Three Wishes: Our True Story of Good Friends, Bad Odds, Crushing Heartbreak, and One Little Thing That Inspired a Lot of Happiness
10 best books like Three Wishes: Our True Story of Good Friends, Bad Odds, Crushing Heartbreak, and One Little Thing That Inspired a Lot of Happiness (Carey Goldberg): The Printed Letter Bookshop, Doomsday Book, Only Child, Blackout, All Clear, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia, Mrs. McGinty's Dead, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, The Truth According to Us, Dragonsdale
The Printed Letter Bookshop
| Author | Katherine Reay |
| ISBN | 0785222006 |
Love, friendship, and family find a home at the Printed Letter Bookshop
One of Madeline Cullen’s happiest childhood memories is of working with her Aunt Maddie in the quaint and cozy Printed Letter Bookshop. But by the time Madeline inherits the shop nearly twenty years later, family troubles...
| Author | Connie Willis |
| ISBN | 0553562738 |
For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking...
| Author | Rhiannon Navin |
| ISBN | 1524733350 |
“Perfect for fans of Room… a heartbreaking but important novel.” —Real Simple
Readers of Jodi Picoult and Liane Moriarty will also like this tenderhearted debut about healing and family, narrated by an unforgettable six-year-old boy who reminds us that sometimes the littlest...
| Author | Connie Willis |
| ISBN | 0553803190 |
Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place, with scores of time-traveling historians being sent into the past. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser into letting her go to VE-Day. Polly Churchill’s next...
| Author | Connie Willis |
| ISBN | 0553807676 |
In Blackout, award-winning author Connie Willis returned to the time-traveling future of 2060—the setting for several of her most celebrated works—and sent three Oxford historians to World War II England: Michael Davies, intent on observing heroism during the Miracle of Dunkirk; Merope Ward,...
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
| Author | Christina Thompson |
| ISBN | 0062060872 |
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know.
For more than...
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 1572707313 |
Alas, Mrs. McGinty; we hardly knew you.
Really. I mean that. She was a widow, a woman who cleaned houses and took in lodgers to make ends meet; had a niece whom she saw at holidays, and was perhaps a bit of a nosy parker; nothing extraordinary to fill the obituary. When Inspector Spence visits...
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
| Author | Mason Currey |
| ISBN | 0307273601 |
Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle maneuvers.”
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The Truth According to Us
| Author | Annie Barrows |
| ISBN | 0385342942 |
In the summer of 1938, Layla Beck’s father, a United States senator, cuts off her allowance and demands that she find employment on the Federal Writers’ Project, a New Deal jobs program. Within days, Layla finds herself far from her accustomed social whirl, assigned to cover the history of the remote...
| Author | Salamanda Drake |
| ISBN | 0439871735 |
A fantasy world where every girl has a dragon of her own to groom, train, and ride; a unique and highly commercial take on the popular dragon theme!
Imagine a stable full of dragons! A place where a group of young girls are busy grooming the beautiful beasts and getting them ready for competition--with...
Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds
| Author | Jen Wilkin |
| ISBN | 1433541769 |
Many Christian women find great encouragement and joy in and through women's Bible studies. However, popular Bible teacher Jen Wilkin is concerned that sometimes we let our emotions rule our study of Scripture and forget that the Bible is primarily about God, not us. Challenging hungry women to go...
The Second Worst Restaurant in France
| Author | Alexander McCall Smith |
| ISBN | 1846974216 |
Renowned Scottish cookbook writer Paul Stuart is hard at work on his new book, The Philosophy of Food, but complicated domestic circumstances, and two clingy cats, are making that difficult.
So when Paul's eccentric cousin Chloe suggests that he join her at the house she's rented in the French...
How Much Is a Little Girl Worth?
| Author | Rachael Denhollander |
| ISBN | 1496441680 |
You’re beautiful, worthy, and you should be loved
Because of all that you are.
Different from anything else in the world,
You are precious beyond the stars.
How Much is a Little Girl Worth? is Rachael Denhollander’s tender hearted anthem to little girls everywhere, teaching...
| Author | Donna Leon |
| ISBN | 0142004227 |
A riveting, pitch-perfect murder mystery—the work of a truly masterful storyteller. Conjuring contemporary Venice in exquisite and alluring detail, this is widely hailed as the finest installment yet of the Commissario Guido Brunetti series.
For over a decade, Donna Leon has topped...
A Delhi Obsession: A Novel
Two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji returns with a powerful new novel about grief and second chances, tradition and rebellion, set in vibrant present-day Delhi.
Munir Khan, a recent widower from Toronto, on a whim decides to visit Delhi, the city of his forbears. Born in Kenya, he...
Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible
| Author | Mark L. Ward Jr. |
| ISBN | 1683590554 |
The King James Version has shaped the church, our worship, and our mother tongue for over 400 years. But what should we do with it today?
The KJV beautifully rendered the Scriptures into the language of turn-of-the-seventeenth-century England. Even today the King James is the most widely...
Faithful Place by Tana French Summary and Study Guide
I loved the book after only a few pages and this novel did not disappoint me. The descriptive parts were beautifully written and the dialogues so strong they elevate this book to a very high echelon.
No cardboard personages and the neighborhood where the story develops is so well drawn with strong...
| Author | Sebastian Faulks |
| ISBN | 0375704566 |
The bestselling author of Birdsong and Charlotte Gray delivers an enthralling, vibrantly evocative novel set in America in 1960, when the country stood poised between the paranoia of the Cold War and the ebullience of the New Frontier.
Faulks' heroine is Mary Van der Linden, a pretty, reserved...
