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10 best books like Hemingway's Girl (Erika Robuck): Platinum Doll, The Conjoined, The Heaviness of Things That Float, Heaven Should Fall, Mrs. Hemingway, Air Dance Iguana, Man in the Blue Moon, All Things Consoled: A Daughter's Memoir, Terror on the Alert, Threaten to Undo Us

Platinum Doll
AuthorAnne Girard
ISBN0778318664
Set against the dazzling backdrop of Golden Age Hollywood, novelist Anne Girard tells the enchanting story of Jean Harlow, one of the most iconic stars in the history of film.
It's the Roaring Twenties and seventeen-year-old Harlean Carpenter McGrew has run off to Beverly Hills. She's chasing...
The Conjoined
AuthorJen Sookfong Lee
ISBN1770412840
On a sunny May morning, social worker Jessica Campbell sorts through her mother’s belongings after her recent funeral. In the basement, she makes a shocking discovery — two dead girls curled into the bottom of her mother’s chest freezers. She remembers a pair of foster children who lived with...
The Heaviness of Things That Float
AuthorJennifer Manuel
ISBN1771620871
Jennifer Manuel skilfully depicts the lonely world of Bernadette, a woman who has spent the last forty years living alone on the periphery of a remote West Coast First Nations reserve, serving as a nurse for the community. This is a place where truth and myth are deeply intertwined and stories are “like...
Heaven Should Fall
AuthorRebecca Coleman
ISBN0778313891
From the critically acclaimed author of The Kingdom of Childhood and Inside These Walls comes a heart-wrenching story of a family's devotion—to each other and to their country.

Alone since her mother's death, Jill Wagner believes she's found the perfect partner in Cade Olmstead when he...
Mrs. Hemingway
AuthorNaomi Wood
ISBN0143124617
A riveting tale of passion, love, and heartbreak, Mrs. Hemingway reveals the explosive love triangles that wrecked each of Hemingway's marriages.

The Paris Wife was only the beginning of the story...

Paula McLain's New York Times bestselling novel piqued readers' interest about...
Air Dance Iguana
AuthorTom Corcoran
ISBN0312941897
Lately, Key West is not quite the laid back place that occasional freelance crime-scene-photographer Alex Rutledge prefers. It's bad enough that the discovery of two dead ex-Navy men one morning--both found swinging on boat lifts twenty miles apart--means grisly work at the indecent hour of 7AM....
Man in the Blue Moon
AuthorMichael Morris
"He's a gambler at best. A con artist at worst," her aunt had said of the handlebar-mustached man who snatched Ella Wallace away from her dreams of studying art in France. Eighteen years later, that man has disappeared, leaving Ella alone and struggling to support her three sons. While the world is embroiled...
All Things Consoled: A Daughter's Memoir
AuthorElizabeth Hay
ISBN0771039735
Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada's most beloved novelists has written a poignant, complex, and hugely resonant memoir about the shift she experienced between being her parents' daughter to their guardian and caregiver.

As the daughter takes charge, and the writer takes notes, her mother and...
Terror on the Alert
AuthorRobert W. Mackay
ISBN1771510811
The year is 1962 and the Cuban Missile Crisis is brewing. Naval lieutenant Ted Hawkins is sent to sea aboard the HMCS Alert. The submarine’s mission is to shadow an aggressive Soviet submarine. Hampered by claustrophobia caused by a trauma, Ted is forced to deal with both his fears and a superior, Alert's...
Threaten to Undo Us
AuthorRose Seiler Scott
“Allied forces are advancing. You are no longer under the protection of the German army. All German citizens of the Third Reich are to evacuate.”

At these words, Liesel and her young children are forced to flee their home. But losing the only home she has ever known is only the beginning....
The Last Hiccup
AuthorChristopher Meades
ISBN1550229737
Whilst trolling through the ebook aisle at the virtual library, I came across this oddly named novel. The title, coupled with the striking cover, almost suggests a childlike aspect; however, this is not a story for the kiddies.

Russia, 1929. Vlademir is a little boy with a seemingly incurable...
The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit
AuthorJ.J. Lee
ISBN0771046472
Taking as its starting point a son's decision to alter his late father's last remaining suit for himself, this is a deeply moving and brilliantly crafted story of fathers and sons, of fitting in and standing out -- and discovering what it means to be your own man.

For years, journalist and amateur...
The Little Russian
AuthorSusan Sherman
ISBN1582437726
The Little Russian spotlights an exciting new voice in historical fiction, an assured debut that should appeal to readers of Away by Amy Bloom or Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. The novel tells the story of Berta Alshonsky, who revels in childhood memories of her time spent with a wealthy family in...
Studio Saint-ex
AuthorAnia Szado
ISBN0670066958
A deeply evocative love story of a literary giant set in the glittering world of French expats in WWII Manhattan-for fans of The Paris Wife

Set in Manhattan and Quebec City in 1943, Studio Saint-Ex is a fictionalized account of the love triangle among Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, his mercurial...
Lucky Bunny
AuthorJill Dawson
ISBN0062202502
"Pacy and atmospheric…wickedly good."
—Marie Claire (UK)

"Dawson's heroine is so fresh and spirited that she carries the day."
—Sunday Times (London)

Having already made waves in the United Kingdom, Lucky Bunny has come to America. Acclaimed poet and author Jill...
Crossing on the Paris
AuthorDana Gynther
ISBN1451678231
Downton Abbey meets Titanic in this sweeping historical novel about three women of different generations and classes, whose lives intersect on a majestic ocean liner traveling from Paris to New York in the wake of World War I.

The year is 1921. Three women set out on the impressive Paris ocean...
Grand Central: Original Stories of Postwar Love and Reunion
AuthorJenna Blum
ISBN0425272028
A war bride awaits the arrival of her GI husband at the platform…
 
A Holocaust survivor works at the Oyster Bar, where a customer reminds him of his late mother…
 
A Hollywood hopeful anticipates her first screen test and a chance at stardom in the Kissing Room…
 
On...
Shot on Location
AuthorLaurence Shames
Take three speedboats, a disgruntled ghostwriter, and a hit TV show starring a gorgeous but impossible diva and created by a driven genius who may be losing his marbles. Add a fearless and gleefully profane stuntwoman, an ancient Mafioso with a chihuahua, and a revenge-crazed blonde in gladiator sandals....
Death in Four Courses
AuthorLucy Burdette
ISBN0451237838
As the new food critic for Key Zest magazine, Hayley Snow went from being a culinary groupie to one of Florida’s cutting-edge tastemakers. But as always, when life serves Haley a dream come true, it comes paired with a most exquisite murder....

The annual Key West literary conference is drawing...
Love Slave
AuthorJennifer Spiegel
ISBN1609530829
"I can write the pants off any man," declares Sybil Weatherfield, the plucky hero of Jennifer Spiegel’s Love Slave. A literary novel set in 1995 New York, Love Slave follows Weatherfield and her strange friends as they frustrate chick-lit expectations (though they’re unaware that they’re...
Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife
AuthorGioia Diliberto
ISBN0062108824
“A bittersweet modern love story [that] reads as easily as a novel.” —Vogue

“Fascinating….A detailed, grittier portrait of the woman Hemingway loved and left.” --Newsday

Hemingway's creative influences for novels like The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and...
A Fatal Likeness
AuthorLynn Shepherd
ISBN0345532449
A mystery that explores the dark lives and unexplained secrets of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and his wife Mary, author of Frankenstein.

In the dying days of 1850 the young detective Charles Maddox takes on a new case. His client? The only surviving son of the long-dead poet Percy Bysshe Shelley,...
The Outer Banks House
AuthorDiann Ducharme
ISBN0307462234
As the wounds of the Civil War are just beginning to heal, one fateful summer would forever alter the course of a young girl’s life.
 
In 1868, on the barren shores of post-war Outer Banks North Carolina, the once wealthy Sinclair family moves for the summer to one of the first cottages on the...
The Substitute
AuthorNicole Lundrigan
ISBN1487002351
Warren Botts is a disillusioned Ph.D., taking a break from his lab to teach middle-school science. Gentle, soft-spoken, and lonely, he innocently befriends Amanda, one of his students. But one morning, Amanda is found dead in his backyard, and Warren, shocked, flees the scene.

As the small...
This Is Graceanne's Book
AuthorP.L. Whitney
ISBN0312272782
The story is told by a nine-year old boy, Charlie, who observes with an encompassing awe a pivotal year in the life of his older sister Graceanne. She's loud, intellectual and a ruthless physical and psychological daredevil, a girl whose ferocious exploits are the stuff of local legend and the stuff...
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