Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial

10 best books like Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial (Ronald Kidd): This Tender Land, Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Nothing to See Here, A Secret Life: The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland, Enemy Women, Proof of Love, It's Not What It Looks Like, Unshakable Hope: Building Our Lives on the Promises of God, Celine, A Gracious Plenty

This Tender Land

Author	William Kent Krueger
ISBN	1476749299

For fans of Before We Were Yours and Where the Crawdads Sing, a magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression, from the New York Times bestselling author of Ordinary Grace.

1932, Minnesota—the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds...

Pale Horse, Pale Rider

Author	Katherine Anne Porter
ISBN	0151707553

First published in 1939, these three short novels secured the author’s reputation as a master of short fiction.

From the gothic Old South to revolutionary Mexico, few writers have evoked such a multitude of worlds, both exterior and interior, as powerfully as Katherine Anne Porter. This...

Nothing to See Here

Author	Kevin Wilson
ISBN	0062913484

Kevin Wilson’s best book yet—a moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two children with remarkable and disturbing abilities

Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparable friends at their elite boarding school....

A Secret Life: The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland

Author	Charles Lachman
ISBN	1616082755

The child was born on September 14, 1874, at the only hospital in Buffalo, New York, that offered maternity services for unwed mothers. It was a boy, and though he entered the world in a state of illegitimacy, a distinguished name was given to this newborn: Oscar Folsom Cleveland. The son of the future...

Enemy Women

Author	Paulette Jiles
ISBN	0061337633

For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War between the States is a plague that threatens devastation, despite the family's avowed neutrality. For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family and forces her and her sisters to flee.

The treachery of...

Proof of Love

Author

Chisa Hutchinson

Audible Original

Parsing the evidence at a marital crossroads.

In a provocative theater piece conceived especially for audio, Brenda Pressley plays Constance Daley, a loyal and cultured wife who faces uncomfortable truths in her marriage after a tragic accident. As her husband...

It's Not What It Looks Like

Author

Molly Burke

Listening Length: 3 hours and 5 minutes

In an audiobook like none you’ve ever heard before, blind YouTube star Molly Burke speaks with authenticity and candor about being a purple-haired, pink-loving fashion and makeup lover in a seeing world.

Diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa,...

Unshakable Hope: Building Our Lives on the Promises of God

Author	Max Lucado
ISBN	0718096142

*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* What feels shaky in your world? Are you overwhelmed by the problems you’re facing or the pain you’re feeling? Maybe you feel hurt by the past. Disappointed by the present. Worried about the future. If so, you are not alone, but there is hope. You can live with security and...

Celine

Author	Peter Heller
ISBN	1524751065

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Painter, a luminous, masterful novel of suspense--the story of Celine, an elegant, aristocratic private eye who specializes in reuniting families, trying to make amends for a loss in her own past.

Working out of her jewel box of an apartment...

A Gracious Plenty

Author	Sheri Reynolds
ISBN	0609803875

Badly burned in a household accident when she was a child, Finch Nobles grows into a courageous and feisty loner who eschews the pity of her hometown and discovers that she can hear the voices of the people buried in her father's cemetery. Finally, when she speaks to them, they answer, telling their stories...

Ruth: Under the Wings of God

Author	John Piper
ISBN	1433514958

Life was bleak for Naomi. Her husband was dead, as were her sons. She found herself in a foreign land with only one friend-her daughter-in-law Ruth. But as she returned to her hometown of Bethlehem, a ray of divine hope broke through the dark clouds of providence. It was the barley harvest, and she...

Kinsey and Me: Stories

Author	Sue Grafton
ISBN	0399163832

A collection of stories that reveal Kinsey's origins--and Grafton's past. The nine stories that open the book show how fully formed Kinsey was from the beginning. The thirteen stories in the second part, written in the decade following her mother's death, feature Kit Blue, a younger version of Grafton...