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10 best books like We Sinners (Hanna Pylväinen): In the Company of Angels, Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography, Graphic the Valley, Boleto, Old Jules, Domestic Affairs, The Rifter Book One: The Shattered Gates, Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1950s: Mischief / The Blunderer / Beast in View / Fools' Gold, Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances: Three Short Novels, How This Night Is Different: Stories

In the Company of Angels
AuthorThomas E. Kennedy
ISBN1608190161
In the Company of Angels is the powerful story of two damaged souls trying to find their way from darkness toward light.

Imprisoned and tortured for months by Pinochet's henchmen for teaching political poetry to his students, Bernardo Greene is visited by two angels, who promise him that he...
Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography
AuthorJean Rhys
ISBN0140184058


There is something sadly fitting about Smile Please ’s being an unfinished autobiography. According to her publisher Diana Athill in the volume's foreword, Rhys was reluctant to revisit in an autobiography painful aspects of her past that she had already treated in her novels. At the same...
Graphic the Valley
AuthorPeter Brown Hoffmeister
ISBN1440568936
Tenaya has never left Yosemite Valley. He was born in a car by the Merced River, and grew up in a hidden camp with his parents, surviving on fish, acorns, and unfinished food thrown away by the park's millions of tourists. But despite its splendor, Tenaya's Yosemite is a visceral place of opposites, at...
Boleto
AuthorAlyson Hagy
ISBN1555976123
An unforgettable story of men and horses, the American West, and the dream of a ticket out
* A May 2012 Indie Next Pick *

Will Testerman is a young Wyoming horse trainer determined to make something of himself. Money is tight at the family ranch, where he's living again after a disastrous...
Old Jules
AuthorMari Sandoz
ISBN0803293240
First published in 1935, Old Jules is unquestionably Mari Sandoz’s masterpiece. This portrait of her pioneer father grew out of “the silent hours of listening behind the stove or the wood box, when it was assumed, of course, that I was asleep in bed. So it was that I heard the accounts of the hunts,”...
Domestic Affairs
AuthorBridget Siegel
ISBN1602861641
When twenty-something political fundraiser Olivia Greenley is recruited by her close friend Jacob Harriston to join the Presidential campaign of Georgia Governor Landon Taylor, she is intoxicated by optimism and opportunity. Taylor’s commitment to social equality and economic responsibility...
The Rifter Book One: The Shattered Gates
AuthorGinn Hale
ISBN1935560239
This is a reread for me. Originally, I read The Rifter as 10 different installations. It was more than a roller coaster of emotions for me - it was more like being chained to a wooden rack that gets picked up and ravaged by a tornado. That first time, I flew by each of the ten novellas without paying much attention...
Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1950s: Mischief / The Blunderer / Beast in View / Fools' Gold
AuthorSarah Weinman
ISBN1598534319
In place of the mean and violent streets evoked by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, the pioneering women crime writers of the 1940s and ’50s uncovered the roots of fear and mania in a quiet suburban neighborhood or a comfortable midtown hotel or the insinuating voice of a stranger on the telephone....
Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances: Three Short Novels
AuthorColette
ISBN0374527857
Two volumes of Colette's most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman.

Perhaps Colette's best-known work, Gigi is the story of a young girl being raised in a household more concerned with success and money than with the desires of the heart. But Gigi is uninterested in the dishonest...
How This Night Is Different: Stories
AuthorElisa Albert
ISBN0743291271
Elisa Albert's debut story collection marks the arrival of an extraordinary new voice in fiction. In "How This Night Is Different," Albert boldly illuminates the struggles of young, disaffected Jews to find spiritual fulfillment. With wit and wisdom, she confronts themes -- self-deprecation,...
The Nervous System
AuthorNathan Larson
ISBN1617750794
Decimal, attempting to clean up loose ends after the violent events in the first book, stumbles upon information concerning the gruesome murder of a prostitute and a prominent US senator's involvement. Immediately he finds himself chasing ghosts and fighting for his life, pursued by Blackwater-style...
The Art Student's War
AuthorBrad Leithauser
ISBN0307271110
In The Art Student’s War, his sixth novel, Brad Leithauser has brought off a double feat of imagination: a keen and affectionate rendering of an artist as a young woman and a loving historical portrait of a now-vanished Detroit in its heyday.

The story opens on a sunny spring day as a pretty...
Airless Spaces
AuthorShulamith Firestone
ISBN1570270821
A collection of short stories, set among the disappeared and darkened sectors of New York City, about characters who fall prey to an increasingly bureaucratized poverty.

In 1970, at the age of twenty-five, Shulamith Firestone wrote and published The Dialectic of Sex, immediately becoming...
Lightwood
AuthorSteph Post
ISBN1943818304
Judah Cannon is the middle son of the notorious Cannon clan led by Sherwood, its unflinching and uncompromising patriarch. When Judah returns to his rural hometown of Silas, Florida after a stint in prison, he is determined to move forward and live it clean with his childhood best friend and newly discovered...
Spinning Out
AuthorDavid Stahler Jr.
ISBN0811877809
High school senior Frenchy has little ambition beyond hanging out at the smoking rock until his best friend, the ever-witty and conniving Stewart, gets him to try out for Man of la Mancha. To everyone's surprise, the guys are a hit. But when Stewart's antics begin to grow more obsessivehe wears his costume...
Full Hearts and Empty Bellies
AuthorWinifred Foley
ISBN0349122180
Winifred Foley grew up in the 1920s, a bright, determined miner's daughter - in a world of unspoilt beauty and desperate hardship, in which women were widowed at thirty and children died of starvation. Living hand-to-mouth in a tumbledown cottage in the Forest of Dean, Foley - 'our Poll' - had a loving...
Camelot & Vine
AuthorPetrea Burchard
ISBN0985883715
Telling lies is second nature to Casey Clemens, whether she's talking to strangers on national television or to her mother on the phone. Casey's got a cushy Hollywood condo, an efficient cleaning lady and a rich boyfriend. (Never mind that he's married.) When Casey feels dissatisfied she fantasizes:...
Tell Me If the Lovers Are Losers
AuthorCynthia Voigt
ISBN0449702359
I hate the cover of this book. It’s got three girls on it with bad hair, bad clothes (one of them has a sweater tied around her neck), and the caption below the picture says, “Sometimes you learn more in college outside the classroom….” Ugh. It’s screaming for an update. I decided to give it a second...
Happiness for Beginners
AuthorGarry Lee Wright
Funny 'forensic memoir' about sanity, success, serendipity – and solving the mysteries of a roller-coaster life.

“A heartfelt and hilarious look back in time. Baby Boomers will find a kindred spirit in Garry Lee Wright."

– Tim Walsh, author of "Timeless Toys" and star of "Toyland"

“Like...
America's Obsessives: The Compulsive Energy That Built a Nation
AuthorJoshua Kendall
ISBN1455502383


When most of us think of Charles Lindbergh, we picture a dashing twenty-five-year-old aviator stepping out of the Spirit of St. Louis after completing his solo flight across the Atlantic. What we don't see is the awkward high school student, who preferred ogling new gadgets at the hardware...
What A Circus
AuthorPaul Langley
It was November 2011 and after experiencing several hospital admissions during the previous 6 years, I once again found myself in yet another hospital bed. This time, I was allocated one in an isolation room, due to my seriously compromised immune system and was feeling distinctly unwell; although...
Sapphire Eyes (The Secret Society of Magical Medics #1)
AuthorRebekah Honeycutt
Kyelena is a single mother struggling to make ends meet by working as an EMT in Kozak County. Her six year old son, Korey, is her one and only priority as she trudges through the murky waters of her everyday life. Being an Emergency Medical Technician is hard work, but it’s nothing compared to the challenges...
Love Bomb
AuthorLisa Zeidner
ISBN0374192715
An inventive, mordantly funny novel about love, marriage, stalkers, and the indignities of parenthood

In quaint Haddonfield, New Jersey, Tess is about to marry Gabe in her childhood home. Her mother, Helen, is in a panic about the guests, who include warring exes, crying babies, jealous...
A Good Birth: Finding the Positive and Profound in Your Childbirth Experience
AuthorAnne Lyerly
Drawing on a landmark study involving more than one hundred pregnant women and mothers, a renowned OB/GYN synthesizes the secrets to a good birth—medically and emotionally.

Most doctors are trained to think of a “good” birth only in terms of its medical success. But Dr. Anne Lyerly...
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