Amphibian
10 best books like Amphibian (Carla Gunn): The White Bone, Woman at Point Zero, Bannerless, The White Lioness, Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11, All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories, From a Crooked Rib, The Typewriter Girl, Hugh and Bess: A Love Story, Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother
| Author | Barbara Gowdy |
| ISBN | 0312264127 |
A thrilling journey into the minds of African elephants as they struggle to survive.
If, as many recent nonfiction bestsellers have revealed, animals possess emotions and awareness, they must also have stories. In "The White Bone," a novel imagined entirely from the perspective of African elephants,...
| Author | Nawal El Saadawi |
| ISBN | 0862321107 |
“A new world was opening up in front of my eyes, a world which for me had not existed before. Maybe it had always been there, always existed, but I had never seen it, never realized it had been there all the time. How was it that I had been blind to its existence all these years?”- Nawal El Saadawi, Woman...
| Author | Carrie Vaughn |
| ISBN | 0544947304 |
A mysterious murder in a dystopian future leads a novice investigator to question what she’s learned about the foundation of her population-controlled society.
Decades after economic and environmental collapse destroys much of civilization in the United States, the Coast Road region...
| Author | Henning Mankell |
| ISBN | 0099464691 |
The execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife looks like a simple case even though there is no obvious suspect. But then Wallander learns of a determined stalker, and soon enough, the cops catch up with him. But when his alibi turns out to be airtight, they realize that what seemed a simple crime of...
Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
Years in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative is an unforgettable portrait of 9/11.
This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York; at the Pentagon; and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania,...
All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories
| Author | Edward P. Jones |
| ISBN | 0060557567 |
Edward P. Jones, a prodigy of the short story, returns to the form that first won him praise in this new collection of stories, All Aunt Hagar's Children. Here he turns an unflinching eye to the men, women, and children caught between the old ways of the South and the temptations that await them in the city,...
| Author | Nuruddin Farah |
| ISBN | 0143037269 |
Written with complete conviction from a woman's point of view, Nuruddin Farah's spare, shocking first novel savagely attacks the traditional values of his people yet is also a haunting celebration of the unbroken human spirit. Ebla, an orphan of eighteen, runs away from her nomadic encampment in...
| Author | Alison Atlee |
| ISBN | 1451673256 |
A passionate historical debut novel about a young woman in turn-of-the-century England who finds love and independence at a seashore resort.
In Victorian London, there’s only so far an unmarried woman can go, and Betsey Dobson has relied on her wits and cunning to take herself as far as she...
Hugh and Bess: A Love Story
| Author | Susan Higginbotham |
| ISBN | 1402215274 |
Forced to marry Hugh le Despenser, the son and grandson of disgraced traitors, Bess de Montacute, just 13 years old, is appalled at his less-than-desirable past. Meanwhile, Hugh must give up the woman he really loves in order to marry the reluctant Bess. Far apart in age and haunted by the past, can Hugh...
Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother
| Author | Sonia Nazario |
| ISBN | 0812971787 |
A true story from award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounting the odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States.
In this astonishing true story, award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran...
| Author | Benito Taibo |
| ISBN | 6070708989 |
Una grandiosa e increíble aventura para ser todo... excepto normal.
Tenía un par de padres divertidos y jóvenes, llenos de sueños y de planes. Pero a mis doce años, cinco meses, tres días y dos horas y cuarto, aproximadamente, me quedé sin ellos
Desde que el tío Paco se hizo...
| Author | Farley Mowat |
| ISBN | 0811731863 |
In the 1960s, Farley Mowat was living in the tiny fishing community of Burgeo on the southwest coast of Newfoundland. When an 80-ton fin whale became trapped in a nearby saltwater lagoon, Mowat rejoiced: here was the first chance to study at close range one of the most magnificent animals in creation....
| Author | Grey Owl |
| ISBN | 0432063528 |
First published in 1935, Pilgrims of the Wild is Grey Owl's autobiographical account of his transition from successful trapper to preservationist. With his Iroquois wife, Anahereo, Grey Owl set out to protect the environment and the endangered beaver. Powerful in its simplicity, Pilgrims of the...
Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition
| Author | Stephen R. Bown |
| ISBN | 0306825198 |
The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, involved over 3,000 people and cost Peter the Great over one-sixth of his empire's annual revenue....
| Author | Andrea Dunlop |
| ISBN | 1501155989 |
In the tradition of The Emperor’s Children and The House of Mirth, the forgotten granddaughter of one of New York’s wealthiest men is reunited with her family just as she comes of age—and once she’s had a glimpse of their glittering world, she refuses to let it go without a fight.
When...
| Author | Wesley King |
| ISBN | 1481455311 |
Daniel is the back-up punter for the Erie Hills Elephants. Which really means he’s the water boy. He spends football practice perfectly arranging water cups—and hoping no one notices. Actually, he spends most of his time hoping no one notices his strange habits—he calls them Zaps: avoiding...
| Author | Cheryl Strayed |
| ISBN | 0345805615 |
In her debut novel, Torch, bestselling author Cheryl Strayed weaves a searing and luminous tale of a family's grief after unexpected loss. "Work hard. Do good. Be incredible!" is the advice Teresa Rae Wood shares with the listeners of her local radio show, Modern Pioneers, and the advice she strives...
Winner of the 4th GREAT BC Novel Contest! This astonishing novel begins at a fair on a hot August day in 1971 in Hope, BC. Sage and Della Howard are driving to Fernie to start a job and begin a new life. They stop for a break, lose their dog and in the search find a crying toddler in the nearby woods instead,...
