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Gold Diggers: Striking it Rich in the Klondike

10 best books like Gold Diggers: Striking it Rich in the Klondike (Charlotte Gray): An Ocean of Minutes, The Grief Keeper, Destroy All Monsters, Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West, Gideon Falls, Vol. 1: The Black Barn, The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family, Brother, The Pale-Faced Lie, Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations, Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny

An Ocean of Minutes
AuthorThea Lim
ISBN1501192566
Shortlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize and a Best Book of the Year according to Real Simple, the Globe and Mail, and the CBC, this follows the love story of two people who are at once mere weeks and many years apart.

In this novel America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. When Frank...
The Grief Keeper
AuthorAlexandra Villasante
This stunning YA debut is a timely and heartfelt speculative narrative about healing, faith, and freedom.

Seventeen-year-old Marisol has always dreamed of being American, learning what Americans and the US are like from television and Mrs. Rosen, an elderly expat who had employed Marisol's...
Destroy All Monsters
AuthorSam J. Miller
ISBN0062456768
A crucial, genre-bending tale, equal parts Ned Vizzini and Patrick Ness, about the life-saving power of friendship.

Solomon and Ash both experienced a traumatic event when they were twelve.

Ash lost all memory of that event when she fell from Solomon’s treehouse. Since then,...
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
AuthorHampton Sides
ISBN0385507771
A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won—a Sweeping Tale of Shame and Glory

In the fall of 1846 the venerable Navajo warrior Narbona, greatest of his people’s chieftains, looked down upon the small town of Santa Fe, the stronghold of the Mexican settlers he had been fighting...
Gideon Falls, Vol. 1: The Black Barn
AuthorJeff Lemire
ISBN1534308520
The legend of the Black Barn tells of an otherworldly building that has appeared and reappeared throughout history, bringing death and madness in its wake. Now, its mystery ensnares and entwines the lives of two very different men. One: a young recluse, obsessed with finding hidden clues within the...
The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family
AuthorLindsay Wong
In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on anti-psychotic meds.

Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother...
Brother
AuthorDavid Chariandy
ISBN1635572045
An intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, tightly constructed novel, Brother explores questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity as they are played out in a Scarborough housing complex during the sweltering heat and simmering violence of the summer of 1991.

With shimmering...
The Pale-Faced Lie
AuthorDavid Crow
ISBN0997487178
Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his siblings idolized their dad. Tall, strong, smart, and brave, the self-taught Cherokee regaled his family with stories of his World War II feats. But as time passed, David discovered the other side of Thurston Crow, the ex-con with his own...
Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations
AuthorCraig Ferguson
ISBN0525533915
From the comedian, actor, and former host of The Late Late Show comes an irreverent, lyrical memoir in essays featuring his signature wit.

Craig Ferguson has defied the odds his entire life. He has failed when he should have succeeded and succeeded when he should have failed. The fact that he...
Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny
AuthorMarlo Thomas
Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny is a book that only Marlo Thomas could write--a smart and gracious, witty and confident autobiographical journey. For as long as Marlo Thomas can remember, she's lived with laughter. Born to comedy royalty--TV and nightclub star Danny Thomas--she...
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