Books like High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never
12 books with a reading profile close to High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never by Barbara Kingsolver. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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The Fifth Mountain
by Paulo Coelho
inspirational, narrative
In 870 BC, the prophet Elijah is ordered by God to leave Israel after Queen Jezebel begins to kill the prophets.
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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
inspirational, narrative
Edward Tulane is a china rabbit with an expansive wardrobe of silk suits and a pocket watch, living with a girl named Abilene.
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Hippie
by Paulo Coelho
inspirational, narrative
Drawing from his own youth, Paulo Coelho recounts the experiences of Paulo, a young man with long hair seeking deeper meaning beyond the mainstream culture of 1970.
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And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
inspirational, narrative
An aging mathematician sits on a park bench that exists inside his mind, struggling to retain his memories as dementia begins to erase his world.
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The Travelling Cat Chronicles
by Hiro Arikawa
inspirational, narrative
The story follows Nana, a former stray cat with a hooked tail, and his owner, Satoru, as they drive across Japan in a silver van.
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The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
inspirational, narrative
In a Glasgow hospital terminal ward, seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson meets Margot Macrae, an eighty-three-year-old woman awaiting heart surgery.
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The Girl with the Louding Voice
by Abi Daré
inspirational, narrative
Fourteen-year-old Adunni lives in a rural Nigerian village where her father sells her into marriage to a local polygamist to pay the rent.
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8
Sea Prayer
inspirational, narrative
Written as a letter from a father to his sleeping son, this short narrative poem describes a family waiting on a dark beach to board a boat.
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Laskar Pelangi
inspirational, narrative
The novel is narrated by Ikal, who recalls his childhood in the 1970s on the island of Belitung, Indonesia, where he attended a poor Muslim primary school, Muhammadiyah.
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10
The Murmur of Bees
narrative, literary
Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution and the 1918 influenza pandemic, the narrative follows the Morales family in northern Mexico.
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11
THEO OF GOLDEN
by Allen Levi
inspirational, narrative
Theo enters the quiet town of Golden with a specific, unusual mission.
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12
Take My Hand
narrative, literary
In 1973 Montgomery, Alabama, Civil Rights era nurse Civil Townsend begins working at a federally funded family planning clinic.
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