Grand Obsession: A Piano Odyssey

8 best books like Grand Obsession: A Piano Odyssey (Perri Knize): The Phantom Tollbooth, A Thread of Grace, Children of God, Brat Farrar, Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir, Playing the Piano for Pleasure, At the Wolf's Table, Just So Happens

The Phantom Tollbooth
AuthorNorton Juster
ISBN0394820371
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Hailed as “a classic. . . . humorous, full of warmth and real invention” (The New Yorker), this beloved story -first published more than fifty years ago- introduces readers to Milo and his adventures in the Lands...
AuthorMary Doria Russell
ISBN0449004139
Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, this new novel is the first in seven years by the bestselling author of The Sparrow and Children of God.

It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand. She and her father are...
Children of God
AuthorMary Doria Russell
Mary Doria Russell's debut novel, The Sparrow, took us on a journey to a distant planet and into the center of the human soul. A critically acclaimed bestseller, The Sparrow was chosen as one of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Books of the Year, a finalist for the Book-of-the-Month Club's First Fiction...
AuthorJosephine Tey
ISBN0684803852
What begins as a ploy to claim an inheritance ends with the impostor's life hanging in the balance. In this tale of mystery and suspense, a stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family's sizable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully...
Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir
AuthorTom Hart
ISBN1250049946
Rosalie Lightning is Eisner-nominated cartoonist Tom Hart's #1 New York Times bestselling touching and beautiful graphic memoir about the untimely death of his young daughter, Rosalie. His heart-breaking and emotional illustrations strike readers to the core, and take them along his family's...
Playing the Piano for Pleasure
AuthorCharles Cooke
This is a charming little book but I don’t think that he adequately addresses the role the piano has in the life of an amateur pianist. Perhaps I need to write that book. In additi0n, he was already an accomplished pianist before he ever reached adulthood so he can’t really feel the trials of learning...
At the Wolf's Table
AuthorRosella Postorino
ISBN1250179149
The internationally bestselling novel based on the untold true story of the women conscripted to be Hitler's food tasters.

"They called it the Wolfsschanze, the Wolf's Lair. 'Wolf' was his nickname. As hapless as Little Red Riding Hood, I had ended up in his belly. A legion of hunters was out...
Just So Happens
AuthorFumio Obata
'I still remember arriving in the city for the first time... It wasn't easy... But here, London, is my home.'

Yumiko is a young Japanese woman who has made London her home. She has a job, a boyfriend; Japan seems far away. Then, out of the blue, her brother calls to tell her that her father has died...
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