Everything Was Goodbye
10 best books like Everything Was Goodbye (Gurjinder Basran): Alligator, Lullabies for Little Criminals, Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs, The Little Shadows, The Toss of a Lemon, The Assassin's Song, Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?, By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz, This Little Light, Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience
| 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...
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...
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
| Author | Elissa Wall |
| ISBN | 0061628018 |
Stolen Innocence is the gripping New York Times bestselling memoir of Elissa Wall, the courageous former member of Utah’s infamous FLDS polygamist sect whose powerful courtroom testimony helped convict controversial sect leader Warren Jeffs in September 2007. At once shocking, heartbreaking,...
| Author | Marina Endicott |
| ISBN | 0385668910 |
The Little Shadows revolves around three sisters in the world of vaudeville before and during the First World War. We follow the lives of all three in turn: Aurora, the eldest and most beautiful, who is sixteen when the book opens; thoughtful Clover, a year younger; and the youngest sister, joyous headstrong...
| Author | Padma Viswanathan |
| ISBN | 0307356329 |
In south India in 1896, ten-year old Sivakami is about to embark on a new life. Hanumarathnam, a village healer with some renown as an astrologer, has approached her parents with a marriage proposal. In keeping with custom, he provides his prospective in-laws with his horoscope. The problem is that...
| Author | M.G. Vassanji |
| ISBN | 1400042178 |
In the aftermath of the brutal violence that gripped western India in 2002, Karsan Dargawalla, heir to Pirbaag – the shrine of a mysterious, medieval sufi – begins to tell the story of his family. His tale opens in the 1960s: young Karsan is next in line after his father to assume lordship of the shrine,...
Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?
| Author | Anita Rau Badami |
| ISBN | 0676976050 |
Set against the tumultuous backdrop of a fragmenting Punjab and moving between Canada and India, Can you Hear the Nightbird Call? charts the interweaving stories of three Indian women – Bibi-ji, Leela and Nimmo – each in search of a resting place amid rapidly changing personal and political landscapes.
The...
By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz
| Author | Max Eisen |
| ISBN | 1443449288 |
In the tradition of Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz comes a new memoir by Canadian survivor
More than 70 years after the Nazi camps were liberated by the Allies, a new Canadian Holocaust memoir details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau,...
This brilliant new novel is an urgent bulletin from an all-too-believable near future in which the religious right has come out on top. And where a smart young girl who questions the new order is suddenly a terrorist. By the bestselling author of
The Girls
and
The Mountain Story
.
Taking...
Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience
| Author | Allison Pataki |
| ISBN | 0399591672 |
A deeply moving memoir about two lives that were changed in the blink of an eye, and the love that helped them rewrite their future
Five months pregnant, on a flight to their “babymoon,” Allison Pataki turned to her husband when he asked if his eye looked strange, and watched him suddenly...
| Author | Richard Wagamese |
| ISBN | 0771070845 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
The final novel from Richard Wagamese, the bestselling and beloved author of Indian Horse and Medicine Walk, centres on an abused woman on the run who finds refuge on a farm owned by an Indigenous man with wounds of his own. A profoundly moving novel about the redemptive...
