18 books like The Sea For Breakfast

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Landfall, a channel story Nevil Shute · 1940 · ★ 4.0 · 274p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Against the grim background of England at war, the romance of Jery Chambers and Mona Stevens stands out like an unexpected spring day in the midst of a brutal winter. Jerry is a flying officer in the RAF. At the hotel which is the hangout for officers he sees Mona. She has taken the job of barmaid at the Royal Clarence because it is more exciting than anything else she can find to do. They are… Shares: Story, Book, Classic, Adult

The Bastard John Jakes · 1974 · ★ 4.4 · 462p · ≈ 15h · Moderate “Phillipe Charboneau—the bastard. Illegitimate son of an English nobleman, Phillipe flees Europe and, as Philip Kent, joins the turbulent adventure that was the beginning of the American Experience. Through his struggles, his passions, his loves, and his courage, we share the wondrous adventure which became our America!” Shares: Story, Book, Classic, Adult

I'll Cry Tomorrow Lillian Roth · 1954 · 347p · ≈ 11h · Moderate THE GREAT BESTSELLER OF THIS CENTURY! The brutally frank story! Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Katie, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic. An awe inspiring and thought… Shares: Story, Book, Stories, Adult

Smiley's People John le Carré · 1979 · ★ 4.5 · 386p · ≈ 12h · Moderate John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service Agent George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim. In Smiley’s People, master storyteller John le Carré brings his acclaimed Karla trilogy to its unforgettable, spellbinding… Shares: Story, Book, Stories, British

Tilly Catherine Cookson · 1980 · ★ 4.2 · 373p · ≈ 12h · Moderate In early Victorian times, Tilly Trotter goes from a lowly cottage on the edge of the Sopwith estate, through suspicion of witchcraft and personal disillusionment, to fulfillment of a prophecy that she would come into her own. Shares: Story, Book, Classic, Adult

Except for me and thee Jessamyn West · 1949 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Challenging These further adventures of Jess and Eliza Birdwell, the beloved hero and heroine of ''The Friendly Persuasion,'' are cause for celebration to the millions who have met them in Jessamyn West's memorable book. Here are those gallant Quakers, young and in love, meeting the challenges of nature and man as the growing family travels westward, then encountering the bitterness and savagery that… Shares: Story, Book, Adult

We Danced all Night Barbara Cartland · 1970 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The popular romance author recounts her experiences back in the 1920s, when life was carefree. Shares: Non-Fiction, Biography & Memoir

The Morning Watch James Agee · 1950 · 120p · ≈ 4h · Moderate The Morning Watch explores the thoughts and feelings of 12-year-old Richard, a student at an unnamed Episcopal boarding school (based on Agee's schooling at St. Andrew's-Sewanee School in Sewanee, Tennessee), over the course of a few hours in the early morning of Good Friday in 1923. Part I opens with Richard waking up to participate in the 4 AM shift of a nightlong prayer vigil in the school's… Shares: Classic, Stories, Adult

The Harvester Gene Stratton-Porter · 1911 · ★ 4.2 · 516p · ≈ 17h · Challenging Author of ''A Girl of the Limberlost,'' Freckles, etc. The Harvester (1911) by Gene Stratton Porter is the story of a Thoreau-esque idealist and naturalist and his search for the love of his dreams, the Dream Girl. David Langston, the Harvester, lives in the woods and harvests medicinal herbs which he sells for a living. Suddenly he encounters Ruth Jameson, the real flesh-and-blood girl that… Shares: Book, Classic, Adult

Pooh Goes Visiting and Pooh & Piglet Nearly Catch a Woozle A. A. Milne · 1981 · ★ 4.0 · 30p · ≈ 1h · Moderate A. A. Milne's texts have been skillfully adapted by veteran Easy Reader author Stephen Krensky, so they retain all of their original charm. And every spread of these inviting books features full-color Ernest Shepard illustrations. In Pooh Goes Visiting, Pooh eats a bit too much and faces the prospect of being stuck in Rabbit's hole-until he loses weight! When Winnie-the-Pooh visits his friend… Shares: Book, Classic, Stories

The City Boy Herman Wouk · 1948 · ★ 3.0 · 321p · ≈ 10h · Challenging 'City Boy' spins a hilarious and often touching tale of an urban kid's adventures and misadventures on the street, in school, in the countryside, always in pursuit of Lucille, a heartless redhead personifying all the girls who torment and fascinate pubescent lads of eleven. Shares: Classic, Stories, Adult

Little men Louisa May Alcott · 1885 · ★ 3.9 · 276p · ≈ 9h · Challenging The characters from Little Women grow up and begin new adventures at Plumfield, a progressive school founded by Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer. Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.--LibraryThing With two sons of her own, and twelve rescued orphan boys filling the informal… Shares: Book, Classic, Stories

A Whale for the Killing Farley Mowat · 1972 · ★ 4.2 · 231p · ≈ 7h · Moderate In the 1960s, Farley Mowat was living in the tiny fishing community of Burgeo on the southwest coast of Newfoundland. When an 80-ton fin whale became trapped in a nearby saltwater lagoon, Mowat rejoiced: here was the first chance to study at close range one of the most magnificent animals in creation. Some local villagers thought otherwise, blasting the whale with rifle fire and hacking open her… Shares: Non-Fiction, Stories, Biography & Memoir

An odour of sanctity Frank Yerby · 1965 · ★ 3.0 · 471p · ≈ 15h · Moderate 9th century Spain--an age of brutal battles to the death and dungeons equipped with thumbscrews and spiked boots. An age of perfumed harems where acts of love were spiced with the erotic mysteries of the Orient. a time when merchants, princes, thieves and whores, Christians, Islamic Arabs, Berbers, Yemenites, Greeks and Jews were trapped in an inferno of embattled peoples and faiths. Only such… Shares: Story, Book

The A.B.C. Murders Agatha Christie · 1936 · ★ 4.0 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Challenging There's a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way though the alphabet. There seems little chance of the murderer being caught - until her makes the crucial and vain mistake of challenging Hercule Poirot to frustrate his plans . . . Shares: Classic, Stories, British

El Amo Del Juego/Masters of the Game Sidney Sheldon · 1905 · ★ 4.1 · 422p · ≈ 14h · Challenging One of Sidney Sheldon's most popular and bestselling titles. Kate Blackwell is one of the richest and most powerful women in the world. She is an enigma, a woman surrounded by a thousand unanswered questions. Her father was a diamond prospector who struck it rich beyond his wildest dreams.Her mother was the daughter of a crooked Afrikaner merchant. Her conception was itself an act of hate-filled… Shares: Stories, Adult

How Green Was My Valley Richard Llewellyn · 1939 · 495p · ≈ 16h · Challenging This is a story set in a south Wales coal mining valley and tells of a family striving to improve their lives through hard work, education and their non-conformist faith. The main character is the youngest son, Huw Morgan and his life's journey through the difficulties associated with the mining industry and the awful risks involved in deep coal mining in the mid nineteenth century. The… Shares: Classic, British

Blaze of Noon Ernest K. Gann · 1946 · 310p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Ernest K. Gann, author of ''Island in the Sky'' Goodreads Member Review: KOMET (Sep 21, 2015 5 of 5 Stars) it was amazing:aviation-general, ernest-k-gann, mass-market-paperbacks Ernest K. Gann, in his day, was one of those aviators with a gift for conveying to the general reader the thrills and perils of flying. And in "BLAZE OF NOON", he succeeds brilliantly. The story begins in September 1925… Shares: Classic, Adult

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