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10 best books like The Funeral Planner (Lynn Isenberg): And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories, Horton Hatches the Egg, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter, One Breath Away, Tinkers, Gin & Daggers, The Serpents Trail, Weird Texas: Your travel guide to Texas's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
AuthorDr. Seuss
ISBN0007169922
Here, started it everything!


A DATE AT MULBERRY STREET FOR IMMORTALITY

That can’t be my story. That’s only a start.

I’ll say that a ZEBRA was pulling that cart.

This is the very first story by Dr. Seuss, here, started it all.

And since...
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
AuthorDr. Seuss
ISBN0394900871
In this hilarious book, featuring three timeless fables, Dr. Seuss explores the pitfalls of growing too big for your boots!

With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for...
Horton Hatches the Egg
AuthorDr. Seuss
ISBN0007175191
Everyone laughs when Horton the Elephant offers to sit on Mayzie bird's egg while she goes on holiday. Horton's kindness and faithfulness are sorely tested when he, and the egg, are kidnapped and sold to a circus - but his reward for being faithful is more wonderful than he could ever have dreamed!

With...
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
AuthorDr. Seuss
Celebrate the 75th birthday of this classic treatise on bullying by Dr. Seuss with our new foil-covered, color-enhanced Anniversary Edition!

The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins is the story of a young peasant and his unjust treatment at the hands of King Derwin.

While The 500 Hats...
Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
AuthorKate Clifford Larson
ISBN0547250258
They were the most prominent American family of the twentieth century. The daughter they secreted away made all the difference.

Joe and Rose Kennedy’s strikingly beautiful daughter Rosemary attended exclusive schools, was presented as a debutante to the Queen of England, and traveled...
One Breath Away
AuthorHeather Gudenkauf
ISBN0778313654
In her most emotionally charged novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf explores the unspoken events that shape a community, the ties between parents and their children and how the fragile normalcy of our everyday life is so easily shattered.

In the midst of a sudden...
Tinkers
AuthorPaul Harding
ISBN1934137197
An old man lies dying. Propped up in his living room and surrounded by his children and grandchildren, George Washington Crosby drifts in and out of consciousness, back to the wonder and pain of his impoverished childhood in Maine. As the clock repairer’s time winds down, his memories intertwine...
Gin & Daggers
AuthorJessica Fletcher
ISBN0451199987
This is the first novel in the long-running Murder, She Wrote book series that accompanies the show of the same name.

In Gin & Daggers, Jessica Fletcher finds herself traveling to London to give an opening speech, and in doing so makes time to spend with a dear friend, who happens to be the...
The Serpents Trail
AuthorSue Henry
ISBN0451411781
At sixty-three, Maxie McNabb is cruising down the Alaska Highway in her brand-new Winnebago. With her mini-dachshund at her side and the open road ahead, she's never been happier. But before her exploration of the Lower Forty-eight gets underway, Maxie needs to figure out who burgled her friend's...
Weird Texas: Your travel guide to Texas's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
AuthorWesley Treat
ISBN1402732805
Think you know Texas? Sure, there's the Alamo, the Cowboys, armadillos, Longhorns, Aggies, chili, the Space Center, and lots and lots of bluebonnets. And everybody knows not to mess with us. But there's something else, something we've got more of than any other state-we've got a whole lot of...weirdness....
We Like Kindergarten
AuthorClara Cassidy
The art here is creepy. The children look like aliens or those old time creepy dolls with the eyes that close on their own. Invasion of the body snatchers here.

This is a book for beginners to help children know what to expect in Kindergarten. They mostly play in this old time kindergarten and I...
On Mystic Lake
AuthorKristin Hannah
ISBN0345471172
Annie Colwater’s husband has just confessed that he’s in love with a younger woman. Devastated, Annie retreats to the small town where she grew up. There, she is reunited with her first love, Nick Delacroix, a recent widower who is unable to cope with his silent, emotionally scarred young daughter....
The Beach House
AuthorJane Green
ISBN0670018856
Nan Powell is a free-spirited, sixty-five-year-old widow who's not above skinny-dipping in her neighbors' pools when they're away and who dearly loves her Nantucket home. But when she discovers that the money she thought would last forever is dwindling, she realizes she must make drastic changes...
The Case of the Caretaker's Cat
AuthorErle Stanley Gardner
ISBN0345321561
*Erle Stanley Gardner is cited by the "Guinness Book of World Records" as the #1 bestselling writer of all time.
In his will, Peter Laxter guaranteed his faithful caretaker a job and a place to live for life. But Laxter's grandson Sam says the deal doesn't include the caretaker's cat. When Perry Mason...
Texas Got It Right!
AuthorSam Wyly
ISBN1595910743
“It ain’t bragging if it’s true.” –a rodeo bull rider

Why are jobs moving from the once Golden State of California to the Lone Star State of Texas? Why are the best and the brightest moving from Chicago and Detroit to Austin and Houston and Dallas? Why are Massachusetts, New York, Ohio,...
Treasures in the Sea,
AuthorRobert M. McClung
ISBN0870441221
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Baby Birds and How They Grow
AuthorJane R. McCauley
ISBN0870444875
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The Case of the Haunted Husband
AuthorErle Stanley Gardner
ISBN0345334957
Just in time for the Halloween: haunted husbands!!! Possessed wives!!! Kids from hell!!!

I am terribly sorry but there is nothing at all like this here. In fact if you find anything that can be qualified as a supernatural occurrence I will eat not just my hat, but any other part of my wardrobe of...
Juror #3
AuthorJames Patterson
Librarian Note: This is the updated cover for ISBN 9780316474122

Ruby Bozarth, a newcomer to Rosedale, Mississippi, is also fresh to the Mississippi Bar--and to the docket of Circuit Judge Baylor, who taps Ruby as defense counsel in a racially charged felony. The murder of a woman from one...
Bronx D.A.: True Stories from the Sex Crimes and Domestic Violence Unit
AuthorSarena Straus
ISBN1569803056
Sarena Straus was a prosecutor in the Office of the Bronx District Attorney's office, one of approximately 400 Assistant District Attorneys working in the midst of an area of America with the highest crime and poverty rates. This book is about her experiences in combating crimes against women and children...
The Rancher's Heir (Billionaires and Babies)
AuthorSara Orwig
USA TODAY bestselling author

Their goodbye was supposed to be for good.

But now this rich rancher is back… and he wants her !

For billionaire Texan Noah Grant, joining the military meant sacrifice—breaking up with city girl Camilla Warner was especially tough. Yet...
Bubbles In Trouble
AuthorSarah Strohmeyer
ISBN0451208501
New troubles for Bubbles: Her friend, bride-to-be Janice, never showed up at the altar, and everybody's blaming Bubbles for singing Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird" at the bachelorette party the night before. Now Bubbles has just found Janice's uncle Elwood dead on his bathroom floor-his skull bashed...
Couch World
AuthorCathy Yardley
ISBN0373895097
This book gives you much more than you would expect from it. It starts off simple then slowly but surely introduces harsh topics like anorexia, suicide, and a midlife crisis. Yardley does this in a way that isn't confusing or unnecessary.

It's heartfelt and puts you in the shoes of each of the...
The Other Child
AuthorJoanne Fluke
ISBN0440167671
Where Innocence Dies. . .Expectant parents Karen and Mike Houston are excited about restoring their old rambling Victorian mansion to its former glory. With its endless maze of rooms, hallways, and hiding places, it's a wonderful place for their nine-year-old daughter Leslie to play and explore....
Lone Star Secrets
AuthorCat Schield
ISBN1335971661
She married an impostor. Will she fall for the real thing? His identity, his life, was stolen by a devious thief. Now Will Sanders is taking back what's rightfully his. Starting with Megan Sanders. Duped into marriage by Will's double, she understandably has mixed feelings about staying with the...
Unseen
AuthorKarin Slaughter
ISBN0345539478
Karin Slaughter’s novels featuring detective Will Trent are utterly riveting and masterfully drawn. Her latest thriller, Unseen, pits detectives, lovers, and enemies against one another in an unforgettable standoff between righteous courage and deepest evil.

Will Trent is a Georgia...
The Stylist
AuthorRosie Nixon
When fashion boutique worker Amber Green is mistakenly offered a job as assistant to infamous, jet-setting 'stylist to the stars' Mona Armstrong, she hits the ground running, helping to style some of Hollywood's hottest (and craziest) starlets. As awards season spins into action Mona is in hot demand...
The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm
AuthorJohn Connell
ISBN1684574072
There are so many huge issues to write about that we forget that sometimes in writing about something small it gives one the freedom to contemplate deep musings on the things that matter most. If all you get from this book is a love and appreciation for farming and a suddenly intense desire to add a trip to...
Nuns Having Fun
AuthorMaureen Kelly
ISBN0761150412
Hallelujah, it's a book! After proving itself to be the "funniest calendar of the year" (according to Gene Shalit), "irresistible" (USA Weekend), and "habit-forming" (Maxim magazine), the Nuns Having Fun calendar has inspired "Nuns Having Fun," a book of endearing nuttiness.

Catholic...
Devil Bones
AuthorKathy Reichs
ISBN0743294386
In a house under renovation, a plumber uncovers a cellar no one knew about, and makes a rather grisly discovery — a decapitated chicken, animal bones, and cauldrons containing beads, feathers, and other relics of religious ceremonies. In the center of the shrine is the skull of a teenage girl. Meanwhile,...
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