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10 best books like The Call (Yannick Murphy): The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A True Story of Resilience and Recovery, Winging It: A Memoir of Caring for a Vengeful Parrot Who's Determined to Kill Me, Boleto, Kings of Colorado, Noah's Wife, Stone Arabia, Return to Oakpine, Among the Wonderful, Ladies and Gentlemen, Broken Irish

The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A True Story of Resilience and Recovery
AuthorAndrew Westoll
ISBN0547327803
In 1997 Gloria Grow started a sanctuary for chimps retired from biomedical research on her farm outside Montreal. For the indomitable Gloria, caring for thirteen great apes is like presiding over a maximum security prison, a Zen sanctuary, an old folks’ home, and a New York deli during the lunchtime...
Winging It: A Memoir of Caring for a Vengeful Parrot Who's Determined to Kill Me
AuthorJenny Gardiner
ISBN1439157618
A gift from an overseas relative, Graycie, an African Gray parrot, arrives in the Gardiner home not long after the birth of their first child, adding the responsibilities of parrot-hood to their newfound parenthood. Jenny Gardiner and her husband were hoping for a docile, beautifully plumed, Polly-want-a-cracker...
Boleto
AuthorAlyson Hagy
ISBN1555976123
An unforgettable story of men and horses, the American West, and the dream of a ticket out
* A May 2012 Indie Next Pick *

Will Testerman is a young Wyoming horse trainer determined to make something of himself. Money is tight at the family ranch, where he's living again after a disastrous...
Kings of Colorado
AuthorDavid E. Hilton
ISBN1439183821
At thirteen, William Sheppard was sent to the Swope Ranch Boys’ Reformatory for stabbing his abusive father in the chest with a pocketknife. Buried deep in the Colorado Mountains, Swope is shrouded in legend and defined by one prevailing rumor: the boys who go in never come out the same. Days from civilization...
Noah's Wife
AuthorT.K. Thorne
ISBN0983787808
ForeWord Review's BOOK OF THE YEAR for Historical Fiction (2009) Noah built an ark, but this story has never been told! Noah's wife is Na'amah, a brilliant young girl with a form of autism (now known as Aspergers). Na'amah wishes only to be a shepherdess on her beloved hills in ancient Turkey--a desire...
Stone Arabia
AuthorDana Spiotta
ISBN1451617968
Stone Arabia, Dana Spiotta’s moving and intrepid third novel, is about family, obsession, memory, and the urge to create—in isolation, at the margins of our winner-take-all culture.

In the sibling relationship, “there are no first impressions, no seductions, no getting to know...
Return to Oakpine
AuthorRon Carlson
ISBN0670025070
From a widely admired author, a poignant novel about homecoming, friendship, growing up, and growing old for fans of Richard Ford and Richard Russo

In this finely wrought portrait of western American life, Ron Carlson takes us to the small town of Oakpine, Wyoming, and into the lives of four...
Among the Wonderful
AuthorStacy Carlson
ISBN1586421840
In 1842 Phineas T. Barnum is a young man, freshly arrived in New York and still unknown to the world. With uncanny confidence and impeccable timing, he transforms a dusty natural history museum into a great ark for public imagination. Barnum's museum, with its human wonders and extraordinary live animal...
Ladies and Gentlemen
AuthorAdam Ross
ISBN0307270718
After his widely celebrated debut, Mr. Peanut, Adam Ross now presents a darkly compelling collection of stories about brothers, loners, lovers, and lives full of good intentions, misunderstandings, and obscured motives.

A hotshot lawyer, burdened by years of guilt and resentment, comes...
Broken Irish
AuthorEdward J. Delaney
ISBN1933527501
“Epic in its scope but relentlessly compelling in its storytelling—not a common combination—Broken Irish is a splendidly readable and richly textured novel. Edward J. Delaney is an enormously gifted writer.” —ROBERT OLEN BUTLER

"In Edward J. Delaney's South Boston little...
Orientation: And Other Stories
AuthorDaniel Orozco
ISBN0865478538
Breakfast’s boiled egg, the overhead hum of fluorescent lights, the midmorning coffee break—daily routines keep the world running. But when people are pushed—by a coworker’s taunt, a face-to-face encounter with a woman in free fall from a bridge—cracks appear, revealing alienation,...
Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes
AuthorWilliam Kennedy
ISBN0670022977
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed, a dramatic novel of love and revolution from one of America's finest writers.

When journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingway at the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba,...
Someday This Will Be Funny
AuthorLynne Tillman
ISBN1935869000
The stories in Some Day This Will Be Funny marry memory to moment in a union of narrative form as immaculate and imperfect as the characters damned to act them out on page. Lynne Tillman, author of American Genius, presides over the ceremony; Clarence Thomas, Marvin Gaye, and Madame Realism mingle at...
The Avian Gospels, Book I
AuthorAdam Novy
ISBN0982530129
to be fair, i still have 100 pages left in this book. but i'm so insanely crazy about it that i'm going to do the stupid thing and post about how much i love it.

the design of the book itself is so beautiful that it makes me want to smash all ebooks with a hammer. gold-trimmed pages, a red cover that my...
Bohemian Girl
AuthorTerese Svoboda
ISBN0803226829
Young Harriet’s father sells her as a slave to settle his gambling debt with an eccentric Indian—and her story is just beginning. Part Huck Finn, part True Grit, Harriet’s story of her encounter with the dark and brutal history of the American West is a true original. When she escapes the strange...
Luminarium
AuthorAlex Shakar
ISBN1569479755
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. A Washington Post notable book of the year, a New York Times editor's choice, named a best book of the year by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, the Austin Chronicle, and the Kansas City Star.

Fred Brounian and his twin brother, George,...
Everything Happens Today
AuthorJesse Browner
ISBN1609450515
Jesse Browner's dazzling new novel records a single day in the life of Wes, a seventeen-year-old who attends Manhattan's elite Dalton School and lives in Greenwich Village in a dilapidated town house with his terminally ill mother, distant father and beloved younger sister. In the course of one day...
Lucky Dog: How Being a Veterinarian Saved My Life
AuthorSarah Boston
ISBN1770893512
What happens when a veterinary surgical oncologist (laymen’s term: cancer surgery doctor) thinks she has cancer herself? Enter Sarah Boston: a vet who suspects a suspicious growth in her neck is thyroid cancer. From the moment she uses her husband’s portable ultrasound machine to investigate...
Fathermucker
AuthorGreg Olear
ISBN0062059718
“All kinds of funny—raucously, wickedly, sweetly, saucily, surprisingly, profanely funny…a wonderful novel.”
—Jess Walter, author of The Financial Lives of the Poets

“Deft and funny, true and real. If you read one book this year, read this one.”
—Molly Jong-Fast,...
The Correspondence Artist
AuthorBarbara Browning
ISBN0982015194
"The Correspondence Artist is smart, funny, sexy, knowledgeable, subtle, disturbing, light-hearted, obsessive, and tragic: a comedy that, I surmise, is wholly confessional and wholly imaginary. Readers are urged not to resent a wit superior to their own, since it is deployed entirely for their...
Leche
AuthorR. Zamora Linmark
ISBN1566892546
After thirteen years of living in the U.S., Vince returns to his birthplace, the Philippines. As he ventures into the heat and chaos of the city, he encounters a motley cast of characters, including a renegade nun, a political film director, arrogant hustlers, and the country’s spotlight-driven...
Bogeywoman
AuthorJaimy Gordon
ISBN1557133484
Jaimy Gordon lifted literary hearts all over these States when, after decades of inexplicable obscurity, she captured the 2010 Nat'l Book Award with her small-press novel LORD OF MISRULE. That title's indeed sexy & scary & more, but here on GR I'll single out her previous full-length narrative,...
Luminous Airplanes
AuthorPaul La Farge
ISBN0374194319
A decade after the publication of Haussmann, or the Distinction, his acclaimed novel about nineteenth-century Paris, Paul La Farge turns his imagination to America at the dawn of the twenty-first century.

In September 2000, a young programmer comes home from a fes­tival in the Nevada desert...
Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary
AuthorRebecca Brown
In 1997 Rebecca Brown's mother, Barbara Wildman Brown, became ill with cancer. In Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary the author traces, in sparse prose, the slow, gradual erosion of her mother's health, her dignity and her life. In seventeen short chapters, from 'anaemia', 'twilight sleep'...
When We Danced on Water
AuthorEvan Fallenberg
ISBN0062033328
From acclaimed author Evan Fallenberg, an exquisitely crafted debut novel tells the story of a preeminent male ballet dancer in the autumn of his career—a Jew whose talent once saved him from the Nazis—whose fading passion for life will flare back to life after a new romance links him to a younger...
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