An Unexpected Family

8 best books like An Unexpected Family (Joan Medlicott): The Violets of March, Blue Dahlia, Emily of New Moon, Bloody Genius, The Reckoning, The Shunning, Hour of the Hunter, The Confession

AuthorSarah Jio
ISBN0452297036
A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2011

A heartbroken woman stumbled upon a diary and steps into the life of its anonymous author.

In her twenties, Emily Wilson was on top of the world: she had a bestselling novel, a husband plucked from the pages of GQ, and a one-way ticket to happily ever...
Blue Dahlia
AuthorNora Roberts
ISBN0749935332
A good romance and beginning of the trilogy. The hero is a bit hard to fall in love with, and the beginning is terribly sad, but the story comes around. Of course, It's Nora Roberts so its well written and the characters are developing perfectly.
Stella moves back to Tennessee after losing her husband....
Emily of New Moon
AuthorL.M. Montgomery
Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely -- until her beloved father died. Now Emily's an orphan, and her mother's snobbish relatives are taking her to live with them at New Moon Farm. She's sure she won't be happy. Emily deals with stiff, stern Aunt Elizabeth and her malicious classmates by holding...
Bloody Genius
AuthorJohn Sandford
Virgil Flowers will have to watch his back--and his mouth--as he investigates a college culture war turned deadly in the latest thriller from #1 New York Times-bestseller John Sandford.

At the local state university, two feuding departments have faced off on the battleground of PC culture....
The Reckoning
AuthorBeverly Lewis
ISBN0764224751
Katherine Mayfield, die nuwe eienaar van die Mayfield-landgoed, het haar lewe lank van ’n luukse lewe gedroom. Maar soos die jare verbygaan, mis sy haar Amish-gesin en dierbare vriendin Mary Stoltzfus. Verban uit die eenvoudige lewe wat sy eens geken het, vind Katherine troos in vrywillige diens...
The Shunning
AuthorBeverly Lewis
ISBN0764224735
I live in a very strict Amish community. I do not share one physical trait with the rest of my family now or in generations past. I seem to have a streak of creativity and music within me that the rest of my family does not. My mother had 2 miscarriages before I came along. For some reason she does not summon the...
Hour of the Hunter
AuthorJ.A. Jance
ISBN0380711079
The hunter is free to kill again -- and hour by hour, he draws closer . . .

The brilliant psychopath Andrew Carlisle spent only six years in prison for the brutal torture–murder of a young girl of the Tohono O'otham tribe. The testimony of Diana Ladd -- a teacher on the reservation -- put Carlisle...
The Confession
AuthorBeverly Lewis
ISBN1556618670
I enjoyed the second book in this series, but I got pretty frustrated with the main character's willingness to forget her adoptive mother--her love, her sacrifices--ultimately the past 22 years of her life! She fell in love with the idea of her birthmother. Before she even met her, she convinced herself...
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