We Speak Your Names: A Celebration
10 best books like We Speak Your Names: A Celebration (Pearl Cleage): There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts, Pet, Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves, To søstre, Grass for His Pillow, Brilliance of the Moon, Can't Escape Love, The Good House, Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
| Author | Morgan Parker |
| ISBN | 1941040535 |
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé uses political and pop-cultural references as a framework to explore 21st century black American womanhood and its complexities: performance, depression, isolation, exoticism, racism, femininity, and politics. The poems weave between personal...
The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts
| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0803727364 |
If there's one thing you can't see at the age of fifteen, it's ahead.
Russell wants nothing more than to leave his tiny hometown in Indiana, and start working on a threshing crew in the Dakotas. Only one thing stands in the way of his dream . . . school. BUT, in a stroke of luck, his horrid teacher,...
Pet is here to hunt a monster.
Are you brave enough to look?
There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. With doting parents and a best friend named Redemption, Jam has grown up with this lesson all her life. But when she meets Pet, a creature made...
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
| Author | Glory Edim |
| ISBN | 0525619771 |
An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club Well-Read Black Girl, on the importance of recognizing ourselves in literature.
Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That...
This is an alternative cover edition for ISBN 9788248916826.
Historien om to ungjenter fra Bærum som reiser til Syria og en desperat far som forsøker å finne dem. En oktoberdag i 2013 kommer ikke de to tenåringsjentene, Ayan og Leila, hjem til vanlig tid. Senere på kvelden kommer sjokkmeldingen:...
| Author | Lian Hearn |
| ISBN | 1594480036 |
Praised for its epic scope and descriptive detail, Across the Nightingale Floor, the first book in the Tales of the Otori series, was an international bestseller and critical success, named by the London Times as "the most compelling novel to have been published this year." With Grass for His Pillow,...
| Author | Lian Hearn |
| ISBN | 1594480869 |
A beautiful, haunting evocation of the medieval Japan of Lian Hearn's imagination, this thrilling follow-up to Grass for His Pillow and Across the Nightingale Floor delves deeper into the complex loyalties that bind its characters from birth. Filled with adventure and surprising twists of plot...
| Author | Alyssa Cole |
| ISBN | 0062931881 |
Regina Hobbs is nerdy by nature, businesswoman by nurture. She's finally taking her pop culture-centered media enterprise, Girls with Glasses, to the next level, but the stress is forcing her to face a familiar supervillain: insomnia. The only thing that helps her sleep when things get this bad is...
| Author | Ann Leary |
| ISBN | 1250015545 |
A funny, poignant and revealing novel that’s become a huge word-of-mouth hit in the US.
How do you prove you're not an alcoholic?
Hildy Good has reached that dangerous time in a woman's life - middle-aged and divorced, she is an oddity in her small but privileged town. But Hildy isn't...
| Author | Maya Angelou |
| ISBN | 1400066107 |
Grace, dignity, and eloquence have long been hallmarks of Maya Angelou’s poetry. Her measured verses have stirred our souls, energized our minds, and healed our hearts. Whether offering hope in the darkest of nights or expressing sincere joy at the extraordinariness of the everyday, Maya Angelou...
How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
| Author | Julie Lythcott-Haims |
| ISBN | 1627791779 |
A provocative manifesto that exposes the harms of helicopter parenting and sets forth an alternate philosophy for raising preteens and teens to self-sufficient young adulthood
In How to Raise an Adult, Julie Lythcott-Haims draws on research, on conversations with admissions officers,...
Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady
A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok—a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American history
In 1932,...
Micah Cole has been in deep space for four years now. While his parents chase their obsession with finding intelligent life deeper and deeper into the universe, Micah can’t help but dream of the friends he’s left behind and counts the days until the family returns to Earth. When a devastating meteor...
Alyssa Cole returns with a fun, sexy romance novella in the Reluctant Royals series!
While her boss the prince was busy wooing his betrothed, Likotsi had her own love affair after swiping right on a dating app. But her romance had ended in heartbreak, and now, back in NYC again, she’s determined to...
