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10 best books like The 13 Clocks and The Wonderful O (James Thurber): The Twenty-One Balloons, Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali, The Hidden Staircase, The Secret World of Og, D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II, Flat Stanley, The Midnight Folk, Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon, The Chick is in the Mail, Did You Say Chicks?!

The Twenty-One Balloons
AuthorWilliam Pène du Bois
ISBN0140320970
One month after graduating from college, I started working. That was in 1984. I am now in my 4th company and except for my paid vacation leaves and rare sick days, I have never been, even a single day, out of the corporate rate race.

27 years of working and trying to earn a living.

I know it...
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali
AuthorKris Holloway
Monique and the Mango Rains is the compelling story of a rare friendship between a young Peace Corps volunteer and a midwife who became a legend. Monique Dembele saved lives and dispensed hope in a place where childbirth is a life-and-death matter. This book tells of her unquenchable passion to better...
The Hidden Staircase
AuthorCarolyn Keene
ISBN0448095025
After receiving a call from her friend Helen Corning, Nancy agrees to help solve a baffling mystery. Helen's Aunt Rosemary has been living with her mother at the old family mansion, and they have noticed many strange things. They have heard music, thumps, and creaking noises at night, and seen eerie...
The Secret World of Og
AuthorPierre Berton
ISBN0385659113
The Canadian Classic, written by Pierre Berton and illustrated by his daughter, Patsy is now a 26 episode animated children’s series on CBC television beginning Saturday, September 9, 2006. Berton often cited The Secret World of Og as his favourite of his forty-seven books. It has sold more than...
D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
AuthorSarah Rose
The dramatic, untold true story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to sabotage the Nazis and pave the way for Allied victory in World War II.

In 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was fighting. Churchill believed...
Flat Stanley
AuthorJeff Brown
ISBN0060097914
When Stanley Lambchop wakes up one morning, his brother, Arthur, is yelling. A bulletin board fell on Stanley during the night, and now he is only half an inch thick! Amazing things begin happening to him. Stanley gets rolled up, mailed, and flown like a kite. He even gets to help catch two dangerous art...
The Midnight Folk
AuthorJohn Masefield
ISBN0006724167
‘Don’t you have any fear, Kay. We’re the guards, we are. We hear that the house has gone all to sixes and sevens since we left it, but that’s going to be remedied now’

Young Kay Harker lives in an old house in the country, filled with portraits of his ancestors. His only companions are...
Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon
AuthorMichael J. Collins
ISBN0312532938
It looked for a while like Michael Collins would spend his life breaking concrete and throwing rocks for the Vittorio Scalese Construction Company. He liked the work and he liked the pay. But a chance remark by one of his coworkers made him realize that he wanted to involve himself in something bigger,...
The Chick is in the Mail
AuthorEsther M. Friesner
ISBN0671319507
From the silly to the simply smashing, the Chicks in Chainmail are back to save us once again! Whether defending a charity ball against rapscallion pirates or taking names at a medievalist tournament in the Asteroid Belt, whether bringing a snooty loremaster to his rightful comeuppance or protecting...
Did You Say Chicks?!
AuthorEsther M. Friesner
ISBN0671878670
A brief word from the characters: We seem to have a failure to communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached Number 3 on the Locus bestseller list, and everybody wanted more, please. But people, you need to take us sword-swinging amazons a little more seriously....
Fen Country: Twenty-Six Stories Featuring Gervase Fen
AuthorEdmund Crispin
ISBN0140088156
Dandelions and hearing aids, a bloodstained cat, a Leonardo drawing, a corpse with an alibi, a truly poisonous letter … just some of the unusual clues that Oxford don/detective Gervase Fen and his friend Inspector Humbleby are confronted with in this sparkling collection of short mystery stories...
The Long Divorce
AuthorEdmund Crispin
ISBN0140013040
Go with me like good angels to my end,
And as the long divorce of steel falls on me,
Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice,
And lift my soul to heaven. (Shakespeare: Henry VIII 2.1.92-95)

These lines, spoken by Buckingham just before his execution, provide Edmund Crispin with...
Detectives in Togas
AuthorHenry Winterfeld
ISBN0152162801
In these two delightful history-mysteries, seven boys in Ancient Rome solve strange crimes . . . thanks to some help from their cranky teacher, a little bit of logic, and a lot of amusing misadventure.

Yes, Rufus wrote CAIUS IS A DUMBBELL on his tablet at school, but no, he did not break into the...
An Absorbing Errand: How Artists and Craftsmen Make Their Way to Mastery
AuthorJanna Malamud Smith
ISBN1619020041
An Absorbing Errand uses stories of artists’ lives, personal anecdotes, and insights from the author’s work as a psychotherapist to examine the psychological obstacles that prevent people from staying with, and relishing, the process of art-making. Each chapter is devoted to a problem intrinsic...
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