Chasing Heaven: What Dying Taught Me About Living
10 best books like Chasing Heaven: What Dying Taught Me About Living (Crystal McVea): Chile Death, Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West, The Girl from Berlin, Open and Shut, Last Light, The Competition, My Mother's Secret, Precious and the Mystery of Meerkat Hill, The Story: The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People, NIV, The Secrets of Flight
| Author | Susan Wittig Albert |
| ISBN | 0425171477 |
This book took me much longer to finish than it should because I've never warmed to the character of China Bayles and after any gap in reading the books it gets harder to re-join her. I've never been able to relate to her, from her big-city, hard-bitten, fast-track lawyer persona to the small town herb store...
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
| Author | Blaine Harden |
| ISBN | 0670023329 |
A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived.
North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people are being held...
| Author | Ronald H. Balson |
| ISBN | 1250195268 |
An old friend calls Catherine Lockhart and Liam Taggart to his famous Italian restaurant to enlist their help. His aunt is being evicted from her home in the Tuscan hills by a powerful corporation claiming they own the deeds, even though she can produce her own set of deeds to her land. Catherine and Liam’s...
| Author | David Rosenfelt |
| ISBN | 0446612537 |
"There is nothing like a golden retriever. I know, I know, it's a big planet with a lot of wonderful things, but golden retrievers are the absolute best. Mine is named Tara . . . The only problem she has ever caused is that I spend so much time with her in the mornings that I am almost invariably late for work."
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| Author | Terri Blackstock |
| ISBN | 0310257670 |
In the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to the age before electricity, Deni Branning's career ambitions have vanished. She's not about to let her dream of marriage go as well.
But keeping it alive will require extraordinary measures. Yesterday's world is gone. All...
| Author | Marcia Clark |
| ISBN | 0316220957 |
In Marcia Clark's most electrifying thriller yet, Los Angeles District Attorney Rachel Knight investigates a horrifying high school massacre.
A Columbine-style shooting at a high school in the San Fernando Valley has left a community shaken to its core. Two students are identified as the...
| Author | J.L. Witterick |
| ISBN | 0399168540 |
A novel based on a true story, a mother and daughter risk their lives to provide shelter to two families and a German soldier--all unbeknownst to each other--in a tiny two-room house in Sokal, Poland, during the Nazi invasion.
Based on a true story, MY MOTHER'S SECRET is a profound, captivating,...
Precious and the Mystery of Meerkat Hill
| Author | Alexander McCall Smith |
Once upon a time in Botswana in Africa there was a little girl who would later grow up to be a famous detective: Precious Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Having already cracked the case of the missing cakes at school, she now has a new mystery to solve.
Precious Ramotswe has two new...
The Story: The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People, NIV
The Story is an abridged, chronological Bible that reads like a novel. There are no verse references, and Scripture segments are seamlessly woven together with transition text into a single grand narrative. For those intimidated or overwhelmed by the unabridged Bible, The Story helps people understand...
This captivating, breakout novel—told in alternating viewpoints—brings readers from the skies of World War II to the present day, where a woman is prepared to tell her secrets at last.
Estranged from her family since just after World War II, Mary Browning has spent her entire adult life...
| Author | Alexander McCall Smith |
| ISBN | 1846972043 |
It's OK to be nice.
It's OK to smile
It's OK to ask questions; you may become a detective!
It's OK to be able to tell when adults aren't speaking literally.
Don't steal.
Honesty is good.
Thieves undermine trust.
Take care re misjudging others.
Avoid false...
The Misunderstanding of Glencoe
| Author | Alexander McCall Smith |
Alexander McCall Smith is the author of the international phenomenon The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, the Isabel Dalhousie Series, the Portuguese Irregular Verbs series, and the 44 Scotland Street series. He is professor emeritus of medical law at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland...
The Cat Who Robbed a Bank
| Author | Lilian Jackson Braun |
| ISBN | 0515129941 |
As the Highland Games approach, Jim Qwilleran and the citizens of Pickax prepare to celebrate their Scottish heritage with such events as bagpipe skirling and tossing the caber. But the traditional revelry is marred by troublesome rumors when a visiting jewelry dealer, renowned for his romantic...
Everyone is always telling Stone Barrington that he's too smart to be a cop, but it's pure luck that places him on the streets in the dead of night, just in time to witness the horrifying incident that turns his life inside out.
Suddenly he's on the front page of every New York newspaper, and his...
| Author | William Bernhardt |
| ISBN | 0345441761 |
Oklahoma attorney Ben Kincaid put his reputation on the line when he represented Ray Goldman. The seemingly mild-mannered man was charged with massacring an entire suburban Tulsa family. When the prosecution’s star witness—Erin Faulkner, the lone survivor of the slaughter—took the stand,...
Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
| Author | Elizabeth Buchan |
| ISBN | 0142003727 |
Get ready to cheer for Rose Lloyd, a woman of young middle-age who proves that starting over doesn’t have an age limit. After twenty-five years spent juggling husband, career, and kids with admirable success, Rose suddenly finds both her marriage and her career in unexpected ruin.
Forced...
| Author | Dale Brown |
| ISBN | 0060502924 |
U.S. Air Force aerial warfare expert Major General Patrick McLanahan has been demoted and moved back to a desk job. But while keeping a keen eye on what's going on with old enemies, he notices that Russia's heavy bomber and tactical bomber bases are busier than ever. McLanahan tries to get his superiors...
Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope
| Author | Jenna Bush |
| ISBN | 0061379085 |
Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope is a work of narrative nonfiction based on Jenna Bush's experiences while interning for UNICEF and documenting lives of children and teens she encountered through her work. The book focuses on Ana, a teenage single mother who is bravely living with, rather than dying from,...
