Coventry
10 best books like Coventry (Helen Humphreys): Alligator, Galore, Turbulence, So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom, Draw What You See: The Life and Art of Benny Andrews, Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants, Translated from the Gibberish: Seven Stories and One Half Truth, Clara Callan, Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America, The Long Flight Home
| Author | Lisa Moore |
| ISBN | 0802170250 |
Lisa Moore's wickedly fresh first novel, a Canadian best seller, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Canadian and Caribbean region), and a Globe and Mail Book of the Year moves with the swiftness of an alligator in attack mode through the lives of a group of brilliantly rendered characters mingling...
| Author | Michael Crummey |
| ISBN | 0385663145 |
Sprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, Galore is a novel about the power of stories to shape and sustain us.
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book, Caribbean & Canada and the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award; Finalist for the Governor General’s...
| Author | David Szalay |
| ISBN | 1982122730 |
From the acclaimed, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of All That Man Is, a stunning, virtuosic novel about twelve people, mostly strangers, and the surprising ripple effect each one has on the life of the next as they cross paths while in transit around the world.
A woman strikes up a conversation...
| Author | Gary D. Schmidt |
| ISBN | 1626728720 |
Her biography is absolutely breathtaking artwork combined with a thoughtful sentence interspersed throughout a lengthier picture book biography that educates those that don't know how influential she was as a "first female", one that made a tremendous impact and was listed in Smithsonian magazine's...
| Author | Kathleen Benson Haskins |
| ISBN | 0544104870 |
Benny Andrews loved to draw. He drew his nine brothers and sisters, and his parents. He drew the red earth of the fields where they all worked, the hot sun that beat down, and the rows and rows of crops. As Benny hauled buckets of water, he made pictures in his head. And he dreamed of a better life—something...
Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants
| Author | Ann Hui |
| ISBN | 1771622229 |
In 2016, Globe and Mail reporter Ann Hui drove across Canada to answer two questions: Why is there a Chinese restaurant in every small town? And who are the families who run them? It was only after the story was published that she discovered her own family could have been included — her parents...
Translated from the Gibberish: Seven Stories and One Half Truth
| Author | Anosh Irani |
| ISBN | 0735278520 |
The bestselling author of
The Parcel
writes, for the first time, about Canada as well as India in this unforgettable collection of seven moving stories and one "half truth" (a semi-fictional "translation" of what it means to be an immigrant).
Twenty years ago, to the mystification...
| Author | Richard B. Wright |
| ISBN | 0060506075 |
In a small town in Canada, Clara Callan reluctantly takes leave of her sister, Nora, who is bound for New York. It's a time when the growing threat of fascism in Europe is a constant worry, and people escape from reality through radio and the movies. Meanwhile, the two sisters -- vastly different in personality,...
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
| Author | Carole Boston Weatherford |
| ISBN | 0807530174 |
His white teacher tells her all-black class, You’ll all wind up porters and waiters. What did she know? Gordon Parks is most famous for being the first black director in Hollywood. But before he made movies and wrote books, he was a poor African American looking for work. When he bought a camera, his...
| Author | Alan Hlad |
| ISBN | 1496721675 |
Inspired by fascinating, true, yet little-known events during World War II, The Long Flight Home is a testament to the power of courage in our darkest hours—a moving, masterfully written story of love and sacrifice.
It is September 1940—a year into the war—and as German bombs fall on...
| Author | Jewell Parker Rhodes |
| ISBN | 0743278860 |
Loved it! Outstanding fictional read! Even though this was fiction, the author did an amazing job. I only knew of Frederick Douglass as an abolitionist and a runaway slave. I like how the author focused on 2 women in his life at the time, his wife and his mistress. this book gives readers a glimpse into Mr....
As soon as Ann Cole Lowe could walk, her momma and grandma taught her to sew. When her mom died, Ann continued sewing dresses. It wasn't easy, especially when she went to design school and had to learn alone, segregated from the rest of the class. But the work she did set her spirit soaring, as evidenced in...
Sewing Stories: Harriet Powers' Journey from Slave to Artist
| Author | Barbara Herkert |
| ISBN | 0385754620 |
Harriet Powers learned to sew and quilt as a young slave girl on a Georgia plantation. She lived through the Civil War and Reconstruction, and eventually owned a cotton farm with her family, all the while relying on her skills with the needle to clothe and feed her children.
Later she began...
| Author | Mark Sakamoto |
| ISBN | 1443417971 |
The heart-rending true story of two families on either side of the Second World War-and a moving tribute to the nature of forgiveness
When the Second World War broke out, Ralph MacLean traded his quiet yet troubled life on the Magdalene Islands in eastern Canada for the ravages of war overseas....
| Author | Rosella Postorino |
| ISBN | 1250179149 |
The internationally bestselling novel based on the untold true story of the women conscripted to be Hitler's food tasters.
"They called it the Wolfsschanze, the Wolf's Lair. 'Wolf' was his nickname. As hapless as Little Red Riding Hood, I had ended up in his belly. A legion of hunters was out...
Turning Pages: My Life Story
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor tells her own story for young readers for the very first time!
As the first Latina Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor has inspired young people around the world to reach for their dreams. But what inspired her? For young Sonia, the answer was books!...
| Author | Ian Williams |
| ISBN | 0735274053 |
A hilarious, surprising and poignant love story about the way families are invented, told with the savvy of a Zadie Smith and with an inventiveness all Ian Williams' own, Reproduction bangs lives together in a polyglot suburb of Toronto.
Felicia and Edgar meet as their mothers are dying. Felicia,...
A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
The New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time
Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in our era has produced a crisis...
