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10 best books like Oxford Messed Up (Andrea Kayne Kaufman): Next Stop: A Memoir, It's a Happy Life: Keys to Successful Enjoyable Living, Light Under the House, Kings of Colorado, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Amazing Adventures of John Smith, Jr. AKA Houdini, Audrey's Guide to Black Magic, Tin Soldier, The Elusive Mr. McCoy, Slant of Light

Next Stop: A Memoir
AuthorGlen Finland
Next Stop is the universal story of how children grow up and parents learn to let go—no matter how difficult it may be for both of them. The summer David Finland was twenty-one, he and his mother rode the Washington, D.C., metro trains. Every day. The goal was that if David could learn the train...
It's a Happy Life: Keys to Successful Enjoyable Living
AuthorEvan Edwards
ISBN0615573363
Arrested and harassed by the Turkish police and military over 50 times, Dr. Evan Edwards shares secrets to living the happy life - discovered and hammered out while living and working in the Middle East. Full of inspirational and true dramatic stories that illustrate a wealth of penetrating insights,...
Light Under the House
AuthorAaron L.
Sarai Ravensbrook has never known power. She has never been in control of anything in her world. She has lived in the shadow of her stepfather and uncle's abuses to both her mind and body. All she has ever wanted was to have what was hers, to control her own destiny. But when a beautiful and mysterious woman...
Kings of Colorado
AuthorDavid E. Hilton
ISBN1439183821
At thirteen, William Sheppard was sent to the Swope Ranch Boys’ Reformatory for stabbing his abusive father in the chest with a pocketknife. Buried deep in the Colorado Mountains, Swope is shrouded in legend and defined by one prevailing rumor: the boys who go in never come out the same. Days from civilization...
Ladies and Gentlemen
AuthorAdam Ross
ISBN0307270718
After his widely celebrated debut, Mr. Peanut, Adam Ross now presents a darkly compelling collection of stories about brothers, loners, lovers, and lives full of good intentions, misunderstandings, and obscured motives.

A hotshot lawyer, burdened by years of guilt and resentment, comes...
The Amazing Adventures of John Smith, Jr. AKA Houdini
AuthorPeter Johnson
ISBN0061988901
For fans of Jerry Spinelli's Maniac Magee, Gary D. Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars, and Jack Gantos's Joey Pigza Books comes a hilarious and poignant slice-of-life novel from critically acclaimed author and poet Peter Johnson.

When an author comes to speak to his class in a rundown area of Providence,...
Audrey's Guide to Black Magic
AuthorJody Gehrman
Sometimes you have to fight black magic with blacker magic. But in trying to save the people she loves, will Audrey fall into the dark abyss that claimed her father?

In Book II of the Audrey's Guide series, Audrey learns about her witchy roots and continues to fight her nemesis; this time she must...
Tin Soldier
AuthorMonica Leonelle
ISBN0984234845
If you love something, let it go?

Rykken Camacho wants to find the seven archangel stones and save his girlfriend--well, ex-girlfriend, officially. But can he really dig up a secret that’s been buried for a hundred years?

His best friend Pilot is mad at him, President Vega is suspicious...
The Elusive Mr. McCoy
AuthorBrenda L. Baker
ISBN0451236890
The author of Sisters of the Sari presents a richly emotional journey of two women drawn together by an unexpected and unwanted bond…

Lesley McCoy works in a day-care center, and she is planning to start a family of her own. Her husband, David, is a homebody whose job as a wilderness guide takes...
Slant of Light
AuthorSteve Wiegenstein
ISBN0982880669
Set during the brink of the Civil War, this beautifully written novel traces James Turner, a charming, impulsive writer and lecturer; Charlotte, his down-to-earth bride; and Cabot, an idealistic Harvard-educated abolitionist as they are drawn together in a social experiment deep in the Missouri...
The Case of the Killer Divorce
AuthorBarbara Venkataraman
Reluctant lawyer, Jamie Quinn, has returned to her family law practice after a hiatus due to the death of her mother. It's business as usual until a bitter divorce case turns into a murder investigation, and Jamie's client becomes the prime suspect. When she can't untangle truth from lies, Jamie enlists...
Angels 101: An Introduction to Connecting, Working, and Healing with the Angels
AuthorDoreen Virtue
ISBN1401907598
Doreen Virtue frequently hears this question at her workshops, and usually points them to her book Healing with the Angels. Yet, even that book is a bit advanced for newcomers. One morning she clearly saw and heard the title Angels 101, and Doreen knew that the angels wanted her to write a very basic and...
Perfect Red
AuthorJennie Nash
ISBN1480142484
It's 1952 in New York City, the height of the Red Scare. When the sheltered secretary of a prominent editor becomes obsessed with the story of a glamorous French lipstick, she becomes convinced that it was the book she was born to write. To do so, however, she must overcome her belief that surrendering...
The Woman at the Light
AuthorJoanna Brady
ISBN1250003563
One afternoon in 1839, Emily Lowry's husband vanishes from Wreckers' Cay, an isolated island off the coast of Key West where he tends to the lighthouse. As days stretch into months, Emily has no choice but take charge of Wrecker's Cay and her husband's duties tending the light to support her three children,...
The Guardians of the Hidden Scepter
AuthorFrank L. Cole
ISBN1599554488
Amber never dreamed her archaeology class would turn into a top secret mission that would take her across the globe, but when her teacher goes missing, Amber realizes it's up to her to protect the Hidden Scepter or risk unleashing an ancient power too terrifying to imagine. This guaranteed page-turner...
Dark Prelude
AuthorAndrea Parnell
A chance encounter offers lovely young Silvia Bradstreet an escape from her miserable life in London. The Eastwind sails for the American colonies in two weeks. If Silvia chooses to accept the offer of a mysterious benefactor, she must be ready to risk her life for a chance at freedom.

A novella-length...
The Turning of Anne Merrick
AuthorChristine Blevins
A tale of love and espionage from the author of Midwife of the Blue Ridge... She spies for General Washington, betrays the Redcoats and battles for America's independence...

It's 1777, and a fledgling country wages an almost hopeless struggle against the might of the British Empire. Brought...
War Stories: An Enlisted Marine In Vietnam
AuthorStephen G. MacDonald
ISBN1466464445
War Stories: An Enlisted Marine In Vietnam is a memoir of my two years in the United States Marine Corps. It tells what it was like to enlist in the Marine Corps and serve as a field radio operator with an infantry battalion. We operated near the southern edge of the DMZ in Vietnam in 1967, a time and place of...
Beyond Blue: Surviving Depression & Anxiety and Making the Most of Bad Genes
AuthorTherese J. Borchard
ISBN1599951568
Therese Borchard may be one of the frankest, funniest people on the planet. That, combined with her keen writing abilities has made her Beliefnet blog, Beyond Blue, one of the most trafficked blogs on the site.

BEYOND BLUE, the book, is part memoir/part self-help. It describes Borchard's...
My Impending Death
AuthorMichael Laser
ISBN1579624006
Cynical.

Obese.

Misanthropic.

A Saint?

Angus Truax - Mr. Misery to his colleagues - profiles victims of misfortune. His articles touch hearts and inspire charity. Unfortunately for Angus, he loathes his job, his subjects and his life - so much that he decides to...
Georgie Shaw Cozy Mystery Series: Novellas 1-3
AuthorAnna Celeste Burke
USA Today bestselling author brings you fun, food, cats, and mystery. A second chance romance, too, for Georgie Shaw and Detective Jack Wheeler who meet in an unusual way! Read the first three novellas in the Georgie Shaw Cozy Mystery Series.

Here's a message for you from Georgie:

"Welcome...
Dance of Souls
AuthorAudrey Kalman
Sculptor Amy Freeman wakes one ordinary morning to find her 14-year-old son Zach gone, the only evidence of him a stray flake floating in the milky water of his cereal bowl. Seven years later, in the same California town, a middle-school science teacher (referred to by everyone except his girlfriend...
Blue Blood for Life
AuthorStacy Eaton
ISBN0985758422
Officer Kristin Greene is back for another suspenseful book packed with romance, mystery and intrigue. When Kristin goes back to work she’s happier then she’s been in a long time. Her new status in life has her solving crimes faster and better then she ever could before. She’s on top of the world,...
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