Tree and Leaf: Including the Poem Mythopoeia
10 best books like Tree and Leaf: Including the Poem Mythopoeia (J.R.R. Tolkien): Ivanhoe, Turning Darkness Into Light, The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading, The Orphans of Raspay, Principia Ethica (Philosophical Classics), The Big Bento Box of Unuseless Japanese Inventions, The American Future: A History, Letter to a Suffering Church: A Bishop Speaks on the Sexual Abuse Crisis, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, This Was Our Pact
| 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...
Turning Darkness Into Light
| Author | Marie Brennan |
| ISBN | 0765377616 |
As the renowned granddaughter of Isabella Camherst (Lady Trent, of the riveting and daring Draconic adventure memoirs) Audrey Camherst has always known she, too, would want to make her scholarly mark upon a chosen field of study.
When Lord Gleinheigh recruits Audrey to decipher a series...
The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
| Author | Francis Spufford |
| ISBN | 0312421842 |
In this extended love letter to children's books and the wonders they perform, Francis Spufford makes a confession: books were his mother, his father, his school. Reading made him who he is. To understand the thrall of fiction, Spufford goes back to his earliest encounters with books, exploring such...
| Author | Lois McMaster Bujold |
When the ship in which they are traveling is captured by Carpagamon island raiders, Temple sorcerer Penric and his resident demon Desdemona find their life complicated by two young orphans, Lencia and Seuka Corva, far from home and searching for their missing father. Pen and Des will need all their...
| Author | G.E. Moore |
| ISBN | 0486437523 |
Back at the dawn of the twentieth century, Bertrand Russell was telling folks to smarten up and learn to think analytically. Well, the general population thought nothing much about the kerfuffle that he was making at Oxbridge...
But a young fellow philosopher decided he might as well make...
| Author | Kenji Kawakami |
| ISBN | 0393326764 |
In Japan, Kenji Kawakami is famous for his tireless promotion of Chindogu: the art of the unuseless idea. Kawakami has developed an entire philosophy around these bizarre and logic-defying gadgets and gizmos, which must work but are actually entirely impractical. Created in the spirit of anarchy,...
| Author | Simon Schama |
| ISBN | 1847920004 |
In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it came to find itself in multiple crises and how an America...
Letter to a Suffering Church: A Bishop Speaks on the Sexual Abuse Crisis
The sexual abuse scandal has gripped the Catholic Church for the past thirty years, and continues to wreak havoc even today.
It's been a diabolical masterpiece, one that has compromised the work of the Church in every way and has left countless lives in ruin.
Many Catholics are understandably...
J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
| Author | Humphrey Carpenter |
| ISBN | 0618057021 |
The authorized biography of the creator of Middle-earth. In the decades since his death in September 1973, millions have read THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION and become fascinated about the very private man behind the books. Born in South Africa in January 1892, John Ronald Reuel...
| Author | Ryan Andrews |
| ISBN | 1626720533 |
Ryan Andrews's This Was Our Pact is an astonishing, magical-realist adventure story for middle-grade readers.
It's the night of the annual Autumn Equinox Festival, when the town gathers to float paper lanterns down the river. Legend has it that after drifting out of sight, they'll soar off...
