A Million Nightingales
10 best books like A Million Nightingales (Susan Straight): Trouble the Water, Morality Play, The Thread, The River Widow, Regeneration, Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man, The Man in the Wooden Hat, Bones of the Master: A Journey to Secret Mongolia, Expiration Date, Grayson
| Author | Jacqueline Friedland |
Abigail Milton was born into the British middle class, but her family has landed in unthinkable debt. To ease their burdens, Abby’s parents send her to America to live off the charity of their old friend, Douglas Elling. When she arrives in Charleston at the age of seventeen, Abigail discovers that...
| Author | Barry Unsworth |
| ISBN | 0393315606 |
The time is the fourteenth century. The place is a small town in rural England, and the setting a snow-laden winter. A small troupe of actors accompanied by Nicholas Barber, a young renegade priest, prepare to play the drama of their lives. Breaking the longstanding tradition of only performing religious...
| Author | Victoria Hislop |
| ISBN | 0755377737 |
A beautiful and epic novel that spans nearly a hundred years, The Thread is a magnificent story of a friendship and a love that endures through the catastrophes and upheavals of the twentieth century--both natural and man-made--in the turbulent city of Thessaloniki, Greece. Victoria Hislop, internationally...
From the bestselling author of The Whiskey Sea comes a stirring novel of a young woman’s survival and liberation during the Great Depression.
In 1937, with flood waters approaching, Adah Branch accidentally kills her abusive husband, Lester, and surrenders his body to the raging river,...
| Author | Julie E. Czerneda |
| ISBN | 0756404118 |
With the alien Dhryn cutting a pathway through the inhabited spaceways-bringing about the annihilation of many of the races who have the misfortune to lie along the star trail they are following-time is running out for all sentient life-forms. Can biologists Mackenzie Connor and Emily Mamami solve...
Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man
| Author | Fannie Flagg |
| ISBN | 0345485602 |
In Fannie Flagg’s high-spirited first novel, we meet Daisy Fay Harper in the spring of 1952, where she’s “not doing much except sitting around waiting for the sixth grade.” When she leaves Shell Beach, Mississippi, in September 1959, she is packed up and ready for the Miss America Pageant,...
| Author | Jane Gardam |
| ISBN | 1933372893 |
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern literature. A lyrical novel that recalls his fully lived life, Old Filth has been acclaimed as Jane Gardam's masterpiece, a book where life and art merge. And now that beautiful, haunting novel has been joined...
| Author | George Crane |
| ISBN | 0553379089 |
In 1959 a young monk named Tsung Tsai (Ancestor Wisdom) escapes the Red Army troops that destroy his monastery, and flees alone three thousand miles across a China swept by chaos and famine. Knowing his fellow monks are dead, himself starving and hunted, he is sustained by his mission: to carry on the...
| Author | Tim Powers |
| ISBN | 0765317524 |
Los Angeles is filled with ghosts -- and half-ghosts, and ghost hunters, and ghost junkies -- chasing each other in a mad quest for immortality. As a series of disasters strikes Los Angeles, a young boy inhales the last breath of Thomas Edison, and becomes a precious prize in a deadly hunt for the elusive...
| Author | Lynne Cox |
| ISBN | 0307264548 |
The true story of long-distance swimmer Lynne Cox's ocean encounter with an 18-foot baby whale and her efforts to reunite "Grayson" with his mother - part mystery, part magical tale.
Grayson is Lynne Cox's first book since Swimming to Antarctica. In it she tells the story of a miraculous ocean...
