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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorLet 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.
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Jesse Q. Sutanto · 353 pages
A USA Today bestseller Edgar Award Winner for Best Original Paperback Audie Award Winner for Mystery Libby Award Winner for Best Mystery A lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties. Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady—ah, lady of a certain age—who lives above her for
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt · 368 pages
After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night cleaner shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium. Ever since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat over thirty years ago keeping busy has helped her cope. One night she meets Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium who sees everything, but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his hum
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven
Fannie Flagg · 379 pages
Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here?Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs. Elner Shimfissle is up in her tree, picking figs, and the next thing
The Christmas Train
David Baldacci · 272 pages
On a train ride to Los Angeles, cash-strapped journalist Tom Langdon encounters a ridiculous cast of characters, unexpected romance, and an avalanche that changes everyone's Christmas plans.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Deborah Moggach · 333 pages
Enticed by advertisements for a newly restored palatial hotel and filled with visions of a life of leisure, good weather and mango juice in their gin, a group of very different people leave England to begin a new life in India. On arrival they are dismayed to find the palace is a shell of its former self, the staff more than a little eccentric, and the days of the Raj long gone. But, as they soon
Pigs in Heaven
Barbara Kingsolver · 363 pages
A phenomenal bestseller and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for fiction, Pigs in Heaven continues the story of Taylor and Turtle, first introduced in The Bean Trees.
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Helen Simonson · 394 pages
You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled with rolling hills, thatched cottages, and a cast of characters both hilariously original and as familiar as the members of your own family. Among them is Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired), the unlikely hero of Helen Simonson's wondrous debut. Wry, courtly, opinionated, and completely endearing, Major P
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
Cronin Marianne
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Rachel Joyce · 355 pages
Harold Fry has recently retired and now, he doesn't do very much. Even mowing the lawn, like his wife Maureen tells him to do, seems too much work for him. When, one day, he recieves a lettre in a pink envelope, this lazyness changes. In it, his collegue from long time ago, Queenie Hennessy, tells him she is going to die soon from a cancer in a hospice at the other end of England. Harold, at first
The Marriage Bureau for Rich People
Farahad Zama · 282 pages
What does somebody with a wealth of common sense do if retirement palls? Why, open a marriage bureau of course. And soon Mr Ali, from beautiful Vizag, see his new business as the indomitable Mrs Ali and assistant Aruna look on with careful eyes. But although many clients go away happy, problems lurk behind the scenes.
The Importance of Being Seven
Alexander McCall Smith · 299 pages
Number 44 Scotland Street is no ordinary address. The elegant tenement, and the surrounding Georgian quarter of Edinburgh, is home to an extraordinary group of people, including Bertie Pollock--six years old, and impatient to be seven.
A Guide to the Birds of East Africa
Nicholas Drayson · 204 pages
Reserved, honourable Mr Malik. You wouldn't notice him in a Nairobi street – except, perhaps, to comment on his carefully sculpted comb-over – but beneath his unprepossessing exterior lie a warm heart and a secret passion. Not even his closest friends know it, but Mr Malik is head-over-heels in love with the leader of the local Tuesday-morning bird walk, Rose Mbikwa.Little can he imagine the hurdl
An Available Man
Hilma Wolitzer · 285 pages
"In this tender and funny novel, award-winning author Hilma Wolitzer mines the unpredictable fallout of suddenly becoming single later in life, and the chaos and joys of falling in love the second time around. When Edward Schuyler, a modest and bookish sixty-two-year-old science teacher, is widowed, he finds himself ambushed by female attention. There are plenty of unattached women around, but a h
The Mislaid Magician: or Ten Years After
Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer · 336 pages
Being the Private Correspondence Between Two Prominent Families Regarding a Scandal Touching the Highest Levels of Government and the Security of the Realm. Ten years have passed since Kate and Cecy married Thomas and James, and England is now being transformed by the first railways. When the Duke of Wellington asks James to look into the sudden disappearance of a German railway engineer, James
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Paul Gallico · 157 pages
Mrs. 'Arris is a middle aged widow, a hardworking London charwoman who after seeing a Christian Dior designer dress in the closet of one of her employers, sets her hearts desire on acquiring a Dior dress of her own. After several years of scrimping and saving, she travels to Paris to realize her dream and during her trip, she learns much about other cultures, human nature and about herself. The U
Mr. Putter Tabby Take the Train
Cynthia Rylant, Arthur Howard
We Chase Shadows: A We Solve Murders Mystery
Richard Osman
**Back together. ** **Back on the case.** **And back to solving murders . . .** **At sunrise, high in the Italian hills, a body is found on the steps of a beautiful private villa. On the body is a threatening note, signed by a mystery man.** Back at We Solve Murders HQ, Amy, Rosie, and Steve leap at the chance to take on their first proper case. So what if their new client seems to have
Walking Across Egypt
Clyde Edgerton · 227 pages
She has as much business keeping a stray dog as she would walking across Egyptwhich not so incidentally is the title of her favorite hymn. She's Mattie Rigsbee, an independent, strong-minded senior citizen who, at seventy-eight, might be slowing down just a bit. When teenage delinquent Wesley Benfield drops in on her life, he is even less likely a companion than the stray dog. But, of course, the
Winter Solstice
Rosamunde Pilcher · 563 pages
Elfrida Phipps, once on the London stage and retired at 62, never anticipates going off with a man. But after a devastating tragedy, church organist Oscar Blundell asks for her companionship. So with her brown-and-white dog in tow, Elfrida begins her journey, not knowing that joining her and Oscar at a rundown Victorian house in Scotland will be a young woman nursing a broken heart, a teenager esc
The Master Quilter
Jennifer Chiaverini · 327 pages
The impending marriage of Elm Creek's most renowned quilting instructor prompts the stitching of a perfect commemorative bridal quilt, an endeavor that is challenged by closely guarded secrets among the Elm Creek Quilters.
Jana Bibi's Excellent Fortunes
Betsy Woodman · 304 pages
Scottish expatriate Jana Bibi helps to save the small town in India she has grown to call home and the oddball characters she considers family.