Old Man and Mr. Smith: A Fable
5 best books like Old Man and Mr. Smith: A Fable (Peter Ustinov): Strange Objects, A Handful of Time, A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L'Engle, Author of A Wrinkle in Time, A Late Phoenix, The Religious Body
| Author | Gary Crew |
| ISBN | 1863301135 |
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On 4 June 1629 the Dutch vessel Batavia struck uncharted rocks off the Western Australian coast. By the time help arrived over 120 men, women and children had met their deaths - not in the sea but murdered by two fellow survivors, Wouter...
When Patricia's mother sends her to her cousins' cottage for the summer, Patricia doesn't want to go. She doesn't know her cousins at all, and she's never been good at camping or canoeing, let alone making new friends. When she arrives at the cottage, her worst fears come true: her cousin Kelly teases...
A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L'Engle, Author of A Wrinkle in Time
| Author | Sarah Arthur |
| ISBN | 0310353408 |
Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time has captured the imagination of millions - from literary sensation to timeless classic and now a major motion picture starring Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Storm Reid, and Mindy Kaling. A Light So Lovely tells the story of the woman at the center of it all -...
| Author | Catherine Aird |
| ISBN | 0553254421 |
The title may refer to evidence rising from the rubble and ashes. Set only a few decades after WW2, memories are the best way to reveal who shot and buried a pregnant young woman beneath a bombed-out building site under new construction. When one suspect is murdered, the perpetrator pool shrinks.
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| Author | Catherine Aird |
| ISBN | 1601870124 |
Just recently I read Past Tense, the most current in Catherine Aird's Inspector Sloan series. When I was hunting around for more books to read for the Birth Year Challenge: Time Machine Version, I was interested to see that the very first Sloan book, The Religious Body, was published in my target year:...
