18 books like Young Mungo
Shuggie Bain
Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh “Shuggie” Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher’s policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city’s notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings.
Shuggie’s mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie’s guiding light but a burden for him…
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Le grand Meaulnes
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The Drowning Kind
The Drowning Kind
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLER OF 2021In this “blisteringly suspenseful tale that will keep you up at night” (Wendy Webb, author of Daughters of the Lake), a woman returns to the old family home after her sister mysteriously drowns in its swimming pool…but she’s not the pool’s only victim.Be careful what you wish for. When Jax receives nine missed calls from her older sister, Lexie, she assumes…
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The Whispers of War
The Whispers of War
For fans of historical novels by Kristin Harmel and Martha Hall Kelly comes a “gripping tale by a writer at the top of her game” (Fiona Davis, author of The Chelsea Girls) following three friends who struggle to remain loyal as one of them is threatened with internment by the British government at the start of World War II. In August of 1939, as Britain watches the headlines in fear of another…
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Gadis Pantai
"In a poor coastal fishing village, a beautiful girl unknowingly attracts the attention of a local aristocrat. Before she knows it, she is forced to marry this man she has never seen and leave behind all that is familiar to her - her carefree days spent helping her mother with daily tasks, dreamily listening to the sounds of the wind and the waves, and watching boats come and go. She is taken…
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Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture
Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture
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Before She Disappeared
Before She Disappeared
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner, a propulsive thriller featuring an ordinary woman who will stop at nothing to find the missing people that the rest of the world has forgottenFrankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else…
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The Christmas Spirits on Tradd Street
The Christmas Spirits on Tradd Street
The Christmas spirit is overtaking Tradd Street with a vengeance in this festive new novel in the New York Times bestselling series by Karen White.Melanie Trenholm should be anticipating Christmas with nothing but joy—after all, it’s only the second Christmas she and her husband, Jack, will celebrate with their twin toddlers. But the ongoing excavation of the centuries-old cistern in the garden…
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The Wife Stalker
The Wife Stalker
Breezing into the tony seaside paradise of Westport, Connecticut, gorgeous thirtysomething Piper Reynard sets down roots, opening a rehab and wellness space and joining a local yacht club. When she meets Leo Drakos, a handsome, successful lawyer, the wedding ring on his finger is the only thing she doesn't like about him. Yet as Piper well knows, no marriage is permanent.
Meanwhile, Joanna has…
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Abyssinian Chronicles
"The teller of this tale is Mugezi, a quick-witted, sharp-eyed man whose life encompasses the traditional and the modern, the peaceful and the insanely violent, the despotic and the democratic. Born in a rural community in the early l960s, he is raised by his grandfather, a deposed clan chief, and his great-aunt, or "grandmother," after his parents immigrate to the capital city of Kampala.
At…
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Yes, Daddy
Yes, Daddy
"A gut-churning, heart-wrenching, blockbuster of a first novel . . . Parks-Ramage is an extraordinary new talent and Yes, Daddy is truly something special." —Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead ThingsA propulsive, scorching modern gothic, Yes, Daddy follows an ambitious young man who is lured by an older, successful playwright into a dizzying world of wealth and an idyllic Hamptons home where…
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Mermaid Confidential
Mermaid Confidential
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Crosshairs
Crosshairs
Enter into a deadly race against time with this psychological thriller as New York City detective Michael Bennett faces his most terrifying killer ever. It could be anyone. They could be anywhere. A killer uses fearsome precision to take out impossible targets.  Detective Michael Bennett teams with a shooting expert—a former Army Ranger and sniper with NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit. But…
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Shakeup
Shakeup
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Long Shadows
Long Shadows
“Memory Man” Amos Decker—an FBI consultant with perfect recall—delves into a bewildering double homicide in this thriller by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 6:20 Man."Baldacci delivers, every time!" —Lisa Scottoline, New York Times bestselling author of What Happened to the Bennetts When Amos Decker is called to South Florida to investigate a double homicide, the case appears…
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Der Nachsommer
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The Attic on Queen Street
The Attic on Queen Street
An instant New York Times bestseller!Return to the house on Tradd Street one last time in this hauntingly spectacular finale to the bestselling series featuring psychic medium Melanie Trenholm. After the devastating events of the past few months, the last thing Melanie Trenholm wants is to think about the future.  Why, when her husband, Jack, has asked for a separation—a separation that…
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Dawnshard
Dawnshard
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