6 must-read childrens books like The Pursuit of the Pilfered Cheese by Haley Stewart

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The Pursuit of the Pilfered Cheese

By: Haley Stewart

4.55

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Beneath the floorboards of G. K. Chesterton’s home, a thrilling pursuit is about to unfold… Sister …

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1. A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph

By: C.S. Lewis , Sheldon Vanauken

4.27

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A heart-rending love story described by its author as “the spiritual autobiography of a love rather… read more

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"Death is no respecter of love."

-C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph

"Corruption is never compulsory."

-C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph

"Honesty is better than any easy comfort."

-C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph

"A longing for eternity is built-in to us all"

-C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph

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2. Felicity Learns a Lesson: A School Story (American Girls: Felicity, #2)

By: Valerie Tripp , Dan Andreasen , Luann Roberts , Keith Skeen , None

3.94

Format: 69 pages, Paperback

Felicity is sent to Miss Manderly's house to learn to be a polite gentlewoman. She practices stitch… read more

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  • childrens
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3. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

By: Annie Dillard

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's e… read more

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"Innocence is a better world."

-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

"The creatures I seek do not want to be seen."

-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

"I never saw a tree that was no tree in particular."

-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

"I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs."

-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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4. Meet Felicity: An American Girl (The American Girls: Felicity, #1)

By: Valerie Tripp , Dan Andreasen , Luann Roberts

4.67

Format: 668 pages, Paperback

Meet Felicity Merriman, a spunky, spritely nine-year-old girl who lives in Williamsburg, Virginia, … read more

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  • childrens
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5. Hannah Coulter

By: Wendell Berry

4.38

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman charac… read more

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"Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

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6. Four Quartets

By: T.S. Eliot

3.67

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942… read more

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7. The Wife (Kristin Lavransdatter, #2)

By: Tiina Nunnally , Sigrid Undset , Sherrill Harbison

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

Original 3 Volumes: Kransen ('20), Husfrue ('21) & Korset ('22). In Kristin Lavransdatter(1920-22),… read more

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8. Gift from the Sea

By: Anne Morrow Lindbergh

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In this inimitable, beloved classic--graceful, lucid and lyrical--Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her … read more

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9. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

By: Anne Brontë , Stevie Davies

3.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

Note: Editions of The Tenant that start with: "You must go back with me..." are incomplete. Actual … read more

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10. The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome

By: Susan Wise Bauer

3.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting his… read more

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11. The Wreath (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1)

By: Tiina Nunnally , Sigrid Undset

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

Originally published in Norwegian in 1920 and set in fourteenth-century Norway, The Wreath chronicl… read more

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12. True Grit

By: Charles Portis

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more

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13. The Greatest Gift (Heartwood Hotel, #2)

By: Kallie George , Stephanie Graegin

3.48

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

Mona the mouse has finally found a place to call home, the cozy Heartwood Hotel, where she works as… read more

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14. Peace Like a River

By: Leif Enger

4.09

Format: 315 pages,

Once in a great while, we encounter a novel in our voluminous reading that begs to be read aloud. L… read more

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15. Death Comes for the Archbishop

By: Willa Cather

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

There is something epic--and almost mythic--about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, al… read more

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16. The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey

By: P.J. Lynch , Susan Wojciechowski

3.29

Format: None pages,

Jonathan Toomey is the best woodcarver in the valley, but is a cold man, no one knows of his grief … read more

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17. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

By: Kathleen Rooney

4.14

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It's the last day of 1984, and 85-year-old Lillian Boxfish is about to take a walk. As she traverse… read more

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18. The Ghost Keeper

By: Natalie Morrill

3.74

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Winner of the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction, this powerful, sweeping novel set in Vi… read more

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19. Charis in the World of Wonders

By: Marly Youmans

3.99

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

"When I swung over that windowsill, everything changed for me. We are meant to go in and out of doo… read more

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20. Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

By: Cindy Rollins

4.75

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Being a mom can sometimes feel like an overwhelming job with endless tasks and lofty, unattainable … read more

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  • childrens
"The truth is that all humans are always seeing something, paying attention to something, learning something. Perhaps, we are learning every sort of sexual innuendo known to man by watching endless re…"

-Cindy Rollins, Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

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21. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

By: Evelyn Waugh

4.00

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more

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"Here my last love had died."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"No one is ever holy without suffering."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"I had been there before; I knew all about it."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

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22. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

By: Nicholas Day

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more

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  • mystery
  • childrens
"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

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23. The Proof of the Pudding (Her Royal Spyness #17)

By: Rhys Bowen

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Lady Georgiana Rannoch is looking forward to her first ever turn as hostess for her very own house … read more

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  • mystery
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24. The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County

By: Claire Swinarski

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Armed with a Crock-Pot and a pile of recipes, a grandmother, her granddaughter, and a mysterious yo… read more

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"All these kids today thought you needed so much time. Time, time, time! As if another year would show you the kind of father a person could be, or how the nightmares about battlefields in Vietnam wou…"

-Claire Swinarski, The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County

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25. A Holiday by Gaslight

By: Mimi Matthews

4.03

Format: 175 pages, ebook

A Courtship of ConvenienceSophie Appersett is quite willing to marry outside of her class to ensure… read more

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26. Death by Dumpling (Noodle Shop Mystery, #1)

By: Vivien Chien

3.67

Format: 328 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Welcome to the Ho-Lee Noodle House, where the Chinese food is to die for. . . The last place Lan… read more

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  • mystery
"Things to know about me: I'm half English, half Taiwanese, and no, I don't know karate. I'm definitely not good at math and I don't know how to spell your name in Chinese."

-Vivien Chien, Death by Dumpling (Noodle Shop Mystery, #1)

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27. Whose Waves These Are

By: Amanda Dykes

4.36

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

In the wake of WWII, a grieving fisherman submits a poem to a local newspaper: a rallying cry for h… read more

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"And Bob knows too well, when you've been without air so long you can't remember another way of life, even a single breath of fresh air is a lifeline."

-Amanda Dykes, Whose Waves These Are

"He slides his palm over the gentle strength of those rocks and remembers the faces from the photos tucked into boxes with those rocks, the stories penned with care on tear-splotched pages, arriving f…"

-Amanda Dykes, Whose Waves These Are

"He would never forget the impression of that voice on his heart. It was the voice of the man, who, king of the universe, stooped to wash his own disciples' earth crusted feet. Who rubbed spit into di…"

-Amanda Dykes, Whose Waves These Are

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28. 1000 Hours Outside: Prioritize, Reclaim Childhood and Experience a Fuller life

By: Ginny Yurich

4.26

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

This new book from Ginny Yurich, founder of the global 1000 Hours Outside movement, takes the reade… read more

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  • childrens
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29. Code Name Edelweiss

By: Stephanie Landsem

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

"What I am looking for--what I desperately need, Mrs. Weiss--is a spy."Adolf Hitler is still a dist… read more

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  • mystery
"If not us, who? If not now, when? It must be us, and it must be now. I would fight this war. I would not be silent!"

-Stephanie Landsem, Code Name Edelweiss

"Wilhelm Otto held out his hand as the orchestra started a Strauss waltz. Did the man never speak when a look would do? I considered his outstretched hand with trepidation, remembering weeping in his …"

-Stephanie Landsem, Code Name Edelweiss

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30. The Catholic Table: Finding Joy Where Food and Faith Meet

By: Emily Stimpson Chapman

4.44

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

What does our catholic faith teach us about eating well? Some of us eat too much food. Or we eat t… read more

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  • catholic
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31. The Pursuit of the Pilfered Cheese

By: Haley Stewart

4.55

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Beneath the floorboards of G. K. Chesterton’s home, a thrilling pursuit is about to unfold… Sister … read more

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  • mystery
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5 Best mystery books like The Pursuit of the Pilfered Cheese by Haley Stewart

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Nicholas Day

4.15

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Rhys Bowen

4.14

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Death by Dumpling (Noodle Shop Mystery, #1)

Vivien Chien

3.67

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Stephanie Landsem

4.27

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Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization

Paul Kriwaczek

3.91

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Adrian Goldsworthy

4.19

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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Mary Beard

3.59

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Susan Wise Bauer

3.42

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