21 Best audiobook books like The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede

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The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

By: Jim DeFede

4.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

Perfect for fans of the hit Broadway musical Come from Away When 38 jetliners bound for the United …

If you liked the audiobook plot in The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

By: Jim DeFede

4.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

Perfect for fans of the hit Broadway musical Come from Away When 38 jetliners bound for the United … read more

Similar categories in Jim DeFede's The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland book and Jim DeFede's The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

  • history
  • canada
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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2. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Jim DeFede's The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

  • historical
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

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3. The Berry Pickers

By: Amanda Peters

4.14

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Peters's The Berry Pickers book and Jim DeFede's The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

  • historical
  • adult
  • canada
  • audiobook
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4. The Paris Daughter

By: Kristin Harmel

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Book of Lost Names comes a gripping historical novel about two m… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • audiobook
"This isn't a decision I make lightly, but being a parent is not about doing what is right for ourselves, is it? It's about sacrificing all we can, big and small, to give our children their best chanc…"

-Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

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5. The Frozen River

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River book and Jim DeFede's The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

  • historical
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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6. Go as a River

By: Shelley Read

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman's journey to becoming, set against the harsh beaut… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Women endure. That’s what we do."

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"Loss has nothing to do with what you do deserve and don’t deserve."

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"I learned from their subtle relations... that love is a private matter, to be nurtured, and even mourned, between two beings alone. It belongs to them, and no one else, like a secret treasure, like a…"

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"Try as we might to convince ourselves otherwise, the moments of our becoming cannot be carefully plucked like the ripest and most satisfying peach from the bough. In the endless stumble toward oursel…"

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

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7. The First Ladies

By: Marie Benedict

4.04

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights a… read more

Similar categories in Marie Benedict's The First Ladies book and Jim DeFede's The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

  • historical
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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8. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women

By: Lisa See

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* An immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woma… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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9. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

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  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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10. The River We Remember

By: William Kent Krueger

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more

Similar categories in William Kent Krueger's The River We Remember book and Jim DeFede's The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

  • historical
  • audiobook
"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

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11. Only the Beautiful

By: Susan Meissner

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A heartrending story about a young mother’s fight to keep her daughter, and the winds of fortune th… read more

Similar categories in Susan Meissner's Only the Beautiful book and Jim DeFede's The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

  • historical
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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12. The Little Liar

By: Mitch Albom

4.59

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Beloved bestselling author Mitch Albom returns with a powerful novel that moves from a coastal Gree… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Dead men tell no lies, but their truths must be unearthed."

-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

"But the lies you tell by daylight leave you lonesome in the dark."

-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

"The sad thing is, by the time you share what a loved one wants to hear, they no longer want to hear it."

-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

"...a lie told once is easy to expose, but a lie told a thousand times can look like the truth. And destroy the world."

-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

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13. Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

By: Henry Winkler

4.14

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply tho… read more

Similar categories in Henry Winkler's Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond book and Jim DeFede's The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
  • audiobook
"It’s so funny about time - you get into these nice little grooves with people you love, and you think it’ll go on forever. But time goes so fast, and nothing goes on forever."

-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

"If you don't nail your feet to the ground, you can just believe - and you want to believe. It's so enticing. It felt so good. You could just become a gigantic balloon in the Thanksgiving Day parade a…"

-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

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14. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Jim DeFede's The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

  • historical
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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15. The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11

By: Garrett M. Graff

4.72

Format: 16 pages, Audiobook

15 hours, 54 minutes Read by a 45-person cast, with Holter Graham and the author Over the pas… read more

Similar categories in Garrett M. Graff's The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 book and Jim DeFede's The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We met when we were only 16, at a high school dance. When he died, we were 50. I remember how I didn't want that day to end, terrible as it was. I didn't want to go to sleep because as long as I was …"

-Garrett M. Graff, The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11

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16. Remarkably Bright Creatures

By: Shelby Van Pelt

4.39

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's u… read more

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  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"How does it feel, you ask? It is comfortable. It is home. I am lucky. I am grateful"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Day 1,361 of My Captiv- Oh, Let Us Cut the Shit, Shall We? We Have a Ring to Retrieve."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Humans are the only species who subvert truth for their own entertainment. They call them jokes. Sometimes puns."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

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17. The Secret Book of Flora Lea

By: Patti Callahan Henry

4.07

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

When a woman discovers a rare book that has connections to her past, long-held secrets about her mi… read more

Similar categories in Patti Callahan Henry's The Secret Book of Flora Lea book and Jim DeFede's The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

  • historical
  • audiobook
"The heart can hold much joy and great sorrow at the same time. It's a mystery. And it's also true."

-Patti Callahan Henry, The Secret Book of Flora Lea

"What a fairy tale is meant to do," she said, "if it's meant to do anything at all, Tolkien says, is give us new perspective on our world, the consolation of a happy ending. A recovery of sorts. Like …"

-Patti Callahan Henry, The Secret Book of Flora Lea

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18. West With Giraffes

By: Lynda Rutledge

4.36

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

An emotional, rousing novel inspired by the incredible true story of two giraffes who made headline… read more

Similar categories in Lynda Rutledge's West With Giraffes book and Jim DeFede's The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

  • historical
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Destiny is a mobile thing — that every choice you make, along with every choice made around you, can cause it to spin this way and that, offering destinies galore."

-Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes

"Problem was, whenever I locked eyes with an animal I felt something more soulful than I ever felt from the humans I knew, and what I saw in that sprawled giraffe’s eye made me ache to the bone."

-Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes

"People look at you peculiar if you talk about the feeling you got for animals, saying animals have no souls, no sense of good or bad, no value up next to humans," he said. "I don't know about that. S…"

-Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes

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19. The Measure

By: Nikki Erlick

3.99

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice. It seems like any other day. You wake up, pour … read more

Similar categories in Nikki Erlick's The Measure book and Jim DeFede's The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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20. The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

By: Steven Rowley

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Ita… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) book and Jim DeFede's The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Channel of Peace: Stranded in Gander on 9/11

By: Kevin Tuerff

3.87

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

A fully revised and updated paperback edition featuring over twenty colour photographs. When Kev… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • canada
  • audiobook

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