The Ninth Step

8 best books like The Ninth Step (Grant Jerkins): This Tender Land, The Saturday Night Ghost Club, The Book Charmer, Kitchens of the Great Midwest, The Harvester, An Edited Life: Simple Steps to Streamlining Your Life, at Work and at Home, You've Been Volunteered: A Class Mom Novel, Is There Still Sex in the City?

This Tender Land

Author	William Kent Krueger
ISBN	1476749299

For fans of Before We Were Yours and Where the Crawdads Sing, a magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression, from the New York Times bestselling author of Ordinary Grace.

1932, Minnesota—the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds...

The Saturday Night Ghost Club

Author	Craig Davidson
ISBN	0735274827

A short, irresistible, and bittersweet coming-of-age story in the vein of "Stranger Things" and "Stand by Me" about a group of misfit kids who spend an unforgettable summer investigating local ghost stories and urban legends.

Growing up in 1980s Niagara Falls--a seedy but magical, slightly...

The Book Charmer

Author	Karen Hawkins
ISBN	1982105542

The New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular MacLean Curse series crafts a charming and evocative story about a picturesque Southern town, two fiercely independent women, and a magical friendship that will change their lives forever.

The residents of Dove Pond, North Carolina,...

Kitchens of the Great Midwest

Author

J. Ryan Stradal

When Lars Thorvald's wife, Cynthia, falls in love with wine--and a dashing sommelier--he's left to raise their baby, Eva, on his own. He's determined to pass on his love of food to his daughter--starting with puréed pork shoulder. As Eva grows, she finds her solace and salvation in the flavors of her...

The Harvester

Author	Gene Stratton-Porter
ISBN	0253204577

Please don't let my wife read this book - I would never hear the end of it. The reader should remember that David Langston, Porter's Harvester, was, after all, only a fictional character. He never really existed.

Having said that, I was mesmerized by the sweep, intensity and energy of this book....

An Edited Life: Simple Steps to Streamlining Your Life, at Work and at Home

Author	Anna Newton
ISBN	1787132420

Declutter every aspect of your life -- from your wardrobe to your phone-- with this realistic guide to getting neat and keeping things that way.
We've all tried to declutter, and given up halfway through, only to be haunted by a half-tidied cupboard for months at a time. Anna Newton knows that feeling...

You've Been Volunteered: A Class Mom Novel

Author

Laurie Gelman

In the eagerly anticipated follow-up to Laurie Gelman’s "irreverent and hilarious" (The New York Post) hit Class Mom, brash, lovable Jen Dixon is back with a new class and her work cut out for her

If you’ve ever been a room parent or school volunteer, Jen Dixon is your hero. She says what every...

Is There Still Sex in the City?

Author	Candace Bushnell
ISBN	0802147267

Twenty years after her sharp, seminal first book Sex and the City reshaped the landscape of pop culture and dating with its fly on the wall look at the mating rituals of the Manhattan elite, the trailblazing Candace Bushnell delivers a new book on the wilds and lows of sex and dating after fifty.

Set...