The Blue Door
7 best books like The Blue Door (Lise Kristensen): Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard, Rooftoppers, One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly: The Art of Seeking God, Why Religion?: A Personal Story, The Hideaway, The House Across the Street, Judy: A Dog In A Million
Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
| Author | Liz Murray |
| ISBN | 0786868910 |
In the vein of The Glass Castle, Breaking Night is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen was living on the streets, and who eventually made it into Harvard.
Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and...
| Author | Katherine Rundell |
| ISBN | 0571280595 |
Everyone thinks that Sophie is an orphan. True, there were no other recorded female survivors from the shipwreck which left baby Sophie floating in the English Channel in a cello case, but Sophie remembers seeing her mother wave for help. Her guardian tells her it is almost impossible that her mother...
| Author | Ashley Mae Hoiland |
| ISBN | 0842529926 |
One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly is for restless souls who desire to know God more deeply. Ashley Mae Hoiland bids us follow her down “the hallowed and well-trodden path between the heart and mind,” where glimpses of godliness are discovered in rainstorms, bus rides, temples, and mountains. As...
Why Religion?: A Personal Story
| Author | Elaine Pagels |
| ISBN | 0062368559 |
Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help address these...
The unputdownable new novel from Sunday Times bestselling Sheila O'Flanagan, author of The Missing Wife and What Happened That Night. Perfect for readers of Catherine Alliott and Marian Keyes.
What would you do if you discovered you were living a lie?
When a shocking news report...
The House Across the Street
Twenty-three-year-old Katy Speed has always been fascinated by the house across the street. The woman who lives there, Gloria, is the most glamorous neighbour on the avenue, owning a fashionable dress shop in Bexhill-on-Sea. But who is the woman who arrives in the black car most Saturdays while Gloria...
| Author | Damien Lewis |
| ISBN | 1848665369 |
Judy, a beautiful liver and white English pointer, and the only animal POW of WWII, truly was a dog in a million. Whether she was dragging men to safety from the wreckage of a torpedoed ship, scavenging food to help feed the starving inmates of a hellish Japanese POW camp, or by her presence alone bringing...
