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The Disappearance

7 best books like The Disappearance (Philip Wylie): The Ragazzi, Spring, The Sword in the Stone, Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler, Good Behaviour, A Hard And Heavy Thing, The Passing of Armies: An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac

The Ragazzi
AuthorPier Paolo Pasolini
An unsentimental depiction of the poverty and chaotic lives of those in the slums of 1950s postwar Rome, this novel follows Ricetto, an Italian youth, and his gang who survive by their wits, their cruelty, and their instincts for survival. Their lives are shaped by hunger, theft, betrayal, and prostitution,...
Spring
AuthorAli Smith
ISBN0241207053
From the bestselling author of Autumn and Winter, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning How to be both, comes the next installment in the remarkable, once-in-a-generation masterpiece, the Seasonal Quartet

Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives,...
The Sword in the Stone
AuthorT.H. White
"Learn. That is the only thing that never fails."--Merlyn the Wizard

Before there was a famous king named Arthur, there was a curious boy named Wart and a kind old wizard named Merlyn. Transformed by Merlyn into the forms of his fantasy, Wart learns the value of history from a snake, of education...
Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler
AuthorLynne Olson
The dramatic true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade--codename Hedgehog--the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II, from the New York Times bestselling author of Citizens of London and Those Angry Days.

In 1941, a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman...
Good Behaviour
AuthorMolly Keane
ISBN1844083241
I do know how to behave - believe me, because I know. I have always known...'

Behind the gates of Temple Alice the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state of decaying grace. To Aroon St Charles, large and unlovely daughter of the house, the fierce forces of sex, money, jealousy...
A Hard And Heavy Thing
AuthorMatthew J. Hefti
ISBN1440591881
Top 10 First Novels of 2016--Booklist

2016 Great Group Reads Selection

Contemplating suicide after nearly a decade at war, Levi sits down to write a note to his best friend Nick, explaining why things have to come to this inevitable end. Years earlier, Levi--a sergeant in the army--made...
The Passing of Armies: An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac
AuthorJoshua Lawrence Chamberlain
ISBN0553299921
Fantastic account of the final two weeks (!) of the Civil War, written by an improbable scholar-turned-war-hero, a Bowdoin College professor who just might have single-handedly saved the Union. Well, there is plenty of credit to go around, but his bravery – and modesty – were unquestioned. I am...
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