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10 best books like A Ladder to the Sky (John Boyne): The Underground Railroad, Beartown, The Last Romantics, The Confidential Agent, 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, 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,...
Beartown
AuthorFredrik Backman
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove returns with a dazzling, profound novel about a small town with a big dream—and the price required to make it come true.

People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the...
The Last Romantics
AuthorTara Conklin
ISBN0062358227
“The greatest works of poetry are the stories we tell about ourselves."

When the renowned poet Fiona Skinner is asked about the inspiration behind her iconic work, The Love Poem, she tells her audience a story about her family and a betrayal that reverberates through time.

It begins...
The Confidential Agent
AuthorGraham Greene
ISBN0099286196
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY IAN RANKIN.

In a small continental country civil war is raging. Once a lecturer in medieval French, now a confidential agent, D is a scarred stranger in a seemingly casual England, sent on a mission to buy coal at any price. Initially, this seems to be a matter of straightforward...
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...
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...
Terror on the Alert
AuthorRobert W. Mackay
ISBN1771510811
The year is 1962 and the Cuban Missile Crisis is brewing. Naval lieutenant Ted Hawkins is sent to sea aboard the HMCS Alert. The submarine’s mission is to shadow an aggressive Soviet submarine. Hampered by claustrophobia caused by a trauma, Ted is forced to deal with both his fears and a superior, Alert's...
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 Best of McSweeney's
AuthorDave Eggers
ISBN1938073592
To commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the journal called “a key barometer of the literary climate” by The New York Times and twice honored with a National Magazine Award for fiction, here is The Best of McSweeney’s—a comprehensive collection of the most remarkable work from a remarkable...
The Truth of the Matter
AuthorRobb Forman Dew
ISBN0316013307
Agnes Scofield, the heroine of Dew's lovely,low-key period piece, can join Mrs. Ramsay and Mrs. Bridge at the teatable of exquisitely etched literary matrons. A respectable Ohiowidow with three grown children, Agnes is beginning to carve out anindependent middle-aged life for herself (which includes...
Stephen Florida
AuthorGabe Habash
ISBN1566894646
Barring a miracle, this is going to be my favorite book of the year - a totally unique wildchild of a novel tracking the senior year of a 133 pound division IV wrestler in North Dakota. We're firmly in Stephen's head the whole way, and Habash has created a unique voice here, an amalgam of obsession, diversion,...
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 Line That Held Us
AuthorDavid Joy
ISBN0399574220
From critically acclaimed author David Joy comes a remarkable novel about the cover-up of an accidental death, and the dark consequences that reverberate through the lives of four people who will never be the same again.

When Darl Moody went hunting after a monster buck he’s chased for years,...
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,...
November Road
AuthorLou Berney
ISBN0062663879
Set against the assassination of JFK, a poignant and evocative crime novel that centers on a desperate cat-and-mouse chase across 1960s America—a story of unexpected connections, daring possibilities, and the hope of second chances from the Edgar Award-winning author of The Long and Faraway...
Double Exposure
AuthorBridget Birdsall
ISBN1629146064
Fifteen-year-old Alyx Atlas was raised as a boy, yet she knows something others don’t. She’s a girl. And after her dad dies, it becomes painfully obvious that she must prove it now—to herself and to the world. Born with ambiguous genitalia, Alyx has always felt a little different. But it’s after...
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...
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