Alone with All That Could Happen: Rethinking Conventional Wisdom about the Craft of Fiction

6 best books like Alone with All That Could Happen: Rethinking Conventional Wisdom about the Craft of Fiction (David Jauss): The Long Walk, The Institute, The Underneath, Boundary Waters, If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman, Rabbit Ears: Native American Heroines

The Long Walk

Author	Richard Bachman
ISBN	0451196716

If this book does not make you feel physical pain, I don't know what will.

This isn't a book about killer clowns or haunted hotels. It's not a Hunger Games type of book, despite the "game show" element of the Long Walk, nor is it a world attached to any tower, Dark or not. This book is in-your-face...

The Institute

Author	Stephen King
ISBN	1982110562

In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window....

The Underneath

Author	Kathi Appelt
ISBN	1416950583

There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road.

A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of the bayou. She dares to find him in the forest, and the hound dares to befriend...

Boundary Waters

Author	William Kent Krueger
ISBN	0671016997

The Quetico-Superior Wilderness: more than two million acres of forest, white-water rapids, and uncharted islands on the Canadian/American border. Somewhere in the heart of this unforgiving territory, a young woman named Shiloh -- a country-western singer at the height of her fame -- has disappeared....

If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman

Author

Sharon Blackie

'Rising high up on the heather-covered moorlands, seeping through our bogs, flowing down our streams and into our rivers and out onto the sandy strands of the rock-strewn Atlantic seaboard, are the old Celtic myths and stories … waiting to be reclaimed and re-visioned for the modern world.'

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Rabbit Ears: Native American Heroines

Author	Laura Dern
ISBN	0739337602

The Song of Sacajawea "[25:18]
Read by Laura Dern - Original Music by David Lindley
Join Lewis and Clark on their fascinating journey across the Rocky Mountains, led by an extraordinary 17-year-old Native American named Sacajawea. Her knowledge and incredible courage helped the early American...