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10 best books like The Bee-Loud Glade (Steve Himmer): Something Missing, Kings of the Earth, Double Black, The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady, The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove, The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden: The Night Flyer's Handbook, The Man Plan, Cut Through the Bone, The Realm of Last Chances, The Great Northern Express: A Writer's Journey Home

Something Missing
AuthorMatthew Dicks
ISBN0767930886
A career criminal with OCD tendencies and a savant-like genius for bringing order to his crime scenes, Martin considers himself one of the best in the biz. After all, he’s been able to steal from the same people for years on end—virtually undetected. Of course, this could also be attributed to his...
Kings of the Earth
AuthorJon Clinch
ISBN1400069017
Following up Finn, his much-heralded and prize-winning debut whose voice evoked “the mythic styles of his literary predecessors . . . William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy and Edward P. Jones” (San Francisco Chronicle), Jon Clinch returns with Kings of the Earth, a powerful and haunting...
Double Black
AuthorWendy Clinch
ISBN0312593260
First in a very cool (literally) skiing series that introduces a sleuth who has ditched grad school, along with her cheating fiancée, to become a ski bum
 
Twenty-something Stacey Curtis is living the life she’s always dreamed about—until she finds a dead body in the ski chalet. And after...
The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady
AuthorElizabeth Stuckey-French
ISBN0385510640
This lively, intricately plotted, laugh-out-loud funny, and surprisingly touching family drama combines the wit of Carl Hiaasen with the southern charm of Jill McCorkle.

Seventy-seven-year-old Marylou Ahearn is going to kill Dr. Wilson Spriggs come hell or high water. In 1953, he gave...
The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove
AuthorSusan Gregg Gilmore
ISBN0307395030
Nobody in Nashville has a bigger name to live up to than Bezellia Grove.  As a Grove, she belongs to one of city’s most prominent families and is expected to embrace her position in high society.  That means speaking fluent French, dancing at cotillions with boys from other important families, and...
The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden: The Night Flyer's Handbook
AuthorPhilippa Dowding
ISBN1459707354
Shortlisted for the OLA Red Maple Award, 2015
SEQUEL NEWS: Everton Miles is Stranger than Me, Oct 2016
This morning, I woke up on the ceiling ... So begins the strange story of Gwendolyn Golden. One perfectly ordinary day for no apparent reason, she wakes up floating around her room like one of...
The Man Plan
AuthorElise K. Ackers
Cora is 'over' being alone. She has no family, and all her friends are couples. Fed up with feeling sorry for herself, Cora hatches a plan to find a good, loving man she can call her own. Her deadline is Christmas – she doesn't want to spend another holiday by herself.

Just as she decides her strategy,...
Cut Through the Bone
AuthorEthel Rohan
ISBN0615400930
**ARC (Advance Reading Copy) review by Mel Bosworth

An entire chocolate cake. A gallon of espresso. A liter of Jameson. For the average person, it’s probably not wise to consume any of these things in one sitting, regardless of how tempting it might be. Ethel Rohan’s debut collection Cut...
The Realm of Last Chances
AuthorSteve Yarbrough
ISBN0385349505
In a captivating departure from the Deep South setting of his previous fiction, Steve Yarbrough now gives us a richly nuanced portrait of a marriage being reinvented in a small town in the Northeast, in his most surprising and compelling novel yet.

When Kristin Stevens loses her administrative job...
The Great Northern Express: A Writer's Journey Home
AuthorHoward Frank Mosher
ISBN0307450694
From bestselling, nationally celebrated author Howard Frank Mosher, a wildly funny and deeply personal account of his three-month, 20,000-mile sojourn to discover what he loved enough to live for.
 
Several months before novelist Howard Frank Mosher turned sixty-five, he learned that...
House Arrest
AuthorEllen Meeropol
ISBN1597094994
Home-care nurse Emily Klein can’t get out of her new assignment – weekly prenatal visits to Pippa Glenning, a young Isis cult member under house arrest for the death of her daughter during a Solstice ceremony. But she takes her work seriously and plays by the rules, so Emily is determined to take good...
The Reservoir
AuthorJohn Milliken Thompson
ISBN1590514440
On an early spring morning in Richmond, Virginia, in the year 1885, a young pregnant woman is found floating in the city reservoir. It appears that she has committed suicide, but there are curious clues at the scene that suggest foul play. The case attracts local attention, and an eccentric group of men...
Banned for Life
AuthorDuke Haney
ISBN1427624992
For almost two decades, rumors have swirled around Jim Cassady, a quasi-legendary musician who disappeared without a trace after his girlfriend’s apparent suicide. Though largely written off as dead, some claim to have had brushes with Cassady, now said to be homeless and bumming change on the...
Love Slave
AuthorJennifer Spiegel
ISBN1609530829
"I can write the pants off any man," declares Sybil Weatherfield, the plucky hero of Jennifer Spiegel’s Love Slave. A literary novel set in 1995 New York, Love Slave follows Weatherfield and her strange friends as they frustrate chick-lit expectations (though they’re unaware that they’re...
8-Bit Christmas
AuthorKevin Jakubowski
ISBN0578130203
It's 1980-something and all nine-year-old Jake Doyle wants for Christmas is a Nintendo Entertainment System. No Jose Canseco rookie card, no GI Joe hovercraft, no Teddy friggin' Ruxpin--just Nintendo. But when a hyperactive Shih Tzu is accidentally crushed to death by a forty-two-inch television...
Nazareth, North Dakota
AuthorTommy Zurhellen
ISBN0984510567
This gem of a novel—a splendid recasting and modern retelling of the story of the young messiah—is a fast, quirky, dirt-kicking ride through the Badlands of North Dakota from the early 1980s to the present, complete with feathered locks, KISS cover bands, and fire-and-brimstone preachers. It's...
Lucretia and the Kroons
AuthorVictor LaValle
ISBN0812984374
Lucretia’s best friend and upstairs neighbor Sunny—a sweet pitbull of a kid, even as she struggles with a mysterious illness—has gone missing. The only way to get her back is for Lucretia to climb the rickety fire escape of their Queens tenement and crawl through the window of apartment 6D, portal...
Normally Special
AuthorxTx
ISBN9780982469
This review was originally published at The Nervous Breakdown:

“It is difficult to masturbate about your father, but not impossible, as it turns out.”

“I am the Champion of Failure.”

“What I do remember most though, are the fireflies and how she proved that they...
Matilda's Freedom
AuthorTea Cooper
ISBN0857990608
His carefree bachelor days over, Christopher Matcham returns to Sydney to take responsibility for his mother, two stepsisters, and the family property. Fortune smiles on him when he is introduced to Matilda Sweet, a woman in need of work. Though unusual, Christopher senses that her fresh ideals and...
Nine Months
AuthorPaula Bomer
Bomer nails so much dark truth in this highly entertaining and bold novel. I loved Sonia, the young mother who finds that she's unexpectedly pregnant, but I also love so many of the other characters throughout this rollicking story--Sonia's young sons, her agitated husband, her washed-up hometown...
The Ruby Kiss
AuthorHelen Scott Taylor
ISBN0505528665
A POWERFUL NIGHTSTALKER
Nightshade hungers to bring the strong and beautiful to their knees beneath the ecstasy of his bite, but he has never known sexual lust—not until he meets Ruby McDonald, the curvy redhead who wields attitude and strength like an ax, and who would be the perfect mother of...
A Shelter of Others
AuthorCharles Dodd White
ISBN0988687259
Following his release from prison, Mason Laws returns to the mountains of his youth where his estranged wife, Lavada, has been caring for his ailing father in his absence. As Mason and Lavada set forth to recover themselves, they remain entrenched in the rural and rugged landscape that bore them and...
The Theory of Attraction: The Theory of Attraction\A Shot in the Dark\Forbidden Fantasies
AuthorDelphine Dryden
ISBN0373002041
The Theory of Attraction by Delphine Dryden
Camilla can set her watch by her sexy rocket-scientist neighbor's schedule…but she soon learns that isn't the only thing Ivan likes to be strict about. He needs to be in charge in the bedroom as well—and Cami discovers there can be more pleasure in...
Slave Girl
AuthorLisa Cach
ISBN1476775753
A sex slave who’s never been touched… National bestselling author Lisa Cach spins an erotic, passionate novel about a young Roman Empire slave who’s intended to become her king’s concubine—until a rugged barbarian prince takes her heart…and more.

Lovely Nimia is a slave to...
For Richer, For Poorer: Confessions of a Player
AuthorVictoria Coren
In September 2006, Victoria Coren won a million dollars on the European Poker Tour. In this, her long-awaited memoir, Coren tells the story of that victory, but also of a twenty-year obsession with the game. It is a journey which has taken Coren from a secret culture of illegal cash games to the high-stakes...
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