The Milk of Birds
10 best books like The Milk of Birds (Sylvia Whitman): Princess Jellyfish, Tome 1, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa, Hard Love, Gideon Falls, Vol. 1: The Black Barn, Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers, Unbecoming, Please Ignore Vera Dietz, Lilli de Jong, Ties That Bind, Ties That Break
Princess Jellyfish, Tome 1
| Author | Akiko Higashimura |
| ISBN | 2756026212 |
Tsukimi Kurashita, fan hardcore de méduses, s’installe à Tokyo avec le projet de devenir illustratrice. Elle emménage dans la résidence Amamizu qui a la particularité de n’être habitée que par des filles otaku, et bien évidemment, d'être interdite aux hommes ! Alors qu’un soir,...
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
| Author | Nicholas D. Kristof |
| ISBN | 0307267148 |
From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey...
Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa
During a year spent in Japan on a personal quest to deepen her appreciation for such Eastern ideals as commitment and devotion, documentary filmmaker Karin Muller discovered just how maddeningly complicated it is being Japanese. In this book Muller invites the reader along for a uniquely American...
Since his parents' divorce, John's mother hasn't touched him, her new fiancé wants them to move away, and his father would rather be anywhere than at Friday night dinner with his son. It's no wonder John writes articles like "Interview with the Stepfather" and "Memoirs from Hell." The only release...
Gideon Falls, Vol. 1: The Black Barn
| Author | Jeff Lemire |
| ISBN | 1534308520 |
The legend of the Black Barn tells of an otherworldly building that has appeared and reappeared throughout history, bringing death and madness in its wake. Now, its mystery ensnares and entwines the lives of two very different men. One: a young recluse, obsessed with finding hidden clues within the...
Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
The deep and enduring friendship between Vincent and Theo Van Gogh shaped both brothers' lives. Confidant, champion, sympathizer, friend, Theo supported Vincent as he struggled to find his path in life. They shared everything, swapping stories of lovers and friends, successes and disappointments,...
| Author | Jenny Downham |
| ISBN | 1910200646 |
Three women - three secrets - one heart-stopping story. Katie, seventeen, in love with someone whose identity she can't reveal. Her mother Caroline, uptight, worn out and about to find the past catching up with her. Katie's grandmother, Mary, back with the family after years of mysterious absence...
| Author | A.S. King |
| ISBN | 0375865861 |
Vera’s spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. And over the years she’s kept a lot of his secrets. Even after he betrayed her. Even after he ruined everything.
So when Charlie dies in dark circumstances, Vera knows a lot more than anyone—the kids at school,...
| Author | Janet Benton |
| ISBN | 0385541457 |
A young woman finds the most powerful love of her life when she gives birth at an institution for unwed mothers in 1883 Philadelphia. She is told she must give up her daughter to avoid a life of poverty and shame. But she chooses to keep her.
Pregnant, abandoned by her lover, and banished from her...
Ties That Bind, Ties That Break
| Author | Lensey Namioka |
| ISBN | 0440415993 |
Third Sister in the Tao family, Ailin has watched her two older sisters go through the painful process of having their feet bound. In China in 1911, all the women of good families follow this ancient tradition. But Ailin loves to run away from her governess and play games with her male cousins. Knowing...
Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of A Man, His Wife, and Her Alligator
| Author | Homer Hickam |
| ISBN | 0062325892 |
Big Fish meets The Notebook in this emotionally evocative story about a man, a woman, and an alligator that is a moving tribute to love, from the author of the award-winning memoir Rocket Boys—the basis of the movie October Sky
Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the father of the author) were...
Naruto, Vol. 04: Hero’s Bridge
| Author | Masashi Kishimoto |
| ISBN | 1591163587 |
There comes a time in every ninja's training when he must put aside his morals and face the truth: ninjas are tools for killing. For Naruto, seeing Sasuke dead, that time is now. Rage awakens the nine-tailed fox spirit within Naruto, giving him the strength to overcome Haku—but can he bring himself...
The Last Little Blue Envelope
| Author | Maureen Johnson |
| ISBN | 0061976792 |
Ginny Blackstone thought that the biggest adventure of her life was behind her. She spent last summer traveling around Europe, following the tasks her aunt Peg laid out in a series of letters before she died. When someone stole Ginny's backpack—and the last little blue envelope inside—she resigned...
| Author | Jason Reynolds |
| ISBN | 1481415905 |
When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires—literally.
Genie’s summer is full of surprises. The first is that he and his big brother, Ernie, are leaving Brooklyn for the very first time to spend the summer with their grandparents all the way in Virginia—in...
