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Read-Alikes for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Read-Alikes for The Midnight Library
Time Travel, Loops, & Slips
Read-Alikes for The Midnight Library
Time Travel, Loops, & Slips
Description
A man with a secret rare condition that has enabled him to survive for centuries moves to London to become a high-school history teacher and considers defying his protective guardians' rule against falling in love when he becomes entranced by a captivating colleague.
“The first rule is that you don't fall in love, he said. There are other rules too, but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreaming of love. If you...
3) Waterland
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Growing up on the banks of the Ohio River in Paducah, Kentucky, seventeen-year-old Thomas feels trapped by the constraints surrounding him, until he falls for his new history teacher, Alice, a woman eight years his senior who becomes his first love.
5) Cactus heart
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Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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Mapstone begins an investigation into a Depression-era kidnapping that transfixed Arizona and the nation: the disappearance of a cattle baron's grandsons, whose bodies were never found.
7) Shell game
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Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
An unflinching thriller from Dan Fesperman that takes us deep into the White Rose resistance movement during World War II.?When Nat Turnbull?s mentor, Gordon Wolfe, is arrested for possession of a missing WWII secret service archive and then turns up dead in jail, Nat?s quiet academic life is suddenly thrown into tumult. The archive is a time bomb of sensitive material, but key documents are still missing, and the FBI dispatches Nat to track them...
12) Enemy
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Adam Bell, a glum, disheveled history professor who seems disinterested even in his beautiful girlfriend Mary. Watching a movie on the recommendation of a colleague, Adam spots his double; a bit-part actor named Anthony St. Clair, and decides to track him down. The identical men meet and their lives become bizarrely and irrevocably intertwined.
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Persesverance Press/John Daniel & Company
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1890, two young women posed for artist Winslow Homer on the coast of Maine. What happend that summer, the secrets the women kept, and the lies they told changed their families forever. Now more than a hundred years later, one of their descendants has been murdered, leaving to antique print dealer Maggie Summer the family papers that may finally reveal the truth.
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