View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Veil of Lies: A Medieval Noir (The Crispin Guest Novels)

by Jeri Westerson

Published: 2009-10-13

Paperback: 288 pages

1 member reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

"A great read, through and through. Westerson's finely wrought portrait of gritty Medieval London is embued with great wit and poignancy. Crispin Guest is a knight to remember." -- Cornelia Read, author of A Field of Darkness, on Veil of Lies.Crispin Guest is a disgraced knight, stripped o...

View Reading GUide

* * * * Gloomy,
Dark,
Insightful

2 club reviews

Review This book

There There

by Tommy Orange

Published: 2019-05-07

Paperback: 304 pages

7 members reading this now
26 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

Recommended to book clubs by 1 of 2 members

National BestsellerOne of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the YearOne of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Dallas Morning News, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe  Winner of the PEN/Hemingw...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Wild Thorns (Interlink World Fiction)

by Sahar Khalifeh

Published: 2003-09-01

Paperback: 208 pages

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

Wild Thorns is a chronicle of life in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. It is the first Arab novel to give a true picture of social and personal relations under occupation.

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Buy the Change You Want to See: Use Your Purchasing Power to Make the World a Better Place

by Jane Mosbacher Morris, Wendy Paris

Published: 2019-01-29

Paperback: 272 pages

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

Eager to change the world? Learn how you can have a greater social impact through your everyday purchases.The money we routinely spend on food, clothes, gifts, and even indulgences is an untapped superpower. What would happen if we slowed down to make more thoughtful decisions about what w...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics

by Stephen Greenblatt

Published: 2018-05-08

Hardcover: 224 pages

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright’s insight into bad (and often mad) rulers.As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny. In ...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine

by Thomas Morris

Published: 2018-11-20

Hardcover: 368 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

"Delightfully horrifying."--Popular ScienceOne of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of a bygone era in all its jaw-dropping weirdne...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

The Creature of the Pines (The Unicorn Rescue Society)

by Adam Gidwitz

Published: 2018-04-10

Hardcover: 192 pages

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

Unicorns are real. (At least we think they are.)   Are you ready to protect the creatures of myth and legend? Then you belong in The Unicorn Rescue Society. HURRY–THE CREATURES NEED YOU!   Elliot Eisner isn't exactly thrilled with the first day at his new school. His class is going on ...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time

by Jose Andres

Published: 2018-09-11

Hardcover: 288 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

FOREWORD BY LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA AND LUIS A. MIRANDA, JR. The true story of how a group of chefs fed hundreds of thousands of hungry Americans after Hurricane Maria and touched the hearts of many more Chef José Andrés arrived in Puerto Rico four days after Hurricane Maria ripped through th...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz

by Eva Mozes Kor, Lisa Rojany Buccieri

Published: 2012-03-13

Paperback: 175 pages

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

Eva Mozes Kor was just ten years old when she arrived in Auschwitz. While her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas chambers, she and her twin, Miriam, were herded into the care of the man known as the Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. Subjected to sadistic medical experimen...

View Reading GUide

* * * *

Be the first to rate this book!

Dancing with a Ghost: Exploring Aboriginal Reality

by Rupert Ross

Published: 2006-01-31

Paperback: 248 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

As a Crown Attorney working with First Nations in remote northwestern Ontario, Rupert Ross learned that he was routinely misinterpreting the behaviour of Aboriginal victims, witnesses, and offenders, both in and out of court. He discovered that he regularly drew wrong conclusions when he e...