We Live in Water
10 best books like We Live in Water (Jess Walter): Tenth of December, You Think That's Bad, Local Souls, The Good Rain: Across Time & Terrain in the Pacific Northwest, Bobcat and Other Stories, Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury, Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist, Nine Inches, Cruel Shoes, The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival
| Author | George Saunders |
| ISBN | 0812993802 |
One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an undisputed master of the short story, and Tenth of December is his most honest, accessible, and moving collection yet.
In the taut opening, "Victory Lap," a boy witnesses the attempted abduction...
| Author | Jim Shepard |
| ISBN | 0307594823 |
Following Like You’d Understand, Anyway—awarded the Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award—Jim Shepard returns with an even more wildly diverse collection of astonishingly observant stories. Like an expert curator, he populates the vastness of human experience—from...
Through memorable language and bawdy humor, Gurganus returns to his mythological Falls, North Carolina, home of Widow. This first work in a decade offers three novellas mirroring today’s face-lifted South, a zone revolutionized around freer sexuality, looser family ties, and superior telecommunications,...
| Author | Timothy Egan |
| ISBN | 0679734856 |
Personally I found this book created the seminal event that influenced the remaining course of my life; both as a lifelong resident of Washington State, and particularly as an Aquatic Scientist. My work has caused me to travel many parts of Washington State that Timothy Egan mentions in this book, so...
| Author | Rebecca Lee |
| ISBN | 1616201738 |
Rebecca Lee, one of our most gifted and original short story writers, guides readers into a range of landscapes, both foreign and domestic, crafting stories as rich as novels. A student plagiarizes a paper and holds fast to her alibi until she finds herself complicit in the resurrection of one professor's...
Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury
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Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury is the fourth novel in the Lucky Starr series, six juvenile science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov that originally appeared under the pseudonym Paul French. The novel was first published by Doubleday & Company in March 1956. Since...
| Author | Sharman Apt Russell |
| ISBN | 0465005179 |
“Everything is connected, and the web is holy.” So wrote Marcus Aurelius, the starting point of Sharman Apt Russell’s wise and haunting new memoir about her life as a pantheist. Perhaps no other religious philosophy is as simple and inclusive as pantheism. What is, right now, is divine; there...
| Author | Tom Perrotta |
| ISBN | 1250034701 |
Nine Inches, Tom Perrotta's first true collection, features ten stories―some sharp and funny, some mordant and surprising, and a few intense and disturbing. Whether he's dropping into the lives of two teachers―and their love lost and found―in "Nine Inches", documenting the unraveling of...
| Author | Steve Martin |
| ISBN | 0399123040 |
At work I have the task of reviewing books and then writing short, pithy reviews that normally say nothing more than what a book is about or why I liked or disliked it. The parameters of my reviews are tight; limited in such a way that I never get to say what I really want to express because of fears something...
The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival
| Author | Sara Tuval Bernstein |
"From its opening pages, in which she recounts her own premature birth, triggered by terrifying rumors of an incipient pogrom, Bernstein' s tale is clearly not a typical memoir of the Holocaust. She was born into a large family in rural Romania?and grew up feisty and willing to fight back physically...
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2017
| Author | Rich Horton |
| ISBN | 1607014912 |
Portals to all the knowledge in the world, libraries are also created universes of a multitude of imaginations. Librarians guide us to enlightenment as well as serving as the captains, mages, and gatekeepers who open the doors to delight, speculation, wonder, and terror. This captivating compilation...
