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Last of the Independents: Vancouver Noir

7 best books like Last of the Independents: Vancouver Noir (Sam Wiebe): An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales, The Silent Dead, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After, Nothing More Than Murder, The Dead Ground, Cristallisation Secrète, A Rumor of War

An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
AuthorOliver Sacks
ISBN0330343475
I've read about neurologist Oliver Sacks in other books but I'm pretty sure this was my first experience reading one of his books and I actually really enjoyed it. Sacks writes up narratives for patients he works with or people he meets with neurological conditions in a way that makes it much easier to...
The Silent Dead
AuthorClaire McGowan
ISBN1472204409
Victim: Male. Mid-thirties. 5'7".

Cause of death: Hanging. Initial impression - murder.

ID: Mickey Doyle. Suspected terrorist and member of the Mayday Five.

The officers at the crime scene know exactly who the victim is.

Doyle was one of five suspected bombers...
The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
AuthorJulie Yip-Williams
ISBN0525511350
As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more--a powerful exhortation to the living.

That Julie Yip-Williams survived infancy was a miracle....
Nothing More Than Murder
AuthorJim Thompson
ISBN0316403938
Joe Wilmot can't stand his wife Elizabeth. But he sure loves her movie theater. It's a modest establishment in a beat-down town--but Joe has the run of the place, and inside its walls, he's king. Without the theater, he'd be sunk. Without his leadership, the theater would close in a heartbeat. If it isn't...
The Dead Ground
AuthorClaire McGowan
ISBN1472204379
A stolen baby. A murdered woman. A decades-old atrocity. Something connects them all.

A month before Christmas, and Ballyterrin on the Irish border lies under a thick pall of snow. When a newborn baby goes missing from hospital, it's all too close to home for forensic psychologist Paula Maguire,...
Cristallisation Secrète
AuthorYōko Ogawa
ISBN2742788298
L’île où se déroule cette histoire est depuis toujours soumise à un étrange phénomène : les choses et les êtres semblent promis à une sorte d’effacement diaboliquement orchestré. Quand un matin les oiseaux disparaissent à jamais, la jeune narratrice de ce livre ne s’épanche pas...
A Rumor of War
AuthorPhilip Caputo
ISBN1250117127
The 40th-anniversary edition of the classic Vietnam memoir—featured in the PBS documentary series The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick—with a new foreword by Kevin Powers.

In March of 1965, Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed at Danang with the first ground combat unit deployed...
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