Fall to Pieces
10 best books like Fall to Pieces (Vahini Naidoo): The Dog Stars, Daughter of Moloka'i, Lab Girl, City of Women, The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me, The Good Father, The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride, The Story Hour, The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder
| Author | Peter Heller |
| ISBN | 0307959945 |
Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. Now his wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley.
But when a random transmission beams through...
| Author | Alan Brennert |
| ISBN | 1250137683 |
DAUGHTER OF MOLOKA′I is the highly anticipated sequel to Alan Brennert’s acclaimed book club favorite, and national bestseller, MOLOKA′I. It’s a companion tale that tells the story of Ruth, the daughter that Rachel Kalama—quarantined for most of her life at the isolated leprosy settlement...
| Author | Hope Jahren |
| ISBN | 1101874937 |
Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she’s studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book is a revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also so much more.
Lab Girl is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things...
It is 1943 - the height of the Second World War - and Berlin has essentially become a city of women. In this page-turning novel, David Gillham explores what happens to ordinary people thrust into extraordinary times, and how the choices they make can be the difference between life and death.
It...
The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat
| Author | Edward Kelsey Moore |
| ISBN | 0307950433 |
Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat diner in Plainview, Indiana is home away from home for Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean. Dubbed "The Supremes" by high school pals in the tumultuous 1960s, they’ve weathered life’s storms for over four decades and counseled one another through marriage and children,...
Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me
| Author | Howie Mandel |
| ISBN | 0553807862 |
A frank, funny, no-holds-barred memoir that reveals the Deal or No Deal host’s ongoing struggle with OCD and ADHD–and how it has shaped his life and career.
Howie Mandel is one of the most recognizable names in entertainment–respected by his peers and beloved by audiences as the host...
| Author | Noah Hawley |
| ISBN | 0385535538 |
An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.
As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms,...
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
| Author | Daniel James Brown |
| ISBN | 0061348104 |
In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later, after joining a party of emigrants led by George Donner, they reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains as the first heavy snows...
A profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about friendship, family, secrets, forgiveness, and second chances.
An experienced psychologist, Maggie carefully maintains emotional distance from her patients. But when she meets a young Indian woman who tried to kill herself, her professional...
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder
| Author | Charles Graeber |
| ISBN | 1455574139 |
After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed "The Angel of Death" by the media. But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster. He was a favorite son, husband, beloved father, best friend, and celebrated caregiver. Implicated in the deaths of as many...
| Author | O.A. Bushnell |
| ISBN | 0451024788 |
Molokai--one of the beautiful Hawaiian islands, but in the late nineteenth century, a name synonymous with a desolate leper colony. Kalaupapa, accessible only from the sea, was "The Given Grave," where victims of the dreaded disease were sent to die, exiled in a desperate attempt to halt the spread...
| Author | John Boyne |
| ISBN | 0857520954 |
Propelled into the priesthood by a family tragedy, Odran Yates is full of hope and ambition. When he arrives at Clonliffe Seminary in the 1970s, it is a time in Ireland when priests are highly respected, and Odran believes that he is pledging his life to "the good."
Forty years later, Odran's...
