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Whoredom In Kimmage: The Private Lives of Irish Women

10 best books like Whoredom In Kimmage: The Private Lives of Irish Women (Rosemary Mahoney): The Bookshop on the Shore, Possessing the Secret of Joy, Zorro, Home for Erring and Outcast Girls, Holidays on Ice, The Blind Owl, The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science, Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings, The Oranging of America and Other Stories, I Never Called It Rape

The Bookshop on the Shore
AuthorJenny Colgan
ISBN0062850180
A grand baronial house on Loch Ness, a quirky small-town bookseller, and a single mom looking for a fresh start all come together in this witty and warm-hearted novel by New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan.

Desperate to escape from London, single mother Zoe wants to build a new life...
Possessing the Secret of Joy
AuthorAlice Walker
ISBN0671789457
Possessing the Secret of Joy is the story of Tashi, a tribal African woman who lives much of her adult life in North America. As a young woman, a misguided loyalty to the customs of her people led her to voluntarily submit to the tsunga's knife and be genitally mutilated (pharoanoically circumcised)....
Zorro
AuthorIsabel Allende
A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became the masked man we all know so well Born in southern California late in the eighteenth century, Diego de la Vega is a child of two worlds. His father is an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner; his mother,...
Home for Erring and Outcast Girls
AuthorJulie Kibler
An emotionally raw and resonant story of love, loss, and the enduring power of friendship, following the lives of two young women connected by a home for “fallen girls,” and inspired by historical events.

In turn-of-the-20th century Texas, the Berachah Home for the Redemption and Protection...
Holidays on Ice
AuthorDavid Sedaris
ISBN0316191299
David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favorites as the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters (Us and Them); the difficulties...
The Blind Owl
AuthorSadegh Hedayat
ISBN0802131808
Considered the most important work of modern Iranian literature, The Blind Owl is a haunting tale of loss and spiritual degradation. Replete with potent symbolism and terrifying surrealistic imagery, Sadegh Hedayat's masterpice details a young man's despair after losing a mysterious lover. And...
The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science
AuthorJ. Kenji López-Alt
ISBN0393081087
Ever wondered how to pan-fry a steak with a charred crust and an interior that's perfectly medium-rare from edge to edge when you cut into it? How to make homemade mac 'n' cheese that is as satisfyingly gooey and velvety-smooth as the blue box stuff, but far tastier? How to roast a succulent, moist turkey...
Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings
AuthorManny Farber
Manny Farber (1917–2008) was a unique figure among American movie critics. Champion of what he called "termite art" (focused, often eccentric virtuosity as opposed to "white elephant" monumentality), master of a one-of-a-kind prose style whose jazz-like phrasing and incandescent twists and...
The Oranging of America and Other Stories
AuthorMax Apple
ISBN0140103104
Orange. There's an orange at the head of our state ; perhaps more an orang=u=tan, no offense to our Darwinian cousins.

If you must know however the title story is not so much of Rump as of Howard Johnson and his hotels/restaurants and not so much that as his road buddy and her cryogenic plans and...
I Never Called It Rape
AuthorRobin Warshaw
ISBN0060925728
Robin Warshaw clearly outlines date/acquaintance rape in this book, funded by the Center for Antisocial and Violent Behavior of the National Institute of Mental Health and executed under the banner of Ms. Magazine. While a bit dated (published first in 1988), this book captures the emergence of date/acquaintance...
Meet Me at the Museum
AuthorAnne Youngson
ISBN0857525522
Please be aware I am writing to you to make sense of myself ...

When the curator of a Danish museum responds to a query about ancient exhibits, he doesn’t expect a reply.

When Tina Hopgood first wrote it, nor did she …

Professor Anders Larsen, an urbane man of facts, has lost...
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