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10 best books like Brooklyn Bridge (Karen Hesse): Chasing Vermeer, The Parker Inheritance, Pulp, Fear and Trembling, Dumpling Days, The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making, The Mousewife, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing, The Emperor's Ostrich, Ugly Girls

Chasing Vermeer
AuthorBlue Balliett
ISBN0439372941
When a book of unexplainable occurrences brings Petra Andalee and Calder Pillay together, strange things start to happen: seemingly unrelated events connect, an eccentric old woman seeks their company, and an invaluable Vermeer painting disappears. Before they know it, the two find themselves...
The Parker Inheritance
AuthorVarian Johnson
ISBN0545946174
The letter waits in a book, in a box, in an attic, in an old house in Lambert, South Carolina. It's waiting for Candice Miller.

When Candice finds the letter, she isn't sure she should read it. It's addressed to her grandmother, after all, who left Lambert in a cloud of shame. But the letter describes...
Pulp
AuthorCharles Bukowski
ISBN0876859260
Pulp (novel), Charles Bukowski
Pulp is the last completed novel by Los Angeles poet and writer Charles Bukowski. It was published in 1994, shortly before Bukowski's death. Pulp is a pulp fiction novel which acts also as a meta-pulp. Pulp comments on the obsessions of the pulp fiction genre, making...
Fear and Trembling
AuthorSøren Kierkegaard
ISBN0143037579
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, and religious author interested in human psychology. He is regarded as a leading pioneer of existentialism and one of the greatest philosophers of the 19th Century.

In Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard wanted to understand the anxiety...
Dumpling Days
AuthorGrace Lin
ISBN0316125903
There was no day that dumplings couldn't make better.

Pacy is back! The beloved heroine of The Year of the Dog and The Year of the Rat has returned in a brand new story. This summer, Pacy's family is going to Taiwan for an entire month to visit family and prepare for their grandmother's 60th birthday...
The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making
AuthorJared Yates Sexton
The author of The People Are Going to Rise Upon Your Shore turns his keen eye to our current crisis of masculinity using his upbringing in a rural, patriarchal home as an entry point to consider the personal and societal dangers of performative gender

Based on his provocative and popular New...
The Mousewife
AuthorRumer Godden
ISBN0333344847
Day in and day out the dutiful mousewife works alongside her mousehusband. The house of Miss Barbara Wilkinson, where the Mouses make their home, is a nice house and the mousewife is for the most part happy with her lot—and yet she yearns for something more. But what? Her husband, for one, can’t imagine....
The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing
AuthorBronnie Ware
"After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or experience, she found herself in palliative care.

Over the years she spent tending to the needs of those who were dying, Bronnie’s life was transformed....
The Emperor's Ostrich
AuthorJulie Berry
ISBN1596439580
A classic madcap romp of a fantasy adventure from the author of The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place.

Young dairymaid Begonia has lost her cow, Alfalfa. So she has set off on a search across the countryside even though she has nothing but a magical map to guide her. Along the way she...
Ugly Girls
AuthorLindsay Hunter
ISBN0374533865
Perry and Baby Girl are best friends, though you wouldn’t know it if you met them. Their friendship is woven from the threads of never-ending dares and power struggles, their loyalty fierce but incredibly fraught. They spend their nights sneaking out of their trailers, stealing cars for joyrides,...
Mouse House
AuthorRumer Godden
ISBN0140501703
“Once upon a time there was a little mouse house. It was like a doll’s house, but not for dolls, for mice.” Not proper mice, but a flannel He-Mouse and She-Mouse with beady eyes and bristle whiskers who stand quite still, propped on their hind legs in the sitting room. Mary knows real mice run and scamper,...
Donkey-Donkey
AuthorRoger Duvoisin
ISBN0375940650
Donkey-Donkey thinks that he looks ridiculous with long ears that stick straight up, so he consults his friends on the farm. Each animal has its own idea of beautiful ears—all remarkably like their own. Poor Donkey-donkey becomes sadder and sadder as he tries to follow their advice, with hilarious...
He Was There From the Day We Moved In
AuthorRhoda Levine
ISBN1590175158
The naming of dogs can be a tricky business, as Ogdon and his big brother discover in this charming collaboration between Rhoda Levine and Edward Gorey. You see, before Ogdon and his family moved to a new house, no one mentioned the big shaggy sheep dog in the back yard, but there he was, just sitting and...
The Man Who Lost His Head
AuthorClaire Huchet Bishop
ISBN0140509763
This story cracked me up with some good puns about losing ones head. I never would have thought of something like this.

One morning a man wakes up without his head. He has lost it and must find it. It is difficult to remember where you left your head without a head. He tries on a pumpkin head and a parsnip...
Frog In The Well
AuthorAlvin Tresselt
ISBN0688511708
Beautiful illustrations and a good story too. I love Roger Duvoisin's unique and distinctive style, carefully chosen block colour with some black line drawing on top. The end papers are a wonderful repeat frog pattern that would make the most beautiful pyjama print. There's a lovely 60's feel to the...
Hickory
AuthorPalmer Brown
ISBN0060208872
A grandfather clock makes a lovely home for a family of mice—if you don’t mind the occasional clang. And here Hickory lives with his parents, his brother, Dickory, and his sister, Dock. But Hickory is a restless, fearless mouse, and he longs to be on the move, to breathe the sweet air and nibble on the...
The Sorely Trying Day
AuthorRussell Hoban
A Victorian father comes home from "a sorely trying day" to find his four children, dog, and cat fighting. An orgy of recriminations ensues; each blames the next in line, and the children are punished by not being allowed to press flowers in their scrapbooks for the rest of the week. (They are Victorian...)...
Jim at the Corner
AuthorEleanor Farjeon
ISBN0844665215
A sweet tale about a poor man that sits day to day at the street corner and tells the little boy who befriends him about all of his adventures on the seas. And if the tales seem a little far fetched and too fanciful to be true, there is truth in the small nuggets of meaningful lessons of each.

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