Tish
10 best books like Tish (Mary Roberts Rinehart): Nonsense Novels, The Story of a Bad Boy, Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself, Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man, The Agony Column, Terminal Point, Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains, The Eye of Osiris, Jill the Reckless, The Sunny Side: Short Stories and Poems for Proper Grown-Ups, The Rose-Garden Husband
| Author | Stephen Leacock |
| ISBN | 1590171187 |
A gift? Yes-a gift for you. You're welcome.—from the introduction by Daniel Handler
Nonsense Novels sends up the silliest conventions of the ghost story, the detective story, the rags-to-riches story, the adventure story, the shipwreck story, and, of course, the story itself. Among...
| Author | Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
| ISBN | 1406806641 |
In a time when children's books were populated with well-behaved little gentlemen, Thomas Bailey Aldrich dared to present an alternative point of view - childhood as he remembered it. Tom Bailey is no angel. At times a bully, a vandal, and a troublemaker, he has a healthy zest for life and a perhaps over-developed...
| Author | Henry Howarth Bashford |
| ISBN | 1598180355 |
It is customary, I have noticed, in publishing an autobiography to preface it with some sort of apology. But there are times, and surely the present is one of them, when to do so is manifestly unnecessary. In an age when every standard of decent conduct has either been torn down or is threatened with destruction;...
| Author | Earl Derr Biggers |
| ISBN | 1587153017 |
The Agony Column is a perfect brew of mystery and romance of the very old-fashioned variety. Perhaps no one other than M.M. Kaye blended these two elements as well as Earl Derr Biggers. Forever remembered for his creation of Charlie Chan, the great detective from Hawaii, many of Biggers' other novels...
| Author | K.M. Ruiz |
| ISBN | 0312681550 |
Blade Runner meets X-Men in this follow-up to Mind Storm where humanity faces extinction and it's up to a group of rogue psions to save society
Fans of Charles Stross and Hannu Rajaniemi will lose themselves in this adventure as Threnody Corwin and her team of rogue Strykers contend with the...
| Author | Charles Alexander Eastman |
| ISBN | 1582186006 |
INDIAN HEROES AND GREAT CHIEFTAINS provides biographical sketches of 15 great Native American leaders, mostly Sioux, including portraits of Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Spotted Tail. Eastman traces their historical importance to both white and Native peoples. Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) was...
| Author | R. Austin Freeman |
| ISBN | 0755103564 |
John Bellingham is a world-renowned archaeologist who goes missing mysteriously after returning from a voyage to Egypt where fabulous treasures have been uncovered. Bellingham seems to have disappeared leaving clues, which lead all those hunting down blind alleys. But when the piercing perception...
| Author | P.G. Wodehouse |
| ISBN | 1585676608 |
This romantic narrative set on either side of the Atlantic is a true tale of its time. First published in 1920, Jill the Reckless commences in the better circles of London society. Jill Mariner is engaged to Derek Underhill. Both of these young people are well to do and Derek has a title to boot! What better...
The Sunny Side: Short Stories and Poems for Proper Grown-Ups
| Author | A.A. Milne |
| ISBN | 0061227099 |
From the beloved creator of Winnie-the-Pooh comes an irresistible collection of short stories guaranteed to delight readers of all ages.
Drawing from a collection of stories originally published in 1921 and chosen exclusively by the author himself, The Sunny Side gathers the best short...
| Author | Margaret Widdemer |
| ISBN | 1153799146 |
A message of good cheer, of happiness, of love, is carried to the reader in this delightful story of Phyllis, who is the cheery "Liberry teacher" and Allan, a sad invalid whom she marries after a rather curious proposal to escape her life of drudgery. What follows is a humorous and heartwarming tale of...
Arms of Deliverance: A Story of Promise
| Author | Tricia Goyer |
| ISBN | 0802415563 |
The fourth and final novel in this exhilarating series capturing the tales of men and women swept into World War II. Two women, Mary and Lee, land similar reporting jobs at the New York Tribune on the eve of the war's outbreak and soon they become competitors. Mary's coverage of a bombing raid over Germany...
| Author | Malcolm Bradbury |
| ISBN | 1447222717 |
At first glance Dr Angus Petworth (also called Pitwit, Pervert, and Petwurt by his Soviet-bloc hosts) might appear stuffy; his is a pale-faced, middle-aged British professor of linguistics. But as soon as he sets out on a lecture tour behind the Iron Curtain and becomes embroiled in a confrontation...
| Author | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| ISBN | 1595402209 |
Set in the fictional European kingdom of Lutha, the protagonist is a young American named Barney Custer, of Beatrice, Nebraska, who is the son of an American farmer and a runaway Luthan princess, Victoria Rubinroth. Unaware of his royal blood, much less that he is a dead ringer for his relative Leopold,...
| Author | Cathie Pelletier |
| ISBN | 1402294816 |
In this fresh new repackaging of her widely acclaimed debut novel, Cathie Pelletier introduces readers to the charming backcountry town of Mattagash, Maine an its quirky, endearing citizens.
At the heart of this quirky and humorous novel are three sisters: Marge, the one who is dying; Pearl,...
The Education of Hyman Kaplan
| Author | Leo Rosten |
| ISBN | 1853753823 |
Okay, Goodreads, now I've finished it. This book is light and funny. Hyman Kaplan is an immigrant living in the United States and taking a beginners English class at a night school for adults. The book focuses on Kaplan's strange use of the English language: his odd spelling, bizarre pronunciation,...
| Author | Patrick Moore |
| ISBN | 0540087912 |
Atlas of the Universe is the ultimate reference to the stars, planets and celestial objects using the most comprehensive information available.
The book features the latest images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Very Large Telescope, Mars Express, the Cassini spacecraft and 2004...
Kitty Peck and the Child of Ill-Fortune
March 1880, Limehouse.
Kitty Peck, a spirited but vulnerable seventeen-year-old, is the reluctant heiress to Paradise, the criminal empire previously overseen by the formidable Lady Ginger. Far from the colour and camaraderie of the music hall where Kitty had been working, this newfound power...
The Americanization of Edward Bok
| Author | Edward William Bok |
| ISBN | 0974290408 |
This Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography charmingly chronicles the life of Edward Bok, the longtime editor of The Ladies Home Journal and a noted philanthropist. Bok wrote of his eventful life, "Every life has some interest and significance; mine, perhaps, a special one. Here was a little Dutch...
Ten Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet!): A Guide to Science's Greatest Mysteries
| Author | Michael Hanlon |
| ISBN | 0230517587 |
From the author of the bestselling The Science of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comes another incredible trip to an even more mysterious terrain. Michael Hanlon identifies ten scientific questions that we simply can't seem to answer and explains why these compelling mysteries will remain...
| Author | Mary Kennedy |
| ISBN | 0451230841 |
Maggie is really getting into the swing of her daily radio show. She loves her new life in Cypress Grove, Florida, where she considers herself a Dr. Phil–minus the money and the fame. Unfortunately, she’s also minus the fans. So when a big movie company hits town, Maggie’s producer thinks a few...
The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors: Christianity Before Christ
| Author | Kersey Graves |
| ISBN | 1602062803 |
Khrisna of India. Thammuz of Syria. Esus of the Celtic Druids. Mithra of Persia. Quexalcoati of Mexico. All were crucified gods, and all met their fates hundreds of years before Jesus appeared on the scene. In this foundational work of modern atheism, American spiritualist KERSEY GRAVES (1813-1883)...
