The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader
10 best books like The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader (Michael Moore): Corelli's Mandolin, Harold and Maude, Lord Jim, Sacred Time, The Force Awakens, Billy Bathgate, Brigadoon (Vocal Score), Iron Man 2, Gidget, Friday the 13th
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is set in the early days of the second world war, before Benito Mussolini invaded Greece. Dr Iannis practices medicine on the island of Cephalonia, accompanied by his daughter, Pelagia, to whom he imparts much of his healing art. Even when the Italians do invade, life isn’t...
| Author | Colin Higgins |
| ISBN | 0380003856 |
Nineteen-year-old Harold Chasen is obsessed with death. He fakes suicides to shock his self-obsessed mother, drives a customized Jaguar hearse, and attends funerals of complete strangers. Seventy-nine-year-old Maude Chardin, on the other hand, adores life. She liberates trees from city sidewalks...
| Author | Joseph Conrad |
| ISBN | 1551111721 |
Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim joins his captain and other crew members in abandoning the ship and its passengers. A few days later, they...
| Author | Ursula Hegi |
| ISBN | 0743255992 |
The bestselling author of Stones from the River delivers her most ambitious and dramatic novel yet -- the unforgettable story of an endearing, but also flawed, Italian American family. In December 1953 Anthony Amedeo's world is nested in his Bronx neighborhood, his parents' Studebaker, the Paradise...
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
| ISBN | 1101965509 |
More than thirty years ago, Star Wars burst onto the big screen and became a cultural phenomenon. Now the next adventures in this blockbuster saga are poised to captivate old and new fans alike – beginning with the highly anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And alongside the cinematic debut...
| Author | E.L. Doctorow |
| ISBN | 0452280028 |
In 1930's New York, Billy Bathgate, a fifteen-year-old highschool dropout, has captured the attention of infamous gangster Dutch Schultz, who lures the boy into his world of racketeering. The product of an East Bronx upbringing by his half-crazy Irish Catholic mother, after his Jewish father left...
| Author | Alan Jay Lerner |
| ISBN | 0769202225 |
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| Author | Alexander C. Irvine |
| ISBN | 0446564583 |
"I am Iron Man." With those words, billionaire industrialist Tony Stark revealed his secret identity. Now a famous high-tech superhero, he uses his powers to protect mankind. Yet things are not going well for Tony Stark. The U.S. military demands control of the most powerful weapon on earth--the Iron...
| Author | Frederick Kohner |
| ISBN | 0425179621 |
My English comp teacher Mr. Glicksberg says if you want to be a writer you have to, quote, sit on a window sill and get all pensive and stuff and jot down descriptions. Unquote Glicksberg! I don't know what kind of things he writes but I found my inspiration in Malibu with a radio, my best girlfriends, and...
| Author | Simon Hawke |
| ISBN | 0451150899 |
Simon Hawke's novelization of Friday the 13th, published more than seven years after the film was originally released, hits all the right notes and mostly avoids hitting the wrong ones. It's been awhile since I've seen Friday the 13th, but from what I remember, the plot of Hawke's novel seems to follow...
Academy Award-winning screenwriter Quentin Tarantino returns with his most infamous, most brilliant, most masterful screenplay yet...
At the end of the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. Bounty hunter John Ruth and his fugitive captive Daisy Domergue...
