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10 best books like The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac (Kris D'Agostino): An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago, Emily, Alone, The Sportswriter, The Nesting Place: It Doesn't Have to Be Perfect to Be Beautiful, A Fan's Notes, My Notorious Life, Starr Bright Will Be with You Soon, Fathermucker, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day, Ten Thousand Saints

An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago
AuthorAlex Kotlowitz
ISBN1984841173
From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicago's most turbulent neighborhoods.

The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been killed and another roughly 60,000...
Emily, Alone
AuthorStewart O'Nan
ISBN0670022357
Once again making the ordinary and overlooked not merely visible but vital to understanding our own lives, Stewart O'Nan confirms his position as an American master with Emily, Alone.

A sequel to the bestselling, much-beloved Wish You Were Here, O'Nan's intimate novel follows Emily Maxwell,...
The Sportswriter
AuthorRichard Ford
ISBN0394743253
As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people--men, mostly--who live entirely within themselves. This is a condition that Frank himself aspires to. But at thirty-eight, he suffers from incurable dreaminess, occasional pounding of the heart, and the not-too-distant losses...
The Nesting Place: It Doesn't Have to Be Perfect to Be Beautiful
AuthorMyquillyn Smith
Perfection is overrated.
Popular blogger and self-taught decorator Myquillyn Smith (The Nester) is all about
embracing reality—especially when it comes to decorating a home bursting with boys, pets, and all the unpredictable messes of life.

In The Nesting Place, Myquillyn...
A Fan's Notes
AuthorFrederick Exley
ISBN0679720766


Fredrick Exley (1929-1992) – Photo of the writer as a vulnerable, sensitive young man. In many ways, much too vulnerable and sensitive for mid-20th century American society, a society where a man’s prime virtue is being tough.

A Fan's Notes is the odyssey of one man’s unending...
My Notorious Life
AuthorKate Manning
ISBN1451698089
A brilliant rendering of a scandalous historical figure, Kate Manning's My Notorious Life is an ambitious, thrilling novel introducing Axie Muldoon, a fiery heroine for the ages. Axie's story begins on the streets of 1860s New York. The impoverished child of Irish immigrants, she grows up to become...
Starr Bright Will Be with You Soon
AuthorRosamond Smith
ISBN1504045130
Demure Lily Merrick is a dutiful housewife and mother who teaches pottery classes in upstate New York. Then, out of the blue, her estranged sister, Sharon, shows up after fifteen years, seeking refuge from her life as a Las Vegas stripper. At first Lily is overwhelmed and overjoyed. Her daughter and...
Fathermucker
AuthorGreg Olear
ISBN0062059718
“All kinds of funny—raucously, wickedly, sweetly, saucily, surprisingly, profanely funny…a wonderful novel.”
—Jess Walter, author of The Financial Lives of the Poets

“Deft and funny, true and real. If you read one book this year, read this one.”
—Molly Jong-Fast,...
Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
AuthorBen Loory
ISBN0143119508
Loory's collection of wry and witty, dark and perilous contemporary fables is populated by people–and monsters and trees and jocular octopi–who are united by twin motivations: fear and desire. In his singular universe, televisions talk (and sometimes sing), animals live in small apartments...
Ten Thousand Saints
AuthorEleanor Henderson
Adopted by a pair of diehard hippies, restless, marginal Jude Keffy-Horn spends much of his youth getting high with his best friend, Teddy, in their bucolic and deeply numbing Vermont town. But when Teddy dies of an overdose on the last day of 1987, Jude's relationship with drugs and with his parents...
The Gospel of Winter
AuthorBrendan Kiely
ISBN1442484896
A fearless debut novel about the restorative power of truth and love after the trauma of abuse.

As sixteen-year-old Aidan Donovan’s fractured family disintegrates around him, he searches for solace in a few bumps of Adderall, his father’s wet bar, and the attentions of his local priest,...
Truth Worth Telling
AuthorScott Pelley
ISBN1982647477
An inspiring memoir from the front lines of history by award-winning 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley.

Don’t ask the meaning of life. Life is asking, what’s the meaning of you?

With this provocative question, Truth Worth Telling introduces us to unforgettable people...
The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America
AuthorJim Acosta
From CNN’s veteran Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta, an explosive, first-hand account of the dangers he faces reporting on the current White House while fighting on the front lines in President Trump’s war on truth.

In Mr. Trump’s campaign against what he calls “Fake News,”...
Dirty Genes: A Breakthrough Program to Treat the Root Cause of Illness and Optimize Your Health
AuthorBen Lynch
ISBN0062698206
Instant National Bestseller

After suffering for years with unexplainable health issues, Dr. Ben Lynch discovered the root cause—“dirty” genes. Genes can be “born dirty” or merely “act dirty” in response to your environment, diet, or lifestyle—causing lifelong, life-threatening,...
Taft
AuthorAnn Patchett
ISBN0060540761
John Nickel is a black ex-jazz musician who only wants to be a good father. But when his son is taken away from him, he's left with nothing but the Memphis bar he manages. Then he hires Fay, a young white waitress, who has a volatile brother named Carl in tow. Nickel finds himself consumed with the idea of Taft...
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