The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings
10 best books like The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings (Saikaku Ihara): My Lady's Choosing: An Interactive Romance Novel, M. Butterfly, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness, Pope Joan, Southland, Kokoro, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, Tangled Threads: A Hmong Girl's Story, Chinese Gung Fu: The Philosophical Art of Self-Defense, And Still We Rise:: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students
My Lady's Choosing: An Interactive Romance Novel
The romance novel that lets you pick your path, follow your heart, and find happily ever after.
You are the plucky but penniless heroine in the center of ninteenth-century society, courtship season has begun, and your future is at hand. Will you flip forward fetchingly to find love with the...
| Author | David Henry Hwang |
| ISBN | 0822207125 |
Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and soon to be back on Broadway in a revival directed by the Lion King's Julie Taymor, starring Clive Owen
"A brilliant play of ideas... a visionary work that bridges the history and culture of two worlds."--Frank...
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
| Author | Kay Redfield Jamison |
| ISBN | 0679763309 |
i was reading some reviews of the book written by people that disliked this.
i just want to say, that for a person suffering from mental illness, the fact that you know jamieson's full CV and her academic struggles is important. it's more of a - look, she was wildly successful, and dealing with...
| Author | Donna Woolfolk Cross |
| ISBN | 0345416260 |
A world-wide bestseller, major motion picture and upcoming "Director's Cut" TV mini-series exclusively for the U.S!
For a thousand years her existence has been denied. She is the legend that will not die–Pope Joan, the ninth-century woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to become...
| Author | Nina Revoyr |
| ISBN | 1888451416 |
"[A]n absolutely compelling story of family and racial tragedy. Revoyr’s novel is honest in detailing southern California’s brutal history, and honorable in showing how families survived with love and tenacity and dignity."
—Susan Straight, author of Highwire Moon
Southland...
| Author | Natsume Sōseki |
| ISBN | 0809260956 |
A languid, melancholic dream of a novel which pierces the heart of the reader with its quiet intensity.
Cautious in its narrative tread on the ground of contentious issues, delicate in its broaching of subjects like the indignity of death, sin and redemption, existentialist ennui, self-recrimination...
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
Elyn Saks is a success by any measure: she's an endowed professor at the prestigious University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She has managed to achieve this in spite of being diagnosed as schizophrenic and given a "grave" prognosis—and suffering the effects of her illness throughout...
| Author | Pegi Deitz Shea |
| ISBN | 0618247483 |
For the Hmong people living in overcrowded refugee camps in Thailand, America is a dream: the land of peace and plenty. In 1995, ten years after their arrival at the camp, thirteen-year-old Mai Yang and her grandmother are about to experience that dream. In America, they will be reunited with their only...
| Author | Bruce Lee |
| ISBN | 0897501128 |
Originally published in 1963, this book includes personal testimonies regarding the author and his art from James Y. Lee, the legendary Ed Parker, and jujutsu icon Wally Jay. Through hand-drawn diagrams and captioned photo sequences, Lee’s text comes to life as he demonstrates a variety of training...
And Still We Rise:: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students
| Author | Miles Corwin |
| ISBN | 0380798298 |
Bestselling author of The Killing Season and veteran Los Angeles Times reporter Miles Corwin spent a school year with twelve high school seniors -- South-Central kids who qualified for a gifted program because of their exceptional IQs and test scores. Sitting alongside them in classrooms where bullets...
| Author | Sebastian Fitzek |
| ISBN | 3426199203 |
Seit die junge Psychiaterin Emma Stein in einem Hotelzimmer vergewaltigt wurde, verlässt sie das Haus nicht mehr. Sie war das dritte Opfer eines Psychopathen, den die Presse den »Friseur« nennt – weil er den misshandelten Frauen die Haare vom Kopf schert, bevor er sie ermordet. Emma, die als...
