Trustee from the Toolroom
9 best books like Trustee from the Toolroom (Nevil Shute): Straight, Madam, Will You Talk?, The Cunning Man, Yarrow, Fear, Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest, The Hustler, The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home, Recessional
What is there to say about Dick Francis? As I think about all of his books (yes, this review covers all of his books, and yes I've read them all) I think about a moral ethical hero, steeped in intelligence and goodness embroiled in evil machinations within British horse racing society - either directly...
| Author | Mary Stewart |
| ISBN | 0060093560 |
Widowed Charity Selborne had been greatly looking forward to her driving holiday through France with her old friend Louise - long, leisurely days under the hot sun, enjoying the beauty of the parched Provencal landscape. But when Charity arrived at their hotel in the picturesque French town of Avignon,...
| Author | Robertson Davies |
| ISBN | 0140243437 |
"Should I have taken the false teeth?" This is what Dr. Jonathan Hullah, a former police surgeon, thinks after he watches Father Hobbes die in front of the High Altar at Toronto's St. Aidan's on the morning of Good Friday. How did the good father die? We do not learn the answer until the last pages of this...
| Author | Charles de Lint |
| ISBN | 0312863934 |
Yarrow was an exceptional book. I probably would have given it 5 stars had I not read "Some place to be Flying" first. That being said I will move on with the review.
Cat Midhir is a writer. A writer who walks between worlds. Cat gets her stories from the Otherworld; Her conversations with Tiddy...
| Author | L. Ron Hubbard |
| ISBN | 1870451554 |
A novel of compelling suspense. Professor James Lowry didn' believe in spirits, or witches, or demons. Not until a gentle spring evening when his hat disappeared, and suddenly he couldn't remember the last four hours of his life. Now, the quiet university town of Atworthy is changing - slightly at first,...
| Author | Sandra Day O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0679643443 |
Now, for the first time in paperback, here is the remarkable story of Sandra Day O’Connor’s family and early life, her journey to adulthood in the American Southwest that helped make her the woman she is today—the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and one of the most powerful women...
| Author | Walter Tevis |
| ISBN | 1560254734 |
"A wonderful hymn to the last true era when men of substance played pool with a vengeance."-Time Out
When it was first published in 1959, The Hustler was the first--and the best--novel written about billiards in the 400-year history of the game. The book quickly won a respected readership...
The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
Faced with the sale of the century-old family summer house on Cape Cod where he had spent forty-two summers, George Howe Colt recounts returning for one last stay with his wife and children in this stunning memoir that was a National Book Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
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| Author | James A. Michener |
| ISBN | 0449223450 |
Set in the Palms, a Florida retirement center, Recessional follows several residents over the course of a year as their individual narratives - humorous, moving, or sometimes triumphant - unfold. Chris Mallory reluctantly relinquishes his driver's license at the age of ninety, but refuses to hang...
