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10 best books like Meet Me in St. Louis (Sally Benson): The Mitchells: Five for Victory, The Story of a Bad Boy, The Friendly Persuasion, The Keeping Days, Wolf Story, Pigs Is Pigs, Carney's House Party, Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son, Literary Lapses, Journey into Madness: The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control & Medical Abuse

The Mitchells: Five for Victory
AuthorHilda van Stockum
ISBN1883937051
The five Mitchell children are based on the author's own family. In the first of three books about their adventures, Daddy has just gone off to World War II. One of his final words to his daughter Joan is, "No dogs " She would dearly love such a pet, but life is full and so many new friends -- pets as well as people...
The Story of a Bad Boy
AuthorThomas Bailey Aldrich
ISBN1406806641
In a time when children's books were populated with well-behaved little gentlemen, Thomas Bailey Aldrich dared to present an alternative point of view - childhood as he remembered it. Tom Bailey is no angel. At times a bully, a vandal, and a troublemaker, he has a healthy zest for life and a perhaps over-developed...
The Friendly Persuasion
AuthorJessamyn West
A quintessential American heroine, Eliza Birdwell is a wonderful blend of would-be austerity, practicality, and gentle humor when it comes to keeping her faith and caring for her family and community. Her husband, Jess, shares Eliza's love of people and peaceful ways but, unlike Eliza, also displays...
The Keeping Days
AuthorNorma Johnston
ISBN1892323281
I found this dusty time capsule in my backyard. It arrived on the back of a 1980s has-been actor (and he arrived on the back of a flaming jet pack!). The dry ice revealed a neon sticker that said "1900". "Remember me?" It said, "We loved this in our childhood. It reminded us of growing up in 1900! We were bosom...
Wolf Story
AuthorWilliam McCleery
ISBN0208021914
This irresistible book is about: a father (intelligent, patient, an inventive storyteller); his five-year-old son Michael (intelligent, crafty, addicted to stories); and a story.It is a Wolf Story, which begins one night at bedtime and is spun into soap opera proportions over subsequent bedtimes...
Pigs Is Pigs
AuthorEllis Parker Butler
ISBN1410103226
This American classic is a humorous turn-of-the-century story about a train agent and the definition of a guinea pig. This hilarious tale of bureaucracy run amok at the Interurban Express Company, and exponential growth of the Guinea pig population shows what can happen when ignorance and bureaucrats...
Carney's House Party
AuthorMaud Hart Lovelace
ISBN0064408590
It is the summer of 1911, and Carney Sibley is back home in her beloved town of Deep Valley, Minnesota. She's looking forward to hosting a month-long house party, with guests including her Vassar college roommate Isobel Porteous and old chum Betsy Ray. With lots of the old Crowd and a new friend--wealthy,...
Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son
AuthorSholom Aleichem
ISBN0143105604
Tevye is the compassionate, lovable, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, and Tevye the Dairyman is a heartwarming and poignant account of life in turn-of-the-century Russia. Through the workaday world of a rural dairyman, his grit, wit, and heart, his daughters' courtships and marriages, and...
Literary Lapses
AuthorStephen Leacock
ISBN1406814318
Canada’s own Stephen Leacock was a hard - albeit hilarious - nut to crack.

When he broke onto the world literary stage in 1910 with this collection of stories, the reaction was wildly mixed. Ordinary folks LOVED him.

And because of their hardcore support, Leacock soon became the...
Journey into Madness: The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control & Medical Abuse
AuthorGordon Thomas
ISBN0553053574
Perspectives: A Note to the Reader
Doctors of Terror
Madness Network
Specialists
Connections
Sowing the Seed
Unsuspecting
Beyond All Reason
Ultimate Weapons
Mind-Bender
Dilemmas
Chamber of Horrors
Unquiet Minds
Edge of Darkness
Madness,...
Chip of the Flying U
AuthorB.M. Bower
ISBN0803261217
B. M. (Bertha Muzzy) Bower was the first woman to make a career of writing popular westerns. And what a career it was—more than sixty novels published from 1904 to 1940, the year of her death, and still more posthumously. In the western orbit, Bower was—and still is—a star. Her first, Chip of the...
Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories
AuthorRebecca Harding Davis
ISBN0935312390
"Life in the Iron Mills" (1861) was one of the first major Realist works in American literature and created an immediate sensation in the literary world when it was first published, though it was subsequently forgotten and only re-discovered in relatively recent times by editor Olsen. I'd read, and...
Anybody Can Do Anything
AuthorBetty MacDonald
ISBN0704102439
One would suppose that during the Depression there wasn't much to laugh about in America. But one would be wrong. This book takes up Betty's story before she'd had any success as a writer - when she went back to live with her mother. With a failed chicken farm and marriage behind her, Betty was desperate...
Fly Away Home
AuthorRachel Heffington
ISBN0615948014
Self Preservation has never looked more tempting.

1952 New York City:
Callie Harper is a woman set to make it big in the world of journalism. Liberated from all but her buried and troubled past, Callie craves glamour and the satisfaction she knows it will bring. When one of America's most...
Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review
AuthorMark Twain
ISBN0299234746
Mark Twain’s Own Autobiography stands as the last of Twain’s great yarns. Here he tells his story in his own way, freely expressing his joys and sorrows, his affections and hatreds, his rages and reverence—ending, as always, tongue-in-cheek: “Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.”...
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Chivalry / Legends of Charlemagne
AuthorThomas Bulfinch
ISBN0808501747
For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of the gods and goddesses, Greek and Roman antiquity; Scandinavian, Celtic, and Oriental fables and myths; and the age of chivalry have been known.
The stories are divided into three sections: The Age...
Horse of a Different Color: Reminiscences of a Kansas Drover
AuthorRalph Moody
ISBN0803282176
I highly recommend all 8 of the Ralph Moody "Little Britches" books. There are some that I enjoyed more than others, but that is only the difference between 4 and 5 stars in this case.

Moody teaches us the value of hard work and honest dealing. These principles are contrasted very well by showing...
Lodore
AuthorMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
ISBN1419131079
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...
Incognito
AuthorGregory Murphy
ISBN0425241033
An elegant literary mystery set during the Gilded Age.

New York City, 1911. Representing the widow of a Wall Street financier, lawyer William Dysart travels to a small Long Island town with a generous offer for Miss Sybil Curtis's cottage and five acres of land. But when Sybil refuses to sell,...
Christmas Every Day
AuthorWilliam Dean Howells
ISBN0671003267
"'Here is a charming Christmas tale. Read this to your little one.' I took the book from her outstretched arm and examined the title, Christmas Every Day by William Dean Howells." So wrote Richard Paul Evans in his bestselling The Christmas Box, which captivated millions of readers across America,...
You Know Me Al
AuthorRing Lardner
ISBN0020223420
"You Know me Al" is a classic of baseball--the game and the community. Jack Keefe, one of literature's greatest characters, is talented, brash, and conceited. Self-assured and imperceptive, impervious to both advice and sarcasm, Keefe rises to the heights, but his inability to learn makes for his...
The Agony Column
AuthorEarl Derr Biggers
ISBN1587153017
The Agony Column is a perfect brew of mystery and romance of the very old-fashioned variety. Perhaps no one other than M.M. Kaye blended these two elements as well as Earl Derr Biggers. Forever remembered for his creation of Charlie Chan, the great detective from Hawaii, many of Biggers' other novels...
Meet the Malones
AuthorLenora Mattingly Weber
ISBN0425014584
The introductory book of the Beany Malone series. Mary Fred spends the fifteen dollars that is intended for a new formal to buy her beloved Mr. Chips, a lame horse. Elizabeth's husband, Don, is sent overseas, and a weak and wan Elizabeth arrives at the Malones' with her two-week-old son, Martie. When...
The Art of Divine Contentment
AuthorThomas Watson
ISBN1573581135
The content of Thomas Watson's The Art of Divine Contentment is biblical and edifying. On the subject of contentment, I still prefer the in-depth look found in The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment by Jeremiah Burroughs. Thomas Watson gives a briefer overview: "In a word, a contented Christian,...
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