Nothing but Ghosts

6 best books like Nothing but Ghosts (Beth Kephart): Eat, Pray, Love, The Lost Girls of Paris, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, Thirteen, Wolf Hollow, Beyond the Bright Sea

AuthorElizabeth Gilbert
ISBN0143038419
A celebrated writer's irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life.

Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She had everything an...
The Lost Girls of Paris
AuthorPam Jenoff
ISBN0778330273
From the author of the runaway bestseller The Orphan’s Tale comes a remarkable story of friendship and courage centered around three women and a ring of female spies during World War II.

1946, Manhattan

Grace Healey is rebuilding her life after losing her husband during the war....
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
AuthorSimon Winchester
ISBN0060839783
The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history. The compilation of the OED, begun in 1857,...
Thirteen
AuthorSteve Cavanagh
ISBN1409170667
The serial killer isn't on trial.

He's on the jury...

They were Hollywood's hottest power couple. They had the world at their feet. Now one of them is dead and Hollywood star Robert Solomon is charged with the brutal murder of his beautiful wife.

This is the celebrity murder...
Wolf Hollow
AuthorLauren Wolk
ISBN1101994827
Growing up in the shadows cast by two world wars, Annabelle has lived a mostly quiet, steady life in her small Pennsylvania town. Until the day new student Betty Glengarry walks into her class. Betty quickly reveals herself to be cruel and manipulative, and while her bullying seems isolated at first,...
Beyond the Bright Sea
AuthorLauren Wolk
ISBN1101994851
From the author of the critically acclaimed Wolf Hollow comes a moving story of identity and belonging.

Twelve-year-old Crow has lived her entire life on a tiny, isolated piece of the starkly beautiful Elizabeth Islands in Massachusetts. Abandoned and set adrift on a small boat when she was...
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