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9 best books like Selling Hope (Kristin O'Donnell Tubb): 84, Charing Cross Road, The Maltese Falcon, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, Goose Chase, Miss Chopsticks, The Fairies of Nutfolk Wood, Blind Hope: An Unwanted Dog and the Woman She Rescued, Dangerous Waters: An Adventure on Titanic, Save Me a Seat

84, Charing Cross Road
AuthorHelene Hanff
ISBN0140143505
This charming classic, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share...
The Maltese Falcon
AuthorDashiell Hammett
ISBN0752865331
Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade's partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby's trail, Spade finds himself...
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
AuthorCatherynne M. Valente
ISBN0312649614
Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her mother went to work. One day, September is met at her kitchen window by a Green Wind (taking the form of a gentleman in a green jacket), who invites her on an adventure, implying that her help...
Goose Chase
AuthorPatrice Kindl
ISBN0142302082
It starts when Alexandria, a poor, plain goose girl, offers her own bread and water to a hungry old woman — who just happens to be a witch in disguise. Poof! Alexandria is suddenly heartstoppingly beautiful. Her hair rains down gold dust, and the tears she sheds turn to diamonds. Soon a prince and a king...
Miss Chopsticks
AuthorXinran
ISBN0701180420
Xinran takes her readers to the heart of modern Chinese society in this delightful and absorbing tale of three peasant girls getting to grips with life in the big city.

The Li sisters don’t have much education, but one thing has been drummed into them: their mother is a failure because she hasn’t...
The Fairies of Nutfolk Wood
AuthorBarb Bentler Ullman
ISBN0060736143
My 3 stars is not a criticism of the book - just a rating of how much I enjoyed it. I read this to my daughter (who is 6) and she liked some of it and didn't like some of it. It was written well (very well for a first book!). The characters and situations are believable. There is a fair amount of fun to bed. But on a...
Blind Hope: An Unwanted Dog and the Woman She Rescued
AuthorKim Meeder
ISBN1601422806
An unwanted dog. An emotional rescue.
Two lives forever changed.

Laurie's dreams had been shattered before she came to work at Crystal Peaks Youth Ranch—the ranch of rescued dreams—where broken horses and broken children encounter healing every day. In an attempt to soothe...
Dangerous Waters: An Adventure on Titanic
AuthorGregory Mone
ISBN1596436735

A stowaway, a stolen book, a murderous villain: an adventure on the most famous shipwreck in history.  The great ocean liner Titanic is preparing to cross the Atlantic. On board is a sinister thief bent on stealing a rare book that may be the key to unlocking infinite treasure, a wealthy academic...
Save Me a Seat
AuthorSarah Weeks
ISBN0545846609
Joe and Ravi might be from very different places, but they're both stuck in the same place: SCHOOL.

Joe's lived in the same town all his life, and was doing just fine until his best friends moved away and left him on his own.

Ravi's family just moved to America from India, and he's finding...
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