A Good Year for the Roses
10 best books like A Good Year for the Roses (Gil McNeil): The Bookshop on the Shore, Luba: The Angel of Bergen-Belsen, Just Like Jackie, Only a Kiss, A Light of Her Own, Mystery in the Channel, The Kite Fighters, That Other Me, The Secret Sheriff of Sixth Grade, Lizzy and Jane
The Bookshop on the Shore
| Author | Jenny Colgan |
| ISBN | 0062850180 |
A grand baronial house on Loch Ness, a quirky small-town bookseller, and a single mom looking for a fresh start all come together in this witty and warm-hearted novel by New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan.
Desperate to escape from London, single mother Zoe wants to build a new life...
| Author | Michelle R. McCann |
| ISBN | 1582460981 |
Why am I still alive? Why was I spared?
One night in 1944, Luba Tryszynska’s questions were answered when she found fifty-four children abandoned behind the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. Luba knew if the Nazis caught her she could be executed.
But they are someone’s children....
| Author | Lindsey Stoddard |
| ISBN | 0062652915 |
For as long as Robinson Hart can remember, it’s just been her and Grandpa. Robbie knows they look like an odd pair, because her blond hair and pale skin don’t match his dark complexion—but those differences don’t mean anything to her. And though she wishes Grandpa would tell her more about the...
| Author | Mary Balogh |
| ISBN | 0451469682 |
The Survivors’ Club: Six men and one woman, injured in the Napoleonic Wars, their friendships forged in steel and loyalty. But for one, her trials are not over....
Since witnessing the death of her husband during the wars, Imogen, Lady Barclay, has secluded herself in the confines of Hardford...
| Author | Carrie Callaghan |
| ISBN | 1944995897 |
In Holland 1633, a woman’s ambition has no place.
Judith is a painter, dodging the law and whispers of murder to become the first woman admitted to the prestigious Haarlem artist’s guild. Maria is a Catholic in a country where the faith is banned, hoping to absolve her sins by recovering...
| Author | Freeman Wills Crofts |
| ISBN | 0712356517 |
Mystery in the Channel is a classic crime novel with a strikingly modern sub-text. The story begins with a shocking discovery. The captain of the Newhaven to Dieppe steamer spots a small pleasure yacht lying motionless in the water, and on closer inspection, sees a body lying on the deck. When members...
| Author | Linda Sue Park |
| ISBN | 0440418135 |
In Seoul, Korea, in 1473, Young-sup and his older brother Kee-sup are excited about the New Year kite competition. Young-sup is an expert at kite flying. He knows just what his kite wants him to do. Kee-sup has trouble handling his kite, but can build and design a kite fit for a king.
Each brother...
| Author | Maha Gargash |
| ISBN | 0062391380 |
From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Sand Fish, Maha Gargash’s second novel is set in mid-1990s Dubai and Cairo and tells the story of how secrets and betrayals consume three members—an authoritarian father, a rebellious abandoned daughter, and a vulnerable niece—of a prominent...
The Secret Sheriff of Sixth Grade
| Author | Jordan Sonnenblick |
| ISBN | 0545863201 |
In sixth grade, bad things can happen to good kids. Bullies will find your weakness and jump on it. Teachers will say you did something wrong when really you didn't mean to do anything wrong. The kids who joke the loudest can drown out the quieter, nicer kids.
Maverick wants to change all that....
| Author | Katherine Reay |
| ISBN | 1401689736 |
Lizzy and Jane never saw eye to eye. But when illness brings them together, they discover they may be more like Austen’s famous sisters after all.
Lizzy was only a teenager when her mother died of cancer. Shortly after, Lizzy fled from her home, her family, and her cherished nickname. After...
Sisters Dahlia, Iris, Violet, and Rose—all with grown children of their own—have a complicated relationship, so when their grand - mother’s will requires them to spend the whole summer—without friends or family—“camping in” at her run-down lodge on re mote Lake Clare in order to inherit...
| Author | Vonette Bright |
| ISBN | 0842371893 |
Book 1 in the Sister Circle(TM) When Evelyn Peerbaugh hung the ancient sign in front of her house, she had no idea of how life was about to change. In a matter of days she became the newly widowed owner of a busy boardinghouse, coping with the lives and emotions of a most incompatible group of women. Settling...
