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10 best books like Undrawn (Conchie Fernandez): In a Child's Name: The Legacy of a Mother's Murder, The Anne Boleyn Collection: The Real Truth about the Tudors, Sourland, The Art of Disappearing, The Glassblower's Daughter, Girl Mary, The End of Boys, Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II (Oxford Oral History Series), Love Letters from Cell 92, Meets Girl

In a Child's Name: The Legacy of a Mother's Murder
AuthorPeter Maas
ISBN0671694162
Tracing events from the Midwestern states of Indiana and Kentucky to the East Coast, the author of such major bestsellers as Serpico and King of the Gypsies has written a dramatic and terrifying book about a charming and successful psychopath and the woman who loved him--and whom he murdered. The custody...
The Anne Boleyn Collection: The Real Truth about the Tudors
AuthorClaire Ridgway
ISBN1470038161
Should Anne Boleyn be pardoned and reburied as Queen? Anne Boleyn and "The Other Boleyn Girl." Did Anne Boleyn dig her own grave? The Six Wives' stereotypes - are they right? Did Anne Boleyn commit incest with her brother? "The Anne Boleyn Collection" brings together the most popular articles from top...
Sourland
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
ISBN0061996521
Joyce Carol Oates is not only one of our most important novelists and literary critics, she is also an unparalleled master of the short story. "Sourland"--sixteen previously uncollected stories that explore the power of violence, loss, and grief to shape the psyche as well as the soul--shows us an...
The Art of Disappearing
AuthorIvy Pochoda
ISBN0312385854
How do you know if love is real or just an illusion?


When Mel Snow meets the talented magician Toby Warring in a dusty roadside bar, she is instantly drawn to the brilliant performer whose hands can effortlessly pull stray saltshakers and poker chips from thin air and conjure castles out...
The Glassblower's Daughter
AuthorFrances Clarke
The Glassblowers Daughter
By Frances Clarke
276 Pages
5 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
I'm going to begin my review by quoting a fellow reviewer of this book. "Raven" conveys what I feel, with such eloquence, it bears repeating. 
"This book reads like a single sentence, in that it...
Girl Mary
AuthorPetru Popescu
ISBN1416532633
A hauntingly beautiful novel, bringing to life one of history’s most mysterious characters, Mary of Nazareth, as a beautiful, complicated, utterly believable girl in love.

• In a bestselling tradition: Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist, Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent, Francois Mauriac’s...
The End of Boys
AuthorPeter Brown Hoffmeister
ISBN1593764200
Peter Hoffmeister was a nervous child who ran away repeatedly and bit his fingernails until they bled. Home-schooled until the age of fourteen, he had only to deal with his parents and siblings on a daily basis, yet even that sometimes proved too much for him. Over the years, he watched his mother disintegrate...
Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II (Oxford Oral History Series)
AuthorJ. Todd Moye
ISBN0195386558
In this inspiring account of the Tuskegee Airmen--the country's first African American military pilots--historian J. Todd Moye captures the challenges and triumphs of these brave aviators in their own words, drawing on more than 800 interviews recorded for the National Park Service's Tuskegee...
Love Letters from Cell 92
AuthorDietrich Bonhoeffer
ISBN0687010985
A brilliant theologian hanged by the Nazis in 1945 for taking part in a plot to kill Hitler, Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived out his Christian commitment to the very end of his life. This collection of correspondence between Bonhoeffer and von Wedemeyer--long anticipated but never before published--offers...
Meets Girl
AuthorWill Entrekin
"It’s romance and fairy tales. But it’s magic and whimsy too. It’s a writer’s lament and a coming-of-age tale (for lack of a better cliché.) It’s experimentation and taking chances. It’s poetry and music. It’s love and art." -LL Book Review

"Silly and poignant and real . . ....
Lewis resa
AuthorPer Olov Enquist
ISBN9113009672
Två stora folkrörelser präglade 1900-talet, arbetarrörelsen och den kristna väckelsen. Per Olov Enquist har skrivit om arbetarrörelsen i Musikanternas uttåg (1978); nu skriver han om väckelserörelsen i sin stora roman om Lewi Pethrus, den svenska Pingströrelsens skapare och den...
The Reign of Mary Tudor
AuthorJames Anthony Froude
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references,...
Simple Simon
AuthorRyne Douglas Pearson
It took years to develop. Cost billions to perfect. A National Security Agency cryptographic system so advanced it safeguards the United States' most vital secrets. It is secure. Impenetrable.

Until sixteen year old autistic savant Simon Lynch happens upon a forgotten snippet of code,...
Memoirs of Napoleon - Complete
AuthorLouis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
One cannot escape Bourrienne.

Any solid study of Napoleon requires attention be paid to the man he strapped like a fifth appendage to his torso and carried forth to glory. We may wish to skirt his account, filled as it is with envy and pretention. He was an egotistical aristocrat with the gall...
Other Women
AuthorLisa Alther
ISBN0452276780
With two young sons, a failed marriage, a job as an emergency room nurse that leaves her feeling paralyzed and hopeless, and a relationship with a woman that has entered its bitter final stages, thirty-five-year-old Caroline Kelley is more than ready to change her life. Motherhood, marriage, monogamy,...
The Last Joy
AuthorKnut Hamsun
ISBN1931243190
Published in Norway in 1912, The Last Joy (Den Siste Glaede) appears at an important transition point in Hamsun’s career, as he moved any from his intense observations of individual characters to focus on a broader canvas of small town and farm life social units of the Norwegian culture. If Hunger...
The Dolphin People
AuthorTorsten Krol
ISBN1843545772
Shortly after the end of WWII, sixteen-year-old Erich Linden and his family have fled Germany and joined Erich's uncle, Klaus, in Venezuela, where they will begin a new life. But, en route to Klaus's outpost further inland, they encounter a storm and their plane crashes in the middle of the jungle. Stranded...
South of Bixby Bridge
AuthorRyan Winfield
ISBN0615511600
From New York Times Bestselling Author Ryan Winfield, a sexy and shocking literary debut.

What would you do if you weren't afraid? That's the question facing young Trevor Roberts as he's being discharged from drug rehab, sure that he's hit rock bottom with nowhere to go but up.

With...
The History of Napoleon Buonaparte
AuthorJohn Gibson Lockhart
John Gibson Lockhart was a Scottish writer and editor. He is best known as the author of a biography of his father-in-law Sir Walter Scott, which has been called the second most admirable in the English language, after Boswell's Life of Johnson.

Between 1818 and 1825 Lockhart worked indefatigably....
As Seen on TV: Provocations
AuthorLucy Grealy
ISBN1582341532
From the author of the unforgettable Autobiography of A Face comes a collection of wonderfully unexpected essays on life, love, sex, God and politics.

Whether she is contemplating promiscuity or The New Testament, lamenting about what she should have said to Oprah, or learning to tango,...
Gargoyles
AuthorThomas Bernhard
ISBN1400077559
The playwright and novelist Thomas Bernhard was one of the most widely translated and admired writers of his generation, winner of the three most coveted literary prizes in Germany. Gargoyles, one of his earliest novels, is a singular, surreal study of the nature of humanity.

One morning...
Green River Rising
AuthorTim Willocks
ISBN0380723573
On the day Dr. Ray Klein wins his parole, the disciplinary perfection of Green River Penitentiary in Texas is torn apart by riot - more a tribal war - of unimaginable ferocity. As the inmates take over, the River sucks all inside further toward the abyss. Klein must choose. He must either claim his freedom...
Realities
AuthorMarian D. Schwartz
A year after her husband’s suicide, Jenny Weaver impulsively moves from a suburb in the Northeast to California. Her young children adjust to the move, but she does not. She has made only one friend, and she isn’t sure of how to handle the children’s problems. Matthew developed a stutter after...
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