The Cracker Factory
10 best books like The Cracker Factory (Joyce Rebeta-Burditt): The Lover, American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt, Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise, Tidelands, Ceremony, Devotion, Brida, Exodus: A Memoir, The Matchmaker, Surfside Sisters
| Author | Marguerite Duras |
| ISBN | 0375700528 |
***AWARDED THE 1984 PRIX GONCOURT***
“The story of my life doesn’t exist. Does not exist. There’s never any centre to it. No path, no line. There are great spaces where you pretend there used to be someone, but it’s not true, there was no one.”
The young Marguerite...
American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt
| Author | Karen Harper |
| ISBN | 0062748343 |
Before Meghan and Harry, another American ‘princess’ captured the hand of an English aristocrat. Now, Karen Harper tells the tale of Consuelo Vanderbilt, her “The Wedding of the Century” to the Duke of Marlborough, and her quest to find meaning behind “the glitter and the gold.”
On...
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
| Author | Ruth Reichl |
| ISBN | 0143036610 |
Ruth Reichl, world-renowned food critic and editor in chief of Gourmet magazine, knows a thing or two about food. She also knows that as the most important food critic in the country, you need to be anonymous when reviewing some of the most high-profile establishments in the biggest restaurant town...
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England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different . . .
Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches every corner...
| Author | Leslie Marmon Silko |
| ISBN | 0140086838 |
Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other returning soldiers find easy...
| Author | Patti Smith |
| ISBN | 0300218621 |
The National Book Award-winning author of Year of the Monkey, Just Kids, and M Train offers a rare, intimate account of her own creative process.
A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic—its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such...
| Author | Paulo Coelho |
| ISBN | 0061578932 |
This is the story of Brida, a young Irish girl, and her quest for knowledge. She has long been interested in various aspects of magic but is searching for something more. Her search leads her to people of great wisdom, who begin to teach Brida about the spiritual world. She meets a wise man who dwells in a...
| Author | Deborah Feldman |
| ISBN | 0399162771 |
Full admission: although I marked this book as READ, I did not finish it. I just skipped through the fun parts, of Feldman with her various love interests. The book is actually well written, much more than the first book, and Feldman finally caught on to the modern memoir’s confessional style, so she...
| Author | Elin Hilderbrand |
| ISBN | 0316099759 |
A touching new novel from bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand in which a woman sets out to find love for those closest to her - before it's too late.
48-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. Some call her ability mystical, while others - like her husband,...
A Nantucket woman returns home to find that reunions aren’t always simple, in this heartwarming novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Nantucket Wedding and Secrets in Summer.
Keely Green always dreamed of leaving the beautiful shores of Nantucket to become a writer. Now...
