Mouthing the Words
7 best books like Mouthing the Words (Camilla Gibb): Happiness, A Complicated Kindness, The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria, Next Year, for Sure, African Nights, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, Het meisje dat van IS won. Ontvoerd, verkocht, ontsnapt
London. A fox makes its way across Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide--Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes, and Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist there to deliver a keynote speech. From this chance encounter, Aminatta Forna's unerring powers of observation...
| Author | Miriam Toews |
| ISBN | 1582433224 |
In this stunning coming-of-age novel, award-winner Miriam Toews balances grief and hope in the voice of a witty, beleaguered teenager whose family is shattered by fundamentalist Christianity.
"Half of our family, the better-looking half, is missing," Nomi Nickel tells us at the beginning...
The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria
In May of 2012, Janine di Giovanni travelled to Syria. It would mark the beginning of a long relationship with the country, starting with her coverage of the peaceful uprising and continuing as the situation quickly turned into one of the most brutal, internecine conflicts in recent history. Drawn...
| Author | Zoey Leigh Peterson |
| ISBN | 0385686773 |
In this moving and enormously entertaining debut novel, longtime romantic partners Kathryn and Chris experiment with an open relationship and reconsider everything they thought they knew about love.
After nine years together, Kathryn and Chris have the sort of relationship most would...
| Author | Kuki Gallmann |
| ISBN | 0060954833 |
Lyrical, beautifully written tales of life in Africa. Africa evokes a deep sense of mystery. It is a place that retains what most of the world has lost: space, roots, traditions, awesome beauty, true wilderness, rare animals, and extraordinary people. In this wonderful and haunting collection of...
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
This is a story. In this ingenious and spell-binding retelling of the life of Jesus, Philip Pullman revisits the most influential story ever told. Charged with mystery, compassion and enormous power, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ throws fresh light on who Jesus was and asks the reader...
Het meisje dat van IS won. Ontvoerd, verkocht, ontsnapt
Verkocht. Het duurde even voordat ik het besefte. Ik was verkocht als een dier op de veemarkt. De mannen die me hadden ontvoerd en gevangen gehouden, hadden me nu verpatst. Voor geld hadden ze me aan andere mannen doorgegeven, die met me konden doen wat ze wilden. Ze beschouwden me als hun bezit, hun 'slavin'....
