Dead End Gene Pool: A Memoir

10 best books like Dead End Gene Pool: A Memoir (Wendy Burden): American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt, Zinnia and the Bees, Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America, Tomb of the Golden Bird, Crime Fraiche, The Way to Bea, The Lost Years, Death of a Scriptwriter, Disney Dining Plan: Tips & Tricks for Making the Most of the Dining Plans at Walt Disney World: Updated for 2019 & 2020 Plans!, Secrets of Nanreath Hall

American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt

Author	Karen Harper
ISBN	0062748343

Before Meghan and Harry, another American ‘princess’ captured the hand of an English aristocrat. Now, Karen Harper tells the tale of Consuelo Vanderbilt, her “The Wedding of the Century” to the Duke of Marlborough, and her quest to find meaning behind “the glitter and the gold.”

On...

Zinnia and the Bees

Author	Danielle Davis
ISBN	1623708672

A colony of honeybees mistakes seventh-grader Zinnia’s hair for a hive ― and that’s the least of her problems.

While Zinnia's classmates are celebrating the last day of seventh grade, she's in the vice principal's office, serving detention. Her offense? Harmlessly yarn-bombing...

Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America

Author	Susan Campbell Bartoletti
ISBN	0544313674

What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged?

With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, this riveting biography of Mary Mallon by the Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Bartoletti looks beyond the tabloid scandal of Mary's controversial...

Tomb of the Golden Bird

Author	Elizabeth Peters
ISBN	0060591803

Convinced that the tomb of the little-known king Tutankhamon lies somewhere in the Valley of the Kings, eminent Egyptologist Radcliffe Emerson and his intrepid wife, Amelia Peabody, seem to have hit a wall. Having been banned forever from the East Valley, Emerson, against Amelia's advice, has tried...

Crime Fraiche

Author	Alexander Campion
ISBN	0758246714

Très chic Parisian Commissaire Capucine Le Tellier sets off on a hunting holiday that proves deadly for more than just the pheasants…

Before Capucine and her husband, distinguished food critic Alexandre de Huguelet, even arrive at her oncle's 16th-century château, a fatal hunting...

The Way to Bea

Author	Kat Yeh
ISBN	0316236675

Everything in Bea's world has changed. She's starting seventh grade newly friendless and facing big changes at home, where she is about to go from only child to big sister. Feeling alone and adrift, and like her words don't deserve to be seen, Bea takes solace in writing haiku in invisible ink and hiding...

The Lost Years

Author

T.A. Barron

THE SAGA BEGINS...

A raging sea tosses a boy upon the shores of ancient Wales. Left for dead, he has no memory, no name, and no home. But it is his determination to find out who he is - to learn the truth about his mysterious powers - that leads him to a strange and enchanted land. And it is there he discovers...

Death of a Scriptwriter

Author	M.C. Beaton
ISBN	0446606987

From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series...DEATH OF A SCRIPTWRITER: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery HOLLYWOOD IN THE HIGHLANDS
With the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe away in London, Lochdubh Constable Hamish Macbeth pines for company during the long Scottish winter. He gets his...

Disney Dining Plan: Tips & Tricks for Making the Most of the Dining Plans at Walt Disney World: Updated for 2019 & 2020 Plans!

Author

Leah Crocker Althiser

The Disney Dining Plan can be one of the most confusing aspects of planning a Walt Disney World vacation. This book will make your vacation planning easier by helping you:

• Understand how the Disney Dining Plans work
• Decide if a Dining Plan is right for you
• Learn the ins and...

Secrets of Nanreath Hall

Author	Alix Rickloff
ISBN	0062433180

This incredible debut historical novel—in the tradition of Beatriz Williams and Jennifer Robson—tells the fascinating story of a young mother who flees her home on the rocky cliffs of Cornwall and the daughter who finds her way back, seeking answers.

Cornwall, 1940. Back in England...

The Last Stone

Author

Mark Bowden

On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, age 10 and 12, disappeared during a trip to a
shopping mall in suburban Washington, D.C. Three days later, eighteen-year-old Lloyd Welch visited the Montgomery County Police with a tip: he had seen the Lyons girls at the mall that day and had...

The Necklace

Author

Claire McMillan

This intoxicating novel set in the rarified world of money and society alternates between two generations of the Quincy family: the wealthy robber baron brothers who vied over a bewitching Jazz Age beauty and the young woman who inherits a spectacular and mysterious Indian necklace and its secrets.

Always...

Memphis Man: Living High, Laying Low

Author

Don Nix

Memphis blues and rock legend writes about a long career that involved close associations with Joe Cocker, Leon Russell, George Harrison, Freddie King, Furry Lewis, John Mayall, and many others


Don Nix is a Memphis music legend who played sax in a 1960s instrumental band, the Mar-Keys,...

Death of a Dentist

Author	M.C. Beaton
ISBN	0446606014

From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series...DEATH OF A DENTIST: A Hamish Macbeth MysteryA blinding toothache sends Hamish Macbeth 120 miles out of Lochdubh to the dentist Frederick Gilchrist, only to find him dead. Since everyone is pleased the dentist is deceased--patients, several...

Writers of the Purple Sage

Author	Barbara Burnett Smith
ISBN	0373262140

Although this book was on the bottom of my to-read list, I read it for a challenge, and it actually was not bad. A cozy murder mystery, it was a good one, as there was a list of suspects, and right up until the end I wasn't sure who did it. I had my suspicions ... but they changed every chapter or so. So I can't exactly...

The Day She Died

Author	Catriona McPherson
ISBN	0738740454

That was the day I met Gus, the day I grew a family as if from magic beans, the day she died. That's the point, see? It was the very same day...

Jessie Constable has learned the hard way to always keep herself safe. But meeting Gus King changes everything. Before she knows it, Jessie is sleeping at...

The Heart Mender: A Story of Second Chances

Author

Andy Andrews

In the classic storytelling style of The Noticer and The Traveler's Gift, New York Times best-selling author Andy Andrews now delivers an adventure set sharply against the warm waters and white sands of the Gulf of Mexico in WWII America.

Saddened and unable to abandon her resentment toward...

Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank: And Other Words of Delicate Southern Wisdom

Author	Celia Rivenbark
ISBN	0312339933

Celia Rivenbark's essays about life in today's South are like caramel popcorn---sweet, salty, and utterly irresistible

Celia Rivenbark is a master at summing up the South in all its glorious excesses and contradictions. In this collection of screamingly funny essays, you'll discover:
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