The Snow Queen
10 best books like The Snow Queen (Eileen Kernaghan): Seventeenth Summer, Witches Abroad, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, Dragonwyck, Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It, Nigger, Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves, All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership, Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture, The Language of Power
| Author | Maureen Daly |
| ISBN | 0689853831 |
Until the summer before college, Angie Morrow didn't really date. Her mother didn't like her to go out much. But no one -- not even Angie's mother -- can resist the charm of strikingly handsome Jack Duluth. His good looks grab Angies's attention from the moment in June when Jack throws Angie a smile at McKight's...
| Author | Terry Pratchett |
| ISBN | 0061020613 |
Be careful what you wish for...
Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who had a good heart, a wise head, and poor planning skills—which unfortunately left the Princess Emberella in the care of her other (not quite so good and wise) godmother when DEATH came for Desiderata....
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax...
| Author | Anya Seton |
| ISBN | 1556525818 |
First published in 1944, Dragonwyck was a national bestseller that was made into a major motion picture starring Gene Tierney and Vincent Price in 1946. A classic gothic romance, the story features an 18-year-old Miranda Wells who falls under the spell of a mysterious old mansion and its equally fascinating...
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It
| Author | Kate Harding |
| ISBN | 0738217026 |
Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s arrest. Congressman Todd Akin’s “legitimate” gaffe. The alleged rape crew of Steubenville, Ohio. Sexual violence has been so prominent in recent years that the feminist term “rape culture” has finally entered the mainstream. But what, exactly, is it? And...
| Author | Dick Gregory |
| ISBN | 0671735608 |
I read this book years ago. It was given to me by a young black man who was working to change the attitudes of white people. However, I was a young white woman and he knocked on my apartment door and asked to come in and talk about Civil Rights. It was 1964. I was a senior in high school. I asked him to come in. He...
Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves
For much of his thirties, Jesse Bering thought he was probably going to kill himself. He was a successful psychologist and writer, with books to his name and bylines in major magazines. But none of that mattered. The impulse to take his own life remained. At times it felt all but inescapable.
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All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership
| Author | Darcy Lockman |
| ISBN | 0062861468 |
Picking up where All Joy and No Fun left off, All the Rage sets out to understand why, in an age of so-called equality, full-time working mothers still carry.
The inequity of domestic life is one of the most profound and perplexing conundrums of our time. In an era of seemingly unprecedented feminist...
| Author | Daniel Radosh |
| ISBN | 0743297709 |
For the overly sensitive and easily offended, I feel I need to point out that this book does not make fun of Christianity and the majority of Christians. However, if you are the type of person who will buy a candle because it "smells like Jesus", be prepared to have the stuffing mocked out of you!
Well,...
Rosemary Kirstein's acclaimed epic continues, as a servant of truth journeys through a world where the powerful rule by lies.
The steerswomen were seekers, collectors of knowledge, and whatever they learned was free for the asking. The wizards also had knowledge–the knowledge to command...
Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s
| Author | Kathleen M. Blee |
| ISBN | 0520078764 |
Ignorant. Brutal. Male. One of these stereotypes of the Ku Klux Klan offer a misleading picture. In Women of the Klan, sociologist Kathleen Blee unveils an accurate portrait of a racist movement that appealed to ordinary people throughout the country. In so doing, she dismantles the popular notion...
| Author | Vicki L. Weavil |
| ISBN | 1946202010 |
Mael Voss, a mage, has put a curse on Thyra Winther making her the snow queen. Thyra has until her eighteenth birthday to resemble a mirror for Voss or she'll become a wraith and live in a limbo for eternity like the other girls who had been cursed before her. Thyra is getting closer using her skills at math...
Signs and Meaning in the Cinema, New and Enlarged Edition
| Author | Peter Wollen |
| ISBN | 0253181410 |
"This new and enlarged edition of Peter Wollen's influential and higly regarded work explores the way in which new approaches to the cinema can be combined with a new approach to aesthetics. Divided into three sections, Part One deals with the work of S.M. Eisenstein, both as a director and theorist...
From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies
| Author | Molly Haskell |
| ISBN | 0226318850 |
For this edition of her classic study of the feminine role in film, Molly Haskell has written a new chapter addressing recent developments in the appearance and perception of women in the movies.
"An incisive, exceedingly thoughtful look at the distorted lens through which Hollywood has...
She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall
| Author | Misty Bernall |
| ISBN | 0874869226 |
In a perverse celebration of Hitler's birthday, two heavily armed students stormed through a Colorado school on April 20, 1999, killing as many people as they could. Confronting 17-year-old Cassie Bernall, they put a gun to her head and asked: Do you believe in God? She said Yes. The killer laughed and...
In the House in the Dark of the Woods
| Author | Laird Hunt |
| ISBN | 0316411051 |
"Once upon a time there was and there wasn't a woman who went to the woods."
In this horror story set in colonial New England, a law-abiding Puritan woman goes missing. Or perhaps she has fled or abandoned her family. Or perhaps she's been kidnapped, and set loose to wander in the dense woods of...
