One Bird's Choice
10 best books like One Bird's Choice (Iain Reid): Women Talking, Liberty Falling, Blind Descent, Geisha, a Life, Brother, Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride, The Virgin Cure, The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good, Jonny Appleseed, Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US
| Author | Miriam Toews |
| ISBN | 1635572584 |
One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that the women have learned...
| Author | Nevada Barr |
| ISBN | 0380728273 |
There is peril beneath the watchful eyes of the Lady...
When Anna Pigeon left New York City after her husband was killed, she hoped it would be forever. But now her sister Molly is clinging to life in an uptown hospital ICU, so Anna has reluctantly returned. Rooming with a friend and fellow park...
| Author | Nevada Barr |
| ISBN | 0380728265 |
Lechuguilla Cavern is a man-eating cave discovered in New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns National Park in the mid-1980s. Estimated to extend for more than three hundred miles, only ninety of them mapped, the cave was formed by acid burning away the limestone; corridors, pits, cramped wormholes, cliffs,...
| Author | Mineko Iwasaki |
| ISBN | 0743444299 |
"No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story. We have been constrained by unwritten rules not to do so, by the robes of tradition and by the sanctity of our exclusive calling...But I feel it is time to speak out."
Celebrated as the...
| Author | David Chariandy |
| ISBN | 1635572045 |
An intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, tightly constructed novel, Brother explores questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity as they are played out in a Scarborough housing complex during the sweltering heat and simmering violence of the summer of 1991.
With shimmering...
Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride
| Author | Lucy Knisley |
| ISBN | 1626722498 |
My reviews of Lucy Knisley’s previous works have revealed some ambivalence on my part: She’s great when writing about travel or food, but at a certain point a little more emotional investment is required, by both the writer/artist and the reader. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t need to know every...
| Author | Ami McKay |
| ISBN | 0676979564 |
From the author of the number one Canadian bestseller The Birth House comes the story of a young girl abandoned to the streets of post-Civil War New York City.
"I am Moth, a girl from the lowest part of Chrystie Street, born to a slum-house mystic and the man who broke her heart." So begins The Virgin...
The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good
| Author | Elizabeth L. Cline |
| ISBN | 1524744301 |
The Conscious Closet is not just a style guide. It is a call to action to transform one of the most polluting industries on earth--fashion--into a force for good. Readers will learn where our clothes are made and how they're made, before connecting to a global and impassioned community of stylish fashion...
| Author | Joshua Whitehead |
| ISBN | 1551527251 |
"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...
Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US
| Author | Lenny Duncan |
| ISBN | 1506452566 |
Lenny Duncan is the unlikeliest of pastors. Formerly incarcerated, he is now a black preacher in the whitest denomination in the United States: the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Shifting demographics and shrinking congregations make all the headlines, but Duncan sees something...
Storytime - Growing up with books
What was it exactly? Wonder, rapture, delight, surprised recognition, laughter – but also darker feelings that made my heart beat fast and my stomach turn over, and sometimes a frantic urge to close the book before whatever it was sucked me in and destroyed me. But always, I read on.
In Storytime,...
Just Eat It: How intuitive eating can help you get your shit together around food
| Author | Laura Thomas |
| ISBN | 1509893911 |
I spotted this book in the library and decided to read it mainly as a challenge for myself. My relationship with food is not great, to put it mildly, but lately I’ve been working to improve it. I skimmed the first few pages and thought it seemed sensible, so borrowed it. ‘Just Eat It’ is definitely...
| Author | Miriam Toews |
| ISBN | 0062070169 |
“Audacious, original and profoundly moving . . . . Healing is a likely outcome of a book imbued with the righteous anger, compassion and humanity of Swing Low.” —Globe and Mail (Canada)Reverberating with emotional power, authenticity, and insight, Swing Low is Miriam Toews's daring and deeply...
Juggling in High Heels: How to Organise Chaos
| Author | Lisa O'Neill |
| ISBN | 0143770446 |
How to survive life, look good and laugh!
Modern lives are busy lives: work, family, friends, health, finance, and more. Find out how to manage it all – with gusto. Learn the art of juggling priorities with good planning, so you can feel on top of it all and can do more of what you want.
Filled...
| Author | Elizabeth Hay |
| ISBN | 0771037945 |
In a small prairie school in 1929, Connie Flood helps a backward student, Michael Graves, learn how to read. Observing them and darkening their lives is the principal, Parley Burns, whose strange behaviour culminates in an attack so disturbing its repercussions continue to the present day.
Connie’s...
| Author | Rob Kean |
| ISBN | 0446608483 |
A surprisingly strong debut. A thriller, as well as a political metaphor. The author clearly knew what he wanted to say about society. A bit childish and corny when depicting love scenes, and the protagonists are too perfect, but that's all forgivable for the moral passion of the book, tasteful irony...
| Author | Kim Echlin |
| ISBN | 0140263500 |
This is not a real review, perhaps, but my way to try and distil the amalgam of thoughts that assailed me after reading this novel, ... twenty years ago. I've never forgotten the feeling nor the image of that little elephant on the savannah.
I was moved by the beauty and simplicity of the prose:...
| Author | Alice McDermott |
| ISBN | 2264031115 |
The late Billy Lynch's family and friends gather at a small bar and grill in the Bronx to remember better times. His widow, Maeve, is there and everyone admires the way she is holding up, just as they always admired the way she cared for Billy after the alcohol had ruined him. But one cannot think of Billy...
