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Touch and Go: A Memoir

10 best books like Touch and Go: A Memoir (Studs Terkel): On Liberty, Lost Children Archive, How to Be an Antiracist, The Other Americans, The Year of the Hare, The Overlook, The Power of Myth, Hell's Corner, The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft, The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London

On Liberty
AuthorJohn Stuart Mill
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780140432077

Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty presented one of the most eloquent defenses of individual freedom in nineteenth-century social and political philosophy and is today perhaps the most widely-read liberal argument in support...
Lost Children Archive
AuthorValeria Luiselli
ISBN0525520619
From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border--an indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity.

A...
How to Be an Antiracist
AuthorIbram X. Kendi
ISBN0525509283
Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist...
The Other Americans
AuthorLaila Lalami
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Moor’s Account, here is a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant–at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.

Late one...
The Year of the Hare
AuthorArto Paasilinna
ISBN0720612772
ENGLISH (The Year of the Hare) / ITALIANO

Vatanen, a Finnish journalist, is in conflict with his life. The dissatisfaction comes out one day after hitting a hare. After rescue the wild animal, inexplicably Vatanen running through the woods together with his new friend. He starts down a path...
The Overlook
AuthorMichael Connelly
ISBN0316018953
In his first case since he left the LAPD's Open Unsolved Unit for the prestigious Homicide Special squad, Harry Bosch is called out to investigate a murder that may have chilling consequences for national security. A doctor with access to a dangerous radioactive substance is found murdered in the trunk...
The Power of Myth
AuthorJoseph Campbell
ISBN0385418868
The Power Of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminent scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people. To him, mythology was the "song of the universe, the music of the spheres." With Bill Moyers, one of America's...
Hell's Corner
AuthorDavid Baldacci
ISBN0230706150
Oliver Stone and the Camel Club return in #1 bestselling author David Baldacci's most stunning adventure yet.

An attack on the heart of power . . .

In sight of the White House . . .

At a place known as . . .

HELL'S CORNER

John Carr, aka Oliver Stone-once the most...
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
AuthorH.P. Lovecraft
The weird fiction short stories of H.P. Lovecraft from 1917-1935. Excludes collaborations.

The eBook’s table of contents is listed below. It includes the year each story was written.

The Tomb (1917)
Dagon (1917)
Polaris (1918)
Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919)
Memory...
The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London
AuthorChristopher Skaife
ISBN1443455938
For centuries, the Tower of London has been home to a group of famous avian residents: the ravens. Each year they are seen by millions of visitors, and they have become as integral a part of the Tower as its ancient stones. But their role is even more important than that—legend has it that if the ravens...
Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy
AuthorDouglas A. Anderson
ISBN0345458567
“A superb collection, a splendid and much-needed book. Anderson has cleared away the dross and shown us the golden roots of fantasy before it became a genre.”
–Michael Moorcock, author of The Eternal Champion

Many of today’s top names in fantasy acknowledge J.R.R. Tolkien as...
Evening in Paradise: More Stories
AuthorLucia Berlin
ISBN0374279489
A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin.

In 2015, FSG published A Manual for Cleaning Women, a posthumous story collection by a relatively unknown writer, to wild, widespread acclaim. It was a New York Times bestseller;...
Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
AuthorW. Scott Poole
Historian and Bram Stoker Award nominee W. Scott Poole traces the confluence of history, technology, and art that gave us modern horror films and literature


In the early twentieth century, World War I was the most devastating event humanity had yet experienced. New machines of war left...
I'm With Fatty: Losing Fifty Pounds in Fifty Miserable Weeks
AuthorEdward Ugel
ISBN1602861218
One man's humorous and heartfelt journey through his year-long attempt to regain his health and change his life.

Where does one draw the line between being a lifelong foodie and a food addict? Edward Ugel is 36 years old and weighs 263 pounds, or as he likes to think about it: 119 kilograms. I'm...
Switchblade
AuthorMichael Connelly
ISBN0316369861
An anonymous tip puts Bosch on a case that has remained unsolved for decades, the vicious stabbing of a teenage boy whose body was found in an abandoned Old Hollywood restaurant.

Cold cases are often the toughest: With no body, no murder scene, and no fingerprints, Bosch nevertheless gets lucky...
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