Vows: The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Their Son
10 best books like Vows: The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Their Son (Peter Manseau): Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, The Grammarians, Whose Body?, Elsewhere, They Called Us Enemy, Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age, Spies, Time After Time, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, Priestdaddy
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
Author | Casey Cep |
ISBN | 1101947861 |
The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird.
Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help...
"The Grammarians" are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words. They speak a secret “twin” tongue of their own as toddlers; as adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation continues, but this love, which has always...
Author | Dorothy L. Sayers |
ISBN | 0061043575 |
The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for murder -- especially with a pair of gold pince-nez deliberately perched before the sightless eyes. What's more, the face appeared to have been shaved after death. The police assumed that the victim was a...
Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are marvelous. It's quiet and peaceful. You can't get sick or any older. Curious to see new paintings by Picasso? Swing by one of Elsewhere's museums. Need to talk to someone about your problems? Stop by Marilyn Monroe's psychiatric practice.
Elsewhere...
Author | George Takei |
ISBN | 1603094504 |
A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself.
Long before George Takei braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke...
Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age
Author | Mary Pipher |
ISBN | 1632869608 |
A New York Times Bestseller
The New York Times bestseller from the author of Reviving Ophelia--a guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they age.
Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy...
Author | Michael Frayn |
ISBN | 0571212964 |
Another from the 2002 Booker longlist, this one is a quiet revelation and a masterly piece of storytelling.
The action is narrated by an old man revisiting the scene and remembering his childhood adventures in suburban England during the Second World War. The story is narrated from the childhood...
Author | Lisa Grunwald |
ISBN | 0812993438 |
A magical love story, inspired by the legend of a woman who vanished from Grand Central Terminal, sweeps readers from the 1920s to World War II and beyond, in the spirit of The Time Traveler’s Wife and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
On a clear December morning in 1937, at the famous gold...
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Author | David Epstein |
ISBN | 0735214484 |
What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think.
Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you...
Author | Patricia Lockwood |
ISBN | 1594633738 |
The childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed "The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas" by The New York Times, was unusual in many respects. There was the location: an impoverished, nuclear waste-riddled area of the American Midwest. There was her mother, a woman who speaks almost entirely...
Author | Elizabeth McCracken |
ISBN | 0316027677 |
"This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. But suddenly she fell in love, got married,...
Author | Albert Cutié |
ISBN | 0451232011 |
He was a Roman Catholic priest whose love affair became headline news. Now, he shares his explosive story-in his own words... In this deeply personal and controversial memoir, Father Albert Cutié tells about the devastating struggle between upholding his sacred promises as a priest and falling...
Author | Daphne du Maurier |
ISBN | 0316253006 |
"A diverse and engrossing cast of characters...provocative, diverting." --Chicago Tribune
Emma wakes up one morning to an apocalyptic world. The cozy existence she shares with her grandmother, an eccentric retired actress known to all as Madam, has been shattered: there's no post, no...
The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story
Author | Joy-Ann Reid |
ISBN | 0062880144 |
Read by the author
Is Donald Trump running the “longest con” in U.S. history?
What will be left of America when he leaves office?
Candidate Trump sold Americans a vision that was seemingly at odds with their country’s founding principles. Now in office, he’s put...
When Love Calls: A Memoir of Great Devotion
Author | Norm Supancheck |
ISBN | 1939457351 |
Two people love each other deeply but are kept apart. Will their love last? It s 1966 in Southern California. Shy but strong twenty-something Norm Supancheck is headed toward the priesthood when a chance meeting with a young teacher named Shayla Strohmeyer changes his life forever. Norm and Shayla...
Robert B. Parker's Blood Feud
Robert B. Parker's iconic and irresistible PI Sunny Randall is back, and the stakes are higher than ever as she races to protect her ex-husband--and his Mafia family--from the vengeful plan of a mysterious rival.
Sunny Randall is "on" again with Richie, the ex-husband she never stopped loving...
Author | Andrew M. Greeley |
ISBN | 0446349496 |
As he so movingly revealed in the bestselling The Cardinal Sins and Thy Brother's Wife, Father Andrew Greeley knows tragedy and frustration, the power and the glory, of the priest's role in contemporary life. In his new novel, Ascent into Hell, he illuminates the pain of choice--the dilemma of a priest...
Anthony Bourdain Remembered
A moving and insightful collection of quotes, memories, and images celebrating the life of Anthony Bourdain
When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, the outpouring of grief from his fans around the world was momentous. The tributes spoke to his legacy: That the world is much smaller than we...