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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorMagical Melons: More Stories About Caddie Woodlawn
Carol Ryrie Brink · 193 pages
Fourteen tales relating the further adventures of ten-year-old Caddie and her six siblings living on the Wisconsin frontier in the 1860's.
Return to Paradise
James A. Michener · 416 pages
A collection of inter-connected short stories set in the islands of the South Pacific. The book is a kind of sequel to Tales of the South Pacific, although these stories are all set after the end of WW2.
The Mysterious Mr. Quin
Agatha Christie · 288 pages
A conjurer of skill with an instinct for detection, Mr. Harley Quin has an almost magical flair for appearing at the scene of the most remarkable crimes. But is it just a trick of light that haunts his shadow with a ghostly apparition? Is it fate that invites him to a New Year's murder? And what forces are at work when his car breaks down outside Royalston Hall, an isolated estate with a deadly hi
The Cleverness of Ladies
Alexander McCall Smith · 129 pages
Glorious short stories from international bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, in a collection written especially for World Book Day. There are times when ladies must use all their wisdom and good sense to face life's problems and mysteries. Mma Ramotswe, owner of the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, keeps her wits about her as she looks into why the country's star goalkeeper isn't saving g
The Best Short Stories of O. Henry
O. Henry · 368 pages
South Sea Tales
Robert Louis Stevenson · 289 pages
In these stories, as in his work generally, Stevenson shows himself to be a virtuoso of narrative styles: his Pacific fiction includes the domestic realism of 'The Beach of Falesa', the folktale plots of 'The Bottle Imp' and 'The Isle of Voices', and the modernist blending of naturalism and symbolism in The Ebb-Tide. But beyond their generic diversity the stories are linked by their concern with r
Flowers in the Rain and Other Stories
Rosamunde Pilcher · 304 pages
Revenge of the Vinyl Cafe
Stuart McLean · 256 pages
"The world can be a perilous place. And the seemingly friendly world of Canada's favourite fictional family is no different. Everyone is afraid of something: Dave, for example, is afraid of dolls, germs and Mary Turlington. Sam, on the other hand, is afraid of bees, UFOs, and 'mewpilated' cows. Morley's fears - public nudity and drop-in visits - are slightly less peculiar. It's hard to be brave in
The Wily O'Reilly: Irish Country Stories
Patrick Taylor · 442 pages
"Long before Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly made most readers' acquaintance in Patrick Taylor's bestselling novel An Irish Country Doctor, he appeared in a series of humorous columns originally published in Stitches: The Journal of Medical Humour. These warm and wryly amusing vignettes provide an early glimpse at the redoubtable Dr. O'Reilly as he tends to the colourful and eccentric residents of B
The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth
Roger Zelazny · 287 pages
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales
H.P. Lovecraft, Kenneth Sterling, Anna Helen Crofts, T.E.D. Klein · 318 pages
Wayside School Is Falling Down
Louis Sachar · 179 pages
"Watch Closely," said Mrs. Jewls. "You can learn much faster using a computer instead of paper and pencil." Then she pushed the new computer out the window. The children watched it fall thirty floors and smash against the sidewalk. "See?" said Mrs. Jewls. "That's gravity! I've been trying to teach you about gravity, but the computer showed you a lot quicker!" That's the way things happen a
Tales from Shakespeare
Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb · 323 pages
The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation
Elizabeth Berg · 270 pages
A Few of the Girls
Maeve Binchy · 412 pages
'The Irish do love telling stories, and we are suspicious of people who don't have long, complicated conversations. There used to be a rule in etiquette books that you should invite four talkers and four listeners to a dinner party. That doesn't work in Ireland, because nobody knows four listeners' Maeve Binchy Maeve Binchy's bestselling novels not only tell wonderful stories, they also give an in
The Complete Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen · 286 pages
Sixteen tales including "Little Claus and Big Claus," "Father's Always Right," and "The Goblin and the Grocer."
Molly Story Collection
Valerie Tripp, Nick Backes, Keith Skeen
Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings
Alexander Pushkin · 209 pages
My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories
Holly Black, Ally Carter, Matt de la Pena, Gayle Forman, Jenny Han, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Myra McEntire, Rainbow Rowell, Laini Taylor, Kiersten White · 321 pages
"If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday anthologies, you're going to fall in love with My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories by twelve bestselling young adult writers, edited by the international bestselling Stephanie Perkins. Whether you enjoy celebrating Christmas or Hanuk
The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter · 384 pages
Here are the delightful stories of Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, and all the other Beatrix Potter favorites collected for the first time in one volume.
Letters from My Windmill
Alphonse Daudet · 121 pages
"The author, having relocated his home from Paris, recounts short bucolic tales about his new life in Provence as well as his trips to Corsica and French Algeria"--P. [4] of cover.
George and Martha
James Marshall · 46 pages
George and Martha, those incomparable hippos, will delight readers of all ages, in these five, funny, warm and wonderful stories by the illustrator of *Miss Nelson is Missing!* and *The Stupids Step Out*.
Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle · 368 pages
In three intertwining short stories, several high school couples experience the trials and tribulations along with the joys of romance during a Christmas Eve snowstorm in a small town. Holiday tales of love and romance.