Beautiful Lies

9 best books like Beautiful Lies (Clare Clark): Girlchild, The Year of the Gadfly, Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo, The Devil in Silver, The Underworld, Land of Wolves, Interred with Their Bones, West of Eden: An American Place

AuthorTupelo Hassman
ISBN0374162573
Rory Hendrix is the least likely of Girl Scouts. She hasn’t got a troop or even a badge to call her own.  But she’s checked the Handbook out from the elementary school library so many times that her name fills all the lines on the card, and she pores over its surreal advice (Disposal of Outgrown Uniforms;...
AuthorJennifer Miller
ISBN0547548591
“Do you know what it took for Socrates’ enemies to make him stop pursuing the truth?”
“Hemlock.”

Storied, fiercely competitive Mariana Academy was founded with a serious honor code; its reputation has been unsullied for decades. Now a long-dormant secret society, Prisom's...
Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit
AuthorAmy Stewart
ISBN1328736512
Trailblazing Constance's hard-won job as deputy sheriff is on the line in Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit, the fourth installment of Amy Stewart's Kopp Sisters series.

After a year on the job, New Jersey's first female deputy sheriff has collared criminals, demanded justice for wronged women,...
The Last Watchman of Old Cairo
AuthorMichael David Lukas
ISBN0399181164
In this spellbinding novel, a young man journeys from California to Cairo to unravel centuries-old family secrets.

Joseph, a literature student at Berkeley, is the son of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. One day, a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep, pulling him into a mesmerizing...
AuthorVictor LaValle
ISBN1400069866
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • Publishers Weekly

New Hyde Hospital’s psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one.
 
Pepper is a rambunctious big man, minor-league troublemaker, working-class...
AuthorKevin Canty
For readers of Russell Banks and Richard Ford, a novel about loss, love, and redemption following a catastrophe in a small mining town.

In The Underworld, Kevin Canty tells a story inspired by a true incident that begins with a disastrous fire in an isolated silver mining town in Idaho in the...
Land of Wolves
AuthorCraig Johnson
ISBN0525522506
The new novel in Craig Johnson's beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series.

"It's the scenery--and the big guy standing in front of the scenery--that keeps us coming back to Craig Johnson's lean and leathery mysteries."
--The New York Times Book Review

Recovering...
Interred with Their Bones
AuthorJennifer Lee Carrell
ISBN0452289890
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

"A feverishly paced action adventure" (The New York Times) about a long-lost Shakespeare work and a killer who reenacts the Bard's most bloody murders

On the eve of the Globe's production of Hamlet, Shakespeare scholar and theater director Kate Stanley's...
West of Eden: An American Place
AuthorJean Stein
ISBN0812998405
An epic oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles from the author of the contemporary classic Edie
 
Jean Stein transformed the art of oral history in her groundbreaking book Edie: American Girl, an indelible portrait of Andy Warhol “superstar” Edie Sedgwick, which was edited with...
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