The Two of Them
10 best books like The Two of Them (Joanna Russ): Nobody's Princess, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Promises in Death, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History, Magical Negro, Mona in the Promised Land, The Broken Vow, Infinite Detail, The marble quilt: stories, Simulacra
She is beautiful, she is a princess, and Aphrodite is her favorite goddess, but something in Helen of Sparta just itches for more out of life. Not one to count on the gods—or her looks—to take care of her, Helen sets out to get what she wants with steely determination and a sassy attitude. That same attitude...
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
| Author | Caroline Criado-Pérez |
| ISBN | 1419729071 |
Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of work you do are not recognised or valued. If any of this sounds familiar,...
| Author | J.D. Robb |
| ISBN | 0399155481 |
Amarylis Coltraine may have recently transferred to the New York City police force from Atlanta, but she's been a cop long enough to know how to defend herself against an assailant. When she's taken down just steps away from her apartment, killed with her own weapon, for Eve the victim isn't just 'one...
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
| Author | Erik Larson |
| ISBN | 0375708278 |
National Bestseller
September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere...
| Author | Morgan Parker |
| ISBN | 1947793187 |
Magical Negro is an archive of Black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration, songs of congregation and self-conception. They...
Mona in the Promised Land
| Author | Gish Jen |
| ISBN | 0679776508 |
The heroine of Mona in the Promised Land is a true child of the suburbs. Mona--a self-described "self-made mouth" goes to temple, loves pickles, is boy-crazy, worries about getting into the right college and keeping up with her over-achieving sister, and wishes her parents were less strict. Her equally...
| Author | Scott Westerfeld |
| ISBN | 1626721505 |
Only the very brave or the very desperate dare enter the Spill Zone—Addison Merritt is a little of both. In exchange for a suitcase full of cash, she made one last to the Zone. She survived the encounter, but came back changed.
Addison is not alone. In a remote village in North Korea, a young man...
| Author | Tim Maughan |
| ISBN | 0374175411 |
A timely and uncanny portrait of a world in the wake of fake news, diminished privacy, and a total shutdown of the Internet.
BEFORE: In Bristol's center lies the Croft, a digital no-man's-land cut off from the surveillance, Big Data dependence, and corporate-sponsored, globally hegemonic...
The marble quilt: stories
| Author | David Leavitt |
| ISBN | 0395902444 |
In these nine masterly stories, David Leavitt surveys the complicated politics of human relationships in families and communities, in the present day and over the course of the last century. A "wizard at blending levity and pathos" (Chicago Tribune), Leavitt displays here his characteristic grace...
| Author | Airea D. Matthews |
| ISBN | 0300223978 |
Winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize
A fresh and rebellious poetic voice, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young American poets. Matthews’s superb collection explores the topic of want and desire with power,...
The Way We Lived: California Indian Reminiscences, Stories, and Songs
The Dumb Things Smart People Do with Their Money: Thirteen Ways to Right Your Financial Wrongs
| Author | Jill Schlesinger |
| ISBN | 0525622179 |
You're smart. So don't be dumb about money. Pinpoint your biggest money blind spots and take control of your finances with these tools from CBS News Business Analyst and host of the nationally syndicated radio show Jill on Money, Jill Schlesinger.
Do you have a "friend" who is super smart, has...
| Author | J.D. Robb |
| ISBN | 0749928999 |
When the newly promoted captain of the NYPSD and his wife return a day early from their vacation, they were looking forward to spending time with their bright and vivacious sixteen-year-old daughter who had stayed behind.
Not even their worst nightmares could have prepared them for the crime...
Food and the City: New York's Professional Chefs, Restaurateurs, Line Cooks, Street Vendors, and Purveyors Talk About What They Do and Why They Do It
| Author | Ina Yalof |
| ISBN | 0399168923 |
An unprecedented behind-the-scenes tour of New York City’s dynamic food culture, as told through the voices of the chefs, line cooks, restaurateurs, waiters, and street vendors who have made this industry their lives.
In Food and the City, Ina Yalof takes us on an insider’s journey...
An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
| Author | Georges Perec |
| ISBN | 0984115528 |
One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the humdrum, the non-event, the everyday--"what happens," as he put it, "when nothing happens." His choice of locale was Place Saint-Sulpice, where, ensconced behind first one cafe window, then another,...
| Author | Rachel Zolf |
| ISBN | 1552451828 |
Write for buyers. Write for bosses. Think hyper. Think branding. Tell your visitor where to go. Poetry and ‘plain language’ collide in the writing machine that is Human Resources. Here at the intersection of creation and repackaging, we experience the visceral and psychic cost of selling things...
| Author | Rachel Zolf |
| ISBN | 1552452298 |
Rachel Zolf’s powerful follow-up to the Trillium Award-winning Human Resources is a virtuoso polyvocal correspondence with the daily news, ancient scripture and contemporary theory that puts the ongoing conflict in Israel/Palestine firmly in the crosshairs. Plucked from a minefield of competing...
| Author | Rachel Zolf |
| ISBN | 1552452956 |
Rachel Zolf’s fifth book assembles a pirate score of error-ridden historical and current documents – missionary narratives, immigration pamphlets, settler writings – to decry the ongoing violence of Canadian colonialism. It stars Janey Settler-Invader, a foul-mouthed mutant slouching...
