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10 best books like A House Without Windows (Nadia Hashimi): The Underground Railroad, The Secrets Between Us, The Conjoined, The Heaviness of Things That Float, That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away, A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War, The Reason You Walk, We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night, All Things Consoled: A Daughter's Memoir, Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone)

The Underground Railroad
AuthorColson Whitehead
ISBN0385542364
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad,...
The Secrets Between Us
AuthorThrity Umrigar
ISBN0062442201
Bhima, the unforgettable main character of Thrity Umrigar’s beloved national bestseller The Space Between Us, returns in this triumphant sequel—a poignant and compelling novel in which the former servant struggles against the circumstances of class and misfortune to forge a new path for herself...
The Conjoined
AuthorJen Sookfong Lee
ISBN1770412840
On a sunny May morning, social worker Jessica Campbell sorts through her mother’s belongings after her recent funeral. In the basement, she makes a shocking discovery — two dead girls curled into the bottom of her mother’s chest freezers. She remembers a pair of foster children who lived with...
The Heaviness of Things That Float
AuthorJennifer Manuel
ISBN1771620871
Jennifer Manuel skilfully depicts the lonely world of Bernadette, a woman who has spent the last forty years living alone on the periphery of a remote West Coast First Nations reserve, serving as a nurse for the community. This is a place where truth and myth are deeply intertwined and stories are “like...
That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away
AuthorLori Shenher
ISBN1771640936
An ex-police detective’s searing personal account of sexism, racism, and mishandling in the investigation of missing and murdered women.

In That Lonely Section of Hell, police detective Lori Shenher describes her role in Vancouver’s infamous Missing and Murdered Women Investigation...
A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War
AuthorDeborah Campbell
ISBN0345809319
In the midst of an unfolding international crisis, the renowned journalist Deborah Campbell finds herself swept up in the mysterious disappearance of Ahlam, her guide and friend. Her frank, personal account of a journey through fear, and the triumph of friendship and courage, is as riveting as it...
The Reason You Walk
AuthorWab Kinew
ISBN0670069345
A moving story of father-son reconciliation told by a charismatic Aboriginal star.

When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who’d raised...
We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night
AuthorJoel Thomas Hynes
A blackly comic and heart-rending odyssey by the inimitable author of Down to the Dirt

Scrappy tough guy and three-time loser Johnny Keough is going a little stir-crazy awaiting trial for an alleged assault charge involving his girlfriend, Madonna, and a teapot. Facing three to five years...
All Things Consoled: A Daughter's Memoir
AuthorElizabeth Hay
ISBN0771039735
Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada's most beloved novelists has written a poignant, complex, and hugely resonant memoir about the shift she experienced between being her parents' daughter to their guardian and caregiver.

As the daughter takes charge, and the writer takes notes, her mother and...
Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone)
AuthorKamal Al-Solaylee
ISBN1443441430
Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-fiction and the Trillium Book Award

A Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Life, Walrus, CBC Books, Chatelaine, Hill Times, 49th Shelf and Writers’ Trust Best Book of the Year

With the urgency and passion of...
Daniel O'Thunder
AuthorIan Weir
ISBN1553654358


•Library Journal Best Books 2011: Historical Fiction selection
•Finalist for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
•Finalist for the Canadian Authors Association Fiction Award
•Finalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award
•Finalist for the Ethel Wilson...
Threaten to Undo Us
AuthorRose Seiler Scott
“Allied forces are advancing. You are no longer under the protection of the German army. All German citizens of the Third Reich are to evacuate.”

At these words, Liesel and her young children are forced to flee their home. But losing the only home she has ever known is only the beginning....
The Parcel
AuthorAnosh Irani
ISBN0345816749
Finalist for the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and for the Governor General's Literary Award, this powerful new work, about a transgender sex worker in the red-light district of Bombay who is given an unexpected task, is a gripping literary page-turner--difficult and moving, surprising and tender....
The Far Side of the Sky
AuthorDaniel Kalla
ISBN0765332337
November 9, 1938: Kristallnacht, the Nazis unleash a night of terror for Jews all across Germany. Meanwhile, the Japanese Imperial Army rampages through China and tightens its stranglehold on Shanghai, a city that becomes the last haven for thousands of desperate European Jews. Dr. Franz Adler,...
The Last Hiccup
AuthorChristopher Meades
ISBN1550229737
Whilst trolling through the ebook aisle at the virtual library, I came across this oddly named novel. The title, coupled with the striking cover, almost suggests a childlike aspect; however, this is not a story for the kiddies.

Russia, 1929. Vlademir is a little boy with a seemingly incurable...
The Golden Son
AuthorShilpi Somaya Gowda
The first of his family to go to college, Anil Patel, the golden son, carries the weight of tradition and his family’s expectations when he leaves his tiny Indian village to begin a medical residency in Dallas, Texas, at one of the busiest and most competitive hospitals in America. When his father dies,...
Ellen in Pieces
AuthorCaroline Adderson
ISBN1443426806
In this witty, compelling and genre-bending novel, a single mother navigates the loves, lusts and losses of middle age to arrive at a final, bittersweet contentment.

Ellen McGinty: sexy, impulsive, loud-mouthed, chock full of regrets. In middle age she sells the house she raised her daughters...
Knots: Stories
AuthorGunnhild Øyehaug
ISBN0374181675
De Noorse Gunnhild Øyehaug is in eigen land al jaren een belangrijke literaire stem, maar breekt nu ook internationaal door. In haar lichtvoetige en precieze stijl schetst ze kwetsbare personages, die verstrikt raken in hun eigen tekortkomingen. Zo is er de vrouw die op de vooravond van haar negentigste...
That Other Me
AuthorMaha Gargash
ISBN0062391380
From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Sand Fish, Maha Gargash’s second novel is set in mid-1990s Dubai and Cairo and tells the story of how secrets and betrayals consume three members—an authoritarian father, a rebellious abandoned daughter, and a vulnerable niece—of a prominent...
Dead Girls
AuthorNancy Lee
ISBN0771052502
Infused with eroticism, poignancy, and insight that cuts to the bone, these stories lead us into a tipping world of emotional wagers, loss and discovery, power and impulse. A marriage is tested as a mother struggles to cope with the disappearance of her prostitute daughter. Two angry women in a minivan...
The Shoe on the Roof
AuthorWill Ferguson
ISBN1501173553
From the Giller Prize–winning novelist of 419 comes the startling, funny, and heartbreaking story of a psychological experiment gone wrong.

Ever since his girlfriend ended their relationship, Thomas Rosanoff’s life has been on a downward spiral. A gifted med student, he has spent...
The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit
AuthorJ.J. Lee
ISBN0771046472
Taking as its starting point a son's decision to alter his late father's last remaining suit for himself, this is a deeply moving and brilliantly crafted story of fathers and sons, of fitting in and standing out -- and discovering what it means to be your own man.

For years, journalist and amateur...
Dreaming of Baghdad
AuthorHaifa Zangana
ISBN1558616055
Kitabın ismi benim için çok şey vaat ediyordu çünkü ben bu coğrafyayı anlatan kitaplar okumaya hevesliyim, aslında bu tarz kitaplar okumaya açım bir manada. Ne var ki Bağdat'ı Düşlemek adıyla verdiği sözü benim açımdan tutamadı, bir okur olarak bana Bağdat'ı düşletemedi....
Little Tales of Misogyny
AuthorPatricia Highsmith
ISBN0393323374
3.5 Stars
If Aesop was abused by a mean, alcoholic mother and then jilted and heartbroken by the true love of his life, I think he would have written this book of short tales rather than his famous fables. This is a collection of tiny stories written by famed psychological noir writer and alleged cynic,...
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