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8 best books like Z (Michael Thomas Ford): Hot Comb, Deadline, Blackout, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way, Growing Up Pedro: How the Martínez Brothers Made It from the Dominican Republic All the Way to the Major Leagues, Aug 9 - Fog, The Cybil War, Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life

Hot Comb

Author

Ebony Flowers

Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into black women’s lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon. The titular story “Hot Comb” is about a young girl’s first perm - a doomed ploy to look cool and to stop seeming “too white” in the all-black neighborhood...

Deadline

Author

Mira Grant

Shaun Mason is a man without a mission. Not even running the news organization he built with his sister has the same urgency as it used to. Playing with dead things just doesn't seem as fun when you've lost as much as he has.

But when a CDC researcher fakes her own death and appears on his doorstep...

Blackout

Author	Mira Grant
ISBN	1841499005

Rise up while you can. -Georgia Mason

The year was 2014. The year we cured cancer. The year we cured the common cold. And the year the dead started to walk. The year of the Rising.

The year was 2039. The world didn't end when the zombies came, it just got worse. Georgia and Shaun Mason set...

Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way

Author	Shauna Niequist
ISBN	0310598850

“The idea of bittersweet is changing the way I live, unraveling and re-weaving the way I understand life. Bittersweet is the idea that in all things there is both something broken and something beautiful, that there is a moment of lightness on even the darkest of nights, a shadow of hope in every heartbreak,...

Growing Up Pedro: How the Martínez Brothers Made It from the Dominican Republic All the Way to the Major Leagues

Author	Matt Tavares
ISBN	0763668249

The love between brothers is key to Matt Tavares’s tale of Dominican pitcher Pedro Martinez, from his days of throwing rocks at mangoes to his years as a major-league star.

Before Pedro Martinez pitched the Red Sox to a World Series championship, before he was named to the All-Star team eight...

Aug 9 - Fog

Author	Kathryn Scanlan
ISBN	0374106878

A Paris Review Staff Pick, one of Chicago Tribune's 25 Hot Books of Summer, and one of The A.V. Club's 15 Most Anticipated Books of 2019

A stark, elegiac account of unexpected pleasures and the progress of seasons

Fifteen years ago, Kathryn Scanlan found a stranger's five-year diary...

The Cybil War

Author	Betsy Byars
ISBN	0140343563

Young love, told by the Newbery Medal-winning author of Summer of the Swans

Simon is in fifth grade, and every time he sees Cybil Ackerman, his heart pounds. Falling in love with her was easy, but winning her is not. Simon's best friend, Tony, is also swooning over Cybil, and he'll stop at nothing...

Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life

Author	Shauna Niequist
ISBN	0310273609

Cold Tangerines is a collection of stories that celebrate the extraordinary moments hidden in our everyday lives. It is about God, and about life, and about the thousands of daily ways in which an awareness of God changes and infuses everything. It is about spiritual life, and about all the things that...