The White Robin
9 best books like The White Robin (Miss Read): Magic by the Lake, Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady, Miss Buncle's Book, Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child, The Angel Knew Papa and the Dog, My Guru And His Disciple, The Road Home, The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District, The Tin Can Tree
| Author | Edward Eager |
| ISBN | 0152020772 |
oh, Edward Eager, you really seem like a swell guy. a family man but not one of those mawkish mewling types who always seem to be about to burst into tears when they talk about their fam. you get kids and you don't bring a lot of sentimentality to the table either; you capture the cheerfulness & the mood...
| Author | Kate Summerscale |
| ISBN | 1608199134 |
"I think people marry far too much; it is such a lottery, and for a poor woman--bodily and morally the husband's slave--a very doubtful happiness." --Queen Victoria to her recently married daughter Vicky.
Headstrong, high-spirited, and already widowed, Isabella Walker became Mrs. Henry...
| Author | D.E. Stevenson |
| ISBN | 0708908349 |
Barbara Buncle is in a bind. Times are harsh, and Barbara's bank account has seen better days. Stumped for ideas, Barbara draws inspiration from fellow residents of her quaint English village, writing a revealing novel that features the townsfolk as characters. The smashing bestseller is published...
Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
| Author | Laura Cumming |
| ISBN | 1501198718 |
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riveting story of her mother’s mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village—and how that event reverberated through her own family and her art for decades.
In the...
| Author | Douglas Kaine McKelvey |
| ISBN | 0998311227 |
Without Mama, life in the log house at the forest's edge can be lonely for a little girl. But there's Papa for company, and the two mules, Bartholomew and Thaddeus Frisco, and the big old dog that mysteriously showed up at the end of winter. Everything about her little homestead seems sheltering and secure--that...
| Author | Christopher Isherwood |
| ISBN | 0816638640 |
"My Guru and His Disciple is a sweetly modest and honest portrait of Isherwood’s spiritual instructor, Swami Prabhavananda, the Hindu priest who guided Isherwood for some thirty years. It is also a book about the often amusing and sometimes painful counterpoint between worldliness and holiness...
| Author | Richard Paul Evans |
| ISBN | 1501111825 |
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans, the dramatic conclusion in the riveting Broken Road trilogy—a powerful redemption story about finding happiness on a pilgrimage across iconic Route 66.
Chicago celebrity and pitchman Charles James is supposed to be dead....
The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
| Author | James Rebanks |
| ISBN | 0385682840 |
Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd himself, he and his family have lived and worked in and around the Lake District for generations. Their way of life is ordered by the seasons and the work they demand,...
| Author | Anne Tyler |
| ISBN | 0449911896 |
In the small town of Larksville, the Pike family is hopelessly out of step with the daily rhythms of life after the tragic, accidental death of six-year-old Janie Rose. Mrs. Pike seldom speaks, blaming herself, while Mr. Pike is forced to come out of his long, comfortable silence. Then there is ten-year-old...
