The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century
10 best books like The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century (Margaret Talbot): Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me, Yotsuba&!, Vol. 1, Buddha, Vol. 1: Kapilavastu, The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees, A Creature of Moonlight, The Light Years: A Memoir, The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future, Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now, The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great, The Second Worst Restaurant in France
Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me
| Author | Patricia Volk |
| ISBN | 0307962105 |
From the acclaimed author of Stuffed: an intimate, richly illustrated memoir, written with charm and panache, that juxtaposes two fascinating lives—the iconoclastic designer Elsa Schiaparelli and the author’s own mother—to explore how a girl fashions herself into a woman.
Audrey...
| Author | Kiyohiko Azuma |
| ISBN | 1413903177 |
[This is a review of the whole series.]
We sometimes encounter things—moments, vistas, sounds, ideas—that wholly disarm us. Things that slide so neatly between our hope for the world and our experience of the world that our rational mind is sheared momentarily from the engine...
Buddha, Vol. 1: Kapilavastu
Osamu Tezuka’s vaunted storytelling genius, consummate skill at visual expression, and warm humanity blossom fully in his eight-volume epic of Siddhartha’s life and times. Tezuka evidences his profound grasp of the subject by contextualizing the Buddha’s ideas; the emphasis is on movement,...
The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees
| Author | Meredith May |
| ISBN | 0778307786 |
An extraordinary story of a girl, her grandfather and one of nature's most mysterious and beguiling creatures: the honeybee.
Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care of...
A stunning debut novel about a girl who is half dragon, half human, and wholly herself.
As the only heir to the throne, Marni should have been surrounded by wealth and privilege, not living in exile-but now the time has come when she must choose between claiming her birthright as princess of a...
The Light Years: A Memoir
| Author | Chris Rush |
| ISBN | 0374294410 |
The Light Years is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent times in American history
Chris Rush was born into a prosperous, fiercely Roman Catholic, New Jersey family. But underneath the gleaming mid-century house, the flawless hostess mom, and the...
| Author | Andrew Yang |
| ISBN | 0316414247 |
From 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, a captivating account of how "a skinny Asian kid from upstate" became a successful entrepreneur, only to find a new mission: calling attention to the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy...
Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now
| Author | Jan Wong |
| ISBN | 0385482329 |
Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer--and one of only two Westerners permitted to enroll at Beijing University--her education included wielding a pneumatic drill at the Number One Machine Tool...
The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
America has a God-shaped hole in its heart, argues New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro, and we shouldn't fill it with politics and hate.
In 2016, Ben Shapiro spoke at UC Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were required from 10 UC campuses across the state to protect his speech, which...
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...
Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor.
Andy Warhol photographed her. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine. Gore Vidal revered her. John Fowles hoped to keep her as his sex-slave. Dudley Moore propositioned her....
In a companion volume to his award-winning adaptation of The Odyssey, the incomparable graphic novelist Gareth Hinds masterfully adapts Homer's classic wartime epic.
More than three thousand years ago, two armies faced each other in an epic battle that rewrote history and came to be known...
Ça bouge au 36 Quai des Orfèvres. De nouvelles recrues rejoignent les rangs de la brigade maudite du commissaire Anne Capestan, dont Saint-Lô, sorti de l'hôpital psychiatrique dans la peau de d'Artagnan et Ratafia, rat policier.
Sale affaire pour l'équipe de bras cassés : trois assassinats...
| Author | Mick Herron |
| ISBN | 1616952253 |
London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers. The "slow horses," as they’re called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. Maybe they messed up an op badly and can't be trusted anymore. Maybe they got in the way of...
A Drunken Dream and Other Stories
| Author | Moto Hagio |
| ISBN | 1606993771 |
Forty years ago, the legendary manga artist Moto Hagio reinvented the shōjo (girl's comics) genre with an ongoing series of whip-smart, psychologically complex, and tenderly poetic stories. Here now, in English for the very first time, as the debut release in Fantagraphics Books' ambitious manga...
Christmas in the Movies: 30 Classics to Celebrate the Season
| Author | Jeremy Arnold |
| ISBN | 0762492481 |
Turner Classic Movies presents a bucket list of the best and most beloved holiday films of all time, complete with spirited commentary, behind-the-scenes stories, and photos spanning eight decades of Christmastime favorites.
Nothing brings the spirit of the season into our hearts quite like...
After getting a haircut in London and a few new outfits (“she bought two pairs of shoes and began to enjoy herself”), Millie, the neglected American wife of an academic pill, is transformed—and, upon arrival in Africa, falls into the perfect affair. Binstead’s Safari unfolds the fractured...
Cutest Ever Baby Knits: Over 20 Adorable Projects to Knit
| Author | Val Pierce |
| ISBN | 1570764905 |
The array of projects included in this adorable pattern book—including booties that look like little strawberries, a lacy bonnet, a bumblebee hat and mitten set, and a blanket covered with a field of daisies—were created with precious babes in mind. Whether you're a new knitter looking to get...
