Zeitoun
10 best books like Zeitoun (Dave Eggers): Lord of the Flies, The Underground Railroad, Where'd You Go, Bernadette, Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness, Eating Animals, Plan of Attack, A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy, The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Plenty Enough Suck to Go Around
| Author | William Golding |
| ISBN | 0140283331 |
At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do anything they want. Anything. They attempt to forge their own society, failing,...
| Author | Colson Whitehead |
| ISBN | 0385542364 |
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad,...
| Author | Maria Semple |
| ISBN | 0316204277 |
Bernadette Fox has vanished.
When her daughter Bee claims a family trip to Antarctica as a reward for perfect grades, Bernadette, a fiercely intelligent shut-in, throws herself into preparations for the trip. But worn down by years of trying to live the Seattle life she never wanted, Ms. Fox...
| Author | Tracy Kidder |
| ISBN | 1400066212 |
Strength in What Remains is a wonderfully written, inspiring account of one man’s remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him – a brilliant testament to the power of will and of second chances.
Tracy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the bestsellers...
| Author | Jonathan Safran Foer |
| ISBN | 0316069906 |
Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. Once he started a family, the moral dimensions of food became increasingly important.
Faced with the prospect of being unable to explain why we eat some animals and not others,...
| Author | Bob Woodward |
| ISBN | 0743255488 |
Plan of Attack is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, and allies launched a preemptive attack to topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq. Bob Woodward's latest landmark account of Washington decision making provides an original, authoritative narrative...
| Author | Josh Neufeld |
| ISBN | 0307378144 |
A stunning graphic novel that makes plain the undeniable horrors and humanity triggered by Hurricane Katrina in the true stories of six New Orleanians who survived the storm.
A.D. follows each of the six from the hours before Katrina struck to its horrific aftermath. Here is Denise, a sixth-generation...
| Author | Bruce Watson |
| ISBN | 0670021709 |
A majestic history of the summer of '64, which forever changed race relations in America
In the summer of 1964, with the civil rights movement stalled, seven hundred college students descended on Mississippi to register black voters, teach in Freedom Schools, and live in sharecroppers'...
| Author | Douglas Brinkley |
| ISBN | 0061124230 |
In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. Yet those wind-torn hours represented only the first stage of the relentless triple tragedy that Katrina brought to the entire Gulf Coast, from Louisiana...
| Author | Cheryl Wagner |
| ISBN | 0806531037 |
Print and public-radio journalist Wagner describes rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina...Despite Kafkaesque experiences with the infamous bureaucratic mess that threatened to undo New Orleans once and for all, the couple held on to their optimism for the city and their little piece of it. Wagner...
| Author | Jed Horne |
| ISBN | 1400065526 |
Hurricane Katrina shredded one of the great cities of the South, and as levees failed and the federal relief effort proved lethally incompetent, a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe. As an editor of New Orleans’ daily newspaper, the Pulitzer Prize—winning Times-Picayune, Jed Horne...
| Author | Bill Maher |
| ISBN | 1597775134 |
Former Politically Incorrect host Bill Maher, inspired by classic World War II government posters designed to get the average citizen involved in the war effort, has put together a series of biting essays on the battle America currently faces against terrorism. This hard-hitting book takes issue...
| Author | Brenda Wineapple |
| ISBN | 1400044014 |
After p. 125
'Tis a puzzlement - this Book -
'Tis - or 'twas -
Or -
Perhaps a bit of both -
At End
I must add this title to the short list of biographical narratives that I consider perfect (not that my selection bears any significance beyond the edge of my desk), in the...
| Author | Roberta Brandes Gratz |
| ISBN | 1568584385 |
In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New York’s “master builder” Robert Moses with turning Gotham around, despite his brutal, undemocratic. and demolition-heavy ways.Urban...
| Author | Larry Wilmore |
| ISBN | 1401309550 |
From the host of Comedy Central's newest program, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, comes the first paperback reprint of his funny and provocative musings on race in America and other nightly topics--updated with new material for this edition. Now boasting three new chapters and an introduction...
| Author | Tom Piazza |
| ISBN | 0061124834 |
Every place has its history. But what is it about New Orleans that makes it more than just the sum of the events that have happened there? What is it about the spirit of the people who live there that could produce a music, a cuisine, an architecture, a total environment, the mere mention of which can bring...
The hidden history of a haunted and beloved city told through the intersecting lives of nine remarkable characters
After Hurricane Katrina, Dan Baum moved to New Orleans to write about the city’s response to the disaster for The New Yorker. He quickly realized that Katrina was not the most...
Voices from the Storm: The People of New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath
| Author | Lola Vollen |
| ISBN | 1932416684 |
Toen Orkaan Katrina op 29 augustus 2005 de stad New Orleans bereikte, was het reeds te laat voor hen die zich niet in veiligheid konden brengen: hulp van de overheid bleef uit en zou pas na weken - nadat (inter)nationale druk werd uitgeoefend - op gang komen: het regime van George W. Bush had andere prioriteiten...
| Author | Robert Brockway |
| ISBN | 0307464342 |
Just when you thought you’d accepted your own mortality . . . Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody is bringing panic back. Twenty illustrated, hilariously fear-inducing
essays reveal the chilling and very real experiments, dangerous emerging technologies, and terrifying natural disasters...
| Author | Dana Milbank |
| ISBN | 0385533888 |
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank takes a fair and balanced look at the unsettling rise of the silly Fox News host Glenn Beck.
Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that “the tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”...
| Author | Vincent J. Cannato |
| ISBN | 0060742739 |
For most of New York's early history, Ellis Island had been an obscure little island that barely held itself above high tide. Today the small island stands alongside Plymouth Rock in our nation's founding mythology as the place where many of our ancestors first touched American soil. Ellis Island's...
| Author | Roy Blount Jr. |
| ISBN | 1400046459 |
“Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw a naked woman with...
| Author | Rob Walker |
| ISBN | 1891053019 |
I don't think Rob Walker understands the city. I'm a native and I don't think I understand the city completely, so that isn't really why I'm only giving it two stars. The reason? He doesn't explain why New Orleans is a city worth staying in despite the bad points -- probably because he doesn't really believe...
Not Just the Levees Broke: My Story During and After Hurricane Katrina
| Author | Phyllis Montana-Leblanc |
| ISBN | 1416563466 |
I have very mixed emotions about this book. Maybe my expectations for this book were too high.
The subject of hurrican Katrina and the devastation of New Orleans has fascinated me since it happened and I've read quite a few other books about it but none like this. Phyllis is not a writer, that's...
| Author | Anthony M. DeStefano |
| ISBN | 0806528745 |
The Last Of The Old-World Mob Bosses--And The Ultimate Betrayal
For more than twenty years, Joseph "Big Joey" Massino ran what was called the largest criminal network in the U.S., employing over two hundred and fifty made men and untold numbers of associates. The Bonanno family was responsible...
