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9 best books like Little Century (Anna Keesey): The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America, Wish, The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place, The Apothecary's Daughter, Gone Fishing: A Novel in Verse, Dear Evelyn, The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted, Every Last One

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
AuthorKim Michele Richardson
ISBN1492671525
In 1936, tucked deep into the woods of Troublesome Creek, KY, lives blue-skinned 19-year-old Cussy Carter, the last living female of the rare Blue People ancestry. The lonely young Appalachian woman joins the historical Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a librarian, riding across...
Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America
AuthorBill Geist
ISBN1538729806
Beloved TV host Bill Geist pens a reflective memoir of his incredible summers spent in the heart of America in this New York Times bestseller.
Before there was "tourism" and souvenir ashtrays became "kitsch," the Lake of the Ozarks was a Shangri-La for middle-class Midwestern families on vacation,...
Wish
AuthorBarbara O'Connor
ISBN0374302731
Listening Length: 4 hours and 41 minutes

Eleven-year-old Charlie Reese has been making the same secret wish every day since fourth grade. She even has a list of all the ways there are to make the wish, such as cutting off the pointed end of a slice of pie and wishing on it as she takes the last bite....
The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place
AuthorJulie Berry
There's a murderer on the loose—but that doesn't stop the girls of St. Etheldreda's from attempting to hide the death of their headmistress in this rollicking farce.

The students of St. Etheldreda's School for Girls face a bothersome dilemma. Their irascible headmistress, Mrs. Plackett,...
The Apothecary's Daughter
AuthorJulie Klassen
ISBN1607515423
LILLY HASWELL REMEMBERS EVERYTHING — WHETHER SHE WANTS TO, OR NOT ...

As Lilly toils in her father's apothecary shop, preparing herbs and remedies by rote, she is haunted by memories of her mother's disappearance. Villagers whisper the tale, but her father refuses to discuss it. All the...
Gone Fishing: A Novel in Verse
AuthorTamera Will Wissinger
ISBN0547820119
Using a wide variety of poetic forms – quatrains, ballads, iambic meter, rhyming lists, concrete poetry, tercets and free verse –this debut author tells the story of a nine-year-old boy’s day of fishing. Sibling rivalry, the bond between father and son, the excitement – and difficulty --...
Dear Evelyn
AuthorKathy Page
ISBN1911508288
Born between the wars in a working-class South London street, Harry Miles is a sensitive and capable boy who attends school on a scholarship and grows into a thoughtful young man. Full of energy and literary ambition, he visits Battersea Library in search of New Writing: instead, however, he discovers...
The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
AuthorRobert Hillman
Tom Hope doesn’t think he’s much of a farmer, but he’s doing his best. He can’t have been much of a husband to Trudy, either, judging by her sudden departure. It’s only when she returns, pregnant to someone else, that he discovers his surprising talent as a father. So when Trudy finds Jesus and...
Every Last One
AuthorAnna Quindlen
ISBN1400065747
The latest novel from Pulitzer Prize-winner Anna Quindlen

In this breathtaking and beautiful novel, the #1 New York Times" bestselling author Anna Quindlen creates an unforgettable portrait of a mother, a father, a family, and the explosive, violent consequences of what seem like inconsequential...
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