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10 best books like What Girls Learn (Karin Cook): Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!, An American Insurrection: James Meredith and the Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962, The Fifth Book Of Peace, Gabriel's Story, The Girl in the Box, The Late Great Me, Donorboy, Waking Beauty: A Novel, The Necessary Beggar, Needles: A Memoir Of Growing Up With Diabetes

Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!
AuthorM.E. Kerr
ISBN0061139890
M. E. Kerr's first novel - hailed by the New York Times as a "timely, compelling" and "brilliantly funny" look at adolescence and friendship

It was bad enough that they had to move to Brooklyn.
Brooklyn Heights, as Tucker Woolf's dad instructs him to tell everyone after he loses his job....
An American Insurrection: James Meredith and the Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962
AuthorWilliam Doyle
ISBN0385499701
In 1961, a black veteran named James Meredith applied for admission to the University of Mississippi — and launched a legal revolt against white supremacy in the most segregated state in America. Meredith’s challenge ultimately triggered what Time magazine called “the gravest conflict between...
The Fifth Book Of Peace
AuthorMaxine Hong Kingston
ISBN0099466635
By the author of the bestselling The Woman Warrior, a magical book: a literature of peace built on the stories of war. Divided into four sections - 'Fire', 'Paper', 'Water' and 'Earth' - this book is neither fiction nor autobiography nor memoir, but a unique form of Chinese 'talk-story' in which real...
Gabriel's Story
AuthorDavid Anthony Durham
ISBN0385720335
When Gabriel Lynch moves with his mother and brother from a brownstone in Baltimore to a dirt-floor hovel on a homestead in Kansas, he is not pleased. He does not dislike his new stepfather, a former slave, but he has no desire to submit to a life of drudgery and toil on the untamed prairie. So he joins up with...
The Girl in the Box
AuthorOuida Sebestyen
ISBN0440228735
To Anybody Out There My name is Jackie McGee. I am the girl who disappeared. Listen to the news. See if other pieces of paper are scattered nearby. Maybe if you yell really loud I can hear you and yell back. I am not making this up. Please help!
Left in an underground cement room by an unknown captor, Jackie...
The Late Great Me
AuthorSandra Scoppettone
ISBN0553259105
I read this over and over as a teenager. The author did a brilliant job with this story. She not only gives us a deep look into Geri's world, but also her family: mom, dad, and brother. I also liked her school teacher mentor. The author goes deep, very deep into alcoholism and how it not only affects the drinker,...
Donorboy
AuthorBrendan Halpin
ISBN1400062772
Rosalind had two mommies. Now, thanks to a tragic accident involving foodstuffs, she has none. And Sean, the sperm donor responsible for half her DNA (and nothing else), is taking custody. Rosalind finds herself adjusting to a new life that seems both hateful and surreal–she’s an orphan with a...
Waking Beauty: A Novel
AuthorElyse Friedman
ISBN1400051061
What would you do if you went to bed ugly, fat, and depressed and woke up the next morning in the body of a goddess?
This is exactly the miracle that befalls Allison Penny, who has spent most of her twenty-two years on this earth in a serious slump (to say the least).

Having long since given up...
The Necessary Beggar
AuthorSusan Palwick
Lémabantunk, the Glorious City, is a place of peace and plenty. But it is also a land of swift and severe justice. Young Darroti has been accused of the murder of a highborn woman who had chosen the life of a Mendicant, a holy beggar whose blessing brings forgiveness. Now his entire family must share his...
Needles: A Memoir Of Growing Up With Diabetes
AuthorAndie Dominick
ISBN0684856549
A CLASSIC ACCOUNT OF A YOUNG LIFE IRREVERSIBLY ALTERED BY ILLNESS
"I know about needles."
All her life, Andie Dominick adored her older sister, Denise. She wanted to look like her, talk like her, be her. Unfortunately, she got part of her wish when, at age nine, she was diagnosed with the same...
Normal Girl
AuthorMolly Jong-Fast
ISBN0375757597

"Randa, what's wrong with you?"
"Nothing. I mean, I'm a crazy cocaine addict with a hankering for heroin, but other than that, I'm just a nice Jewish girl from the Upper East Side with Prada shoes. How could anything be wrong?"

Molly Jong-Fast's Normal Girl is striking-and as funny...
The Rover
AuthorMel Odom
ISBN0765341948
Edgewick Lamplighter (Wick to his friends) is a humble librarian in the isolated halls of Greydawn Moors until dreams of wanderlust and a bit of dereliction in his duties result in his being shanghaied to a far-off land.

Captured by pirates, sold into slavery, and adopted by a gang of thieves,...
Star Struck
AuthorPamela Anderson
ISBN0743493745
Star Wood Leigh's hasty, secret marriage to rock 'n' roll bad boy Jimi Deeds triggers a chain of events that makes Hollywood-tabloid history. Together the couple will soar past the brightest lights and greatest heights of stardom. But as Star and Jimi's lives become more public, their secrets grow...
Looking for Cassandra Jane
AuthorMelody Carlson
I had a really hard time getting into this book for about the first third. From then on, I didn't want to put it down. The writing style is fairly simple, and the story isn't fancy, but it is a good tale of perseverance and strength.

I have a history of attending a church in which people were a little...
Stolen Innocence: Triumphing Over a Childhood Broken by Abuse: A Memoir
AuthorErin Merryn
ISBN0757302823
Eleven-year-old Erin Merryn's life was transformed on the night she was sexually abused by her cousin, someone she loved and trusted. As the abuse continued, and as she was forced to see her abuser over and over again in social situations, she struggled with self-doubt, panic attacks, nightmares and...
Blood on the Forge
AuthorWilliam Attaway
ISBN1590171349
This brutally gripping novel about the African-American Great Migration follows the three Moss brothers, who flee the rural South to work in industries up North. Delivered by day into the searing inferno of the steel mills, by night they encounter a world of surreal devastation, crowded with dogfighters,...
The Long Dream
AuthorRichard Wright
ISBN1555534236
Now available in a new edition. Set in a small town in Mississippi, The Long Dream is a novel rich in characterization and plot that dramatizes Richard Wright's themes of oppression, exploitation, corruption, and flight. It is the story of Fishbelly (called Fish), the son of Tyree Tucker, a prominent...
Diamond Dogs
AuthorAlan Watt
ISBN0446677841
The main character in this book is utterly unlikeable. Neil makes so many poor judgements and continues to lie, lie, lie his way through his problems. He drives home drunk one night and kills a classmate, Ian. Instead of doing the honorable thing he puts the kids dead body in the trunk of his car so he can...
Manifesto: Three Classic Essays on How to Change the World
AuthorErnesto Che Guevara
ISBN1876175982
“If you are curious and open to the life around you, if you are troubled as to why, how and by whom political power is held and used, if you sense there must be good intellectual reasons for your unease, if your curiosity and openness drive you toward wishing to act with others, to ‘do something,’ you...
The Four Stages of Cruelty
AuthorKeith Hollihan
ISBN0312592477
Ditmarsh Penitentiary holds many secrets within its walls. A maximum-security prison, it contains every breed of hatred, self-destruction, greed, and regret. Its inmates aren't the only ones who grapple with these emotions. Under constant threat yet given absolute authority, the guards routinely...
Troublemakers: Stories by Harlan Ellison
AuthorHarlan Ellison
ISBN0743423984
In a career spanning more than 50 years, Harlan Ellison has written or edited 75 books, more than 1700 stories, essays, articles and newspaper columns, two dozen teleplays, and a dozen movies. Now, for the first time anywhere, Troublemakers presents a collection of Ellison's classic stories -- chosen...
Granta 113: The Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists
AuthorJohn Freeman
ISBN1905881231
Granta 113, published simultaneously in Spain as Los Mejores Narradores Jovenes en Espanol, showcases the work of 22 promising new writers. It is eagerly anticipated, as Granta's previous Best Young Novelist issues have been startlingly accurate, calling out the work of writers from Salman Rushdie...
Psychogeography: Disentangling the Modern Conundrum of Psyche and Place
AuthorWill Self
ISBN1596914661
For those interested in the connection between people and place, the best of the decade long collaboration between literary brat packer Will Self and gonzo illustrator Ralph Steadman.

Opening with a dazzling new 20,000-word essay on walking from London to New York, Psychogeography is a...
The Vulture
AuthorGil Scott-Heron
ISBN0862415284

"The Vulture"

Standing in the ruins
of another Black man's life,
or flying through the valley
separating day and night.
"I am death," cried the Vulture.
"For the people of the light."

Charon brought his raft
from the sea that sails on souls,
and...
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