Under the Mercy Trees
9 best books like Under the Mercy Trees (Heather Newton): This I Know, Trouble the Water, The Lieutenant's Nurse, The Stranger Inside, The Queen of Palmyra, The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope, Sweet Expectations, The Diary, Slow Motion
| Author | Eldonna Edwards |
| ISBN | 1496712862 |
Set in a small Midwest town in the late 1960s and helmed by an unforgettable young protagonist--compassionate, uncannily wise Grace--This I Know is a luminous coming-of-age story from an astonishing new voice.
Eleven-year-old Grace Carter has a talent for hiding things. She's had plenty...
| Author | Jacqueline Friedland |
Abigail Milton was born into the British middle class, but her family has landed in unthinkable debt. To ease their burdens, Abby’s parents send her to America to live off the charity of their old friend, Douglas Elling. When she arrives in Charleston at the age of seventeen, Abigail discovers that...
| Author | Sara Ackerman |
| ISBN | 0778307913 |
November, 1941. She’s never even seen the ocean before, but Eva Cassidy has her reasons for making the crossing to Hawaii, and they run a lot deeper than escaping a harsh Michigan winter. Newly enlisted as an Army Corps nurse, Eva is stunned by the splendor she experiences aboard the steamship SS Lurline;...
| Author | Lisa Unger |
| ISBN | 0778308723 |
Even good people are drawn to do evil things ... Twelve-year-old Rain Winter narrowly escaped an abduction while walking to a friend's house. Her two best friends, Tess and Hank, were not as lucky. Tess never came home, and Hank was held in captivity before managing to escape. Their abductor was sent...
| Author | Minrose Gwin |
| ISBN | 0061840327 |
In the tradition of Harper Lee's classic comes this story of 11-year-old Florence Forrest, an only child growing up in the Jim Crow South, forced to accept unsavory truths about her family.
Florence is, by all accounts, a happy, spirited girl. She doesn't understand why her father leaves each...
The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope
| Author | Rhonda Riley |
| ISBN | 0062099442 |
The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope is an unconventional and passionately romantic love story that is as breathtaking and wondrous as The Time Traveler's Wife and The Story of Edgar Sawtelle.
During WWII, teenager Evelyn Roe is sent to manage the family farm in rural North Carolina, where she finds...
| Author | Mary Ellen Taylor |
| ISBN | 0425259706 |
Daisy McCrae knows that change can be sudden—and devastating. And while it doesn’t have to be a bad thing, change has the power to turn your whole world upside down....
Running the family bakery and living in the store’s attic might not be Daisy’s dream life, but she’s beginning to...
| Author | Eileen Goudge |
| ISBN | 1593155433 |
When the two grown daughters of Elizabeth Marshall discover an old diary of their mother’s in her attic, it comes as a shock to learn that the true love of Elizabeth’s life was not their father. This is the mystery the two daughters must unravel as they stay up late reading the words penned by Elizabeth...
| Author | Dani Shapiro |
| ISBN | 0156008475 |
Dani Shapiro, a young woman from a deeply religious home, became the girlfriend of a famous and flamboyant married attorney-her best friend's stepfather. The moment Lenny Klein entered her life, everything changed: she dropped out of college, began drinking, and neglected her friends and family....
