Browsing Books by Books Like Instructions for a Heat Wave
- Water for Elephants (2006)
- Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the...
- My Sister's Grave (2014)
- Twenty years after Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite's sister, Sarah, was murdered, Tracy ...
- Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands (2014)
- Living in an igloo of ice and trash bags half a year after a cataclysmic nuclear disaster, Emily, co...
- A Reunion of Ghosts (2015)
- Forging a suicide pact in accordance with a macabre tradition, three sisters reflect on their shared...
- Remember Me Like This (2014)
- A family shattered by the abduction of an older son endures the fallout of four nightmarish years wh...
- Widow's Tears (2013)
- Herbalist ex-lawyer, China Bales, investigates the murder of a teller at the Pecan Springs bank and ...
- India Becoming (2012)
- An insider's look at developments in rural and urban India evaluates the impact of rapid economic gr...
- The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing (2014)
- Decades after an interrupted visit to his mother's home in 1979 India triggers a haunting series of ...
- The Forgotten Garden (2009)
- Abandoned on a 1913 voyage to Australia, Nell is raised by a dock master and his wife who do not tel...
- The End of Your Life Book Club (2012)
- Recounts how the author and his mother read and discussed books during her chemotherapy treatments, ...
- Problems with People (2014)
- A collection of stories is set in the Pacific Northwest and explores themes of love and the human dr...
- The Healing (2012)
- Concerned about his wife's extensive grief over the loss of their daughter and worrying about a myst...
- The Dark Road (2013)
- Explores the human cost of China's one-child policy in the story of rural family on the run from the...
- Monday, Monday (2014)
- Traces the lives of three survivors of a mass shooting at the University of Texas in 1966, including...
