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10 best books like The Book of Jonas (Stephen Dau): The Watch, Familiar, Purple Heart, Absolution, Running the Rift, In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods, Perla, Hunting in the Shadows: The Pursuit of al Qa'ida since 9/11, A Million Heavens, The Listeners

The Watch
AuthorJoydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
ISBN0307955893
Following a desperate night-long battle, a group of beleaguered soldiers in an isolated base in Kandahar are faced with a lone woman demanding the return of her brother’s body. Is she a spy, a black widow, a lunatic, or is she what she claims to be: a grieving young sister intent on burying her brother...
Familiar
AuthorJ. Robert Lennon
ISBN1555976255
A haunting, enigmatic novel about a woman who is given a second chance—and isn’t sure whether she really wants it.

Elisa Brown is driving back from her annual, somber visit to her son Silas’s grave when something changes. Actually, everything changes: her body is more voluptuous; she’s...
Purple Heart
AuthorPatricia McCormick
ISBN0061730912
When Private Matt Duffy wakes up in an army hospital in Iraq, he's honored with a Purple Heart. But he doesn't feel like a hero.

There's a memory that haunts him: an image of a young Iraqi boy as a bullet hits his chest. Matt can't shake the feeling that he was somehow involved in his death. But because...
Absolution
AuthorPatrick Flanery
ISBN0307401278
In this stunning literary debut, Patrick Flanery delivers a devastating and intimate portrait of post-apartheid South Africa, and the perils of taking sides when the sides are changing around you.
 
Told in shifting perspectives, Absolution is centred on the mysterious character of Clare...
Running the Rift
AuthorNaomi Benaron
ISBN1616201940
Running the Rift follows Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a ten-year span in which his country is undone by the Hutu-Tutsi tensions. Born a Tutsi, he is thrust into a world where it's impossible to stay apolitical...
In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods
AuthorMatt Bell
ISBN1616952539
In this epic, mythical debut novel, a newly-wed couple escapes the busy confusion of their homeland for a distant and almost-uninhabited lakeshore. They plan to live there simply, to fish the lake, to trap the nearby woods, and build a house upon the dirt between where they can raise a family. But as their...
Perla
AuthorCarolina De Robertis
ISBN0307599590
With her distinctive storytelling abilities and indelibly drawn characters, Carolina De Robertis illuminates a dark moment in contemporary Latin America. Intimate with the region, she crafts an emotionally pitch-perfect tale of a young woman who makes a horrifying--but ultimately liberating--discovery...
Hunting in the Shadows: The Pursuit of al Qa'ida since 9/11
AuthorSeth G. Jones
ISBN0393081451
This comprehensive, landmark history chronicles our ongoing battle against al-Qa’ida, the greatest threat the West has faced in the modern era. An internationally recognized authority on terrorism and counterinsurgency, Seth G. Jones presents a dramatic narrative of the on-the-ground police...
A Million Heavens
AuthorJohn Brandon
ISBN1936365731
On the top floor of a small hospital, an unlikely piano prodigy lies in a coma, attended to by his gruff, helpless father. Outside the clinic, a motley vigil assembles beneath a reluctant New Mexico winter—strangers in search of answers, a brush with the mystical, or just an escape. To some the boy is...
The Listeners
AuthorLeni Zumas
ISBN1935639293
Hypnotic and profoundly disquieting, The Listeners explores a far-out world where a patchwork of memory, sensation, and imagination maps the flickering presence of ghosts.

This is the story of a woman whose life is shaped by tragedy. Quinn is thirtysomething, a survivor of a fractured and...
Finding Jack
AuthorGareth Crocker
When the war ends, how do you leave your best friend behind?

After losing his young family in a tragic accident, Fletcher Carson joins the flagging war effort in Vietnam. Deeply depressed, he plans to die in the war. But during one of his early missions, Fletcher rescues a critically wounded...
Safe from the Sea
AuthorPeter Geye
Set against the powerful lakeshore landscape of northern Minnesota, Safe from the Sea is a heartfelt novel in which a son returns home to reconnect with his estranged and dying father thirty-five years after the tragic wreck of a Great Lakes ore boat that the father only partially survived and that has...
The Best of McSweeney's
AuthorDave Eggers
ISBN1938073592
To commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the journal called “a key barometer of the literary climate” by The New York Times and twice honored with a National Magazine Award for fiction, here is The Best of McSweeney’s—a comprehensive collection of the most remarkable work from a remarkable...
Bright Before Us
AuthorKatie Arnold-Ratliff
ISBN1935639072
Facing the prospect of fatherhood, disillusioned by his fledgling teaching career, and mourning the loss of a former relationship, Francis Mason is a prisoner of his past mistakes. When his second-grade class discovers a dead body during a field trip to a San Francisco beach, Francis spirals into...
The Wilding
AuthorBenjamin Percy
ISBN1555975690
A powerful debut novel set in a threatened western landscape, from the award-winning author of Refresh, Refresh.

Echo Canyon is a disappearing pocket of wilderness outside of Bend, Oregon, and the site of conflicting memories for Justin Caves and his father, Paul. It’s now slated for redevelopment...
Brewster
AuthorMark Slouka
ISBN0393348830
Warning: this is a guy’s review for guys. Men aren’t supposed to read novels, but it’s been documented that doing so won’t actually kill us. So sensitive souls take note, this review contains some violence and adult language.

First a question: did you ever read Catcher in the Rye? If...
Day for Night
AuthorFrederick Reiken
ISBN0316077569
As a child, Beverly Rabinowitz fled Europe with her mother during World War II. Almost half a century later, while vacationing in Florida with her boyfriend and his son, a chance encounter leads to a strangely lucid moment in which she senses that her father, long believed to have been killed during the...
The Circle of Thirteen
AuthorWilliam Petrocelli
ISBN1620454149
In 2082, a catastrophic explosion rocks the dedication ceremony of the new United Nations in New York City. Security Director Julia Moro is on the job, chasing after the misogynistic leader of Patria, a long-disbanded international terrorist organization now being whispered about again on the streets....
Evel Knievel Days
AuthorPauls Toutonghi
From the critically-acclaimed author of Red Weather comes a heartwarming, witty story of immigration and belonging, false starts and new beginnings, and finding out what home truly means


   Khosi Saqr has always felt a bit out of place in Butte, Montana, hometown of motorcycle daredevil...
From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant
AuthorAlex Gilvarry
ISBN0670023191
Fashionistas and g-men clash in a mastermindful debut

Boyet Hernandez is a small man with a big American dream when he arrives in New York in 2002, fresh out of fashion school in the Philippines. But on the brink of fame and fortune, there comes instead a knock on the door in the middle of the night:...
Dancing to the Flute
AuthorManisha Jolie Amin
ISBN1742378579
Abandoned as a young child, Kalu, a cheeky street kid, has against all odds carved out a life for himself in rural India. In the quiet village of Hastinapore, Kalu makes friends: Bal, the solitary buffalo boy, and Malti, a gentle servant girl, who, with her mistress, Ganga Ba, has watched out for Kalu from...
Moondogs
AuthorAlexander Yates
ISBN0385533780
A singularly effervescent novel pivoting around the disappearance of an American businessman in the Philippines and the long-suffering son, jilted lover, slick police commissioner, misguided villain, and supernatural saviors who all want a piece of him.

Mourning the recent loss of his...
Hand Me Down
AuthorMelanie Thorne
ISBN0525952683
A tough, tender, debut novel, in the tradition of Dorothy Allison and Janet Fitch, Hand Me Down is the unforgettable story of a girl who travels between California and Utah in search of her true family, having never been loved best of all.

Fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Reid has spent her life...
The Command: Deep Inside The President's Secret Army
AuthorMarc Ambinder
The U.S. Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) has proven to be the most lethal weapon in the president's arsenal. Shrouded in secrecy, the Command has done more to degrade the capacity of terrorists to attack the United States than any other single entity. And counter-terrorism is only one of its...
Bright and Distant Shores
AuthorDominic Smith
ISBN1439198861
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos comes a sweeping historical novel set amid the skyscrapers of 1890s Chicago and the far-flung islands of the South Pacific.

In the waning years of the nineteenth century there was a hunger for tribal artifacts, spawning...
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