Calm and Compassionate Children: A Handbook
10 best books like Calm and Compassionate Children: A Handbook (Susan Usha Dermond): The Distant Hours, A Knight in Shining Armor, What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures, Bannerless, The Force Awakens, Veil of Time, The Whip, Betrayal, Ashley Bell, Daniel Isn't Talking
| Author | Kate Morton |
| ISBN | 1439152780 |
A long lost letter arrives in the post and Edie Burchill finds herself on a journey to Milderhurst Castle, a great but moldering old house, where the Blythe spinsters live and where her mother was billeted 50 years before as a 13 year old child during WWII. The elder Blythe sisters are twins and have spent...
A Knight in Shining Armor
| Author | Jude Deveraux |
| ISBN | 0743457269 |
Once upon a time... as a fair maiden lay weeping upon a cold tombstone, her heartfelt desire was suddenly made real before her: tall, broad of shoulder, attired in gleaming silver and gold, her knight in shining armor had come to rescue his damsel in distress...
Abandoned by a cruel fate, lovely...
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
| Author | Malcolm Gladwell |
| ISBN | 0316078573 |
What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century?
In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell...
| Author | Carrie Vaughn |
| ISBN | 0544947304 |
A mysterious murder in a dystopian future leads a novice investigator to question what she’s learned about the foundation of her population-controlled society.
Decades after economic and environmental collapse destroys much of civilization in the United States, the Coast Road region...
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
| ISBN | 1101965509 |
More than thirty years ago, Star Wars burst onto the big screen and became a cultural phenomenon. Now the next adventures in this blockbuster saga are poised to captivate old and new fans alike – beginning with the highly anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And alongside the cinematic debut...
| Author | Claire R. McDougall |
| ISBN | 1451693818 |
A compelling tale of two Scotlands-one modern, one ancient-and the woman who parts the veil between them.
The medication that treats Maggie’s seizures leaves her in a haze, but it can’t dull her grief at losing her daughter to the same condition. With her marriage dissolved and her son...
| Author | Karen Kondazian |
| ISBN | 1601823029 |
The Whip is inspired by the true story of a woman, Charlotte "Charley" Parkhurst (1812-1879) who lived most of her extraordinary life as a man in the old west.
As a young woman in Rhode Island, she fell in love with a runaway slave and had his child. The destruction of her family drove her west to...
| Author | Harold Pinter |
| ISBN | 0571160824 |
Betrayal is Pinter's latest full-length play since the enormous success of No Man's Land. The play begins in 1977, with a meeting between adulterous lovers, Emma and Jerry, two years after their affair has ended. During the nine scenes of the play, we move back in time, through the states of their affair,...
| Author | Dean Koontz |
| ISBN | 0345545966 |
At twenty-two, Bibi Blair’s doctors tell her that she’s dying. Two days later, she’s impossibly cured. Fierce, funny, dauntless, she becomes obsessed with the idea that she was spared because she is meant to save someone else. Someone named Ashley Bell. This proves to be a dangerous idea. Searching...
| Author | Marti Leimbach |
| ISBN | 0307275728 |
A moving, deeply absorbing story of a family in crisis. What sets it apart from most fiction about difficult subjects such as autism, is the author's ability to write about a sad and frightening situation with a seamless blend of warmth, compassion and humor.
Marti Leimbach's first novel,...
Tales of Superhuman Powers: 55 Traditional Stories from Around the World
| Author | Csenge Virág Zalka |
| ISBN | 0786477040 |
This book is a collection of 55 folktales that feature supernatural abilities. These tales represent powers--from invisibility to shape-shifting--which people have dreamed of, conjured up, and strove for through the ages. Many of the powers are present in popular culture, making the superheroes...
Sully: My Search for What Really Matters
| Author | Chesley B. Sullenberger |
| ISBN | 0062561200 |
Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks—the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt. ‘Sully’ Sullenberger—the pilot who miraculously landed a crippled US Airways Flight 1549 in New York’s Hudson River,...
