Keeper of the Night
10 best books like Keeper of the Night (Kimberly Willis Holt): Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal, Breath, Eyes, Memory, The Porpoise, The Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo, Sleepwalking Land, A Time of Miracles, The Book with No Pictures, Starlings, A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France, Running Away to Home: Our Family's Journey to Croatia in Search of Who We Are, Where We Came From, and What Really Matters
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
| Author | Ben Macintyre |
| ISBN | 0307353400 |
Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona...
At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists, a writer who evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti--and the enduring strength of Haiti's women--with a vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people's...
| Author | Mark Haddon |
| ISBN | 1784742821 |
‘I really am so very, very sorry about this,’ he says, in an oddly formal voice… They strike the side of a grain silo. They are travelling at seventy miles per hour.
A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash.
She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective...
The Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo
| Author | Germano Almeida |
| ISBN | 0811215652 |
New Directions is proud to introduce the masterwork of Cape Verde's greatest living writer, Germano Almeida: an ironic and original tragic-comedy from a new voice in African literature. Everyone in Cape Verde knows Señor da Silva. Successful entrepreneur, owner of the island's first automobile,...
As the civil war rages in 1980s Mozambique, an old man and a young boy, refugees from the war, seek shelter in a burnt-out bus. Among the effects of a dead passenger, they come across a set of notebooks that tell of his life. As the boy reads the story to his elderly companion, this story and their own develop...
| Author | Anne-Laure Bondoux |
| ISBN | 0385739222 |
Winner of the Batchelder Award--this tale of of exile, sacrifice, hope, and survival is a story of ultimate love.
Blaise Fortune, also known as Koumaïl, loves hearing the story of how he came to live with Gloria in the Republic of Georgia: Gloria was picking peaches in her father’s orchard...
The Book with No Pictures
| Author | B.J. Novak |
| ISBN | 0803741715 |
A book with no pictures?
What could be fun about that?
After all, if a book has no pictures, there's nothing to look at but the words on the page.
Words that might make you say silly sounds... In ridiculous voices...
Hey, what kind of book is this, anyway?
At...
| Author | Jo Walton |
| ISBN | 1616960566 |
An ancient coin cyber-spies on lovers and thieves. The magic mirror sees all but can do nothing. A cloned savior solves a fanatically-inspired murder. Three Irish siblings thieve treasures with bad poetry and the aid of the Queen of Cats.
With these captivating initial glimpses into her storytelling...
A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France
From the publisher of Under the Tuscan Sun comes another extraordinary memoir of a woman embarking on a new lifethis time in the South of France. Thirty years ago, James Beard Award-winning author Georgeanne Brennan set out to realize the dream of a peaceful, rural existence en Provence. She and her...
Running Away to Home: Our Family's Journey to Croatia in Search of Who We Are, Where We Came From, and What Really Matters
| Author | Jennifer Wilson |
| ISBN | 0312598955 |
A middle class, Midwestern family in search of meaning uproot themselves and move to their ancestral village in Croatia
"We can look at this in two ways," Jim wrote, always the pragmatist. "We can panic and scrap the whole idea. Or we can take this as a sign. They're saying the economy is going...
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
| Author | Anne Applebaum |
| ISBN | 0771009305 |
The momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain. In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented...
| Author | Ismail Kadare |
| ISBN | 1559708336 |
Masterful in its simplicity, Chronicle in Stone is a touching coming-of-age story and a testament to the perseverance of the human spirit. Surrounded by the magic of beautiful women and literature, a boy must endure the deprivations of war as he suffers the hardships of growing up. His sleepy country...
