Catcher in the Rye: New Essays
9 best books like Catcher in the Rye: New Essays (J.P. Steed): In a Sunburned Country, Frindle, Death Comes for the Archbishop, The African Queen, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life, Bulibasha: King Of The Gypsies, The Starboard Sea
| Author | Bill Bryson |
| ISBN | 0767903862 |
A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER
Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned...
| Author | Andrew Clements |
| ISBN | 0689818769 |
From bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Clements, a quirky, imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of words that will have readers inventing their own words.
Is Nick Allen a troublemaker? He really just likes to liven things up at school -- and he's always had plenty...
| Author | Willa Cather |
| ISBN | 0679728899 |
There is something epic—and almost mythic—about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, although the story it tells is that of a single human life, lived simply in the silence of the desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast...
| Author | C.S. Forester |
| ISBN | 0316289108 |
A classic story of adventure and romance - the novel that inspired the legendary movie starring Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart
A fast-moving tale and a very good yarn...Mr Forester again and again proves himself a master of suspense - New York Times Book Review
As World War...
Sideways Stories from Wayside School
| Author | Louis Sachar |
| ISBN | 0747571775 |
If you want to see exactly what rests at the center of someone’s soul, don’t bother reading a 200-page biography on them; ask them what was the first book ever to make an impression on them that lasted into their adulthood. For some it might be some garbage about a brat named Ramona and her ginger-kid...
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
| Author | Richard Henry Dana Jr. |
| ISBN | 1402179626 |
Two Years Before the Mast is a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr. written after a two-year sea voyage starting in 1834.
While at Harvard College, Dana had an attack of the measles, which affected his vision. Thinking it might help his sight, Dana, rather than going on a Grand Tour...
90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life
| Author | Don Piper |
| ISBN | 0800759494 |
As he is driving home from a minister's conference, Baptist minister Don Piper collides with a semi-truck that crosses into his lane. He is pronounced dead at the scene. For the next 90 minutes, Piper experiences heaven where he is greeted by those who had influenced him spiritually. He hears beautiful...
| Author | Witi Ihimaera |
| ISBN | 0140239413 |
On the East Coast of New Zealand two patriarchs fight to be proclaimed king. Tamihana is the leader of the great Mahana family of shearers and sportsmen. Rupeni Poata is his arch-enemy. They will fight to win the title of Bulibasha and be proclaimed the King of the Gypsies, Caught in the middle of this struggle...
| Author | Amber Dermont |
| ISBN | 0312642806 |
Set against the backdrop of the 1987 stock market collapse, The Starboard Sea is an examination of the abuses of class privilege, the mutability of sexual desire, the thrill and risk of competitive sailing and the adult cost of teenage recklessness. It is a powerful and compelling novel about a young...
