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7 best books like Teacher (Sylvia Ashton-Warner): Girl, Woman, Other, When Will There Be Good News?, The Moth Presents Occasional Magic: True Stories about Defying the Impossible, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, The Department of Sensitive Crimes, Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation, Chocky

Girl, Woman, Other
AuthorBernardine Evaristo
ISBN0241364906
Joint Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2019

Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood

Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories...
When Will There Be Good News?
AuthorKate Atkinson
ISBN0316154857
Three lives come together in unexpected and thrilling ways in Kate Atkinson's When Will There Be Good News?

On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason's family slowly wanders home along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna's life is changed forever...

On a dark night thirty years later, ex-detective...
The Moth Presents Occasional Magic: True Stories about Defying the Impossible
AuthorCatherine Burns
ISBN1101904429
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From storytelling phenomenon and hit podcast The Moth--and featuring contributions from Meg Wolitzer, Adam Gopnik, Krista Tippett, Andrew Solomon, Rosanne Cash, Ophira Eisenberg, Wang Ping, and more--a new collection of unforgettable true stories about finding the...
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
AuthorAmy Chua
ISBN1594202842
An awe-inspiring, often hilarious, and unerringly honest story of one mother's exercise in extreme parenting, revealing the rewards—and the costs—of raising her children the Chinese way.

"This is a story about a mother, two daughters, and two dogs. This was supposed to be a story of...
The Department of Sensitive Crimes
AuthorAlexander McCall Smith
ISBN1524748218
The Department of Sensitive Crimes is Scandinavian Blanc, vastly different from Scandinavian Noir. There is nothing noir about the world of Ulf Varg, Detective Inspector in the Sensitive Crimes Department of the Criminal Investigation Authority for the city of Malmö, Sweden. Ulf is concerned...
Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
AuthorJonathan Kozol
ISBN0060976977
The children in this book defy the stereotypes of urban youth too frequently presented by the media. Tender, generous and often religiously devout, they speak with eloquence and honesty about the poverty and racial isolation that have wounded but not hardened them. The book does not romanticize or...
Chocky
AuthorJohn Wyndham
ISBN0140031219
Cover Artist: Harry Willock

Matthew, they thought, was just going through a phase of talking to himself. And, like many parents, they waited for him to get over it, but it started to get worse. Mathew's conversations with himself grew more and more intense - it was like listening to one end of...
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