The Marijuana Chronicles
10 best books like The Marijuana Chronicles (Jonathan Santlofer): The Antigone Poems, Wrede on Writing: Tips, Hints, and Opinions on Writing, Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet, Blood Sugar, Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields, Home, The Speed Chronicles, The Crow: Shattered Lives & Broken Dreams, Ballad Divine: Bhagavad-Gita, Mania: The Story of the Outraged and Outrageous Lives That Launched a Cultural Revolution
| Author | Marie Slaight |
| ISBN | 0980644704 |
Passionate, brutal, and infused with extraordinary lyricism, The Antigone Poems provides a special expedition into the depths of the ancient Sophocles tragedy. The work’s obsessive, ritualistic and ultimately mysterious force brings into sharp focus the heroic, tragic figure at the center...
Wrede on Writing: Tips, Hints, and Opinions on Writing
| Author | Patricia C. Wrede |
| ISBN | 1626812225 |
How do I turn an idea into a novel? How do I build a character? How do I decide how to tell a story?
Patricia C. Wrede has been a stalwart of the sci-fi/fantasy world for decades, publishing dozens of books across multiple series, storming bestseller lists and corralling accolades from critics and...
Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet
| Author | Gernot Wagner |
| ISBN | 0691159475 |
How knowing the extreme risks of climate change can help us prepare for an uncertain future
If you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance of suffering a severe loss, you'd reevaluate your assets. So if...
| Author | Nicole Blackman |
| ISBN | 1888451343 |
Never liked poetry. Actually, I despised it. Ignored it. Then a few things happened in my life, I started to really listen to music and it`s lyrics and discovered Charles Bukowski and Nicole Blackman. They touched me. She touched me in places that I am afraid to reveal. Her hand penetrated my skull and...
| Author | Ashley Capps |
| ISBN | 1931968373 |
In her first book, Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields, Ashley Capps sounds like the voice of a fresh generation of poets, where the familiar turns suddenly elliptical, straight talk goes engagingly crooked, and the lyric negotiates with the matter-of-fact. Desperate for something solid to believe...
| Author | Matthew Costello |
| ISBN | 1250012732 |
Besieged and attacked, a mother and her children must escape a post-apocalyptic nightmare world of cannibals and betrayal
Jack Murphy thought he'd found the perfect escape for his family from a world gone horribly mad. He thought wrong. Matthew Costello's Home begins mere minutes after...
"Akashic launches a new series of crime anthologies, each focused on a different controlled substance, with this addictive volume."
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Publishers Weekly
"All told, The Speed Chronicles deserves great praise for the audacity of the topic, the depth of the discussion, the diversity...
| Author | James O'Barr |
| ISBN | 0345417127 |
I was looking for the comic and I found this.
The names Iggy Pop and Henry Rollins caught my interest. They had both submitted poems, and the poems are the more better submissions. The stories. though, (and a little bit the art) come across as fan fiction, which is probably inevitable, but gets...
| Author | Dev Bhattacharyya |
| ISBN | 1495969835 |
Ballad-Divine brings back the Bhagavad-Gita in a very easy to read composition. It is an accurate reference of the original and observed facts and uses the same systemic method to divinity. Ballad-Divine is organized around the mainstays of Krishna's philosophy. Themes are repeated throughout...
| Author | Ronald K.L. Collins |
By the time Lucien Carr stabbed David Kammerer to death on the banks of the Hudson River in August 1944, it was clear that the hard-partying teenage companion to Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, and William S. Burroughs might need to reevaluate his life. A two-year stint in a reformatory straightened...
| Author | Adele McConnell |
| ISBN | 1848991193 |
Adele McConnell brings a fresh, inspired look to plant-based food, showing just how satisfying, dynamic and undeniably delicious contemporary vegan cooking can be. The beautifully photographed recipes make the most of a wide variety of fresh ingredients, drawing inspiration from cuisines around...
| Author | Peter Haining |
| ISBN | 0760703795 |
From legends retold around the peat fire to modern stories of psychological terror, the Irish have always had a fascination with fear. Drawn from 200 years of short story writing, this book includes 24 powerful Irish tales with more than enough material to set pulses racing: satanic figures, ghosts,...
| Author | Martin Reaves |
| ISBN | 1612966225 |
Down twisted corridors of thought, something waits. Over broken pathways of memory, it pursues. Though unseen, it is close enough to touch...
Critically-acclaimed author Chloe Sender is lost. Lost in an abusive past; lost within her fragmented mind. And she is lost within the pages of her...
Ex-con Jake Bishop is several years past his second stint in prison and has completely reformed. He’s married, expecting a child, and preparing to open his own hair salon. But then an old cellmate re-enters his life begging for a favor: to help him with a burglary. Forced by his code of ethics to perform...
Twenty Trillion Leagues Under The Sea
| Author | Adam Roberts |
| ISBN | 0575134429 |
It is 1955. Funded, in part, by a reclusive Swiss millionaire and working -- it is claimed -- from Nemo's actual blueprints discovered in India, the French Navy build a replica Nautilus. Crewed with sailors and scientists, and commanded by the short-tempered Captain Mason, it is launched in great secrecy...
Earthquake Storms: The Fascinating History and Volatile Future of the San Andreas Fault
| Author | John Dvorak |
| ISBN | 1605984957 |
It is a prominent geological feature that is almost impossible to see unless you know where to look. Hundreds of thousands of people drive across it every day. The San Andreas Fault is everywhere, and primed for a colossal quake. For decades, scientists have warned that such a sudden shifting of the Earth’s...
| Author | Jerry Stahl |
| ISBN | 1617751065 |
"The third and finest Akashic entry yet in its Drug Chronicles series focuses on the enigmatic opium poppy and its various derivatives...As the 13 contributors to this all-original anthology reveal, those who partake of the sacred flower are forever changed, but the price of paradise is often steep:...
| Author | Priscila Uppal |
| ISBN | 1459729528 |
One of the most common phrases in print is "cover before striking," a warning to those about to innocently strike a match to be careful not to burn their fingers.
Uppal's characters in Cover Before Striking are all people pushing their lives to new levels of intensity, danger, or passion as they...
There are three good reasons why dashing Civil War hero and New York lawyer William Teague cannot tell artist Mae Kendrick he's in love with her. One, she told him he was dull. Two, she is the niece of an important client. Three, she just hired him to find the man she doesn't remember marrying.
As...
The Burying Ground: A Thaddeus Lewis Mystery
| Author | Janet Kellough |
| ISBN | 1459724704 |
Someone is digging up the graves at the Strangers’ Burying Ground in Toronto — the final resting place of criminals, vagrants, indigents, and alcoholics — and the only person who seems to care is the sexton, Morgan Spicer. The authorities are unconcerned; after all, for years the growing village...
| Author | Bill Loehfelm |
| ISBN | 0374298858 |
When Maureen Coughlin first appeared in The Devil She Knows (2011), the New Orleans Times-Picayune called her "unforgettable" and "the character of the year." Booklist named The Devil She Knows one of 2011's ten best thrillers and declared Maureen "as compelling a character as this reviewer expects...
| Author | Karyn Henley |
| ISBN | 1933803363 |
Melaia sends Trevin into enemy territory to retrieve the third harp she needs to restore the stairway to heaven and free the angels trapped in a human world. But an assailant wants Trevin dead, an unknown traitor is passing information to the invading enemy army, and the Firstborn immortal has vowed...
Taste of Beirut: 175+ Delicious Lebanese Recipes from Classics to Contemporary to Mezzes and More
| Author | Joumana Accad |
| ISBN | 0757317707 |
Joumana Accad, creator of the blog TasteOfBeirut.com, is a native Lebanese, a trained pastry chef, and professional caterer. In her debut cookbook, The Taste of Beirut, she shares her heritage through exquisite food and anecdotes, teaching anyone from newbies to foodies how to master traditional...
| Author | William Hazelgrove |
| ISBN | 1940192943 |
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In northern Minnesota, a logger is found dead. At about the same time, a teenage girl claims that she was molested by a Native American, but then changes...
| Author | Douglas Perry |
| ISBN | 0997237716 |
Mammoth View, California is hit with the news of an attack on a summer morning. It s not clear what happened, but it s bad. And it s not over. As residents panic and leave town, the police chief and his deputy set off into the woods to investigate. The campsite attack is the perfect coincidence for Billy Lane....
