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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorTattoo Machine: Tall Tales, True Stories, and My Life in Ink
Jeff Johnson · 249 pages
A behind-the-scenes tour of the fabled tattoo industry on the arm of a swashbuckling insider and natural-born storyteller.
Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter
Shoko Tendo · 216 pages
Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
Stacy Pershall · 232 pages
Stacy Pershall grew up depressed and too smart for her own good, a deeply strange girl in Prairie Grove, Arkansas (population 1,000), where the prevailing wisdom was that Jesus healed all. From her days as a thirteen-year-old Jesus freak, through a battle with anorexia and bulimia, her first manic episode at eighteen, and the eventual diagnosis of bipolar disorder and borderline personality disord
Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo
Margot Mifflin · 160 pages
The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide
Eva Talmadge, Justin Taylor · 173 pages
Collects photographs of quotations and illustrations tattooed on human epidermis with statements from the bearers on the history of the tattoos and the personal significance of the chosen work.
Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them
Isaac Fitzgerald · 133 pages
"Why did you get that tattoo? Every tattoo tells a story, whether the ink is meaningful or the result of a misguided decision made at the age of fourteen, representative of the wearer's true self or the accidental consequence of a bender. These most permanent of body adornments are hidden by pants legs and shirt tails, emblazoned on knuckles, or tucked inside mouths. They are battle scars and beau
Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
Justin Spring · 487 pages
Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, Secret Historian is a sensational reconstruction of one of the more extraordinary hidden lives of the twentieth century. An intimate friend of Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and Thornton Wilder, Steward maintained a secret sex life from childhood on, a
Clipped Wings
Helena Hunting · 395 pages
"Their body art is hot. Their chemistry is even hotter. From her dark hair sweeping below her waist to her soft, sexy curves, Tenley Page intrigues tattoo artist Hayden Stryker in a way no one else ever has...especially when she asks him to ink a gorgeous, intricate design on her back. Yet for all her beauty, there is something darkly tragic and damaged about Tenley that Hayden is everything. Co
The Iron Hunt
Marjorie M. Liu
First in a stunning new urban fantasy series from an author who "NEVER CEASES TO AMAZE." (BOOKLIST, STARRED REVIEW) Demon hunter Maxine Kiss wears her armor as tattoos, which unwind from her body to take on forms of their own at night. They stand between her and her enemies, just as Maxine stands between humanity and the demons breaking out from behind the prison veils. It is a life lacking in lov
Drawn Together
Lauren Dane · 290 pages
Tattoo artist Raven Smith is blunt and hard, broken and jaded. She's free sexually-- but no one gets to the real Raven beneath the prickly exterior. Jonah Warner is a smooth-talking, highly successful attorney, with a body that should never be hidden by a suit. He never takes no for an answer and always gets what he wants. And what he wants is Raven. He makes her break all her rules-- until a figu
The Missing Ink
Karen E. Olson · 306 pages
Las Vegas tattoo artist Brett Kavanaugh takes an appointment from a woman wanting a tattoo of her fiance's name. The client never shows--but the police do. Turns out the woman has a mysterious past--and the name on her wanted tattoo wasn't her fiance's.
Tell Me a Tattoo Story
Alison McGhee
A father tells his young son the story behind each of his tattoos.
Indelible Ink
Fiona McGregor · 452 pages
Marie King is a 59-year-old divorcee from Sydney's affluent north shore. Having devoted her rather conventional life to looking after her husband and three children who have now all departed the family home she is experiencing something of an identity crisis, especially as she must now sell the family home and thus lose her beloved garden.
Hard as It Gets
Laura Kaye · 368 pages
Trouble just walked into Nicholas Rixey's tattoo parlor. Becca Merritt is warm, sexy, wholesome--pure temptation to a very jaded Nick. He's left his military life behind to become co-owner of Hard Ink Tattoo, but Becca is his ex-commander's daughter. Loyalty won't let him turn her away. Lust has plenty to do with it, too.
Throttle Me
Chelle Bliss · 283 pages
Welcome to Inked—the hottest tattoo studio in the south. The men of Inked are pierced, tattooed, and loyal with a dash of grumpy, mingled with a heavy dose of protective male, and best of all—they’re family. Suzy’s a control freak and has her life mapped out – work hard, find a man with a stable job, and live happily ever after. She’s content with the status quo, but her plan comes to a screech