Dancehall
10 best books like Dancehall (Bernard F. Conners): The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, A Long Way from Chicago, Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account, Butterfly Valley: A Requiem, Caught, The Welsh Girl, de, The Fifth Assassin, Contraband, Willing to Die
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
| Author | Umberto Eco |
| ISBN | 0156030438 |
Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory-he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembers nothing about his parents or his childhood....
| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0142401102 |
"I don't think Grandma's a very good influence on us," Mary Alice said.
Every August, Joey Dowdel and his kid sister Mary Alice spend a week at their Granny's house.
She was so big and the town was so small. She was old too, or so we thought -- old as the hills. And tough! She was tough as an...
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
| Author | Miklós Nyiszli |
| ISBN | 1559702028 |
When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, the prisoner Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the man who became known...
| Author | Inger Christensen |
| ISBN | 0811215792 |
Inger Christensen, often cited as a Nobel contender and one of Europe's most revered poets, is perhaps best known for her groundbreaking work Det (It), a cycle of poems published in 1969. Her first book published in the U.S., alphabet (New Directions, 2001), met with a tremendous response: "Seductive,"...
17 year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before,...
| Author | Peter Ho Davies |
| ISBN | 0618007008 |
From the acclaimed writer Peter Ho Davies comes an engrossing wartime love story set in the stunning landscape of North Wales during the final, harrowing months of World War II.
Young Esther Evans has lived her whole life within the confines of her remote mountain village. The daughter of a...
"Mængden af indbo holdes naturligt nede, hendes mor kasserer med hård hånd, det er døde ting. Hun har en remse med alle adresserne, hendes mor holder sig for ørerne, tørklædet falder frem i panden. Det er rødt og blåt og hvidt. Det er fra Sans Souci, det overlever."
"de" er en skildring...
| Author | Brad Meltzer |
| ISBN | 0446553972 |
From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, there have been more than two dozen assassination attempts on the President of the United States.
Four have been successful.
But now, Beecher White discovers a killer in Washington, D.C. who's meticulously re-creating the crimes of these...
Stone Barrington is caught in the web of a national smuggling operation in the latest action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.
Stone Barrington is getting some much-needed rest and relaxation in the Florida sun when trouble falls from the sky--literally. Intrigued...
A mother will do anything to protect her baby . . .
WHEN A KILLER HAS NOTHING TO LOSE
The crime scene is as puzzling as it is brutal. Paul and Brindel Latham are found dead in their beautiful San Francisco home, each the victim of a gunshot wound to the head.
THERE'S EVERY REASON
For...
A Lady In The Lake: The True Account of Death and Discovery in Lake Placid
| Author | George Christian Ortloff |
Spent my honeymoon in Lake Placid and my wife and I took a boat tour and we learned about this story. I bought the book at the local shop and read it in one sitting.
There have been many spinoffs of this story about the missing body of the affluent and well educated Mabel Smith who started Douglass...
| Author | Brad Parks |
| ISBN | 1524743534 |
Award-winning author Brad Parks delivers a deliciously tense novel of thrills, twists, and deceit that will keep readers riveted.
Struggling stage actor Tommy Jump knows he has to stop chasing applause and start chasing greenbacks. But then he's offered the role of a lifetime: $150,000...
Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam
| Author | Paul Clayton |
| ISBN | 1468130994 |
"The year is 1968. Like thousands of other American boys, Carl Melcher is drafted and sent to Vietnam. Over there, he sees life at its strangest, most beautiful, and most bestial. Most times, the war raged far away - strange flickerings of light in the night sky, rumbling noises like thunder. Sometimes...
Murder, She Wrote: Manuscript for Murder
| Author | Jessica Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0451489306 |
Jessica Fletcher investigates a mysterious manuscript with deadly consequences in the latest entry in this USA Today bestselling series...
Jessica Fletcher has had plenty to worry about over her storied career, both as a bestselling novelist and amateur sleuth. But she never had any reason...
| Author | James Patterson |
| ISBN | 1787462293 |
Two roads lead to Mount Hope. None leads out. There’s no place to run in a community that’s been taken–and is being intentionally kept–off the grid.
A small southern town was evacuated after a freak power-plant accident. As the first anniversary of the mishap approaches, some residents...
| Author | James Craig |
| ISBN | 1569479909 |
In the middle of a General Election, someone is targeting former members of hte ultra-exclusive Merrion Club, youthful hedonists addicted to excess transformed into pillars of the political establishment. Next in the killer's sights is charismatic, ruthless Edgar Carlton, the man poised to...
Robert B. Parker's Fool Me Twice
| Author | Michael Brandman |
| ISBN | 0307987787 |
Autumn in Paradise, Massachusetts, is usually an idyllic time—but not this year. A Hollywood movie company has come to town, and brought with it a huge cast, crew, and a troubled star. Marisol Hinton is very beautiful, reasonably talented, and scared out of her wits that her estranged husband’s...
| Author | Gerald Durrell |
| ISBN | 0141028416 |
The Corfu Trilogy consists of the popular classic My Family and Other Animals and its delightful sequels, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods. All three books are set on the enchanted island of Corfu in the 1930s, and tell the story of the eccentric English family who moved there. For...
