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10 best books like Light Lifting (Alexander MacLeod): The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival, Too Much and Not the Mood, Us Conductors, The Bishop's Man, Half Blood Blues, Jonny Appleseed, This Cake is for the Party: Stories, Hellgoing, The Innocents, The Bone Cage

The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
AuthorJohn Vaillant
ISBN0307268934
It’s December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers sift through the gruesome...
Too Much and Not the Mood
AuthorDurga Chew-Bose
ISBN0374535957
An entirely original portrait of a young writer shutting out the din in order to find her own voice

On April 11, 1931, Virginia Woolf ended her entry in A Writer’s Diary with the words “too much and not the mood.” She was describing how tired she was of correcting her own writing, of the “cramming...
Us Conductors
AuthorSean Michaels
ISBN1935639811
Winner of the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
In a finely woven series of flashbacks and correspondence, Lev Termen, the Russian scientist, inventor, and spy, tells the story of his life to his “one true love,” Clara Rockmore, the finest theremin player in the world. In the first half of the book,...
The Bishop's Man
AuthorLinden MacIntyre
ISBN0307357066
The year is 1993 and Father Duncan MacAskill stands at a small Cape Breton fishing harbour a few miles from where he grew up. Enjoying the timeless sight of a father and son piloting a boat, Duncan takes a moment’s rest from his worries. But he does not yet know that his already strained faith is about to...
Half Blood Blues
AuthorEsi Edugyan
ISBN1846687756
The aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymus Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, is arrested in a cafe and never heard from again. He is twenty years old. A German citizen. And he is black.

Fifty years later, Sid, Hiero's bandmate and the only witness that day, is going back to Berlin....
Jonny Appleseed
AuthorJoshua Whitehead
ISBN1551527251
"You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine" is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly compelling novel. Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes...
This Cake is for the Party: Stories
AuthorSarah Selecky
ISBN0887625258
"Finalist for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize and longlisted for the 2010 Frank O Connor Award" Sarah Selecky s first book takes dead aim at a young generation of men and women who often set out with the best of intentions, only to have plans thwarted or hopes betrayed. These are stories about friendships...
Hellgoing
AuthorLynn Coady
ISBN1770893083
Winner of the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book and for The Globe's Top 10 Books of 2013.


With astonishing range and depth, Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Lynn Coady gives us nine unforgettable...
The Innocents
AuthorMichael Crummey
From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story of survival in which a brother and sister confront the limits of human endurance and their own capacity for loyalty and forgiveness.
A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline....
The Bone Cage
AuthorAngie Abdou
ISBN1897126174
Digger, an 85 kilo wrestler, and Sadie, a 26-year-old speed swimmer, stand on the verge of realizing every athlete's dream--winning a gold medal at the Olympics. Both athletes are nearing the end of their athletic careers, and are forced to confront the question: what happens to athletes when their...
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