A Certain Summer

5 best books like A Certain Summer (Patricia Beard): The Invisible Bridge, I'll Be Seeing You, Winter Passing, The Memory of Us, The Orphan Keeper

AuthorJulie Orringer
ISBN0307713547
A grand love story and an epic tale of three brothers whose lives are torn apart by war.

Paris, 1937. Andras LĂ©vi, a Hungarian Jewish architecture student, arrives from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he has promised to deliver to C. Morgenstern on the...
AuthorSuzanne Hayes
ISBN0778314952
I'll Be Seeing You is a deeply moving union of style and charm. Filled with unforgettable characters and grace, it is a timeless celebration of friendship and the strength and solidarity of women.

"I hope this letter gets to you quickly. We are always waiting, aren't we? Perhaps the greatest...
Winter Passing
AuthorCindy McCormick Martinusen
ISBN0842319069
I've set my year off on the right foot by reading Winter Passing. It's an epic tale of a woman's pursuit of her family's history.

When her grandmother passes on, Darby Evans latches onto the dying wish -- that Darby visits Austria and sets things aright, concerning her grandmother's best friend....
The Memory of Us
AuthorCamille Di Maio
Julianne Westcott was living the kind of life that other Protestant girls in prewar Liverpool could only dream about: old money, silk ball gowns, and prominent young men lining up to escort her. But when she learns of a blind-and-deaf brother, institutionalized since birth, the illusion of her perfect...
The Orphan Keeper
AuthorCamron Wright
ISBN1629722243
Based on a true story.
Seven-year-old Chellamuthu’s life is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in India, sold to a Christian orphanage, and then adopted by an unsuspecting couple in the United States. It takes months before the boy can speak enough English to tell his parents...
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