A Year After Henry
10 best books like A Year After Henry (Cathie Pelletier): Bridge of Time, His Wife Leaves Him, Won Ton and Chopstick: A Cat and Dog Tale Told in Haiku, My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay, Queen of the Diamond: The Lizzie Murphy Story, Trompe l'Oeil, Special Delivery, The Underworld, Cecelia and Fanny: The Remarkable Friendship Between an Escaped Slave and Her Former Mistress, Scene of the Brine
Best friends Lee Jones and Joan Lee have a lot more in common besides their names. On the eve of their class trip, they each learn their parents are getting divorced. Ugh. The class trip is a dud, so Lee and Joan steal away to talk. What follows is an afternoon nap in a lighthouse, walking up to find the Golden...
| Author | Stephen Dixon |
| ISBN | 1606996045 |
Stephen Dixon, one of America’s great literary treasures, has completed his first novel in five years — His Wife Leaves Him, a long, intimate exploration of the interior life of a husband who has lost his wife. His Wife Leaves Him is as achingly simple as its title: A man, Martin, thinks about the loss...
| Author | Lee Wardlaw |
| ISBN | 0805099875 |
Adorable Tale
Fun for All, Especially
Middle Grade and Teen
Vocabulary
Will Teach the Crowds to Love Words
Fantastic Must-Read
Recommended for
Use as a Mentor Text for
Creative Writing
The Illustrations
Capture the Fun of this Tale
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| Author | Cari Best |
| ISBN | 0374388199 |
Yesterday Liz took Poppy to the library while the other girls were at school. Poppy saw this book while she was there and HAD to get it for El.
And since Gwen just got to write a review on her own, El was hoping to write one on her own today. So, my feed will be full of children's books for a while. But,...
| Author | Emily Arnold McCully |
| ISBN | 0374300070 |
Lizzie Murphy was good at baseball. In fact, she was better than most of the boys. But she was born in 1900, and back then baseball was not a game for girls. Lizzie practiced with her brother anyway, and then she talked her way onto the local boys’ team, first as a batboy, then as a player. Everyone was...
| Author | Nancy Reisman |
| ISBN | 1941040039 |
During a vacation in Rome, the Murphy family experiences a life-altering tragedy. In the immediate aftermath, James, Nora, and their children find solace in their Massachusetts coast home, but as the years pass the weight of the loss disintegrates the increasingly fragile marriage and leaves its...
| Author | Philip C. Stead |
| ISBN | 1596439319 |
Sadie is on her way to deliver an elephant to her Great-Aunt Josephine, who lives completely alone and can really use the company. She tries everything from mailing the elephant to boarding a plane, a train, and an alligator to get to her aunt's home. Along the way she meets an array of interesting...
For readers of Russell Banks and Richard Ford, a novel about loss, love, and redemption following a catastrophe in a small mining town.
In The Underworld, Kevin Canty tells a story inspired by a true incident that begins with a disastrous fire in an isolated silver mining town in Idaho in the...
Cecelia and Fanny: The Remarkable Friendship Between an Escaped Slave and Her Former Mistress
| Author | Brad Asher |
| ISBN | 0813134145 |
Cecelia was a fifteen-year-old slave when she accompanied her mistress, Frances "Fanny" Thruston Ballard, on a holiday trip to Niagara Falls. During their stay, Cecelia crossed the Niagara River and joined the free black population of Canada. Although documented relationships between freed or...
| Author | Mary Ellen Hughes |
| ISBN | 0425262472 |
The national bestselling author of License to Dill returns with a dilly of a pickle.
Piper Lamb has to take a break from jarring her delicious pickles and preserves to blow the lid off a poisoner....
Business is booming at Piper’s Picklings in Cloverdale, New York. But not all...
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 0704310392 |
Possibly my favourite Moorcock that I've ever read. In many ways, it's hard to explain why. The Jerry Cornelius books are chaotic, disjointed, and very often don't appear to have much of a plot. But where they succeed -- when they succeed -- is in the incredible descriptions of times and places, the intimations...
| Author | Gretchen de la O |
| ISBN | 0983665893 |
Lauren Matthews believes she will be dead in seven days. She’s done witnessing others around her meeting that exact fate. With the device Marshall Grayson installed in her head as the only golden thread linking them, Lauren is left with no choice but to believe it is her destiny to die.
Unable to...
| Author | Jennifer Vogel Bass |
| ISBN | 1626720029 |
As a foodie, I dig books like this. Not only does Jennifer Vogel Bass introduce kids to colors by showing fruits and veggies that we are familiar with like yellow corn, orange carrots, and green cucumbers, but in Edible Colors, she also familiarizes them to unusual, lesser-known varieties of fruits...
| Author | Jake Adam York |
| ISBN | 0809333279 |
In the years leading up to his recent passing, Alabama poet Jake Adam York set out on a journey to elegize the 126 martyrs of the civil rights movement, murdered in the years between 1954 and 1968. Abide is the stunning follow-up to York’s earlier volumes, a memorial in verse for those fallen. From Birmingham...
| Author | Amy Joy Lutchen |
| ISBN | 0988281554 |
How do you live with a secret so dark and so deeply woven into your being that it threatens to smother your very existence, with no known way out? Use it to your advantage.
Kailey Rooke, karmelean, and now a possibly unethical karma-for-hire, has spent the past year jumping from project to project...
| Author | Dawn Greenfield Ireland |
Meet the middle-aged, eccentric Alcott sisters: Madge, Lila Mae and Dorothea, heiresses to the Alcott Chocolate fortune and mavens of Houston's elite River Oaks.
Madge ambushes Lila Mae with Dorothea's manipulative plea: she can't care for Bernie, their 92-year old father, any longer....
| Author | Betsy Woodman |
| ISBN | 0805099573 |
In the newest Jana Bibi adventure from Betsy Woodman, Jana, Mr. Ganguly, and the gang are back as their small town in India is rocked by an espionage scandal and a homemade remedy that has love on everyone's mind
The Jolly Grant House still welcomes all its visitors with the sign Jana Bibi's Excellent...
| Author | Denise Riley |
| ISBN | 1447270371 |
Say Something Back will allow readers to see just why the name of Denise Riley has been held in such high regard by her fellow poets for so long. The book reproduces A Part Song, a profoundly moving document of grieving and loss, and one of the most widely admired long poems of recent years. Elsewhere these...
ChefMD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine: A Food Lover's Road Map to Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Getting Really Healthy
I got this mostly for the recipes and found myself reading the rest of it, a bit irritated. Here's the thing: it's all good information, it's mostly accurate, he's done his research, but it's both overly informative and reductionist. He tosses out references to a dizzying array of antioxidants in every...
| Author | David Housewright |
| ISBN | 1250009618 |
Riley Brodin is the granddaughter of Walter Muehlenhaus - a man as rich, powerful, and connected as anyone since the days of J. P. Morgan. Despite her family's connections, it's McKenzie she reaches out to when her relatively new boyfriend goes missing. Despite his reservations about getting involved...
| Author | Renato Rosaldo |
| ISBN | 0822356619 |
This deeply moving collection of poetry by Renato Rosaldo focuses on the shock of his wife Michelle (Shelly) Rosaldo's sudden death on October 11, 1981. Just the day before, Shelly and her family had arrived in the northern Philippine village of Mungayang, where she and her husband Renato, both accomplished...
| Author | Jeni Britton Bauer |
| ISBN | 1579655920 |
In Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream Desserts, ice creams deliciously melt into hot brown Bettys, berry cobblers, sweet empanadas, and corn fritters. Her one-of-a-kind cakes and cookies are not only served with ice cream, they get crumbled on top and incorporated into the ice cream base itself.
Sundae...
A Million Little Snowflakes
Oliver Hurst has always been abnormally normal.
His grades are horrible, his best friend just left for Utah, and he's depressed. His overly religious parents don’t help, especially since they control every facet of his life. One stupid sentence said in desperation gets Oliver tossed in...
Bounty hunter Karl Morgen goes after Miro Knotts on a skipped bond, finding the dope dealer wrapped around an underaged girl at a rave in Seattle. Dragging Miro in the hard way gets Karl’s license revoked, while Miro gets off with a suspended sentence.
Finished in Seattle, Karl finds work...
Four friends from Brooklyn await the arrival of a fifth at a Cape Cod bungalow where they spend an all-girls weekend every summer. But this time the fifth woman doesn't show. Instead she sends a note that reads - "I've run off with one of your men."
Fast, funny and filled with Harris' trademark snappy...
