We Wanted to Be Writers: Life, Love, and Literature at the Iowa Writers' Workshop

5 best books like We Wanted to Be Writers: Life, Love, and Literature at the Iowa Writers' Workshop (Eric Olsen): Heating Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs, Ash, Winter Turning, Hook & Jill, Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies

Heating Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs

Author	Beth Ann Fennelly
ISBN	0393356485

The 52 micro-memoirs in genre-defying Heating Cooling offer bright glimpses into a richly lived life, combining the compression of poetry with the truth-telling of nonfiction into one heartfelt, celebratory book. Ranging from childhood recollections to quirky cultural observations, these...

Ash

Author	Malinda Lo
ISBN	0316040096

Cinderella retold

In the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away, as they...

Winter Turning

Author	Tui T. Sutherland
ISBN	0545685370

Daring mission... or deadly mistake?

Winter has been a disappointment to his royal IceWing family his whole life. When his sister, Icicle, runs away from Jade Mountain Academy, fleeing terrible crimes and possibly planning to commit more, Winter knows that they both need a second chance...

Hook & Jill

Author	Andrea Jones
ISBN	0982371497

In this startling new vision of a cultural classic, Wendy intends to live happily ever after with Peter Pan. But Time, like this tale,behaves in a most unsettling way. As Wendy mothers the Lost Boys in Neverland, they thrive on adventure. She struggles to keep her boys safe from the Island's many hazards,...

Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies

Author

J.B. West

A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at life on Pennsylvania Avenue with America’s first families, by the man who spent nearly three decades in their midst

J. B. West, chief usher of the White House, directed the operations and maintenance of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue—and coordinated...