: A Guide to Technical Terms
| Author | Gordon Baldwin |
| ISBN | 0892361921 |
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The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 1453744517 |
At last, America’s Master Storyteller joins the ranks of Delphi Classics’ scholarly collections. This is the COMPLETE WORKS of the great literary giant Edgar Allan Poe. Why buy any other Kindle version, which will have texts missing? This is the only eBook available with every tale - even the very...
Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women
| Author | Renee Engeln |
| ISBN | 0062669982 |
An award-winning Northwestern University psychology professor reveals how the cultural obsession with women's appearance is an epidemic that harms women's ability to get ahead and to live happy, meaningful lives, in this powerful, eye-opening work in the vein of Naomi Wolf, Peggy Orenstein,...
| Author | Rennie Airth |
| ISBN | 0670785687 |
Inspector John Madden—who debuted in River of Darkness—returns in a gripping post�World War II murder mystery
On a quiet afternoon in 1947, retired bank manager Oswald Gibson is shot in the head while fishing. In Scotland, a respectable family doctor is killed in the same
manner—and...
The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture
| Author | Glen Weldon |
| ISBN | 1476756694 |
A witty, intelligent cultural history from NPR book critic Glen Weldon explains Batman’s rises and falls throughout the ages—and what his story tells us about ourselves.
Since his creation, Batman has been many things: a two-fisted detective; a planet-hopping gadabout; a campy Pop-art...
An Ancient Evil inaugurates an ingenious new series of historical mysteries by P. C. Doherty, each one using characters from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. In Chaucer's poem, the pilgrims narrate tales to pass the time during their journey to the sacred shrine of Canterbury; Doherty's pilgrims entertain...
Culturally Responsive School Leadership
| Author | Muhammad Khalifa |
| ISBN | 1682532070 |
Culturally Responsive School Leadership focuses on how school leaders can effectively serve minoritized students—those who have been historically marginalized in school and society. The book demonstrates how leaders can engage students, parents, teachers, and communities in ways that positively...
Pretty Deadly, Vol. 2: The Bear
| Author | Kelly Sue DeConnick |
| ISBN | 1632156946 |
DeCONNICK (Captain Marvel, BITCH PLANET) and RÍOS (ISLAND, MIRROR) present the follow up to the Eisnernominated, New York Times bestselling PRETTY DEADLY, VOL. 1: THE SHRIKE. Sarah Fields is dying and her children strike a bargain with the Immortals: give them one month, until the moon is full again,...
| Author | Harry Brandt |
| ISBN | 0805093990 |
The electrifying tale of a New York City police detective under siege-by an unsolved murder, by his own dark past, and by a violent stalker seeking revenge.
Back in the run-and-gun days of the mid-1990s, when a young Billy Graves worked in the South Bronx as part of an aggressive anti-crime unit...
| Author | Ann Leary |
| ISBN | 0307405877 |
Julia and Joe Ferraro are living the good life in Manhattan now that Joe’s finally made it; he’s the star of a hit TV show and has just been nominated for a Golden Globe award. After many lean years, they’ve got a grand Upper West Side apartment and an Amagansett beach house, and their two kids go to...
13 Things They Won't Tell You
| Author | Reader's Digest Association |
| ISBN | 1606524992 |
Did you know never to order fish in a restaurant on a Monday? That the electric toothbrush is one of the best things to happen to dentistry? That the more exotic the fruit at your grocery store, the more likely it's been sitting there a long time? That your bartender has the police on speed dial? That premium...
| Author | Jane McCafferty |
| ISBN | 0066210623 |
An engrossing tale of a marriage that’s falling apart and a wife who will stop at nothing to keep it together.
From their early days in college, Evvie and Ben were drawn to each other by feelings of isolation stemming from their wounded childhoods, passionate idealism, and zeal for music....
