My Life, the Theater, and Other Tragedies
10 best books like My Life, the Theater, and Other Tragedies (Allen Zadoff): Castle in the Air, Dreamland Social Club, When We Believed in Mermaids, Scrooge #worstgiftever, All You Get Is Me, Displacement, See What I See, Taking Off, Rae: My True Story of Fear, Anxiety, and Social Phobia, Heart of the Matter
Author | Diana Wynne Jones |
ISBN | 0064473457 |
In which a humble young carpet merchant wins, then loses, the princess of his dreams
Far to the south of the land of Ingary, in the Sultanates of Rashpuht, there lived in the city of Zanzib a young and not very prosperous carpet dealer named Abdullah who loved to spend his time daydreaming. He was...
Author | Tara Altebrando |
ISBN | 0525423257 |
Jane has traveled the world with her father and brother, but it's not until her fractured family-still silently suffering from the loss of Jane's mother many years before-inherits a house and a history in Coney Island that she finally begins to find a home. With the help of a new community of friends,...
When We Believed in Mermaids
Author | Barbara O'Neal |
ISBN | 1542004527 |
From the author of The Art of Inheriting Secrets comes an emotional new tale of two sisters, an ocean of lies, and a search for the truth.
Her sister has been dead for fifteen years when she sees her on the TV news…
Josie Bianci was killed years ago on a train during a terrorist attack....
A Christmas Carol, one of the holiday's greatest traditions told . . . in texts?!
Imagine: What if Scrooge, Marley, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, and the whole Cratchit family had smartphones? A classic is reborn in this clever adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas...
Author | Yvonne Prinz |
ISBN | 0061715808 |
A summer of love, loss, justice and chickens.
Things were complicated enough for Roar, even before her father decided to yank her out of the city and go organic. Suddenly, she’s a farm girl, albeit a reluctant one, selling figs at the farmers’ market and developing her photographs in a ramshackle...
Author | Thalia Chaltas |
ISBN | 0670011991 |
Home is supposed to be a place you belong. It's supposed to be parents who are there and siblings who bug you and a life that feels comfortable. It's not supposed to be an absentee mother or a drowned sister. But that's Vera's reality, and she can't stand it anymore. So she runs. She ends up in an old mining...
Author | Gloria Whelan |
ISBN | 0061255459 |
Kate Tapert sees her life in paintings. She makes sense of the world around her by relating it to what she adores—art. Armed with a suitcase, some canvases, and a scholarship to art school in Detroit, Kate is ready to leave home and fully immerse herself in painting. Sounds like heaven. All Kate needs...
Author | Jenny Moss |
ISBN | 0802721931 |
Reimagining the days surrounding this unforgettable event in history, readers are brought back to 1986 as the astronauts prepare for the Challenger mission, and Christa McAullife trains to be the first teacher in space. When a teen named Annie meets Christa, she is fascinated by Christa's courage....
Author | Chelsea Rae Swiggett |
ISBN | 0757315275 |
Rae is beyond socially awkward.
Since she was a little girl, Rae Swiggett knew something was different about her. The sound of planes flying overhead could spark a panic attack. Being called on in class was enough to push her over the edge. She feared the unknown, life, death, people . . . even...
Author | Emily Giffin |
ISBN | 0312554168 |
Tessa Russo is the mother of two young children and the wife of a renowned pediatric surgeon. Despite her own mother's warnings, Tessa has recently given up her career to focus on her family and the pursuit of domestic happiness. From the outside, she seems destined to live a charmed life.
Valerie...
Author | Sophie Kinsella |
ISBN | 0385342047 |
Sophie Kinsella has dazzled readers with her irresistible Shopaholic novels--sensational international bestsellers that have garnered millions of devoted fans and catapulted her into the first rank of contemporary storytellers. Now her beloved heroine Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) returns...