The Mottled Lizard
10 best books like The Mottled Lizard (Elspeth Huxley): The House at Sugar Beach, The Far Field, Gender Queer, The White Nile, Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table, How Proust Can Change Your Life, Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm, Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda, Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War, America and I: Short Stories by American Jewish Women Writers
| Author | Helene Cooper |
| ISBN | 0743266242 |
Journalist Helene Cooper examines the violent past of her home country Liberia and the effects of its 1980 military coup in this deeply personal memoir and finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award.
Helene Cooper is “Congo,” a descendant of two Liberian dynasties—traced...
| Author | Madhuri Vijay |
| ISBN | 0802128408 |
Gorgeously tactile and sweeping in historical and socio-political scope, Pushcart Prize-winner Madhuri Vijay's The Far Field follows a complicated flaneuse across the Indian subcontinent as she reckons with her past, her desires, and the tumultuous present.
In the wake of her mother's...
| Author | Maia Kobabe |
| ISBN | 1549304003 |
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography...
| Author | Alan Moorehead |
| ISBN | 0060956399 |
Relive all the thrills and adventure of Alan Moorehead's classic bestseller The White Nile -- the daring exploration of the Nile River in the second half of the nineteenth century, which was at that time the most mysterious and impenetrable region on earth. Capturing in breathtaking prose the larger-than-life...
Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
| Author | Ruth Reichl |
| ISBN | 0375758739 |
In this delightful sequel to her bestseller Tender at the Bone, Ruth Reichl returns with more tales of love, life, and marvelous meals. Comfort Me with Apples picks up Reichl's story in 1978, when she puts down her chef's toque and embarks on a career as a restaurant critic. Her pursuit of good food and...
How Proust Can Change Your Life
| Author | Alain de Botton |
| ISBN | 0679779159 |
Words Are Your Homeland
One of the most important deficiencies in the philosophy of science (and business, which prides itself as a practical science) is the idea of efficiency of inquiry in scientific method - how to get an answer to a question at hand with the least possible effort. Efficiency...
Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm
| Author | Lauren St. John |
| ISBN | 0743286790 |
This is a story about a paradise lost. . . . About an African dream that began with a murder . . .In 1978, in the final, bloodiest phase of the Rhodesian civil war, eleven-year-old Lauren St John moves with her family to Rainbow's End, a wild, beautiful farm and game reserve set on the banks of a slowflowing...
| Author | Rosamond Halsey Carr |
| ISBN | 0452282020 |
In 1949, Rosamond Halsey Carr, a young fashion illustrator living in New York City, accompanied her dashing hunter-explorer husband to what was then the Belgian Congo. When the marriage fell apart, she decided to stay on in neighboring Rwanda, as the manager of a flower plantation. Land of a Thousand...
Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War
| Author | Lynne Olson |
| ISBN | 0812997352 |
An engrossing account of how Britain became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of Europe in their desperate struggle to reclaim their continent from Hitler.
When the Nazi blitzkrieg rolled over continental Europe in the early days of World War II, the city of London became a refuge for the...
America and I: Short Stories by American Jewish Women Writers
| Author | Joyce Antler |
| ISBN | 0807036072 |
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