What You See in the Dark
10 best books like What You See in the Dark (Manuel Muñoz): Bunny, His Hideous Heart, Paradise, Quicksand, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, Wave, Leave Her to Heaven, The Wycherly Woman, The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers, El libro de Merlin. Un libro de magia, encantamientos y conjuros
| Author | Mona Awad |
| ISBN | 0525559736 |
Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique...
| Author | Dahlia Adler |
| ISBN | 1250302773 |
Thirteen of YA’s most celebrated names reimagine Edgar Allan Poe’s most surprising, unsettling, and popular tales for a new generation.
Edgar Allan Poe may be a hundred and fifty years beyond this world, but the themes of his beloved works have much in common with modern young adult fiction....
| Author | Toni Morrison |
| ISBN | 0452280397 |
"They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time." So begins this visionary work from a storyteller. Toni Morrison's first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Paradise opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black...
| Author | Nella Larsen |
| ISBN | 0141181273 |
Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, but even here she feels different. Moving to Harlem and eventually to Denmark, she attempts to carve out a comfortable...
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
| Author | Mona Awad |
| ISBN | 0143194798 |
Growing up in the suburban hell of Misery Saga (a.k.a. Mississauga), Lizzie has never liked the way she looks—even though her best friend Mel says she’s the pretty one. She starts dating guys online, but she’s afraid to send pictures, even when her skinny friend China does her makeup: she knows...
| Author | Sonali Deraniyagala |
On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since....
This classic bestselling novel about a man who encounters a woman whose power to destroy is as strong as her power to love evokes Hemingway in its naturalistic portrayal of elemental forces in both nature and humanity.
Ellen’s beauty was radiant, and Harland had been so struck with...
| Author | Ross Macdonald |
| ISBN | 0375701443 |
Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Archer to find her. That was plenty of time for a young girl who wanted to disappear to do so thoroughly--or for someone to make her disappear. Before he can find the Wycherly girl, Archer has to deal with the Wycherly woman, Phoebe's...
| Author | Virginia Spencer Carr |
| ISBN | 0820325228 |
The Lonely Hunter is widely accepted as the standard biography of Carson McCullers. Author of such landmarks of modern American fiction as Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers was the enfant terrible of the literary world of the 1940s and 1950s. Gifted but tormented,...
| Author | Nevill Drury |
| ISBN | 8441408858 |
He aquí un regalo extraordinario: el libro secreto de Merlín lleno de sorprendentes poderes, conjuros y encantamietos.Las claves para dominar los elementos de la tierra, el fuego, el agua y el aire y los símbolos mágicos. Aquí se hallan las fórmulas secretas para convocar a los espíritus,...
| Author | Nella Larsen |
| ISBN | 0385721005 |
A light-skinned beauty who spends years passing for white finds herself dangerously drawn to an old friend's Harlem neighborhood. A restless young mulatto tries desperately to find a comfortable place in a world in which she sees herself as a perpetual outsider. A mother's confrontation with tragedy...
| Author | Sabina Murray |
| ISBN | 0802142001 |
Twenty-three year old Katherine has just left Italy for New York City, but what has propelled her there is a mystery. She strikes up an affair with an older Russian �migr� novelist met on the subway and moves into his apartment. But her allusions to a frighteningly eccentric mother and tyrannical...
| Author | Andrew Wilson |
| ISBN | 1582344116 |
The life of Patricia Highsmith was as secretive and unusual as that of many of the best-known characters who people her "peerlessly disturbing" thrillers and short stories. Yet even as her work has found new popularity in the last few years, the life of this famously elusive writer has remained a mystery.
For...
| Author | Rupert Thomson |
| ISBN | 2253153184 |
At first glance, the thrillers of British author Rupert Thomson seem to have nothing in common except the expansiveness of his imagination and the lucid radiance of his writing. Air & Fire is about a group of French people sent to California at the end of the 19th century to build a church. The Insult...
| Author | Robert Polito |
| ISBN | 0679733523 |
Robert Polito recounts Thompson's relationship with his father, a disgraced Oklahoma sheriff, with the women he adored in life and murdered on the page, with alcohol, would-be censors, and Hollywood auteurs. Unrelenting and empathetic, casting light into the darker caverns of our collective psyche,...
The Hacker Ethic: and the Spirit of the Information Age
| Author | Pekka Himanen |
| ISBN | 0375505660 |
Il y avait la rock’n’roll attitude, il y a désormais la "hacker attitude", un modèle social pour l’ère post-industrielle », expliquait Libération lors de la parution de ce livre au début de l’année 2001 aux États-Unis. On considérait jusqu’à présent le « hacker » comme un...
| Author | Paulo Coelho |
| ISBN | 1473562678 |
In Hippie, his most autobiographical novel to date, Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to re-live the dream of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established social order – authoritarian politics, conservative modes of behavior, excessive consumerism, and an unbalanced...
