Suspension
10 best books like Suspension (Richard E. Crabbe): The Duke and I, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, The Other's Gold, SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance, Excalibur, Forgotten Bones, Animal Dreams, The American Agent, Enemy of God, The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur
| Author | Julia Quinn |
| ISBN | 0380800829 |
Can there be any greater challenge to London’s Ambitious Mamas than an unmarried duke?
—Lady Whistledown’s Society Papers, April 1813
By all accounts, Simon Basset is on the verge of proposing to his best friend’s sister, the lovely—and almost-on-the-shelf—Daphne...
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a darkly hilarious coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer. After a childhood moving from one academic outpost to another with her father (a man prone to aphorisms and meteoric affairs),...
| Author | Elizabeth Ames |
| ISBN | 1984878492 |
An insightful and sparkling novel that opens on a college campus and follows the friendship of four women across life-defining turning points
Assigned to the same suite during their freshman year at Quincy-Hawthorne College, Lainey, Ji Sun, Alice, and Margaret quickly become inseparable....
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
| Author | Steven D. Levitt |
| ISBN | 0060889578 |
The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling over four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world. Now, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with SuperFreakonomics, and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel...
| Author | Bernard Cornwell |
| ISBN | 0312206488 |
In The Winter King and Enemy of God Bernard Cornwell demonstrated his astonishing ability to make the oft-told legend of King Arthur fresh and new for our time. Now, in this riveting final volume of The Warlord Chronicles, Cornwell tells the unforgettable tale of Arthur's final struggles against the...
| Author | Vivian Barz |
| ISBN | 1542041643 |
An unlikely pair teams up to investigate a brutal murder in a haunting thriller that walks the line between reality and impossibility.
When small-town police officers discover the grave of a young boy, they're quick to pin the crime on a convicted felon who lives nearby. But when it comes to...
| Author | Barbara Kingsolver |
| ISBN | 0060921145 |
"Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach....
| Author | Jacqueline Winspear |
| ISBN | 0062436694 |
Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, “one of the great fictional heroines” (Parade), investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a page-turning tale of love and war, terror and survival.
When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent...
| Author | Bernard Cornwell |
| ISBN | 0312187149 |
4.5/5 Stars
Enemy of God, the second book in 'The Warlord Chronicles' trilogy by Bernard Cornwell, and the series so far, has truly been serendipity for me.
As I mentioned in my previous review, I’ve never bothered to start Cornwell’s work, it brings me joy when someone, a friend...
The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur
| Author | Bernard Cornwell |
| ISBN | 0312156960 |
Uther, the High King, has died, leaving the infant Mordred as his only heir. His uncle, the loyal and gifted warlord Arthur, now rules as caretaker for a country which has fallen into chaos - threats emerge from within the British kingdoms while vicious Saxon armies stand ready to invade. As he struggles...
| Author | Maud Hart Lovelace |
| ISBN | 0690138768 |
Three of a Kind
Betsy and Tacy are best friends. Then Tib moves into the neighborhood and the three of them start to play together. The grown-ups think they will quarrel, but they don't. Sometimes they quarrel with Betsy's and Tacy's bossy big sisters, but they never quarrel among themselves.They...
The Lager Queen of Minnesota
| Author | J. Ryan Stradal |
| ISBN | 0399563059 |
A novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate and the secrets of making a world-class beer.
Two sisters, one farm. A family is split when their father leaves their shared inheritance entirely to Helen, his younger daughter. Despite baking award-winning pies at the local nursing home,...
| Author | Yannick Murphy |
| ISBN | 0062023144 |
WHAT I WOULD RATE THIS BOOK IF GOODREADS WOULD LET ME: 2.5 stars.
WHAT HAPPENS IN THE STORY: Animal doctor stuff, human doctor stuff, family stuff, father-son stuff, hunting and swimming, and the occasional possible spaceship sighting.
WHAT I COULDN'T DECIDE WHILE READING IT: If the unusual...
The Boy Who Granted Dreams
1909. Ellis Island. Arriving off one of the many transatlantic freighters are Cetta Luminita and her illegitimate baby boy Natale, fleeing the poverty and violence of their Southern Italian hometown. Having sacrificed everything, and endured every possible shame, Cetta has but one wish: that her...
| Author | Mona Kasten |
| ISBN | 3736306245 |
Sie kommen aus unterschiedlichen Welten.
Und doch sind sie füreinander bestimmt.
Ruby ist am Boden zerstört. Noch nie hatte sie für jemanden so intensive Gefühle wie für James – und noch nie wurde sie so verletzt. Sie wünscht sich ihr altes Leben zurück – als sie auf dem Maxton...
| Author | Adriana Trigiani |
| ISBN | 0062866648 |
Set in the lush Big Band era of the 1940s and World War II, this spellbinding saga from beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani tells the story of two talented working class kids who marry and become a successful singing act, until time, temptation, and the responsibilities of home...
Suburban housewife Juliette Granger has been living a secret life ... a life that's about to turn deadly for everyone she loves.
Fearing for her life after witnessing a gruesome murder, Juliette Granger whisks her two-year-old daughter Nora away in the dead of night and flees, planning to...
| Author | Carmen Korn |
| ISBN | 3463406829 |
Vier Frauen
Zwei Weltkriege
Hundert Jahre Deutschland
Einer neuen – einer friedlichen – Generation auf die Welt helfen, das ist Henny Godhusens Plan, als sie im Frühjahr 1919 die Hebammenausbildung an der Hamburger Frauenklinik Finkenau beginnt. Gerade einmal neunzehn...
| Author | Alexander Tilney |
| ISBN | 0316450375 |
In the tradition of Prep and Old School, a sharp and evocative portrait of insiders--and outsiders--at an elite boarding school who must face a reality very different from the one they imagined.
St. James is an exclusive New England boarding school known for grooming generations of leaders....
| Author | Elinor Lipman |
| ISBN | 0544808258 |
Daphne Maritch doesn't quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school yearbook she inherits from her mother, who held this relic dear. Too dear. The late June Winter Maritch was the teacher to whom the class of '68 had dedicated its yearbook, and in turn she went on to attend every...
Das Kind, das nachts die Sonne fand
Kolejna powieść Luca di Fulvio, autora światowych bestsellerów, które sprzedały się w nakładzie 1,5 miliona egzemplarzy. Tym razem autor przenosi nas na początek XV wieku do nieistniejącej krainy - księstwa Saxii.
Książę Marcus II był jeszcze dzieckiem, gdy na dziedzińcu...
A story of the lives of three women, tightly woven together and surviving the harsh societal environment of an Appalachian mining town in the early to mid-1900s. Two religions contrast with each other—the Cherokee spirits of the native people and the Old Testament God of the white settlers—as...
“A masterpiece of thriller and mystery. Blake Pierce did a magnificent job developing characters with a psychological side so well described that we feel inside their minds, follow their fears and cheer for their success. Full of twists, this book will keep you awake until the turn of the last page.”...
