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A Lodging for the Night

7 best books like A Lodging for the Night (Robert Louis Stevenson): Parnassus on Wheels, Nothing to See Here, Goodbye Tsugumi, The Sphinx Without a Secret, Just Ask!: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You, The Seas, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

Parnassus on Wheels
AuthorChristopher Morley
ISBN1414270658
This is a pilot for a new feel-good tv series:

Opening Credits:
It is a glorious morning on a deserted track somewhere in the rural Midwest. Rolling on the lane is a long gypsy-type wagon being pulled by a great big horse. On the open seat up front holding the reins is a cheery man of middle years...
Nothing to See Here
AuthorKevin Wilson
ISBN0062913484
Kevin Wilson’s best book yet—a moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two children with remarkable and disturbing abilities

Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparable friends at their elite boarding school....
Goodbye Tsugumi
AuthorBanana Yoshimoto
ISBN0571212794
Banana Yoshimoto's novels of young life in Japan have made her an international sensation. Goodbye Tsugumi is an offbeat story of a deep and complicated friendship between two female cousins that ranks among her best work. Maria is the only daughter of an unmarried woman. She has grown up at the seaside...
The Sphinx Without a Secret
AuthorOscar Wilde
ISBN0061922250
The Dead End Exit


The eternal quest for mystery is part of human condition. When it takes to relationships, it seems to have some sort of aphrodisiac effect — like a magnet, it pushes one lover towards the other — there’s a trunk of secrets to be found and slowly uncovered, one by one,...
Just Ask!: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You
AuthorSonia Sotomayor
ISBN0525514120
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and award-winning artist Rafael Lopez create a kind and caring book about the differences that make each of us special.

Feeling different, especially as a kid, can be tough. But in the same way that different types of plants and flowers make a garden more...
The Seas
AuthorSamantha Hunt
ISBN0312425236
The narrator of The Seas lives in a tiny, remote, alcoholic, cruel seaside town. An occasional chambermaid, granddaughter to a typesetter, and daughter to a dead man, awkward and brave, wayward and willful, she is in love (unrequited) with an Iraq War veteran thirteen years her senior. She is convinced...
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
AuthorOscar Wilde
ISBN1853260665
It was Lady Windermere's last reception before Easter, and Bentinck House was even more crowded than usual. Six Cabinet Ministers had come on from the Speaker's Levee in their stars and ribands, all the pretty women wore their smartest dresses, and at the end of the picture-gallery stood the Princess...
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