Bottle Rocket Hearts
10 best books like Bottle Rocket Hearts (Zoe Whittall): Bunny, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Blood Price, Contact, The Lemon Table, Lullabies for Little Criminals, How Reading Changed My Life, New Grub Street, Moon of the Crusted Snow, Daydreams of Angels
| Author | Mona Awad |
| ISBN | 0525559736 |
Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique...
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
| Author | Julian Barnes |
| ISBN | 0679731377 |
Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising, subversive, fictional history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from his ark but he and his Voyage are not forgotten: they...
| Author | Tanya Huff |
| ISBN | 1841493562 |
The Blood Books are now available in "Blood Ties" TV tie-in editions. View our TV tie-in feature page here here.Vicki Nelson, formerly of Toronto’s homicide unit and now a private detective, witnesses the first of many vicious attacks that are now plaguing the city of Toronto. As death follows unspeakable...
RITA award winner!
When co-pilot Jordan Cady’s 747 is snatched from the sky by an immense UFO, she must put aside her own fears and take charge, exactly what the single mother of a six-year old daughter knows how to do. With no power or communications to the plane, Jordan and her crew are far...
| Author | Julian Barnes |
| ISBN | 1400076501 |
In his widely acclaimed new collection of stories, Julian Barnes addresses what is perhaps the most poignant aspect of the human condition: growing old.
The characters in The Lemon Table are facing the ends of their lives–some with bitter regret, others with resignation, and others still...
Lullabies for Little Criminals
| Author | Heather O'Neill |
| ISBN | 0060875070 |
A gritty, heart-wrenching novel about bruised innocence on the city's feral streets—the remarkable debut of a stunning literary talent
Heather O'Neill dazzles with a first novel of extraordinary prescience and power, a subtly understated yet searingly effective story of a young life...
How Reading Changed My Life
| Author | Anna Quindlen |
| ISBN | 0345422783 |
A recurring theme throughout Anna Quindlen's How Reading Changed My Life is the comforting premise that readers are never alone. "There was waking, and there was sleeping. And then there were books," she writes, "a kind of parallel universe in which anything might happen and frequently did, a universe...
| Author | George Gissing |
| ISBN | 0140430326 |
In New Grub Street George Gissing re-created a microcosm of London's literary society as he had experienced it. His novel is at once a major social document and a story that draws us irresistibly into the twilit world of Edwin Reardon, a struggling novelist, and his friends and acquaintances in Grub...
| Author | Waubgeshig Rice |
| ISBN | 1770414002 |
A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice
With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members...
| Author | Heather O'Neill |
| ISBN | 0374280428 |
Inventive, outlandish, and tender fairy tales from a bestselling author
The fantastic has always been at the edges of Heather O'Neill's work. In her bestselling novels Lullabies for Little Criminals and The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, she transformed the shabbiest streets of Montreal...
| Author | Anna Quindlen |
| ISBN | 1400069343 |
In this irresistible memoir, the #1 New York Times bestselling author writes about her life and the lives of women today, looking back and ahead - and celebrating it all - as she considers marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, faith, loss, all that stuff in our closets, and more.
It's odd when...
The Greedy Bastard Diary: A Comic Tour of America
| Author | Eric Idle |
| ISBN | 0060758643 |
The man who brought you the anthems "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" and "Sit on My Face and Tell Me That You Love Me" shows his naughty bits -- and so much more
A stunningly witty exploration of the American landscape -- not to mention a brilliant comic's mind -- this diary is chock-full of...
| Author | Tanya Huff |
| ISBN | 1841493597 |
It began with the call no daughter ever wants to get, the call that told private investigator Vicki Nelson her mother had died. Mrs. Nelson's coworker at the Queen's University Life Science Department told Vicki that the cause of death was a heart attack, and that they'd be waiting for her to arrive in...
| Author | Tanya Huff |
| ISBN | 1841493570 |
For centuries, the werewolves of Toronto have managed to live in peace and tranquility, hidden quietly away on their London, Ontario farm. But now, someone has learned their secret—and is systematically massacring this ancient race.
The only one they can turn to is Henry Fitzroy, Toronto-based...
| Author | Tanya Huff |
| ISBN | 1841493589 |
Sealed away through unending centuries in a sarcophagus never meant to be opened, he had patiently waited for the opportunity to live again, for the chance to feed on the unwary and grow strong. Now, at last, the waiting had come to an end. Brought to the Egyptology Department of Toronto's Royal Ontario...
| Author | Graham Hurley |
| ISBN | 0752868853 |
A judge and his wife go away on holiday and lose everything. While they are away their 17-year-old daughter throws a party, it goes out of control, there is a riot, and she and her boyfriend are murdered. A massive police investigation, stretching the force's resources to breaking point, is launched...
The Western Alienation Merit Badge
| Author | Nancy Jo Cullen |
| ISBN | 1928088783 |
Set in Calgary in 1982, in the wake of the recession that arrived on the heels of Canada’s 1980 National Energy Program, The Western Alienation Merit Badge tells the story of the Murray family who are struggling with grief and the very real possibility of financial ruin. After the death of her stepmother...
I was hired to protect her, not make her scream my name.
From dodging bullets in Afghanistan to working for the Secret Service, I know danger pretty well.
Or I thought I did. That was before my latest assignment came with a whole new kind of danger.
Her name? Ruby.
She’s...
