Browsing Books by Books Like Retire Downtown
- The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2010)
- While recovering in the hospital, Lisbeth Salander enlists the aid of journalist Mikael Blomkvist to...
- The Night Circus (2011)
- Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and ...
- The Conjurer's Bird (2005)
- Searching for the remains of an extinct bird that had once been in the collection of eighteenth-cent...
- 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...
- Guns, Germs, and Steel (1999)
- Dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels ...
- Catching Fire (2009)
- By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have sec...
- Steve Jobs (2011)
- Draws on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs, as well as interviews with family members, frie...
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven (2003)
- Plot Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His ...
- Sarah's Key (2008)
- On the anniversary of the roundup of Jews by the French police in Paris, Julia is asked to write an ...
- A Dance with Dragons (2011)
- A latest installment of the popular series follows a showdown set in the north of the Seven Kingdoms...
- Defending Jacob (2012)
- His happy life and long-time respectability as a suburban Massachusetts assistant district attorney ...
- Seventeen Seventy-six (2005)
- Draws on personal correspondence and period diaries to present a history of the American Revolution ...
- The Planet of Tears (1979)
- Two beings from the highly evolved land of Everfor are sent in physical form to the Planet of Tears,...
- My Sister's Keeper (2004)
- Written with grace, wisdom, and sensitivity, this novel is about a teen who was conceived as a bone ...
