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Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers

8 best books like Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers (Alexander McCall Smith): A Better Man, The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us, The Founding Fish, Celia's House, The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity, The Mayflower and the Pilgrims' New World, The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa, Killing with Confetti

A Better Man
AuthorLouise Penny
ISBN1250066212
Catastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media, and a mysterious disappearance greet Chief Inspector Armand Gamache as he returns to the Surete du Quebec in the latest novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny.

It's Gamache's first day back as head of the homicide...
The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us
AuthorPaul Tough
ISBN0544944488
“Indelible and extraordinary.”—Tara Westover, author of Educated: A Memoir, New York Times Book Review
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

The best-selling author of How Children Succeed returns with a powerful, mind-changing inquiry into higher education in...
The Founding Fish
AuthorJohn McPhee
ISBN0374528837
John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. Each spring, American shad-Alosa sapidissima-leave the ocean in hundreds of thousands and run heroic distances upriver to spawn. McPhee--a shad fisherman himself--recounts...
Celia's House
AuthorD.E. Stevenson
Celia's House, filled with effervescent warmth and cheer, is the story of Dunnian -- a spellbindingly lovely family estate in Scottish Border country -- and of the generations of Dunne family that live in it and love it dearly. Beginning in 1905 with ninety-year-old Celia Dunne, it delightfully portrays...
The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity
AuthorAshley Montagu
ISBN0925417416
I found the book interesting right up until Montagu started pontificating his theories on the importance of mother-love in early childhood development and how they practically define Joseph Merrick and his life choices. I mean, just look at how bitter Alexander Pope was! Surely the difference between...
The Mayflower and the Pilgrims' New World
AuthorNathaniel Philbrick
ISBN0399247955
This book was good although it sometimes got off topic. The first two sections were great! They were all about the Pilgrims planning to go to the New World and arriving there. They were also about there relationship with Massasoit and his Indians. The book got very tedious near the end when the focus turned...
The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa
AuthorAdam Roberts
ISBN1586483714
Equatorial Guinea is a tiny country roughly the size of the state of Maryland. Humid, jungle covered, and rife with unpleasant diseases, natives call it Devil Island. Its president in 2004, Obiang Nguema, had been accused of cannibalism, belief in witchcraft, mass murder, billiondollar corruption,...
Killing with Confetti
AuthorPeter Lovesey
Peter Lovesey, MWA Grand Master and titan of the English detective novel, returns readers to Bath with the eighteenth mystery in his critically acclaimed Peter Diamond series.

As a New Year begins in Bath, Ben Brace proposes to his long-term girlfriend, Caroline, the daughter of notorious...
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