The Piazza Tales
8 best books like The Piazza Tales (Herman Melville): The Crying of Lot 49, Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, Modernism: A Very Short Introduction, The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin (with CD), Be Kind, Where I Was From, Thelma the Unicorn
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd...
| Author | Jake Swamp |
| ISBN | 1880000547 |
The new addition to our morning devotional . . . The Thanksgiving Address of my people, adapted into children's literature by Chief Jake Swamp, with beautiful illustrations by Erwin Printup, Jr., is breathing the new life of gratitude into our daily round in bright and peaceful and simple and truthful...
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
| Author | Marcel Proust |
| ISBN | 0143039075 |
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lies his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different...
| Author | Christopher Butler |
| ISBN | 0192804413 |
Modernism ushered in some of the most exciting innovations in art and literature, from Fauvism, Cubism, and Dada, to the novels of James Joyce and Franz Kafka, to such provocative works as Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain." But Modernism also left many people puzzled in its wake. How can a routine bathroom...
The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin (with CD)
| Author | Joe Troiano |
| ISBN | 1435120884 |
This is a rhyming story about a pumpkin patch wherein all the pumpkins are round, except for one square pumpkin. The night before Halloween, there is a storm, and pumpkins are rolling off the vine and into the bay. Spookley has to work hard to turn onto his side, over and over, but is able to eventually move...
| Author | Pat Zietlow Miller |
| ISBN | 1626723214 |
A picture book about the power of kindness.
When Tanisha spills grape juice all over her new dress, her classmate contemplates how to make her feel better and what it means to be kind. From asking the new girl to play to standing up for someone being bullied, this moving and thoughtful story explores...
| Author | Joan Didion |
| ISBN | 0679752862 |
In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state’s ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship...
| Author | Aaron Blabey |
| ISBN | 1743625804 |
From the best-selling author of Pig the Pug comes this joyful book about learning to love who you are... even if you don't have sparkles.
Thelma dreams of being a glamorous unicorn. Then in a rare pink and glitter-filled moment of fate, Thelma's wish comes true.
She rises to instant...
