Whirl Away
10 best books like Whirl Away (Russell Wangersky): Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life, The Marrow Thieves, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, Beirut Hellfire Society, Brother, The Imposter Bride, The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance, Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief, Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion, Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
| Author | Steve Martin |
| ISBN | 1416553649 |
In the midseventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This book is, in his own words, the story of "why I did stand-up and why I walked away."
Emmy and Grammy Award winner, author of the acclaimed...
| Author | Cherie Dimaline |
| ISBN | 1770864865 |
In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's Indigenous people, and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow,...
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
| Author | Raymond Carver |
| ISBN | 0099449897 |
And here it is...the best collection of short stories I've ever read.
Where has Carver been all my life? Why did no one slap me over the head with his work fifteen years ago? I mourn that it took me this long to discover him and now I must get my little claws on everything Carver asap.
How the...
| Author | Rawi Hage |
| ISBN | 1324002913 |
After his undertaker father’s death, laconic, Greek mythology– reading Pavlov is approached by a member of the mysterious Hellfire Society— an antireligious sect that, among many rebellious and often salacious activities, arranges secret burial for outcasts who have been denied last rites...
| Author | David Chariandy |
| ISBN | 1635572045 |
An intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, tightly constructed novel, Brother explores questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity as they are played out in a Scarborough housing complex during the sweltering heat and simmering violence of the summer of 1991.
With shimmering...
| Author | Nancy Richler |
| ISBN | 1443404020 |
When a young, enigmatic woman arrives in post-war Montreal, it is immediately clear that she is not who she claims to be. Her attempt to live out her life as Lily Azerov shatters as she disappears, leaving a new husband and baby daughter, and a host of unanswered questions. Who is she really and what happened...
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
| Author | David Epstein |
| ISBN | 1591845114 |
Now a New York Times Bestseller! With a new chapter added to the paperback.
In high school, I wondered whether the Jamaican Americans who made our track team so successful might carry some special speed gene from their tiny island. In college, I ran against Kenyans, and wondered whether endurance...
| Author | Dale McGowan |
| ISBN | 0814410960 |
Dale McGowan's popular and compassionate guide Parenting Beyond Belief was the first comprehensive book to offer a general philosophy of nonreligious parenting. Raising Freethinkers is a practical sequel, providing specific answers to common questions and more than 100 activities for parents...
| Author | Dale McGowan |
| ISBN | 0814474268 |
Foreword by Michael Shermer, Ph.D.
Contributors include Richard Dawkins, Penn Jillette, Julia Sweeney, and Dr. Donald B. Ardell
It's hard enough to live a secular life in a religious world. And bringing up children without religious influence can be even more...
Contemporary short stories enacting giddy, witty revenge on the documents that define and dominate our lives.
In our bureaucratized culture, we're inundated by documents: itineraries, instruction manuals, permit forms, primers, letters of complaint, end-of-year reports, accidentally...
| Author | Mark Haskell Smith |
| ISBN | 0802122019 |
Reality TV hunk and People magazine's "sexiest man alive", Sepp Gregory goes on a book tour to promote his debut novel, a thinly veiled autobiography. Not that Sepp has actually read the book, he doesn't have to, he lived it! The book becomes a sensation, a New York Times bestseller, and, surprisingly,...
Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids
| Author | Kim John Payne |
| ISBN | 0345507975 |
Today’s busier, faster, supersized society is waging an undeclared war . . . on childhood. As the pace of life accelerates to hyperspeed–with too much stuff, too many choices, and too little time–children feel the pressure. They can become anxious, have trouble with friends and school, or even...
The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman
| Author | Bruce Robinson |
| ISBN | 0747542376 |
Maurice threw another log on and a mass of brilliant sparks leapt in the air like burning confetti.
'You know what I'd like now?' he said, without taking his eyes off the fire. 'A pot of tea on top of that and a shag.'
Thomas agreed.
'Do you realize it can take up to a year of constant...
Glimpses of Creatures in Their Physical Worlds
| Author | Steven Vogel |
| ISBN | 0691138079 |
Glimpses of Creatures in Their Physical Worlds offers an eye-opening look into how the characteristics of the physical world drive the designs of animals and plants. These characteristics impose limits but also create remarkable and subtle opportunities for the functional biology of organisms....
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
| Author | J.E. Gordon |
| ISBN | 0306812835 |
In a book that Business Insider noted as one of the "14 Books that inspired Elon Musk," J.E. Gordon strips engineering of its confusing technical terms, communicating its founding principles in accessible, witty prose.
For anyone who has ever wondered why suspension bridges don't collapse...
Geometric Morphometrics for Biologists: A Primer
| Author | Miriam Leah Zelditch |
| ISBN | 0127784608 |
Geometric Morphometrics for Biologists is an introductory textbook for a course on geometric morphometrics, written for graduate students and upper division undergraduates, covering both theory of shape analysis and methods of multivariate analysis. It is designed for students with minimal...
Love & Courage: My Story of Family, Resilience, and Overcoming the Unexpected
| Author | Jagmeet Singh |
| ISBN | 1982105399 |
From the leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party—Jagmeet Singh—comes a personal and heartfelt story about family and overcoming adversity.
In October 2017, Jagmeet Singh was elected as the first visible minority to lead a major federal political party in Canada. The historic milestone...
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
| Author | Erica Armstrong Dunbar |
| ISBN | 1501126393 |
A startling and eye-opening look into America’s First Family, Never Caught is the powerful narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington’s runaway slave who risked it all to escape the nation’s capital and reach freedom.
When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly...
