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10 best books like Spacer and Rat (Margaret Bechard): Miss Pinkerton, Who Comes with Cannons?, Evvy's Civil War, The Tamarack Tree, Converting Kate, The Rattle-Rat, The Burning Time, Changing Woman and Her Sisters: Stories of Goddesses from Around the World, Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon, Stolen Voices

Miss Pinkerton
AuthorMary Roberts Rinehart
ISBN1575662558
When Herbert Wynne is found dead, with a bullet in the forehead, the obvious explanation is murder. But how could it be when the only possible suspect is Herbert's frail Aunt Juliet? Posing as Juliet's private duty nurse, the Homicide Bureau's Hilda Adams develops grave suspicions. Why is the maid terrified...
Who Comes with Cannons?
AuthorPatricia Beatty
ISBN0688110282
When Truth Hopkins's father dies, she goes to live with her uncle and his family on their North Carolina farm. Like Truth, the Bardwells are Quakers. They oppose slavery but refuse to take up arms in the civil war that is now being waged to end this inhuman institution. Then one day, a runaway slave takes...
Evvy's Civil War
AuthorMiriam Brenaman
ISBN0399237135
On her fourteenth birthday in June of 1861, spunky Evelyn Chamberlyn finds herself stuffed into a corset, a dress with hoops and a hairstyle so ornate she calls it the Edifice. It is time for her to be introduced to society-no more climbing fences and jumping into streams. She is expected to be a lady now....
The Tamarack Tree
AuthorPatricia Clapp
ISBN0140324062
Orphaned at thirteen, Rosemary Leigh was transplanted from England to Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1859. Four years later, to distract her from her fear as cannonballs batter the besieged city, Rosemary writes about what she has been through.While she has been growing up, enjoying the social pleasures...
Converting Kate
AuthorBeckie Weinheimer
ISBN0670061522
Kate was raised in the Holy Divine Church. It influenced everything from her homeschooling to her handmade clothes. But ever since her unbelieving father's death last year, she has suspected that there's more to life than memorizing scripture.

Taking advantage of their move to a new town,...
The Rattle-Rat
AuthorJanwillem van de Wetering
ISBN1569471037
Douwe Scherjoen was a well-to-do livestock dealer from the remote Dutch province of Friesland. Then his corpse was found, half-charred by flames, floating in a dory in Amsterdam's harbor. No one knows why he was in the nation's capital, far from the bucolic pleasures of his native village of Dingjum....
The Burning Time
AuthorCarol Matas
ISBN1551436248
Rose's idyllic existence in sixteenth century France is destroyed when her father dies, and her mother--a midwife and healer to half the families in the town--is arrested and accused of being a witch. When her mother begs Rose to save herself, Rose must weigh the terror of death against the pain of life...
Changing Woman and Her Sisters: Stories of Goddesses from Around the World
AuthorKatrin Hyman Tchana
ISBN0823419991
This celebration of feminine power, beauty, and complexity tells the stories of ten goddesses from cultures the world over. There is tremendous variety in this volume including the stories of Kuay Yin, the compassionate Buddhist goddess; Durga, the fierce Hindu warrior goddess; lx Chel, an ancient...
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
AuthorCatherine Thimmesh
ISBN0618507574
Here is a rare perspective on a story we only thought we knew. For Apollo 11, the first moon landing, is a story that belongs to many, not just the few and famous. It belongs to the seamstress who put together twenty-two layers of fabric for each space suit. To the engineers who created a special heat shield...
Stolen Voices
AuthorEllen Dee Davidson
The Giver meets The Uglies

Miri lives in the futuristic world of Noveskina where 15 year olds reveal their "talent" to the community. After your talent is displayed, you receive a mask over your face which - you are told - is to help you become an adult, but really just controls your talent. In Noveskina,...
The Goodness Gene
AuthorSonia Levitin
ISBN0525473971
How much can you trust the government? How much power should you give them? How does one define “best interest”? Levitin’s book makes the reader think about issues such as these. It is set in a future-world where the locations in the former United States have been renamed, and all the inhabitants...
The Cincinnati Red Stalkings
AuthorTroy Soos
ISBN1575664089
The lazy days of June 1921 are dark ones for baseball fans as the trial of the Chicago "Black Sox" players accused of throwing the 1919 World Series begins. But utility infielder Mickey Rawlings thinks he has something to cheer about -- playing for the team that won that series, the Cincinnati Reds. Until...
A Fine Old Conflict
AuthorJessica Mitford
ISBN0394726154
'A Fine Old Conflict' is the sequel to 'Hons and Rebels' the first part of Jessica Mitford's extraordinary life story. It tells of her experiences in the Communist Party which she joined in California during World War II and left in 1958, illustrating, with biting humour, a neglected chapter of American...
A Rose for Virtue
AuthorNorah Lofts
ISBN0385008457
Hortense Beauharnais finds herself rubbing shoulders with royalty as her mother remarries to become Napoleon Bonaparte's wife. As Napoleon struggles for power on the battlefields of Europe, so Hortense charts her way through the French court -- a chessboard world where the motives are jealousy...
The ABCs of Handwriting Analysis: The Complete Guide to Techniques and Interpretations
AuthorClaude Santoy
ISBN1569243468
The ABCs of Handwriting Analysis is an indispensable tool for anyone hoping to peer behind the letters on a page—professionals responsible for hiring and managing other employees, and hobbyists looking to uncover the truths we reveal through our writing. It demonstrates proven techniques for...
On Language
AuthorWilliam Safire
ISBN0812909372
William Safire is the most widely read writer on language in America. In his witty way, Mr. Safire enlightens us concerning proper usage, correct pronunciation, the roots of our daily discourse, and the vacuous vogue lingo in which "subsume" is co-opting "co-opt," wood-burning stoves become "energy...
The Man Who Kept The Secrets: Richard Helms And The CIA
AuthorThomas Powers
ISBN0394507770
Richard Helms is the quintessential CIA man. For 30 years--from the very inception of the Central Intelligence Agency & before--he occupied pivotal positions in that shadowy world: OSS operator, spymaster, planner, plotter, &, finally, for over 6 years, Agency director. No other was so...
With Friends Like These...
AuthorGillian Roberts
ISBN0345465350
Well-known Broadway playwright and TV producer Lyle Zacharias is throwing himself a lavish birthday party in his hometown of Philadelphia. Guests include his current wife, ex-wives, friends, former partners -- not to mention Amanda Pepper and her own irrepressible mother, Bea. Yet when Lyle drops...
Murder at the Feast of Rejoicing
AuthorLynda S. Robinson
ISBN0345395328
Foul play once again stalks the court of King Tut in the third historical whodunit featuring ancient Egyptian sleuth Lord Meren.

When the murder of his beautiful cousin-in-law shatters Lord Meren's homecoming celebration, the man who is "the Eyes and Ears of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun" plunges...
The Star Fox
AuthorPoul Anderson
ISBN0586026312
No one will believe the truth about the ingenious plot of the Aleriona people to claim title to the almost untouched planet - New Europe. Only Gunnar Heim dares risk his life and interplantary peace to set New Europe free from control of these strange and alien beings. A space-age patriot carves a civilization...
House of Getty
AuthorRussell Miller
ISBN0030037697
The tormented saga of the Getty family reads like the script for Dynasty, interweaving boardroom battles, sex, money, drugs, power, crime, tragedy, and family intrigue.

At the center stands the figure of John Paul Getty, the grandfather, an eccentric oil billionaire believed to have been...
The Case of the Lonely Heiress
AuthorErle Stanley Gardner
ISBN0345310128
A suspicious personal ad conceals nefarious intent--and eventually lands in the lap of Perry Mason. It appears that Marilyn Marlow inherited a small fortune from her mother, who got the sum from her wealthy employer. But now the old man's relatives are contesting the will. Whoever sways Rose Keeling,...
Journey Between Worlds
AuthorSylvia Engdahl
ISBN0399245324
Eighteen-year-old Melinda Ashley never wanted to go to Mars. She had her life all planned out - marry Ross and become a teacher. but when her estranged father convinces her to take an interplanetary vacation, she finds herself tempted to leave behind her comfortable existence on Earth. Mars isn't at...
A Tapestry of Murders
AuthorPaul Doherty
ISBN0747209677
Another excellent read in the Canterbury Pilgrims dark and disturbing tales series from Paul Doherty.
The author really knows his subject, his scenes of description are never wasted on the mindlessly trivial - he makes the otherwise trivial street descriptions fascinating.
The Man at Law...
The Gathering Flame
AuthorDebra Doyle
ISBN0812534956
This is actually somewhere around 2.5 stars for me. I enjoyed it, but not as much as By Honor Betrayed (the other Mageworlds book I've read). Also, I requested it under the impression that it was the fourth in the series, which it technically is, but it is *actually* the *prequel* to the series. I am doomed...
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