Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders

10 best books like Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders (Joy Ladin): Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution, Not Without My Daughter, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality, How Fires End, Mommie Dearest, The Andromeda Evolution, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo, Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man, Queer: A Graphic History

Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution

Author

Kate Quinn

Six bestselling and award-winning authors bring to life a breathtaking epic novel illuminating the hopes, desires, and destinies of princesses and peasants, harlots and wives, fanatics and philosophers—six unforgettable women whose paths cross during one of the most tumultuous and transformative...

Not Without My Daughter

Author	Betty Mahmoody
ISBN	0552152161

In August 1984, Michigan housewife Betty Mahmoody accompanied her husband to his native Iran for a two-week vacation that turned into a permanent stay. To her horror, she found herself and her four-year-old daughter, Mahtob, virtual prisoners of a man rededicated to his Shiite Moslem faith, in a land...

Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

Author	Sarah McBride
ISBN	1524761478

A timely and captivating memoir about gender identity set against the backdrop of the transgender equality movement, by a leading activist and the National Press Secretary for the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBTQ civil rights organization.

Sarah McBride is on a mission...

How Fires End

Author	Marco Rafalà
ISBN	1542042992

A dark secret born out of World War II lies at the heart of a Sicilian American family in this emotional and sweeping saga of guilt, revenge, and, ultimately, redemption.

After soldiers vacate the Sicilian hillside town of Melilli in the summer of 1943, the locals celebrate, giving thanks to...

Mommie Dearest

Author	Christina Crawford
ISBN	0966336909

3 "poorly written but utterly fascinating" stars !!

The 2018 Jeez Louise Award

Barely 2 stars for the writing but 4 stars in a fascinating character study of Christina Crawford !!

Christina Crawford was a celebrity poster child for alleged abuse done to her and siblings by...

The Andromeda Evolution

Author	Michael Crichton
ISBN	0062473271

The Evolution is Coming.

In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. Accidental exposure to the particle—designated The Andromeda Strain—killed every resident of the town of Piedmont, Arizona, save for an elderly man and an infant...

Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

Author	Barbara Brown Taylor
ISBN	0062406582

The renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia, revealing how God delights...

The Last Watchman of Old Cairo

Author	Michael David Lukas
ISBN	0399181164

In this spellbinding novel, a young man journeys from California to Cairo to unravel centuries-old family secrets.

Joseph, a literature student at Berkeley, is the son of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. One day, a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep, pulling him into a mesmerizing...

Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man

Author	Thomas Page McBee
ISBN	0872866246

In Man Alive, McBee asks, “What does it really mean to be a man?” by focusing on two of the most impactful men in his life – the father who abused him as a child, and a mugger who threatened his life and then released him in an odd moment of mercy. Standing at the brink of the life-changing decision to transition...

Queer: A Graphic History

Author	Meg-John Barker
ISBN	1785780719

Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel.

From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender...

Invisible as Air

Author	Zoe Fishman
ISBN	0062838253

A provocative and timely new novel by the author of Inheriting Edith, one that will haunt you long after the final page is turned…

Sylvie Snow knows the pressures of expectations: a woman is supposed to work hard, but never be tired; age gracefully, but always be beautiful; fix the family problems,...

The Healer’s Daughters

Author	Jay Amberg
ISBN	1937484696

A terrorist bombing in Bergama, Turkey kills twenty-three people including three children. Modern Bergama is built on the site of ancient Pergamon, a city whose art and wealth and culture rivaled Athens. It was also the home of the Aesklepion, the world’s greatest healing center, and the birthplace...

Winston Versus the Snow

Author	Savannah Hendricks
ISBN	1733054308

Author : Savannah Hendricks
Winston Versus the Snow
Reading level 4-8 years
Publication date : September 6, 2019
Book length: 36 pages
5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Description :
While snow might not seem like a big deal to some, it's cold and wet and not okay to Winston. A gentle...

Seven Letters

Author	J.P. Monninger
ISBN	1250187699

J. P. Monninger, author of the international bestseller The Map That Leads to You, the novel Nicholas Sparks called “romantic and unforgettable", tells a poignant love story of the ways the world divides two souls—and the way that love brings them together.

Kate Moreton is in Ireland...

The Tasty Treat (Nocturnals Early Reader)

Author

Tracey Hecht

In The Tasty Treat, Dawn the fox wakes up and goes looking for her friends, Tobin the pangolin and Bismark the sugar glider, to share a tasty treat—a pomelo! Using basic language, emerging readers are introduced to the Nocturnal Brigade.

Includes bonus pronunciation guide (Ages 4-6)

Themes...

The Kooky Kinkajou

Author

Tracey Hecht

Tobin, Bismark, and Dawn are bored. There's nothing to do! So when Karina the kinkajou comes along, she gives them a lesson on using their imaginations. Soon the three nocturnal friends are following Karina and the ‘sparkle sprite’ over rivers, under waterfalls, and to the end of a rainbow.

Includes...

Fries and Alibis

Author

Trixie Silvertale

A gift that’s too good to be true. A murder she didn’t commit. A barista in a latte trouble…
Mitzy Moon believes she’s an orphan, so she’s dumbstruck when a special delivery to her low-rent apartment reveals a family. But her shock turns to awe when she discovers her grandmother left her...

Tattoos and Clues

Author

Trixie Silvertale

I am loving this series. If you read my review of the first book, you know it took me a moment to warm up to Mitzy. I’m so happy that I gave her a chance! She is still snarky and a bit guarded but that is to be expected with her background. What this book has confirmed for me is that Mitzy cares very deeply for those...