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9 best books like The Memory Bank (Carolyn Coman): The Tao of Pooh, This Is How You Lose Her, A Serial Killer's Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming, Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, Breakout, The Death of the Heart, Big Girl Panties, The Fourth Stall, Fox 8

The Tao of Pooh
AuthorBenjamin Hoff
ISBN1405204265
The Wisdom of Pooh.

Is there such thing as a Western Taoist? Benjamin Hoff says there is, and this Taoist's favorite food is honey. Through brilliant and witty dialogue with the beloved Pooh-bear and his companions, the author of this smash bestseller explains with ease and aplomb that rather...
This Is How You Lose Her
AuthorJunot Díaz
ISBN1594487367
On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In the heat of a hospital laundry room in New Jersey, a woman does her lover’s washing and thinks about his wife. In Boston, a man buys his love child, his only son, a first baseball bat and glove. At the heart of these stories is the...
A Serial Killer's Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming
AuthorKerri Rawson
ISBN1400201756
What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer?
 
In 2005, Kerri Rawson heard a knock on the door of her apartment. When she opened it, an FBI agent informed her that her father had been arrested for murdering ten people, including two children. It was then that she...
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
AuthorPeter Godfrey-Smith
ISBN0374227764
A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness

Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted wide notice. In this book, he brings his parallel careers together to tell...
Breakout
AuthorKate Messner
ISBN1681195364
Nora Tucker is looking forward to summer vacation in Wolf Creek--two months of swimming, popsicles, and brushing up on her journalism skills for the school paper. But when two inmates break out of the town's maximum security prison, everything changes. Doors are locked, helicopters fly over the woods,...
The Death of the Heart
AuthorElizabeth Bowen
ISBN0385720173
The Death of the Heart is perhaps Elizabeth Bowen's best-known book. As she deftly and delicately exposes the cruelty that lurks behind the polished surfaces of conventional society, Bowen reveals herself as a masterful novelist who combines a sense of humor with a devastating gift for divining human...
Big Girl Panties
AuthorStephanie Evanovich
ISBN0062224859
Big Girl Panties by Stephanie Evanovich is a rollicking and poignant romantic comedy about a young widow who decides to get in shape...and winds up getting her groove back--and a whole lot more! Holly Brennan used food to comfort herself through her husband's illness and death. Now she's alone at age...
The Fourth Stall
AuthorChris Rylander
ISBN0061994960
Chris Rylander delivers a funny Ferris Bueler-style middle grade novel with The Fourth Stall.

Do you need something? Mac can get it for you. It's what he does—he and his best friend and business manager, Vince. Their methods might sometimes run afoul of the law, or at least the school code...
Fox 8
AuthorGeorge Saunders
ISBN0812995325
A darkly comic short story, a fable about the all too real impact that we humans have on the environment

Fox 8 has always been known as the daydreamer in his pack, the one his fellow foxes regarded with a knowing snort and a roll of the eyes. That is, until Fox 8 develops a unique skill: He teaches himself...
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