Accidents of Providence
10 best books like Accidents of Providence (Stacia M. Brown): The Alchemist's Daughter, As Meat Loves Salt, The Lady's Slipper, Vivaldi's Virgins, Sarah's Window, Mask of Duplicity, Dangerous Ground: My Friendship with a Serial Killer, New Uses for Old Boyfriends, Highwire Moon, The Daughter She Used To Be
| Author | Katharine McMahon |
| ISBN | 0307335852 |
During the English Age of Reason, a woman cloistered since birth learns that knowledge is no substitute for experience.
Raised by her father in near isolation in the English countryside, Emilie Selden is trained as a brilliant natural philosopher and alchemist. In the spring of 1725, father...
In the seventeenth century, the English Revolution is under way. The nation, seething with religious and political discontent, has erupted into violence and terror. Jacob Cullen and his fellow soldiers dream of rebuilding their lives when the fighting is over. But the shattering events of war will...
| Author | Deborah Swift |
| ISBN | 0312638337 |
1660. King Charles II has returned from exile, but memories of the English Civil War still rankle. There are old scores to settle, and religious differences threaten to overturn a fragile peace. When Alice Ibbetson discovers a rare orchid, the Lady’s Slipper, growing in a wood belonging to Richard...
| Author | Barbara Quick |
| ISBN | 0060890525 |
Abandoned as an infant, fourteen-year-old Anna Maria Dal Violin is one of the elite musicians living in the foundling home where the "Red Priest," Antonio Vivaldi, is maestro and composer. Fiercely determined to find out where she came from, Anna Maria embarks on a journey of self-discovery that carries...
| Author | Janice Graham |
| ISBN | 0515134120 |
A family tragedy brings artist Sarah Bryden back to the Flint Hills of Kansas. There, she forms a deep friendship with brilliant professor John Wilde, which quickly blossoms into something more-threatening John's marriage and Sarah's sense of right and wrong. Theirs is a passion driven by the forces...
| Author | Julia Brannan |
| ISBN | 1514625733 |
Following the death of their father, Beth's brother Richard returns from the army to claim his share of the family estate. However, Beth's hopes of a quiet life are dashed when Richard, dissatisfied with his meagre inheritance and desperate for promotion, decides to force her into a marriage for his...
Dangerous Ground: My Friendship with a Serial Killer
| Author | M. William Phelps |
| ISBN | 1496709527 |
Anyone can become a killer under the right circumstances—even you.
For the first time, award-winning investigative journalist M. William Phelps reveals the identity of “Raven,” the serial killer who co-starred with him on Dark Minds—and tells the story of his intriguing bond...
New Uses for Old Boyfriends
| Author | Beth Kendrick |
| ISBN | 0451465865 |
After growing up in privilege and marrying into money, Lila Alders has gotten used to the good life. But when her happily-ever-after implodes, Lila must return to Black Dog Bay, the tiny seaside town where she grew up. She’s desperate for a safe haven, but everything has changed over the past ten years....
| Author | Susan Straight |
| ISBN | 0385722613 |
Serafina is an illegal migrant worker living in California when the police catch her and send her back to Mexico–without her three-year old daughter. Twelve years later, with a pair of silver barrettes her only tangible memory of Elvia, Serafina begins a harrowing journey back across the border...
The Daughter She Used To Be
| Author | Rosalind Noonan |
| ISBN | 0758241682 |
In this emotionally charged and riveting novel from the author of One September Morning and In a Heartbeat, one woman is torn between loyalty to her family's ways and to her most profound convictions. . .
The daughter of a career cop, Bernadette Sullivan grew up with blue uniforms hanging in...
Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of A Man, His Wife, and Her Alligator
| Author | Homer Hickam |
| ISBN | 0062325892 |
Big Fish meets The Notebook in this emotionally evocative story about a man, a woman, and an alligator that is a moving tribute to love, from the author of the award-winning memoir Rocket Boys—the basis of the movie October Sky
Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the father of the author) were...
