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10 best books like The Art of Disappearing (Ivy Pochoda): The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno, The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown, Sourland, Missy, Undrawn, The Glassblower's Daughter, Girl Mary, The End of Boys, Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II (Oxford Oral History Series), Love Letters from Cell 92

The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno
AuthorEllen Bryson
ISBN0805091920
Water for Elephants meets Geek Love in this riveting first novel, an enchanting love story set in P. T. Barnum's American Museum in 1865 New York City

Bartholomew Fortuno, the World's Thinnest Man, believes that his unusual body is a gift. Hired by none other than P. T. Barnum to work at his...
The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown
AuthorClaire Ridgway
During the spring of 1536 in Tudor England, events conspire to bring down Anne Boleyn, the Queen of England. The coup against the Queen results in the brutal executions of six innocent people - Anne Boleyn herself, her brother, and four courtiers - and the rise of a new Queen. Drawing on sixteenth century...
Sourland
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
ISBN0061996521
Joyce Carol Oates is not only one of our most important novelists and literary critics, she is also an unparalleled master of the short story. "Sourland"--sixteen previously uncollected stories that explore the power of violence, loss, and grief to shape the psyche as well as the soul--shows us an...
Missy
AuthorChris Hannan
ISBN0374199833
Missy is laudanum, or liquid opium. Missy is Dol McQueen, a nineteen-year-old "flash-girl" traveling the arduous wagon trail from San Francisco to the boomtowns of the Sierra Nevada. Her purpose: to fleece the silver miners and to have a marvelous time. Permanently gonged on missy, Dol and her entrepreneurial...
Undrawn
AuthorConchie Fernandez
Kyle Reed stands on the verge of his lifelong dream of artistic immortality when a call from his estranged older brother Stuart puts a halt to everything in his carefully constructed life. Kyle faces the impossible decision to go back "home" and attempt to undo the many painful choices he made that severed...
The Glassblower's Daughter
AuthorFrances Clarke
The Glassblowers Daughter
By Frances Clarke
276 Pages
5 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
I'm going to begin my review by quoting a fellow reviewer of this book. "Raven" conveys what I feel, with such eloquence, it bears repeating. 
"This book reads like a single sentence, in that it...
Girl Mary
AuthorPetru Popescu
ISBN1416532633
A hauntingly beautiful novel, bringing to life one of history’s most mysterious characters, Mary of Nazareth, as a beautiful, complicated, utterly believable girl in love.

• In a bestselling tradition: Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist, Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent, Francois Mauriac’s...
The End of Boys
AuthorPeter Brown Hoffmeister
ISBN1593764200
Peter Hoffmeister was a nervous child who ran away repeatedly and bit his fingernails until they bled. Home-schooled until the age of fourteen, he had only to deal with his parents and siblings on a daily basis, yet even that sometimes proved too much for him. Over the years, he watched his mother disintegrate...
Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II (Oxford Oral History Series)
AuthorJ. Todd Moye
ISBN0195386558
In this inspiring account of the Tuskegee Airmen--the country's first African American military pilots--historian J. Todd Moye captures the challenges and triumphs of these brave aviators in their own words, drawing on more than 800 interviews recorded for the National Park Service's Tuskegee...
Love Letters from Cell 92
AuthorDietrich Bonhoeffer
ISBN0687010985
A brilliant theologian hanged by the Nazis in 1945 for taking part in a plot to kill Hitler, Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived out his Christian commitment to the very end of his life. This collection of correspondence between Bonhoeffer and von Wedemeyer--long anticipated but never before published--offers...
Meets Girl
AuthorWill Entrekin
"It’s romance and fairy tales. But it’s magic and whimsy too. It’s a writer’s lament and a coming-of-age tale (for lack of a better cliché.) It’s experimentation and taking chances. It’s poetry and music. It’s love and art." -LL Book Review

"Silly and poignant and real . . ....
Lewis resa
AuthorPer Olov Enquist
ISBN9113009672
Två stora folkrörelser präglade 1900-talet, arbetarrörelsen och den kristna väckelsen. Per Olov Enquist har skrivit om arbetarrörelsen i Musikanternas uttåg (1978); nu skriver han om väckelserörelsen i sin stora roman om Lewi Pethrus, den svenska Pingströrelsens skapare och den...
The Reign of Mary Tudor
AuthorJames Anthony Froude
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references,...
Simple Simon
AuthorRyne Douglas Pearson
It took years to develop. Cost billions to perfect. A National Security Agency cryptographic system so advanced it safeguards the United States' most vital secrets. It is secure. Impenetrable.

Until sixteen year old autistic savant Simon Lynch happens upon a forgotten snippet of code,...
Memoirs of Napoleon - Complete
AuthorLouis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
One cannot escape Bourrienne.

Any solid study of Napoleon requires attention be paid to the man he strapped like a fifth appendage to his torso and carried forth to glory. We may wish to skirt his account, filled as it is with envy and pretention. He was an egotistical aristocrat with the gall...
The Last Joy
AuthorKnut Hamsun
ISBN1931243190
Published in Norway in 1912, The Last Joy (Den Siste Glaede) appears at an important transition point in Hamsun’s career, as he moved any from his intense observations of individual characters to focus on a broader canvas of small town and farm life social units of the Norwegian culture. If Hunger...
The History of Napoleon Buonaparte
AuthorJohn Gibson Lockhart
John Gibson Lockhart was a Scottish writer and editor. He is best known as the author of a biography of his father-in-law Sir Walter Scott, which has been called the second most admirable in the English language, after Boswell's Life of Johnson.

Between 1818 and 1825 Lockhart worked indefatigably....
Green River Rising
AuthorTim Willocks
ISBN0380723573
On the day Dr. Ray Klein wins his parole, the disciplinary perfection of Green River Penitentiary in Texas is torn apart by riot - more a tribal war - of unimaginable ferocity. As the inmates take over, the River sucks all inside further toward the abyss. Klein must choose. He must either claim his freedom...
Abel Sánchez and Other Stories
AuthorMiguel de Unamuno
ISBN0895267071
Delve into three of Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno's most haunting parables. This essential Unamuno reader begins with the full-length novel Abel Sanchez, a modern retelling of the story of Cain and Abel. Also included are two remarkable short stories, The Madness of Doctor Montarco and San...
Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey
AuthorKathryn Tucker Windham
ISBN0817303766
Jeffrey is the mischievous "something" that has headquarters in the Windham home in Selma, Alabama. He first made his presence known in October 1966, and since then he has continued, at irregular and infrequent intervals, to clump down the hall, slam doors, rock in a chair, frighten the family cat (now...
Descent from Xanadu
AuthorHarold Robbins
ISBN0671874853
Judd Crane is ruthless, sexually irresistible, the wealthiest man in the world... and determined to conquer man's last frontier--eternal life. He pursues his dream on a dangerous, obsessive journey, from Yugoslavia to China, from his lush island to a secret atomic city in the Brazilian jungle. Crane...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
AuthorEberhard Bethge
ISBN0800628446
Just finished this; it's a beast but was surprised at how readable it was. The fact that the author, Eberhard Bethge, was Bonhoeffer's student at the underground seminary, a close friend and co-conspirator of Bonhoeffer makes the book come alive. Particularly striking is the story of Bonhoeffer's...
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