Browsing Books by Books Like The Roots of the Olive Tree

The Passage (2010)
A security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling...

Border Songs (2009)
An extremely tall dyslexic is pushed away from his familys Washington dairy farm to join the Border ...

The Caretaker (2013)
A debut novel by an award-nominated international writer follows the efforts of disgraced Indian Arm...

The Spark (2013)
The mother of an autistic child who was eventually recognized as a genius recounts her rejection of ...

Tinsel (2009)
The author of Off Ramp takes readers on a journey into the excess and beauty of Christmas in an Amer...

True Sisters (2012)
Joining the ranks of emigrants responding to Brigham Young's edict to move to Salt Lake City with tw...

News from Heaven (2013)
A series of interconnected stories portrays the close-knit coal mining town of Bakerton, Pennsylvani...

The Age of Miracles (2012)
Imagines the coming-of-age story of young Julia, whose world is thrown into upheaval when it is disc...

The Philadelphia Chromosome (2013)
Discusses the history of a genetic mutation, discovered in 1959, that causes chronic myeloid leukemi...

The Secret of Magic (2014)
Working for a prominent member of the NAACP in 1946 when a request comes from her favorite childhood...

Garden Spells (2007)
A successful caterer in Bascomb, North Carolina, Claire has always remained tied to the long and mag...

Water for Elephants (2006)
Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the...

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2006)
A story of friendship set in nineteenth-century China follows an elderly woman and her companion as ...

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2008)
Gloriously honest, enchanting and funny, this is a moving tale of post-war friendship, love and book...

Shanghai Girls (2009)
Forced to leave Shanghai when their father sells them to California suitors, sisters May and Pearl s...

The End of Your Life Book Club (2012)
Recounts how the author and his mother read and discussed books during her chemotherapy treatments, ...