Survivor
10 best books like Survivor (Tabitha King): The Crossing, The Murderer's Daughters, Princess of the Midnight Ball, Crossing to Safety, Furnace, Good Enough to Dream, Latitude Zero, The Illusionist, End of Story, Revolution #9
| Author | Cormac McCarthy |
| ISBN | 0394574753 |
Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of language is matched only by its breadth of experience and depth of thought. In the bootheel of New Mexico hard on the frontier, Billy and Boyd Parham are just boys in the years before the Second World War, but on...
| Author | Randy Susan Meyers |
| ISBN | 0312576986 |
Lulu and Merry’s childhood was never ideal, but on the day before Lulu’s tenth birthday their father drives them into a nightmare. He’s always hungered for the love of the girl’s self-obsessed mother; after she throws him out, their troubles turn deadly.
Lulu’s mother warned her...
Princess of the Midnight Ball
| Author | Jessica Day George |
| ISBN | 1599903229 |
A tale of twelve princesses doomed to dance until dawn…
Galen is a young soldier returning from war; Rose is one of twelve princesses condemned to dance each night for the King Under Stone. Together Galen and Rose will search for a way to break the curse that forces the princesses to dance...
Called a "magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom" by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century. Tracing the lives,...
| Author | Muriel Gray |
| ISBN | 0002257157 |
Josh Spiller is a long-distance truck driver. Although his girlfriend is pregnant, he's got no major personal problems--until the day he rolls into a small town called Furnace, where a middle-aged woman pushes a baby carriage straight into his wheels and then vanishes. The dead baby's teenage mother...
| Author | Roger Kahn |
| ISBN | 0803277792 |
Roger Kahn’s first major league hit was a grand slam: The Boys of Summer, his runaway bestseller that immortalized the 1950s Brooklyn Dodgers. Now Kahn does the same for players whose moment in the sun has not yet arrived. Good Enough to Dream is the story of his year as owner of the Class A, very minor...
| Author | Windsor Chorlton |
| ISBN | 0752802097 |
Latitude Zero, I found, doesn't have a lot of strength in its plot. Like many books before (and after) it, the common theme of an unfortunate mishap such as a plane crash stranding ordinary citizens and leading them to behaviour previously never thought possible, survival instincts kicking in, has...
| Author | Dinitia Smith |
| ISBN | 0684848198 |
The Illusionist is the sensuous and haunting tale of Dean Lily, an amateur magician whose arrival in Sparta, New York, upsets the landscape of this small town on the wane. Dean, a master of the sleight of hand, is also a master of seduction and charm—which becomes apparent as he woos and wins the hearts...
| Author | Peter Abrahams |
| ISBN | 0061130346 |
Aspiring author Ivy Seidel accepts a part-time position teaching writing to a group of convicted criminals hoping the experience will add depth and darkness to her own work.
But in the haunting writings of charismatic inmate Vance Harrow she discovers a talent possibly greater than her own....
| Author | Peter Abrahams |
| ISBN | 0345445805 |
Blake Wrightman died during the Vietnam War. Not on a Southeast Asian battlefield, but on an American college campus. He died the day the bomb he planted at an anti-war protest claimed a small boy’s life—and forced Blake Wrightman to vanish. Now, after twenty-years as “Charlie Ochs,” Cape...
