When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love and Revolution

10 best books like When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love and Revolution (Jeanne Cordova): Citizen: An American Lyric, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Graphic Novel: A Modern Retelling of Little Women, Bloom, Evernight, Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists, Claire de Lune, Outgrowing the Pain: A Book for and about Adults Abused as Children, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, The Golden Lane: How Missouri Women Gained the Vote and Changed History, On a Sunbeam

Citizen: An American Lyric

Author	Claudia Rankine
ISBN	1555976905

A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric.

Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media....

Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Graphic Novel: A Modern Retelling of Little Women

Author	Rey Terciero
ISBN	0316522864

Little Women with a twist: four sisters from a blended family experience the challenges and triumphs of life in NYC in this beautiful full-color graphic novel perfect for fans of Roller Girl and Smile.


Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy are having a really tough year: with their father serving in the...

Bloom

Author

Kevin Panetta

Now that high school is over, Ari is dying to move to the big city with his ultra-hip band―if he can just persuade his dad to let him quit his job at their struggling family bakery. Though he loved working there as a kid, Ari cannot fathom a life wasting away over rising dough and hot ovens. But while interviewing...

Evernight

Author	Claudia Gray
ISBN	0061284394

Bianca wants to escape.

She's been uprooted from her small hometown and enrolled at Evernight Academy, an eerie Gothic boarding school where the students are somehow too perfect: smart, sleek, and almost predatory. Bianca knows she doesn't fit in.

Then she meets Lucas. He's not...

Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists

Author	Jean H. Baker
ISBN	0809087030

How the Personal Became Political In the Fight to Grant Women Civil Rights

They forever changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, Alice Paul. At their revolution's start in the 1840s, a woman's right to speak in public was questioned. By its conclusion...

Claire de Lune

Author	Christine Johnson
ISBN	1416991824

Torn between two destinies…

Claire is having the perfect sixteenth birthday. Her pool party is a big success, and gorgeous Matthew keeps chatting and flirting with her as if she’s the only girl there. But that night, she discovers something that takes away all sense of normalcy: she’s...

Outgrowing the Pain: A Book for and about Adults Abused as Children

Author	Eliana Gil
ISBN	0440500060

"Anyone who had a troubled childhood ought to read this book."--Anne H. Cohn, D.P.H., Executive Director, National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse

Do you have trouble finding friends, lovers, acquaintances?
Once you find them, do they dump on you, take advantage of you, or leave?
Are...

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Author

Barbara Kingsolver

Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they'd only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable,...

The Golden Lane: How Missouri Women Gained the Vote and Changed History

Author	Margot Ford McMillen
ISBN	1609490134

It was June 14, 1916, a warm, sticky Wednesday morning. The Democratic Convention would soon meet in St. Louis. Inside the Jefferson Hotel, the men ate breakfast and met with their committees. Outside the hotel, thousands of women quietly took their places along both sides of Locust Street. They stood...

On a Sunbeam

Author

Tillie Walden

An epic graphic novel about a girl who travels to the ends of the universe to find a long lost love, from acclaimed author Tillie Walden.

Throughout the deepest reaches of space, a crew rebuilds beautiful and broken-down structures, painstakingly putting the past together. As Mia, the newest...