Books like A visit to strangers by Gladys Swan

When a commuter train ride turns into a shocking glimpse of another life, Rachel’s curiosity pulls her deep into a murder mystery that challenges her own sense of reality.

Candide: A Tale of Conviviality and Optimism in a Wretched World

180 p. ; 21 cm.1010L Lexile

A woman's rise from poverty to political influence, inspired by stories told by a storyteller's daughter.

A Chilean woman embarks on a quest to find her lover in 1840s California's goldfields, facing numerous challenges and adventures along the way.

Natty Bumppo's first journey into frontier life and the challenges of defending his freedom against dangerous Indians and the corrupting influence of a ruthless new lawman, setting the stage for the larger story of The Last of the Mohicans.

A family’s idyllic summer party at a grand estate in Cornwall turns into a desperate search when six‑year‑old Theo vanishes, leaving the house abandoned and the siblings torn apart.

A mysterious heirloom jug and its effect on a family's fortunes and love lives over twelve months in the Dark and Penhallow clans, set in the fictional province of Prince Edward Island, Canada, during the late 19th century, and involving scandal, conflict, and romance that unfolds as the coveted jug's name is revealed after a year, leading to a series of twists and turns that transform family loyalties, love, and relationships within the clans, with the novel's themes of family, succession, and the power of inheritance being the primary focus of the narrative.

Short stories of life in a Louisiana bayou, featuring the Creole way of life and miscegenation, written by Kate Chopin, a prominent figure in American literature.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

When reclusive novelist Vida Winter’s health wanes, she tasks biographer Margaret Lea with revealing the truth of her life, though Margaret must sift through Winter’s penchant for exaggeration to arrive at facts.

A novel by Josephine Cox that examines social life, manners, and customs.

Emily Prager's A Visit from the Footbinder and Other Stories gathers compact American short stories that paint everyday life and social customs across the United States.

Ysande Cazalet is involved in a car crash at 19, a few days before her wedding and her finacee saves her life but becomes a quadriplegic who also can barely talk. Ysande devotedly visits him, reads to him, feeds him etc in hospital for the next 10 YEARS !!!!! When Rufer Jardine meets her and starts pursuing her, she rejects him due to her committment to paralysed fiancee. She is persuaded into an affair with Rufer while still visiting fiancee and reject's Rufer's marriage offer due to her 10-yr long committment.

A first‑time thriller that spins a tense love triangle, in which a mother’s obsessive bid to keep her son with her threatens the life of the woman he loves.