Cocksure
10 best books like Cocksure (Mordecai Richler): The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead, Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves, London Fields, Black Swan Green, Three Day Road, Frogcatchers, Air, Through Black Spruce, The Orenda, Was
The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
| Author | Max Brooks |
| ISBN | 1400049628 |
Don't be carefree and foolish with your most precious asset—life. This book is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now without your even knowing it. The Zombie Survival Guide offers complete protection through trusted, proven tips for safeguarding yourself...
Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
| Author | Farley Mowat |
| ISBN | 0316881791 |
More than a half-century ago the naturalist Farley Mowat was sent to investigate why wolves were killing arctic caribou. Mowat's account of the summer he lived in the frozen tundra alone—studying the wolf population and developing a deep affection for the wolves (who were of no threat to caribou...
| Author | Martin Amis |
| ISBN | 0099748614 |
Samson Young, first-person narrator of this Martin Amis novel, is a somewhat jaded, frequently sarcastic and acerbic 40-something intellectual literary writer from, not surprisingly, New York City. But his hard-edged Big Apple voice is absolutely pitch-perfect for the story he...
| Author | David Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0812974018 |
From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new.
Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying...
| Author | Joseph Boyden |
| ISBN | 0143017861 |
It is 1919, and Niska, the last Oji-Cree woman to live off the land, has received word that one of the two boys she saw off to the Great War has returned. Xavier Bird, her sole living relation, is gravely wounded and addicted to morphine. As Niska slowly paddles her canoe on the three-day journey to bring...
| Author | Jeff Lemire |
| ISBN | 1982107375 |
Experience a surreal descent into one man’s psychosis in this haunting and chilling graphic novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Roughneck and Sweet Tooth, “the Stephen King of comics” (Maclean’s).
A man wakes up alone in a strange room with no recollection of who he...
| Author | Geoff Ryman |
| ISBN | 0312261217 |
Chung Mae is the only connection her small farming village has to culture of a wider world beyond the fields and simple houses of her village. A new communications technology is sweeping the world and promises to connect everyone, everywhere without power lines, computers, or machines. This technology...
| Author | Joseph Boyden |
| ISBN | 0670020575 |
A haunting novel about identity, love, and loss by the author of Three Day Road
Will Bird is a legendary Cree bush pilot, now lying in a coma in a hospital in his hometown of Moose Factory, Ontario. His niece Annie Bird, beautiful and self-reliant, has returned from her own perilous journey to...
| Author | Joseph Boyden |
| ISBN | 0670064181 |
In the remote winter landscape a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of a young Iroquois girl violently re-ignites a deep rift between two tribes. The girl’s captor, Bird, is one of the Huron Nation’s great warriors and statesmen. Years have passed since the murder of his family, and yet they are...
| Author | Geoff Ryman |
| ISBN | 0140178724 |
There's no place like home. There's no place like home. - Dorothy GaleIs that necessarily a bad thing?
We have all had the experience, as kids usually, of seeing something that inspired us. Whether it was to hit a baseball, run faster than anyone else, jump higher, shoot straighter, sing with...
In the final days of the Second World War, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley scrawls his desperate account on the walls and ceilings of his ice-cold prison high in the Austrian Alps. Officers of the liberating army discover his frozen, disfigured corpse and his astonishing testament - the sordid truth that he alone...
Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
| Author | John Hodgman |
| ISBN | 0525561102 |
A hilarious and honest new book in which John Hodgman, New York Times bestselling author of Vacationland, sets out to explore the strange work-land of being a somewhat famous person
After spending most of his twenties pursuing a career as a literary agent, John Hodgman decided to try his own...
