The Cat Who Covered the World: The Adventures Of Henrietta And Her Foreign Correspondent
10 best books like The Cat Who Covered the World: The Adventures Of Henrietta And Her Foreign Correspondent (Christopher S. Wren): Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, Johnny Tremain, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, Paris to the Moon, Charlotte Gray, The Sand Pebbles, Cousin Kate, Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucía, Whitethorn Woods, Oliver Wiswell
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
| Author | Vicki Myron |
| ISBN | 0446407410 |
How much of an impact can an animal have? How many lives can one cat touch? How is it possible for an abandoned kitten to transform a small library, save a classic American town, and eventually become famous around the world? You can't even begin to answer those questions until you hear the charming story...
| Author | Esther Forbes |
| ISBN | 0440442508 |
Probably the greatest book ever written, by both man and child, woman and other writing entity, Johnny Tremain tells the story of a young genius who becomes a silversmith and burns the crappin' hell out of his hand. He's always embarrassed by his sort of melty hand and keeps it in his pockets or in his mother's...
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
In Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller’s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate....
| Author | Adam Gopnik |
| ISBN | 0375758232 |
With singular wit and insight, Gopnik weaves the magical with the mundane in a wholly delightful, often hilarious look at what it was to be an American family man in Paris at the end of the twentieth century.
Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés,...
| Author | Sebastian Faulks |
| ISBN | 0375704558 |
From the bestselling author of Birdsong comes Charlotte Gray, the remarkable story of a young Scottish woman who becomes caught up in the effort to liberate Occupied France from the Nazis while pursuing a perilous mission of her own.
In blacked-out, wartime London, Charlotte Gray develops...
| Author | Richard McKenna |
| ISBN | 1557504466 |
Recommended reading as part of the Chief of Naval Operation's Professional Reading Program!
This now-classic novel by Richard McKenna enjoyed great critical acclaim and commercial success when it was first published in 1962. The winner of the coveted Harper Prize, it was on the New York Times...
| Author | Georgette Heyer |
| ISBN | 0099490951 |
When young and beautiful governess Kate Malvern finds herself unemployed in Regency England, is surprised to receive an invitation to live with a distant aunt, Minerva Broome, who she has never met. Rescued from penury by her aunt Minerva, hardly knows what to expect at majestic country home of Staplewood,...
Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucía
| Author | Chris Stewart |
| ISBN | 0953522709 |
No sooner had Chris Stewart set eyes on El Valero than he handed over a check. Now all he had to do was explain to Ana, his wife, that they were the proud owners of an isolated sheep farm in the Alpujarra Mountains in Southern Spain. That was the easy part.
Lush with olive, lemon, and almond groves,...
| Author | Maeve Binchy |
| ISBN | 0307265781 |
Maeve Binchy once again brings us an enchanting book full of the wit, warmth, and wisdom that have made her one of the most beloved and widely read writers at work today.
When a new highway threatens to bypass the town of Rossmore and cut through Whitethorn Woods, everyone has a passionate opinion...
| Author | Kenneth Roberts |
| ISBN | 0892724684 |
"Oliver Wiswell" by Kenneth Roberts is an excellent book. It is a unique Revolutionary War novel in that it presents very convincingly the injustices endured by Americans broadly described as loyalists. These people were both educated, successful professional people and simple country people...
| Author | A.J. Cronin |
| ISBN | 0575004797 |
This is my second A J Cronin and it didn't disappoint. This is just the kind of story I like, true characterization (warts and all), a plot packed with everyday drama, tragedy mixed with triumph at the very last gasp, a novel some might call melodramatic and soap-opera-ish but whatever, it's a great read...
Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
Anne Hobbs is a prim and proper 19-year-old schoolteacher who yearns for adventure. She finds this and much more in a town with the unlikely name of Chicken, located deep in the Alaskan interior. It is 1927 and Chicken is a wild mining community flaming with gold fever. Anne quickly makes friends with...
