Beat the Turtle Drum
8 best books like Beat the Turtle Drum (Constance C. Greene): On Beauty, The Amulet of Samarkand, The Downstairs Girl, The 101 Dalmatians, American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump, Betsy-Tacy, Fire Storm, The Berenstain Bears Go on a Ghost Walk
| Author | Zadie Smith |
| ISBN | 0143037749 |
Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three...
Nathaniel is a boy magician-in-training, sold to the government by his birth parents at the age of five and sent to live as an apprentice to a master. Powerful magicians rule Britain, and its empire, and Nathaniel is told his is the "ultimate sacrifice" for a "noble destiny."
If leaving his parents...
By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for the genteel Southern lady, "Dear Miss Sweetie." When her column becomes wildly popular, she...
| Author | Dodie Smith |
| ISBN | 0760704066 |
Pongo and Missis had a lovely life. With their human owners, the Dearlys, to look after them, they lived in a comfortable home in London with their 15 adorable Dalmatian puppies, loved and admired by all. Especially the Dearlys' neighbor Cruella de Vil, a fur-fancying fashion plate with designs on the...
American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the making of the modern Republican Party—how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents:...
| Author | Maud Hart Lovelace |
| ISBN | 0064400964 |
Best Friends Forever
There are lots of children on Hill Street, but no little girls Betsy's age. So when a new family moves into the house across the street, Betsy hopes they will have a little girl she can play with. Sure enough, they do—a little girl named Tacy. And from the moment they meet...
SOMETHING MERCILESS WATCHES OVER THE OUTBREAK--GUIDING ITS COURSE.
Having narrowly survived the KILL BOX, HOT ZONE's hardened survivors and their KILL BOX allies separate to pursue different objectives--outside of the Indianapolis quarantine zone.
For David Olson, that means...
The Berenstain Bears Go on a Ghost Walk
Fall, and Halloween, and a Ghost Walk … sounds delightfully perfect; right? Brother and Sister aren’t so sure, but Papa is (I do have some issues with Papa and Mama throughout the series, as another reviewer was kind enough to remind me of, and I may try to write a mini blog on the subject at some point...
