What Happened to Sophie Wilder
10 best books like What Happened to Sophie Wilder (Christopher R. Beha): Familiar, Glaciers, Inland, Shout Her Lovely Name, The Listeners, What Endures, Kisses to Remember, Peppermint Creek Inn, Torn, An Unexpected Family
| Author | J. Robert Lennon |
| ISBN | 1555976255 |
A haunting, enigmatic novel about a woman who is given a second chance—and isn’t sure whether she really wants it.
Elisa Brown is driving back from her annual, somber visit to her son Silas’s grave when something changes. Actually, everything changes: her body is more voluptuous; she’s...
Isabel is a single, twentysomething thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast off or left behind by others. Glaciers follows Isabel through a day in her life in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited love for the former soldier who fixes her computer,...
| Author | Gerald Murnane |
| ISBN | 0855611499 |
Is it possible to fall in love with a correspondent based entirely on a fascination with his or her handwriting, with a map of the country they live in, with the syllables of their name? What about, then, a fictional character, in a book about a country one has never, and will never, visit?
Inland...
| Author | Natalie Serber |
| ISBN | 0547634528 |
"Coming of age is a painful and beautiful experience in Natalie Serber's hands. These are funny and poignant pieces, building a book that feels novelistic in sweep, yet true to the precision and direct aim of the short story. A real pleasure." —Antonya Nelson
Mothers and daughters ride the...
| Author | Leni Zumas |
| ISBN | 1935639293 |
Hypnotic and profoundly disquieting, The Listeners explores a far-out world where a patchwork of memory, sensation, and imagination maps the flickering presence of ghosts.
This is the story of a woman whose life is shaped by tragedy. Quinn is thirtysomething, a survivor of a fractured and...
| Author | Katie Lee |
| ISBN | 1490997008 |
This is a New Adult/Contemporary Adult Romance intended for 17+ It contains mature subject matter and sexual situations.
Jason Kincaid is young, hot and successful.
An All-Star outfielder for the Seattle Mariners, he finally had everything he ever wanted, including a second chance...
| Author | Christine DePetrillo |
Graphic designer Johanna Ware knows family is the most important part of life. Her son, Kameron, is her world after losing her daughter and husband. She hides away on her Nebraska farm, wishing for adventure but settling for responsibility.
Corporate pilot Holden Lancaster is ready to fly...
| Author | Jan Springer |
| ISBN | 1419953370 |
The plot and pacing of this man-with-amnesia-thinks-he-is-a-criminal story made it particularly good. Bits of the hero's memory were revealed slowly as the relationship between hero and heroine grows. There's some nice misdirection in figuring out who committed which crimes. There is closure...
| Author | Gilli Allan |
| ISBN | 1783756918 |
TORN
She can escape her past but can she ever escape herself ?
Life is not a fairy tale; it can be confusing and difficult. Sex is not always awesome; it can be awkward and embarrassing, and it has consequences. You don't always fall for Mr Right, even if he falls for you. And realising you're...
| Author | Joan Medlicott |
| ISBN | 1416524568 |
Can an old betrayal turn into a brandnew beginning? National bestselling author Joan Medlicott pens a heartwarming tale of a family found.
Widowed Amelia always portrayed her marriage to Thomas Declose as complete perfection. They lived in Paris and entertained widely for a glittering...
It all started with a red lace thong. Normally Kate is a twin set and pearls kind of girl who wouldn't be caught dead in such a thing. But that's exactly what happens when sudden chest pains leave her lying in a parking lot with her skirt hiked up around her hips for all of Princeton to see.
It's a man...
| Author | Keith Lee Morris |
| ISBN | 0979419883 |
A dart contest on a Thursday night in Garnet Lake, Idaho brings together five very different characters, whose fates are threaded together more closely than they realize.
An intriguing tale of darts, drugs, and death.
Russell Harmon is the self-proclaimed king of his small-town...
| Author | Anish Majumdar |
| ISBN | 0989908100 |
For most of his twenty-three years, Neil Kapoor has been desperate to move beyond the shadow of his mother's schizophrenia. Once he enters drama school, he finally has the chance to find his place in the world. Surrounded by a group of students who, like him, have complex emotional needs, Neil falls in...
| Author | Dee Davis |
| ISBN | 1455506435 |
As the intelligence officer for A-Tac, a black-ops CIA unit masquerading as Ivy League faculty, Hannah Marshall is used to working behind the scenes. But when a brutal murder hits too close to home, Hannah finds herself in the middle of the action, falling in love while racing to outwit a sadistic mastermind....
| Author | C.J. Lyons |
| ISBN | 1939038022 |
Lucy’s back! In a story ripped from the headlines, the violence is the worst she’s ever seen, the stakes are higher than ever, and then…things get personal.
It’s a vicious, horrific crime: the brutal killing of a teenaged girl. When Pittsburgh detectives call FBI Supervisory Special...
After an eleven day stay at the hospital, Di has finally had enough.
Diana James has been abused for five years by her boyfriend, Chuck, and knows that if she doesn’t get away, he is going to kill her. With the help of a friend, Di is able to change her identity and escape him, but she can never stay...
Taylor Marshal and her daughter need protecting, yet the bodyguard assigned is the one man she fears the most.
Four years earlier, Taylor gave her heart to a stranger – and married him in a quick Bermuda ceremony. A week later her hopes were crushed when she finds out her new husband, Cory Ross,...
| Author | Julie Leto |
| ISBN | 1416501630 |
Sultry Latina bounty hunter Marisela Morales is back, taking on the Boston elite -- and her gorgeous ex -- in a red-hot, roller-coaster adventure from USA Today bestselling author Julie Leto.Three months into her training for Titan International Investigations, Marisela Morales needs some R &...
Praised by the New York Times Book Review as "an...affecting morality tale," Jim Lehrer's devastating White Widow brings the reader to the brink of one man's unstoppable, ruinous passion for a complete stranger.
Jack T. Oliver has a solid marriage, a cozy house in Corpus Christi, and a job...
| Author | Alicia Clifford |
| ISBN | 0312376278 |
"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." --Leo Tolstoy
As a writer, Celia Bayley's insights into the ways of the human heart made her famous. And why not? She had married a handsome war hero and produced three successful children. Yet, as her family...
| Author | Scott Sparling |
| ISBN | 1935639056 |
Wire to Wire assembles a cast of train-hopping, drug-dealing, glue-huffing lowlifes, in a stunning homage to one of our most popular enduring genres—the American crime novel.
While riding a freight car through Detroit, Michael Slater suffers a near-fatal accident—a power line to...
| Author | Marcia Willett |
| ISBN | 0593057732 |
It was in the middle of a snowstorm when Tiggy arrived at the remote house on Bodmin Moor. She was alone, her partner tragically dead in an accident, and Julia, her dearest friend, welcomed her into her warm and chaotic family.Tiggy started to live again and await the birth of her child, but nearly thirty...
| Author | Tom Morrisey |
| ISBN | 0764203460 |
A Breath From Tragedy, a Whisper from Glory
For Patrick Nolan, every climb tells a story. And now maybe it's his own…. He's right at the rim, staring over the cliff's knife edge and wondering how things went wrong so quickly.
It all started after arriving home from a weekend climbing...
