Wild Heart: A Life: Natalie Clifford Barney and the Decadence of Literary Paris

5 best books like Wild Heart: A Life: Natalie Clifford Barney and the Decadence of Literary Paris (Suzanne Rodriguez): Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Calling Dr. Laura, The Lives of Christopher Chant, A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York, Happy All the Time

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Author	Audre Lorde
ISBN	0895941414

A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's literary and philosophical personae. These essays explore and illuminate the roots of Lorde's intellectual development and her deep-seated and longstanding concerns about ways of increasing empowerment...

Calling Dr. Laura

Author	Nicole J. Georges
ISBN	0547615590

When Nicole Georges was two years old, her family told her that her father was dead. When she was twenty-three, a psychic told her he was alive. Her sister, saddled with guilt, admits that the psychic is right and that the whole family has conspired to keep him a secret. Sent into a tailspin about her identity,...

The Lives of Christopher Chant

Author	Diana Wynne Jones
ISBN	0688163653

His father and uncles are enchanters, his mother a powerful sorceress, yet nothing seems magical about Christopher Chant except his dreams. Night after night, he climbs through the formless Place Between and visits marvelous lands he calls the Almost Anywheres. Then Christopher discovers that...

A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York

Author	Liana Finck
ISBN	0062291610

In an illustrative style that is a thrilling mash-up of Art Spiegelman's deft emotionality, Roz Chast's hilarious neuroses, and the magical spirit of Marc Chagall, A Bintel Brief is Liana Finck’s evocative, elegiac love letter to the turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants who transformed New...

Happy All the Time

Author	Laurie Colwin
ISBN	0060955325

Guido and Vincent are childhood best friends—third cousins, really—living in Cambridge and dreaming about their futures. Guido plans to write poetry while Vincent feels confident he will win a Nobel prize for physics. When Guido spots Holly while exiting a museum, he can immediately sense that...