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10 best books like Just a Couple of Days (Tony Vigorito): Cousin Bette, Sacred Time, Sister Carrie, My Life in Orange, The Little Locksmith, The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000, The Song of Names, Monsieur Proust, Extravagance, Rescuing Patty Hearst: Growing Up Sane in a Decade Gone Mad

Cousin Bette
AuthorHonoré de Balzac
ISBN0375759077
Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially superior relatives in Paris: her beautiful, saintly cousin Adeline, the philandering Baron Hulot and their daughter Hortense. Already deeply resentful of their wealth, when Bette learns that the...
Sacred Time
AuthorUrsula Hegi
ISBN0743255992
The bestselling author of Stones from the River delivers her most ambitious and dramatic novel yet -- the unforgettable story of an endearing, but also flawed, Italian American family. In December 1953 Anthony Amedeo's world is nested in his Bronx neighborhood, his parents' Studebaker, the Paradise...
Sister Carrie
AuthorTheodore Dreiser
ISBN0393960420
When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.'

The tale of Carrie Meeber's rise to stardom in the theatre and George Hurstwood's slow decline...
My Life in Orange
AuthorTim Guest
ISBN1862077207
At the age of six, Tim Guest was taken by his mother to a commune modeled on the teachings of the notorious Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. The Bhagwan preached an eclectic doctrine of Eastern mysticism, chaotic therapy, and sexual freedom, and enjoyed inhaling laughing gas, preaching from a dentist's...
The Little Locksmith
AuthorKatharine Butler Hathaway
ISBN1558612394
The Little Locksmith, Katharine Butler Hathaway's luminous memoir of disability, faith, and transformation, is a critically acclaimed but largely forgotten literary classic brought back into print for the first time in thirty years. The Little Locksmith begins in 1895 when a specialist straps...
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000
AuthorGore Vidal
Like his National Book Award—winning United States, Gore Vidal’s scintillating ninth collection, The Last Empire, affirms his reputation as our most provocative critic and observer of the modern American scene. In the essays collected here, Vidal brings his keen intellect, experience, and...
The Song of Names
AuthorNorman Lebrecht
ISBN1400034892
Martin Simmonds’ father tells him, “Never trust a musician when he speaks about love.” The advice comes too late. Martin already loves Dovidl Rapoport, an eerily gifted Polish violin prodigy whose parents left him in the Simmonds’s care before they perished in the Holocaust. For a time the...
Monsieur Proust
AuthorCéleste Albaret
ISBN1590170598
Céleste Albaret was Marcel Proust's housekeeper in his last years, when he retreated from the world to devote himself to In Search of Lost Time. She could imitate his voice to perfection, and Proust himself said to her, "You know everything about me." Her reminiscences of her employer present an intimate...
Extravagance
AuthorGary Krist
ISBN0767913310
William Tobias Merrick, an energetic young man from the provinces, travels to the big city in a time of great optimism and ferment, hoping to make his mark on a frenzied, money-crazed society obsessed with the promise of new technologies.

The city in question is London in the 1690s; but it is...
Rescuing Patty Hearst: Growing Up Sane in a Decade Gone Mad
AuthorVirginia Holman
ISBN0743255496
A startling memoir of a daughter's harrowing sojourn in the prison of her mother's mind and a moving portrait of a young woman defined by her mother's illness -- until at last she rekindles a family love that had lost its way.

"1974 was a bad year to go crazy," Virginia Holman writes in this astonishing,...
Brigadoon (Vocal Score)
AuthorAlan Jay Lerner
ISBN0769202225
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Fat Land
AuthorGreg Critser
ISBN0141015403
In this astonishing expose, journalist Greg Critser looks beyond the sensational headlines to reveal why nearly 60 percent of Americans are now overweight. Critser's sharp-eyed reportage and sharp-tongued analysis make for a disarmingly funny and truly alarming book. Critser investigates the...
New Poems of Emily Dickinson
AuthorEmily Dickinson
ISBN0807844160
For most of her life Emily Dickinson regularly embedded poems, disguised as prose, in her lively and thoughtful letters. Although many critics have commented on the poetic quality of Dickinson's letters, William Shurr is the first to draw fully developed poems from them. In this remarkable volume,...
How the Light Gets In
AuthorM.J. Hyland
ISBN1841956112
A powerful debut from a young Australian novelist that features one of the most likeable but contrary figures you are likely to meet in contemporary fiction life of poverty in Sydney. And when she is offered a place as an exchange student at a school in America it seems as if her dreams will be fulfilled....
The Song Reader
AuthorLisa Tucker
ISBN0743497007
Sure, we were a small family, but it wasn't lonely. We had the endless stream of my sister's customers and, of course, the music. Every day, all day, our stereo would play and Mary Beth would talk about the lyrics, what they really meant.
Leeann lives with her beautiful older sister -- the world's first...
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