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10 best books like The Man Who Rained (Ali Shaw): Wakenhyrst, Ronia, the Robber's Daughter, The Brothers Lionheart, Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace, Tschick, Die Känguru-Chroniken: Ansichten eines vorlauten Beuteltiers, De brief voor de koning, The Tragedy Paper, Don't Call Me Ishmael!, Beast

Wakenhyrst
AuthorMichelle Paver
ISBN1788549562
1906: A large manor house, Wake's End, sits on the edge of a bleak Fen, just outside the town of Wakenhyrst. It is the home of Edmund Stearn and his family – a historian, scholar and land-owner, he's an upstanding member of the local community. But all is not well at Wake's End. Edmund dominates his family...
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
AuthorAstrid Lindgren
ISBN0140317201
The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet with a happy ending!

Two clans of robbers, enemies for as long as the two chiefs Mattis and Borka can remember, share a forest and a castle split in two by a giant lightning, and a common enemy in the knights of the crown. Bad-mannered, ill-tempered, violent and boastful,...
The Brothers Lionheart
AuthorAstrid Lindgren
ISBN1930900244
The Brothers Lionheart (Swedish: Bröderna Lejonhjärta) is a children's fantasy novel written by Astrid Lindgren. It was published in the autumn of 1973 and has been translated into 46 languages. Many of its themes are unusually dark and heavy for the children's book genre. Disease, death, tyranny,...
Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace
AuthorAnne Lamott
ISBN1594486298
The New York Times bestseller from the author of Help, Thanks, Wow, Hallelujah Anyway and Almost Everything, Lamott's long-awaited collection of new and selected essays on hope, joy, and grace

Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and irreverent....
Tschick
AuthorWolfgang Herrndorf
ISBN3871347108
Mutter in der Entzugsklinik, Vater mit Assistentin auf Geschäftsreise: Maik Klingenberg wird die großen Ferien allein am Pool der elterlichen Villa verbringen. Doch dann kreuzt Tschick auf. Tschick, eigentlich Andrej Tschichatschow, kommt aus einem der Asi-Hochhäuser in Hellersdorf, hat...
Die Känguru-Chroniken: Ansichten eines vorlauten Beuteltiers
AuthorMarc-Uwe Kling
ISBN3548372570
»Ich bin ein Känguru - und Marc-Uwe ist mein Mitbewohner und Chronist. Nur manches, was er über mich erzählt, stimmt. Zum Beispiel, dass ich mal beim Vietcong war. Das Allermeiste jedoch ist übertrieben, verdreht oder gelogen! Aber ich darf nicht meckern. Wir gehen zusammen essen und ins Kino,...
De brief voor de koning
AuthorTonke Dragt
ISBN9025833926
De jonge Tiuri verbreekt de regels, die bepalen dat hij met niemand mag praten in de nacht voordat hij tot ridder zal worden geslagen. Hij opent de deur.
Het verzoek dat hem wordt gedaan blijkt een heel gevaarlijke opdracht. Tiuri wordt achtervolgd door boosaardige Rode Ruiters, die hem met de dood...
The Tragedy Paper
AuthorElizabeth LaBan
ISBN0375870407
Tim Macbeth, a seventeen-year-old albino and a recent transfer to the prestigious Irving School, where the motto is “Enter here to be and find a friend.” A friend is the last thing Tim expects or wants—he just hopes to get through his senior year unnoticed. Yet, despite his efforts to blend into...
Don't Call Me Ishmael!
AuthorMichael Gerard Bauer
ISBN1862916667
There's no easy way to put this, so I'll say it straight out. It's time I faced up to the truth. I'm fourteen years old and I have Ishmael Leseur's Syndrome. There is no cure. And there is no instant cure to not fitting in. But that won't stop Ishmael and his intrepid band of misfits from taking on bullies, bugs,...
Beast
AuthorAlly Kennen
ISBN0439865492


Stephen hasn't had it easy. He's now in foster care because his mom is crazy and his dad is an ex-con. He's always in trouble or on his way to trouble. But none of these problems compare to the problem of The Beast.
Stephen has been taking care of The Beast for years. It is his biggest secret --...
Texts from Dog
AuthorOctober Jones
ISBN0544077741
My dog sends me texts. Yeah. It’s weird. When October Jones figured out he could send text messages to himself on his mobile phone, he naturally decided that the best use of this discovery was to send passive-aggressive messages to himself under the guise of his bulldog. And so the exasperating, slightly...
Bahnwärter Thiel
AuthorGerhart Hauptmann
Die Novelle "Bahnwärter Thiel" entstand 1887 und gehört zu den herausragenden Werken des Naturalismus. Thiel ist ein in sich gekehrter Mensch, der nicht viele Worte macht, sich jedoch mit den Nachbarskindern abgibt und seinen Beruf mit Hingebung ausführt. Er gerät in einen wachsenden inneren...
Angels In My Hair
AuthorLorna Byrne
ISBN1846051770
Lorna's story is amazing and it touched my heart"
Roma Downey Actress/ Producer and Star of Touched By An Angel

Angels in My Hair is the autobiography of Lorna Byrne, a modern day Irish mystic with the powers of the saints of old.

Lorna physically sees and talks with angels every...
Us
AuthorDavid Nicholls
Douglas Petersen may be mild-mannered, but behind his reserve lies a sense of humor that, against all odds, seduces beautiful Connie into a second date and eventually into marriage. Now, almost three decades after their relationship first blossomed in London, they live more or less happily in the...
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