The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White

9 best books like The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White (Henry Wiencek): Endless Night, The Tail of Emily Windsnap, That Churchill Woman, The American Heiress, Return to Sender, Black Rabbit Hall, Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse, Cycling Home From Siberia, The Heart Mender: A Story of Second Chances

Endless Night

Author	Agatha Christie
ISBN	0007151675

I usually read Agatha Christie to unwind, and although they always guarantee a highly enjoyable hour filled with chuckles and gasps, there is an element of 'lightness' and dismissal involved.

Well, that serves me right. This book smacked the patronizing smirk right off my face and I'm drooling...

The Tail of Emily Windsnap

Author	Liz Kessler
ISBN	0763628115

For as long as she can remember, twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap has lived on a boat. And, oddly enough, for just as long, her mother has seemed anxious to keep her away from the water. But when Mom finally agrees to let her take swimming lessons, Emily makes a startling discovery - about her own identity,...

That Churchill Woman

Author	Stephanie Barron
ISBN	1524799564

The Paris Wife meets PBS's Victoria in this enthralling novel of the life and loves of one of history's most remarkable women: Winston Churchill's scandalous American mother, Jennie Jerome.

Wealthy, privileged, and fiercely independent New Yorker Jennie Jerome took Victorian England...

The American Heiress

Author	Daisy Goodwin
ISBN	0312658656

Witty, moving, and brilliantly entertaining, The American Heiress marks the debut of a glorious storyteller who brings a fresh new spirit to the world of Edith Wharton and Henry James.

Be careful what you wish for. Traveling abroad with her mother at the turn of the twentieth century to seek...

Return to Sender

Author

Julia Alvarez

After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. Tyler isn’t sure what to make of these workers. Are they undocumented? And what about the three daughters, particularly Mari, the oldest,...

Black Rabbit Hall

Author	Eve Chase
ISBN	0718180070

For fans of Kate Morton and Sarah Waters, here's a magnetic debut novel of wrenching family secrets, forbidden love, and heartbreaking loss housed within the grand gothic manor of Black Rabbit Hall.

Ghosts are everywhere, not just the ghost of Momma in the woods, but ghosts of us too, what we...

Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse

Author	James L. Swanson
ISBN	0061233781

In Bloody Crimes, James L. Swanson—the Edgar® Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt—brings to life two epic events of the Civil War era: the thrilling chase to apprehend Confederate president Jefferson Davis in the wake of the Lincoln assassination and the momentous  20 -day...

Cycling Home From Siberia

Author

Rob Lilwall

"It is late October, and the temperature is already –40 degrees . . . My thoughts are filled with frozen rivers that may or may not hold my weight; empty, forgotten valleys haunted by emaciated ghosts; and packs of ravenous, merciless wolves."

Having left his job as a high-school geography...

The Heart Mender: A Story of Second Chances

Author

Andy Andrews

In the classic storytelling style of The Noticer and The Traveler's Gift, New York Times best-selling author Andy Andrews now delivers an adventure set sharply against the warm waters and white sands of the Gulf of Mexico in WWII America.

Saddened and unable to abandon her resentment toward...