Raising Abel

10 best books like Raising Abel (Carolyn Nash): Inda, Ishmael Toffee, The Butterfly Forest, Sleetmute, Brains, Trains & Video Games, The Snake and the Spider, The Unwritten Law: A True Crime of Passion, The Kindness of Strangers: Penniless Across America, Found Shadows, Silent Scream

Inda
AuthorSherwood Smith
ISBN0756402646
“Power begets politics, and politics are more dangerous than war because there are fewer rules.”

May I present you one of the best hidden gems under the radar of Goodreads hype I have ever discovered? Inda brings the best of traditional high fantasy: the best tropes and arcs reworked in...
Ishmael Toffee
AuthorRoger Smith
ON A KNIFE-EDGE
Ishmael Toffee has killed more men than he can remember. His knife put him behind bars and kept him there for twenty years as a prison gang assassin until he lost his taste for blood. Paroled, he finds himself with no money and no family. And no knife in his hand.

He gets a job as...
The Butterfly Forest
AuthorTom Lowe
He hid the old pencil-drawn map for 40 years.

The guards never found it.

After 40 years in San Quentin, Luke Palmer leaves with a state-issued suit, $100 dollars to buy a bus ticket, and a map that will lead to a promise and into the heart of a dark forest.

"The Butterfly Forest...
Sleetmute
AuthorStan Resnicoff
ISBN0615687717
New York City. 1968. I was 24. I had just graduated from college. I applied to VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) as a possible deferment from the Army and Vietnam. I was young and I thought I knew everything. I figured if they had VISTA in any state they had to have VISTA in every state. I requested an...
Brains, Trains & Video Games
AuthorAlicia Hart
Brains, Trains & Video Games: Living The Autism Life details the emotional, humorous and often profoundly insightful journey of an everyday family raising a child with autism. This is a book about life with Ewan—the center of one family's universe and the gravity that holds them together. Far...
The Snake and the Spider
AuthorKaren Kingsbury
It began with a teenager kissing his mother good-bye. It ended with the discovery of human bones in the Florida underbrush. Two Michigan teenagers were enjoying their dream vacation in Daytona Beach, Florida. Then, along came a spider and a snake....

Spider was a bone-thin loser. Snake was...
The Unwritten Law: A True Crime of Passion
AuthorDanny Cantrell
ISBN0989169707
The Historic Trial that Divided the Women of America!

Pearl, a stunning flapper in the Roaring Twenties, has danced for Rudolph Valentino, and enjoys the company of any man she chooses--until she decides to carry on an affair with Morgan, a married rural man with two children.

Morgan's...
The Kindness of Strangers: Penniless Across America
AuthorMike McIntyre
Wall Street Journal bestseller...Featured on Oprah...The inspirational account of one man's continental leap of faith--and the country that caught him

What would you do if you had to journey penniless across America, depending only on the kindness of those you met along the way? If you're...
Found Shadows
AuthorP.T. Hylton
Decades ago, six children from across the United States disappeared on the same afternoon. Now the only one who escaped is the only one who can stop it from happening again.

Eric Partin doesn’t understand what happened thirty years ago. All he knows is that he was taken by strangers and locked...
Silent Scream
AuthorAngela Marsons
ISBN1909490911
Even the darkest secrets can’t stay buried forever…
Five figures gather round a shallow grave. They had all taken turns to dig. An adult sized hole would have taken longer. An innocent life had been taken but the pact had been made. Their secrets would be buried, bound in blood …Years later,...
Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie
AuthorHarold Schechter
At a remote little inn not far from the Kansas homestead of Laura Ingalls Wilder lived the Bender family. These pioneers welcomed unwary visitors with jackrabbit stew and a sledgehammer to the skull.In time, their apple orchard gave up its secrets—a burial ground for their mutilated victims, each...
The Lost Boys of Mr Dickens: How the British Empire turned artful dodgers into child killers
AuthorSteve Harris
As engrossing as a novel, this story of the death of childhood in the cradle of the world's mightiest empire, and the atmospheric tale of crime and punishment leading to a sensational murder trial is from another time but implicitly raises questions which remain with us today.
Steve Harris' book...
The Magpies
AuthorMark Edwards
ISBN1483911896
Fear lives next door...

When Jamie and Kirsty move into their first home together they are full of optimism. The future, in which they plan to get married and start a family, is bright. The other residents of their building seem friendly too: the horror writer and the middle-aged herbalist who...
Lifeboat No. 8: An Untold Tale of Love, Loss, and Surviving the Titanic
AuthorElizabeth Kaye
When the Titanic started sinking, who would make it off alive? The two cousins who had been so eager to see their first iceberg? The maid who desperately tried to escape with the baby in her care? The young newlyweds who’d booked passage despite warnings not to?

One hundred years after that...
Calabama
AuthorSteve Brewer
CALABAMA is hillbilly noir in the vein of TV's "Justified," but it's set in the wilds of far Northern California.

It's the story of Eric Newlin, a slacker who works for his father-in-law in the remote town of Redding. A Corvette flies over Eric's head in a freak accident, and he walks away without...
The Final Winter
AuthorIain Rob Wright
Critically acclaimed début novel of bestselling author, Iain Rob Wright.

What would you do if it started snowing in every country in the world? Would you panic? For a ragtag group of strangers gathered at a dilapidated English pub, the best solution is a pint of beer with a hearty shot of denial....
The Boy From The Wild
AuthorPeter Meyer
An Adventure story never told, until now.

Peter Meyer grew up on an African game reserve. His idyllic childhood was spent running wild in the bush with Zulu friends and other free spirits.

His adventures in the wilderness honed his character, nurtured by an inspirational father who...
Locked Up In La Mesa
AuthorEldon Asp
ISBN0983723702
In the freewheeling '70s, La Mesa Penitentiary was a prison unlike any other, a colorful little pueblo on the east side of Tijuana that was home to the worst criminals imaginable-and their entire families. Everything was controlled by the inmates, and the world they created was a bizarre reflection...
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