Love is a Canoe
9 best books like Love is a Canoe (Ben Schrank): The Luminaries, Marrying Mozart, Rory & Ita, Fight Song, Small Blessings, A Chance to Win: Boyhood, Baseball, and the Struggle for Redemption in the Inner City, A Delicate Balance, La valse lente des tortues, The Good Thief's Guide to Venice
| Author | Eleanor Catton |
| ISBN | 0316074314 |
It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: A wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried...
Amadeus meets Little Women in this irresistibly delightful historical novel by award-winning author Stephanie Cowell. The year is 1777 and the four Weber sisters, daughters of a musical family, share a crowded, artistic life in a ramshackle house. While their father scrapes by as a music copyist...
| Author | Roddy Doyle |
| ISBN | 0099449226 |
Ita Doyle: 'In all my life I have lived in two houses, had two jobs, and one husband. I'm a very interesting person'
Rory & Ita, Roddy Doyle's first non-fiction book, tells - largely in their own words - the story of his parents' lives. They remember every detail of their Dublin childhoods...
| Author | Joshua Mohr |
| ISBN | 1593765088 |
When his bicycle is intentionally run off the road by a neighbor's SUV, something snaps in Bob Coffen. Modern suburban life has been getting him down and this is the last straw. To avoid following in his own father’s missteps, Bob is suddenly desperate to reconnect with his wife and his distant, distracted...
| Author | Martha Woodroof |
| ISBN | 1250040523 |
From debut novelist Martha Woodroof comes an inspiring tale of a small-town college professor, a remarkable new woman at the bookshop, and the ten-year old son he never knew he had.
Tom Putnam has resigned himself to a quiet and half-fulfilled life. An English professor in a sleepy college...
A Chance to Win: Boyhood, Baseball, and the Struggle for Redemption in the Inner City
| Author | Jonathan Schuppe |
| ISBN | 0805092870 |
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist follows an embattled Little League team in inner-city Newark, revealing the complex realities of life in one of America’s most dangerous cities
When Rodney Mason, an ex-con drug dealer from Newark’s rough South Ward, was shot and paralyzed, he vowed...
| Author | Edward Albee |
| ISBN | 0452278090 |
Edwards Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Delicate Balance reveals the emotional savagery of suburbia and the psychological terror of empty lives. First produced in 1966, this dark drawing room comedy may be Albee's masterpiece, as powerful in its 1996 revival as it was thirty years before.
Its...
La valse lente des tortues
| Author | Katherine Pancol |
| ISBN | 2226182314 |
Un baiser brûlant du seul qu'on ne doit pas embrasser. Deux bras qui enlacent ou qui tuent. Un homme inquiétant, mais si charmant. Une femme qui tremble et espère ardemment... Un homme qui ment si savamment. Une femme qui croit mener la danse, mais passe son tour. Des adolescents plus avertis que les...
The Good Thief's Guide to Venice
| Author | Chris Ewan |
| ISBN | 0312580851 |
Charlie, a gentleman thief to rival Cary Grant in “To Catch a Thief,†gallivants around Venice in the next caper in this “sparklingâ€* series.
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After a particularly bad streak of luck in Vegas, Charlie has retreated to Venice, having vowed to give up a life of crime to write...
