The Parrot's Lament, and Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity
6 best books like The Parrot's Lament, and Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity (Eugene Linden): Pumpkinheads, Home, World Made by Hand, The Witches: Salem, 1692, The Witch of Hebron, The Price of Paradise
Deja and Josiah are seasonal best friends.
Every autumn, all through high school, they’ve worked together at the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world. (Not many people know that the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world is in Omaha, Nebraska, but it definitely is.) They say good-bye...
| Author | Toni Morrison |
| ISBN | 0307594165 |
America's most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war.
Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing...
| Author | James Howard Kunstler |
| ISBN | 0871139782 |
For the townspeople of Union Grove, New York, the future is not what they thought it would be. Transportation is slow and dangerous, so food is grown locally at great expense of time and energy. And the outside world is largely unknown. There may be a president and he may be in Minneapolis now, but people...
| Author | Stacy Schiff |
| ISBN | 0316200603 |
Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff, author of the #1 bestseller Cleopatra, provides an electrifying, fresh view of the Salem witch trials.
The panic began early in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece began to writhe and roar. It spread quickly,...
| Author | James Howard Kunstler |
| ISBN | 0802119611 |
In the sequel to his novel, World Made by Hand, Kunstler expands on his vision of a post-oil society with a new novel about an America in which the electricity has flickered off, the Internet is a distant memory, and the government is little more than a rumor.
In the tiny hamlet of Union Grove, New...
In a city as corrupt as it was luxurious, those who dared to dream were bound to pay the price.
Havana, Cuba, 1947. Young Patricio flees impoverished Spain and steps into the sultry island paradise of Havana with only the clothes on his back and half-baked dreams of a better life. Blessed with good looks...
