The Comeback
10 best books like The Comeback (John Ralston Saul): The Crystal Cave, We Contain Multitudes, Indian Horse, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, The Last Enchantment, The Wicked Day, The Hollow Hills, The Orenda, Split Tooth, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
| Author | Mary Stewart |
| ISBN | 0060548258 |
Fifth century Britain is a country of chaos and division after the Roman withdrawal. This is the world of young Merlin, the illegitimate child of a South Wales princess who will not reveal to her son his father's true identity. Yet Merlin is an extraordinary child, aware at the earliest age that he possesses...
| Author | Sarah Henstra |
| ISBN | 0316524654 |
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets I'll Give You the Sun in an exhilarating and emotional novel about the growing relationship between two teen boys, told through the letters they write to one another.
Jonathan Hopkirk and Adam "Kurl" Kurlansky are partnered in...
| Author | Richard Wagamese |
| ISBN | 1553654021 |
Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s a reluctant resident in a treatment centre for alcoholics, surrounded by people he’s sure will never understand him. But Saul wants peace, and he grudgingly comes to see that he’ll find it only through telling his...
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
| Author | Thomas King |
| ISBN | 0385674058 |
WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize
The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history—in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North...
| Author | Mary Stewart |
| ISBN | 0060548274 |
"Here, away from lights and sounds of town or village, the night was deep, the black sky stretching, fathomless, away between the spheres, to some unimaginable world where gods walked, and suns and moons showered down like petals falling. Some power there is that draws men's eyes and hearts up and outwards,...
| Author | Mary Stewart |
| ISBN | 0060548282 |
"It was coming now, surely, the future he had dreaded, and yet longed for, with the strange, restless and sometimes violent feelings of rebellion he had had against the life to which he had been born, and to which he had believed himself sentenced till death, like all his parents’ kin."
Well,...
| Author | Mary Stewart |
| ISBN | 0060548266 |
“I am nothing, yes; I am air and darkness, a word, a promise. I watch in the crystal and I wait in the hollow hills. But out there in the light I have a young king and a bright sword to do my work for me, and build what will stand when my name is only a word for forgotten songs and outworn wisdom, and when your name,...
| Author | Joseph Boyden |
| ISBN | 0670064181 |
In the remote winter landscape a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of a young Iroquois girl violently re-ignites a deep rift between two tribes. The girl’s captor, Bird, is one of the Huron Nation’s great warriors and statesmen. Years have passed since the murder of his family, and yet they are...
From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever read.
Fact can be as strange as fiction. It can also be as dark, as violent, as rapturous....
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
| Author | Tanya Talaga |
| ISBN | 1487002262 |
In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away from residential school. An inquest was called and four recommendations were made to prevent another tragedy. None of those recommendations were applied.
More than a quarter of a century later,...
Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight #1
| Author | Brynne Stephens |
| ISBN | 1560601760 |
This classic has been hanging over my head for years. I put off reading it guessing that like many other oldies, but goodies, I would read it and be unimpressed, thus becoming hated by all original die hard fans. I finally decided to give it a go. The beginning suffered from a slow start and over abundance...
| Author | Stephen Law |
| ISBN | 1847243983 |
The Great Philosophers presents lively and informative biographical portraits of 50 of the most important names in the history of human thought. Each chapter charts the personal life and intellectual breakthroughs of one essential philosopher and, crucially, focuses on a straightforward explanation...
| Author | Naomi Fontaine |
| ISBN | 2923713540 |
"J'aimerais que vous la connaissiez la fille au ventre rond. Celle qui élèvera seule ses enfants. Qui criera après son copain qui l'aura trompée. Qui pleurera seule dans son salon, qui changera des couches toute sa vie. Qui cherchera à travailler à l'âge de trente ans, qui finira son secondaire...
The Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz Saved the City of Light
| Author | Jean Edward Smith |
| ISBN | 1501164929 |
Prize-winning and bestselling historian Jean Edward Smith tells the “rousing” (Jay Winik, author of 1944) story of the liberation of Paris during World War II—a triumph achieved only through the remarkable efforts of Americans, French, and Germans, racing to save the city from destruction.
Following...
| Author | Mark Sakamoto |
| ISBN | 1443417971 |
The heart-rending true story of two families on either side of the Second World War-and a moving tribute to the nature of forgiveness
When the Second World War broke out, Ralph MacLean traded his quiet yet troubled life on the Magdalene Islands in eastern Canada for the ravages of war overseas....
The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep
| Author | Guy Leschziner |
| ISBN | 1250202701 |
For Dr. Guy Leschziner's patients, there is no rest for the weary in mind and body. Insomnia, narcolepsy, night terrors, sleep apnea, and sleepwalking are just a sampling of conditions afflicting sufferers who cannot sleep--and their experiences in trying are the stuff of nightmares. Demoniac hallucinations...
| Author | Tiffany Shlain |
| ISBN | 1982116862 |
In 24/6, Tiffany Shlain explores how turning off screens one day a week can work wonders on your brain, body, and soul.
Internet pioneer and renowned filmmaker Tiffany Shlain takes us on a provocative and entertaining journey through time and technology, introducing a strategy for living...
| Author | Anne McCaffrey |
| ISBN | 0517128128 |
"A treat for long-time McCaffrey fans, a good read and a satisfying look at one of the most haunting facets of the crystal singers' profession."
LOCUS
When Killashandra Ree joined the mysterious Heptite Guild, she knew that she would be forever changed. Crystal singing brought ecstasy and...
| Author | David Weber |
| ISBN | 0765325594 |
With new alliances forged and old regimes fractured, Merlin--the cybernetic avatar of Earth's last survivor and immortal beacon to humanity--and the colonies of Safehold and have many adventures ahead in Through Fiery Trials, the continuation of David Weber's New York Times bestselling military...
