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10 best books like Uppity Women of Ancient Times (Vicki León): America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction, The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Complete Fairy Tales, What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist—the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England, The Far Side Gallery, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions, Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine, Lili, The Necklace, The Dog Is Not a Toy

America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
AuthorJon Stewart
ISBN0713998946
Jon Stewart, host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Daily Show, and his coterie of patriots, deliver a hilarious look at American government.American-style democracy is the world's most beloved form of government, which explains why so many other nations are eager for us to impose it on them....
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
AuthorJacob Grimm
For almost two centuries, the stories of magic and myth gathered by the Brothers Grimm have been part of the way children — and adults — learn about the vagaries of the real world.

Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow-White, Hänsel and Gretel, Little Red-Cap (a.k.a. Little Red Riding Hood), and...
The Complete Fairy Tales
AuthorHans Christian Andersen
ISBN0517092913
The Complete Fairy Tales: The complete collection, Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen often referred to in Scandinavia as H. C. Andersen, (2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author.
All the best-loved fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen: The Tinder-Box; Little...
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist—the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England
AuthorDaniel Pool
ISBN0671882368
A "delightful reader's companion"; (The New York Times) to the great nineteenth-century British novels of Austen, Dickens, Trollope, the Brontës, and more, this lively guide clarifies the sometimes bizarre maze of rules and customs that governed life in Victorian England.

For anyone...
The Far Side Gallery
AuthorGary Larson
ISBN0836220625
Gary Larson, the American cartoonist and his internationally syndicated cartoon series ‘The Far Side’ – syndicated in more than 1900 newspapers – are both legendary in the annals of newspaper cartoon arena. Collected into more than twenty books, Larson’s works, which got translated...
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
AuthorNeil Gaiman
ISBN0380789027
In the deft hands of Neil Gaiman, magic is no mere illusion... and anything is possible. In this, Gaiman's first book of short stories, his imagination and supreme artistry transform a mundane world into a place of terrible wonders -- a place where an old woman can purchase the Holy Grail at a thrift...
Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine
AuthorEric Weiner
ISBN0446539473
When a health scare puts him in the hospital, Eric Weiner--an agnostic by default--finds himself tangling with an unexpected question, posed to him by a well-meaning nurse: "Have you found your God yet?" The thought of it nags and prods him--and ultimately launches him on a far-flung journey to do just...
Lili
AuthorAnnie Wang
ISBN0385720505
Like so many of her young compatriots, Lili Lin lives on the margins of society–she has been jailed for “having a corrupt lifestyle and hooliganism,” and at 24 she is unemployable because she doesn’t have connections and unmarriageable because she isn’t a virgin. Estranged from her parents,...
The Necklace
AuthorGuy de Maupassant
ISBN1568461933
Short and captivating story about a wife (Mathilde) whose husband tells her they are invited to a ballroom party. He really thought this invitation would please his wife. But she doesn't want to go because she has nothing to wear. (She wishes she was wealthy and wants better things in life.) Her husband...
The Dog Is Not a Toy
AuthorDarby Conley
ISBN0740713922
Get Fuzzy makes the fur fly. This freshly amusing strip is a darling among readers who enjoy pets with an attitude. This wry cartoon features Rob Wilco, a mild-mannered ad guy who's guardian to two rambunctious pets: Bucky, a temperamental cat who carries a boom box and goes on spending sprees, and Satchel,...
Born Confused
AuthorTanuja Desai Hidier
ISBN0545664519
Cross-cultural comedy about finding your place in America... and finding your heart wherever, from an amazing new young author.

Dimple Lala doesn't know what to think. She's spent her whole life resisting her parents' traditions. But now she's turning seventeen and things are more complicated...
Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen
AuthorAlison Plowden
ISBN0750937696
For most, the name of Lady Jane Grey means the "nine days queen," the child who was used as a pawn in the power politics of the Tudor realm by both her parents and the Northumberlands. This volume tells the tragic story of Jane's life and death, but also reveals her to be a woman of unusual strength of conviction...
In the Blink of an Eye
AuthorWalter Murch
ISBN1879505622
In the Blink of an Eye is celebrated film editor Walter Murch's vivid, multifaceted, thought-provoking essay on film editing. Starting with what might be the most basic editing question - Why do cuts work? - Murch treats the reader to a wonderful ride through the aesthetics and practical concerns of...
How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents
AuthorJimmy O. Yang
ISBN0306903490
Standup comic, actor and fan favorite from HBO's Silicon Valley and the film Crazy Rich Asians shares his memoir of growing up as a Chinese immigrant in California and making it in Hollywood.

"I turned down a job in finance to pursue a career in stand-up comedy. My dad thought I was crazy. But I...
The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder
AuthorCarol Stock Kranowitz
ISBN0399531653
The Out-of-Sync Child broke new ground by identifying Sensory Processing Disorder, a common but frequently misdiagnosed problem in which the central nervous system misinterprets messages from the senses. This newly revised edition features additional information from recent research on vision...
The Interlopers (Tale Blazers)
AuthorSaki
ISBN0789157497
In a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Karpathians, a man stood one winter night watching and listening, as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come within the range of his vision, and, later, of his rifle

A famous law suit, in the days of his grandfather, had...
The Gladiator
AuthorHarry Turtledove
The Soviet Union won the Cold War. The Russians were a little smarter than they were in our own world, and the United States was a little dumber and a lot less resolute. Now, more than a century later, the world's gone Communist, and capitalism is a bad word.
 
For Gianfranco and his friend Annarita,...
Lady Jane Grey
AuthorHester W. Chapman
ISBN0586068643
Very excited that my uni library had this, and that I didn't have to ILL!

A good, scholarly look at Lady Jane Grey, from birth until death. At times it can become too texbooky and dry, and often times we veer away from Jane's story, presumably because we don't know enough about Jane's behaviors...
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