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8 best books like Absent Friends (S.J. Rozan): Heads of the Colored People, The Moon and Sixpence, The Painted Girls, The Collector’s Apprentice, Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration, An Irish Country Cottage, The Titanic Secret, Death of a Village

Heads of the Colored People
AuthorNafissa Thompson-Spires
ISBN1501167995
Calling to mind the best works of Paul Beatty and Junot Díaz, this collection of moving, timely, and darkly funny stories examines the concept of black identity in this so-called post-racial era.

A stunning new talent in literary fiction, Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with black identity...
The Moon and Sixpence
AuthorW. Somerset Maugham
ISBN1598185217
Based on the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is W. Somerset Maugham's ode to the powerful forces behind creative genius.
Charles Strickland is a staid banker, a man of wealth and privilege. He is also a man possessed of an unquenchable desire to create art. As Strickland pursues his artistic...
The Painted Girls
AuthorCathy Marie Buchanan
ISBN1594486247
1878 Paris. Following their father's sudden death, the van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages, and with the small amount their laundress mother earns disappearing into the absinthe bottle, eviction from their lodgings seems imminent. With few options for work, Marie is...
The Collector’s Apprentice
AuthorB.A. Shapiro
ISBN1616203587
It’s the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris—broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including her own family, believes she stole millions in a sophisticated con game perpetrated by her then-fiancé, George Everard. To protect...
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
AuthorDavid Roberts
ISBN0393347788
“An important missing story from the heroic age of Antarctic exploration.”—Laurence Gonzales, author of Deep Survival

On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp....
An Irish Country Cottage
AuthorPatrick Taylor
ISBN0765396815
An Irish Country Cottage is a charming entry in Patrick Taylor's beloved New York Times and internationally bestselling Irish Country series.

The New Year brings challenges and changes to the colorful Irish village of Ballybucklebo. The Christmas holidays have barely passed before a fire...
The Titanic Secret
AuthorClive Cussler
Both a prequel and a sequel to Clive Cussler's first bestselling phenomenon, Raise the Titanic!, the new Isaac Bell novel is a thrilling action-adventure novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.A century apart, Dirk Pitt and Isaac Bell team up to unlock the truth about the most famous maritime...
Death of a Village
AuthorM.C. Beaton
ISBN0446613711
"Visions o' God, Holy Grail, shipwreck, murder and mayhem, and all you lot can find to talk about is a mythical affair." — An exasperated Hamish

Highland charm and humor make for another winner from M.C. Beaton. Visiting Hamish Macbeth in his beloved Lochdubh is the cure for whatever ails...
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