The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Dating and Sex

8 best books like The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Dating and Sex (Joshua Piven): My Ántonia, Einstein's Dreams, Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux, The Crow, The Witch of Portobello, Key of Light, Key of Valor, Burning The Map

My Ántonia

Author	Willa Cather
ISBN	1583485090

Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland, with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the way are some of literature's most beguiling characters: the Russian brothers plagued by memories of a fateful sleigh ride,...

Einstein's Dreams

Author

Alan Lightman

A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In...

Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

Author	Black Elk
ISBN	0803283857

This is a haunting and moving transcription of interviews with the revered medicine man Black Elk of the Oglala band of the Lakota Sioux in 1930 at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The editor, John Neihart, was a poet who was writing an epic poem about Messiah movement in the 1880’s among diverse...

The Crow

Author

James O'Barr

I read a review within the very walls of this site that stated that this novel deserved no more that 2 stars. The reasoning, it seems, is that all of the characters, other than "the crow", are card board and underdeveloped.

I respect people's opinion. And, if I were to judge this book against the...

The Witch of Portobello

Author	Paulo Coelho
ISBN	0061338818

I always wished that Paulo Coehlo was my uncle so that I could call him ‘Papa Coelho’ and sit at his knee while he smoked his pipe. I think that he would be delightfully eccentric, and given to saying things like ‘Suffering, if confronted without fear, is the great passport to freedom.’ So, true,...

Key of Light

Author

Nora Roberts

Malory Price’s life plan has hit a snag. She’s in danger of losing her job managing an art gallery in Pleasant Valley, Pennsylvania. A welcome distraction comes in the form of an invitation to a cocktail party at Warrior’s Peak, an infamous estate overlooking the town. But no one else she knows...

Key of Valor

Author	Nora Roberts
ISBN	0515136530

What happens when the very gods depend on mortals for help?

That's what three very different young women find out when they are invited to Warrior's Peak.

Light and knowledge have succeeded in their quest, and two of the keys have been found. Both Malory and Dana had taken their turns....

Burning The Map

Author	Laura Caldwell
ISBN	0373250215

*audiobook review*

One of the best things about Burning the Map is that it surprised me. I was expecting something that fell neatly into the Chicklit genre, and instead I found a story about real friendship, self-identity, and travel.

Casey Evans is a refreshing protagonist. Smart,...