Browsing Books by Books Like Widow's Tears

A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Two women born a generation apart witness the destruction of their home and family in war-torn Kabul...

A Room Full of Bones (2013)
When a curator is found murdered, Ruth Galloway and Detective Inspector Nelson track down links betw...

Voodoo River (1996)
Hired by popular television star Jodie Taylor to find the biological parents who gave her up for ado...

The Red Garden (2011)
Traces the multi-generational story of wintry Blackwell town through the experiences of such charact...

Death of a Valentine (2010)
Amazing news has spread across the Scottish countryside. The most famous of highland bachelors, poli...

A Duty to the Dead (2009)
Bess Crawford, a nurse in World War I, promises Lieutenant Arthur Graham that she will carry his dyi...

The Mapping of Love and Death (2010)
"Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a do...

The Good Father (2012)
Establishing a specialty in diagnosing otherwise abandoned patients with conflicting symptoms, Chief...

Indiscretion (2013)
When Harry and Madeleine Winslow meet Claire, they are drawn to her youth, quiet intelligence, and n...

The Lake Shore Limited (2010)
An insightful story examines how Wilhelmina "Billy" Gertz comes to write a play about the terrorist ...

Our Tragic Universe (2010)
Struggling with writer's block, Meg Carpenter takes a job reviewing a pseudo-science book promising ...

In the Shadow of the Banyan (2012)
Her life of privilege in Cambodia shattered by the outbreak of civil war on the streets of Phnom Pen...

The Snow Child (2012)
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. ...

Red Hook Road (2010)
Traces the lives of the Tetherly and Copaken families in the aftermath of a child's tragic death, wh...

Brain on Fire (2012)
An account of the author's struggle with a rare brain-attacking autoimmune disease traces how she wo...

The Namesake (2003)
An incisive portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional l...