The Way Things Look to Me
7 best books like The Way Things Look to Me (Roopa Farooki): The Children of Men, Ivanhoe, The Bermudez Triangle, Skinny Legs and All, The King's Last Song, Soup for Syria: Recipes to Celebrate Our Shared Humanity, Io uccido
| Author | P.D. James |
| ISBN | 0307279901 |
Told with P. D. James's trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide...
| Author | Walter Scott |
| ISBN | 0140436588 |
For this novel, Scott moved far away from the setting of his own turbulent time. He went back to the late 12th century, and to England rather than the Scottish settings of all his previous novels. He connected his writing Ivanhoe with his concerns about contemporary events.
Scott drew together the...
| Author | Maureen Johnson |
| ISBN | 1595141553 |
What happens when your two best friends fall in love...with each other?
"Their friendship went so far back, it bordered on the Biblical -- in the beginning, there was Nina and Avery and Mel." So says high school senior Nina Bermudez about herself and her two best friends, nicknamed "The Bermudez...
| Author | Tom Robbins |
| ISBN | 1842430343 |
I can't think of any other book I've read very recently that left my mind as thoroughly blown as Skinny Legs and All. I'd only read one other Tom Robbins book -- Still Life With Woodpecker -- so I was prepared for his playfulness, humor, intricate (but goofy) language, and overall trippy feel that all come...
| Author | Geoff Ryman |
| ISBN | 0006552102 |
In the shadow of Angkor Wat archaeologists make an astonishing discovery: the memoir of Cambodia's greatest king, preserved on leaves of gold for centuries. When the treasure is stolen, two ordinary Cambodians, a young moto-boy and a middle-aged ex-Khmer Rouge, join forces to recover it. But the...
Soup for Syria: Recipes to Celebrate Our Shared Humanity
| Author | Barbara Abdeni Massaad |
| ISBN | 1566560896 |
A beautiful cookbook to be cherished for its look, its content, and the cause it supports. The world has failed Syrias refugees and some of the worlds wealthiest countries have turned their backs on this humanitarian disaster. Syrias neighborsLebanon, Jordan, Turkey, and Iraqhave together absorbed...
| Author | Giorgio Faletti |
| ISBN | 8884902231 |
Un dee-jay di Radio Monte Carlo riceve, durante la sua trasmissione notturna, una telefonata delirante. Uno sconosciuto, dalla voce artefatta, rivela di essere un assassino. Il fatto viene archiviato come uno scherzo di pessimo gusto. Il giorno dopo un pilota di Formula Uno e la sua compagna vengono...
