A Sister to Honor
10 best books like A Sister to Honor (Lucy Ferriss): Broken Moon, Beneath My Mother's Feet, Coppola: A Pediatric Surgeon in Iraq, Song of the Cuckoo Bird, The Seed, The Exchange, Small Kingdoms, Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World, The Love-Artist, I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl
| Author | Kim Antieau |
| ISBN | 1416917675 |
I WILL NEVER HAVE A HUSBAND, BUT I HAVE THE BEST BROTHER IN THE WORLD. YOUR BREATH ON MY CHEEK -- ON MY SCAR -- FELT LIKE THE BREATH OF ALLAH.
Nadira is spoiled goods. Scars from a beating she received for a crime that her older brother allegedly committed tell the world that she is worth less than nothing...
| Author | Amjed Qamar |
| ISBN | 1416947280 |
"Our lives will always be in the hands of our mothers, whether we like it or not."
Nazia doesn't mind when her friends tease and call her a good beti, a dutiful daughter. Growing up in a working-class family in Karachi, Pakistan, Nazia knows that obedience is the least she can give to her mother,...
Coppola: A Pediatric Surgeon in Iraq
| Author | Chris Coppola |
| ISBN | 0984053115 |
Eric Hoffer Award Finalist and Montaigne Medal Finalist
The fierce, true-life account of United States Air Force pediatric surgeon Lt. Col. Dr. Chris Coppola, this book describes his experiences through two deployments in Operation Iraqi Freedom inside a military trauma hospital at...
| Author | Amulya Malladi |
| ISBN | 0345483154 |
Malladi's fourth novel transports readers on a cinematic journey through late-twentieth-century India as seen through the eyes of the inhabitants of Tella Meda, a religious community on the Bay of Bengal. Kokila comes to the ashram in 1961 as an 11-year-old orphan. She later renounces her arranged...
Throughout our lives, many things may lead us to forget who we truly are. Result? Slowly yet inevitably, cages and chains enslave our thoughts and slay our freedoms.
Down the ages, men have thus fallen for hosts of illusions, confusions and fears - except for the seven dreamers whose stories this...
| Author | Graham Joyce |
| ISBN | 0670062073 |
A taut, otherworldly thriller set in contemporary England. Caz and her best friend Lucy have a secret. Late at night, they break into strangers' homes -- not to steal anything, just for the rush. Then Caz gets caught in the act by elderly Mrs. Tranter, and before she knows it, the old woman has snapped a...
| Author | Anastasia Hobbet |
| ISBN | 1579621910 |
I was excited to find a book about Kuwait, and the first couple of chapters sucked me in. Unfortunately, what followed was a nearly plot-free slog through the mundane lives of Americans temporarily residing in the country, with a few supporting characters adding local color.
Small Kingdoms...
| Author | Rita Golden Gelman |
| ISBN | 0307588017 |
In 1987, Rita, newly divorced, set out to live her dream. She sold all her possessions and became a nomad. She wrote a book about her ongoing journey and, in 2001, insisted on putting her personal e-mail address in the last chapter—against all advice. It turned out to be a fortuitous decision. She has...
| Author | Jane Alison |
| ISBN | 0312420064 |
Why was Ovid, the most popular poet of his day, banished from Rome? Why do only two lines survive of his play Medea, reputedly his most passionate, most accomplished work? Between the known details of Ovid’s life and these enigmas, Jane Alison has created a haunting drama of
psychological...
| Author | Kelle Groom |
| ISBN | 1451616686 |
At the age of fifteen, Kelle Groom found that alcohol allowed her to connect with people and explore intimacy in ways she’d never been able to experience before. She began drinking before class, often blacked out at bars, and fell into destructive relationships. At nineteen, already an out-of-control...
| Author | Deanna Fei |
| ISBN | 1594202494 |
Looking to reconnect with their ancestral home and with one another, three generations of women tour mainland China on a journey that will change their family forever. A stunning debut, A Thread of Sky is the story of a family of women and the powerful thread that binds their lives. In following the paths...
| Author | Colin Dickey |
| ISBN | 1609530721 |
Engaging and thought provoking. Dickey here doesn't dwell in detail on the gruesome aspects of the lives of the saints he chronicles. He uses their lives of passionate extremism as an entry point to examine what their dedication, pursued in various ways, reveals about their humanity, and about ours....
The Dancing Girls of Lahore: Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan's Pleasure District
| Author | Louise Brown |
| ISBN | 0060740434 |
With beautiful understatement, Louise Brown turns a novelist's eye on a true story that beggars the imagination - the lives of the 'dancing girls' of Lahore, Parkistan.
The dancing girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond Market in the shadow of a great mosque. The twenty-first century goes on...
A chilling debut for fans of Mo Hayder and Sharon Bolton, THE BINDING SONG takes you on a trip to Halvergate Prison. If you're lucky, you'll get to leave...
'Splendidly unsettling' John Connolly
Dr Janet Palmer is the new lead psychologist at HMP Halvergate in a remote, bleak area of...
| Author | C.S. Godshalk |
| ISBN | 0805055347 |
One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions coexisted tenuously with one of the most violent...
| Author | Rebecca Muddiman |
| ISBN | 1444791591 |
Emma Thorley is gone...but not forgotten. GONE is a twisty story of murder, guilt and unintended consequences from an exciting new crime novelist.
250,000 people go missing in the UK every year.
91% of those reported to police are found within 48 hours.
99% of cases are solved within...
| Author | Roopa Farooki |
| ISBN | 0312577907 |
On the morning that changes everything, Aruna Ahmed Jones walks out of her ground-floor Victorian apartment in London wearing only jeans and a t-shirt, carrying nothing more substantial than a handbag, and keeps on walking. Leaving behind the handsome Dr. Patrick Jones, her husband of less than...
He hunts. He kills. He burns
Vicky Lewis is a force to be reckoned with: not yet thirty and already crew manager in the London Fire Brigade, she's destined for great things.
But when she enters a burning building to save a man's life and leaves it with catastrophic injuries, all that changes....
| Author | Holly Lynn Payne |
| ISBN | 0452284457 |
She is called Nurdane, the famed weaver of Mavisu. From her remote mountain village in southwestern Turkey, she creates dowries for young brides: dazzling rugs that are marvels of shape and color, texture and light. Her unique rugs possess remarkable healing qualities that have inspired local legend,...
From top-ten Irish bestselling author Jo Spain comes the second novel in the Inspector Tom Reynolds series
Did I know it would come to this? That I was playing Russian Roulette? I would give anything to turn back time and to be with my girls. There is no shot at redemption. I am going to die. The gun is in...
| Author | Lynda Simmons |
| ISBN | 0425237249 |
There are people who try hard to forget their problems. All Ruby wants to do is remember...
Ruby Donaldson has been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's Disease, and she'll be damned if she won't straighten out her troubled family before she no longer knows how.
Ruby spent years...
| Author | Jessica Jiji |
| ISBN | 0061689300 |
“In this story of love and search for identity, Jessica Jiji succeeds fully in capturing passions, depth of feeling, and strong relationships beyond ethnic and religious differences.”
—Naim Kattan, author of Farewell Babylon
Jessica Jiji’s Sweet Dates in Basra...
Suicide is always investigated.
Especially when a Royal Navy submarine officer kills himself on board, only days after his wife's brutal murder.
Now Lieutenant Danielle Lewis, the Navy's finest Special Branch investigator, is two hundred metres below the surface.
Interrogating...
| Author | Christie Dickason |
| ISBN | 0007289103 |
Superb historical novel of the Jacobean court, in which Princess Elizabeth strives to avoid becoming her father's pawn in the royal marriage market The court of James I is a volatile place, with factions led by warring cousins Robert Cecil and Francis Bacon. Europe is seething with conflict between...
| Author | Biruté M.F. Galdikas |
| ISBN | 0316301868 |
From the first, it was an adventure. In 1971, at age twenty-five, Galdikas left the placid world of American academia for the remote jungles of Indonesian Borneo. Living with her husband in a primitive camp, she became surrogate mother to a "family" of ex-captive orangutans - and gradually adjusted...
