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10 best books like Deep Water Passage (Ann Linnea): The Bookman’s Tale, The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees, Snow, Glass, Apples, Deaf Republic: Poems, Thick: And Other Essays, The Wall, Ayesha at Last, My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues, C is for Corpse, Snow, Glass, Apples

The Bookman’s Tale
AuthorCharlie Lovett
ISBN0670026476
"What about the most valuable relic in the history of English literature—would that be worth killing for?"

Hay-on-Wye, 1995. Peter Byerly isn't sure what drew him into this particular bookshop. Nine months earlier, the death of his beloved wife, Amanda, had left him shattered. The young...
The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees
AuthorMeredith May
ISBN0778307786
An extraordinary story of a girl, her grandfather and one of nature's most mysterious and beguiling creatures: the honeybee.

Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care of...
Snow, Glass, Apples
AuthorNeil Gaiman
ISBN1472262913
A chilling fantasy retelling of the Snow White fairy tale by bestselling creators Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran.

A not-so-evil queen is terrified of her monstrous stepdaughter and determined to repel this creature and save her kingdom from a world where happy endings aren't so happily ever...
Deaf Republic: Poems
AuthorIlya Kaminsky
ISBN1555978312
Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection

Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?

Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political...
Thick: And Other Essays
AuthorTressie McMillan Cottom
ISBN1620974363
Smart, humorous, and strikingly original thoughts on race, beauty, money, and more—by one of today's most intrepid public intellectuals

Tressie McMillan Cottom, the writer, professor, and acclaimed author of Lower Ed, now brilliantly shifts gears from running regression analyses...
The Wall
AuthorJohn Lanchester
ISBN1324001631
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2019

Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall―an enormous concrete barrier around its entire coastline. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate...
Ayesha at Last
AuthorUzma Jalaluddin
As seen on The Today Show! One of the best summer romance picks!

One of Publishers Weekly Best Romance Books of 2019!

A modern-day Muslim Pride and Prejudice for a new generation of love.

Ayesha Shamsi has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been set aside for a teaching...
My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
AuthorPamela Paul
ISBN1627796312
Imagine keeping a record of every book you’ve ever read. What would this reading trajectory say about you? With passion, humor, and insight, the editor of The New York Times Book Review shares the stories that have shaped her life.

Pamela Paul has kept a single book by her side for twenty-eight...
C is for Corpse
AuthorSue Grafton
ISBN0312939019
C IS FOR CALCULATED

How do you go about solving an attempted murder when the victim has lost a good part of his memory? It's one of Kinsey's toughest cases yet, but she never backs down from a challenge. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Callahan is lucky to be alive after a car forced his Porsche over...
Snow, Glass, Apples
AuthorNeil Gaiman
*3.5 stars*



Oh my! Snow, Glass, Apples is some twisted, dark and creepy fairytale retelling of Snow White, lovely and dear Snow White. In this short story written by the critically acclaimed author Neil Gaiman, she is pure and innocent no more. Better watch out: the mask she wears might...
An American Sunrise: Poems
AuthorJoy Harjo
ISBN1324003863
In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family’s lands and opens a dialogue with history. In An American Sunrise, Harjo finds...
AuthorCarrie Callaghan
ISBN1944995897
In Holland 1633, a woman’s ambition has no place.

Judith is a painter, dodging the law and whispers of murder to become the first woman admitted to the prestigious Haarlem artist’s guild. Maria is a Catholic in a country where the faith is banned, hoping to absolve her sins by recovering...
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