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8 best books like The Writer in the Garden (Jane Garmey): The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death, Tris's Book, Briar's Book, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Down the Garden Path, Below Stairs: The Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir That Inspired "Upstairs, Downstairs" and "Downton Abbey"

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
AuthorLindsey Fitzharris
ISBN0374117292
In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation. She conjures up early operating theaters--no place for the squeamish--and surgeons, working before anesthesia, who were lauded for their speed...
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
AuthorGretchen McCulloch
A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language.

Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are...
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
AuthorCaitlin Doughty
Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition.

Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut’s body if it were pushed out of a space...
Tris's Book
AuthorTamora Pierce
ISBN0590554093
Earthquake damage leaves Winding Circle vulnerable to pirate attack, so everyone - including the young mages-in-training Tris, Briar, Daja, and Sandry - is working to strengthen the community's defenses. When Tris's cousin Aymery comes to visit, he advises the "weather witch" to return to the family...
Briar's Book
AuthorTamora Pierce
ISBN0590554115
There is an alternate cover edition of this book here.

Part of the 8-book Tamora Pierce reissue for Fall 2006, this title in the Circle of Magic quartet features spellbinding new cover art. Coincides with the release of WILL OF THE EMPRESS in trade pb.
Four elements of power, four mages-in-training...
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
AuthorAnn-Marie MacDonald
ISBN0802135773
In this exuberant comedy, MacDonald asks, What if Desdemona and Juliet were allowed to live? Constance Ledbelly, a tweedy academic, has ghostwritten the papers of her mentor for years, when suddenly he announces he's marrying a rival. Escaping into her research, Constance decodes the Gustav Manuscript,...
Down the Garden Path
AuthorBeverley Nichols
ISBN0881927104
Rating Clarification: 4.5 Stars

This is one of those books that would have forever remained hidden from my reading world without the auspices of Goodreads in general and my GR buddy Leslie in particular (to Leslie - thanks for your squee-worthy review which led me to read this).

Written...
Below Stairs: The Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir That Inspired "Upstairs, Downstairs" and "Downton Abbey"
AuthorMargaret Powell
ISBN1250005442
Brilliantly evoking the long-vanished world of masters and servants, Margaret Powell's classic memoir of her time in service is the remarkable true story of an indomitable woman who, though she served in the great houses of England, never stopped aiming high.

Brilliantly evoking the long-vanished...
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