At Paradise Gate
10 best books like At Paradise Gate (Jane Smiley): The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise, Justice Hall, The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, Gap Creek, Improvement, While I Was Gone, Eden Burning, Class Reunion, Consider This, Señora, A Delhi Obsession: A Novel
| Author | Julia Stuart |
| ISBN | 0385533284 |
Brimming with charm and whimsy, this exquisite novel set in the Tower of London has the transportive qualities and delightful magic of the contemporary classics Chocolat and Amélie.
Balthazar Jones has lived in the Tower of London with his loving wife, Hebe, and his 120-year-old pet tortoise...
Hours after Holmes and Russell return from solving the murky riddle of The Moor, a bloodied but oddly familiar stranger pounds desperately on their front door, pleading for their help. When he recovers, he lays before them the story of the enigmatic Marsh Hughenfort, younger brother of the Duke of Beauville,...
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
| Author | Christopher Moore |
| ISBN | 0060735457 |
The town psychiatrist has decided to switch everybody in Pine Cove, California, from their normal antidepressants to placebos, so naturally—well, to be accurate, artificially—business is booming at the local blues bar. Trouble is, those lonely slide-guitar notes have also attracted a colossal...
| Author | Robert Morgan |
| ISBN | 0743203631 |
Young Julie Harmon works "hard as a man," they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. At just seventeen she marries and moves down into the valley of Gap Creek, where perhaps life will...
| Author | Joan Silber |
| ISBN | 1640091130 |
One of our most gifted writers of fiction returns with a bold and piercing novel about a young single mother living in New York, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them.
Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn’t perfect,...
| Author | Sue Miller |
| ISBN | 0345443284 |
Jo Becker has every reason to be content. She has three dynamic daughters, a loving marriage, and a rewarding career. But she feels a sense of unease. Then an old housemate reappears, sending Jo back to a distant past when she lived in a communal house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Drawn deeper into her...
Once again a great book by Belva. I love that she mixes history in with the story. It makes the reader understand what it was like to live through some of history.
As most of Belva's books, this one is a family tree of the Francois family, later known as Francis. It begins with Tee as a young girl on...
| Author | Rona Jaffe |
| ISBN | 0440112885 |
A hilarious, heartwarming story about four women and how their lives change throughout their college years and lives as wives, mothers, career women, and lovers. There's Annabel, a spirited romantic, Chris, whose love for a man almost destroys her own happiness, Emily whose desire to please results...
| Author | Harriet Doerr |
| ISBN | 0156000024 |
Harriet Doerr is a testament to the fact that you are never to old to start a new endeavor and succeed. Doerr went back to college at 65, and published her first novel at 74. I must admit that I wish she had started earlier, for her books are some of the best books I've read. Doerr wrote what she knew, and that...
A Delhi Obsession: A Novel
Two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji returns with a powerful new novel about grief and second chances, tradition and rebellion, set in vibrant present-day Delhi.
Munir Khan, a recent widower from Toronto, on a whim decides to visit Delhi, the city of his forbears. Born in Kenya, he...
