The First Rule of Swimming
10 best books like The First Rule of Swimming (Courtney Angela Brkic): How to Be Second Best, The Other Typist, Amity & Sorrow, Checked, Light from Other Stars, Le Lotus bleu, A Quaker Book of Wisdom: Life Lessons In Simplicity, Service, And Common Sense, Love & Courage: My Story of Family, Resilience, and Overcoming the Unexpected, Good Riddance, The Murder List
| Author | Jessica Dettmann |
| ISBN | 1460710002 |
A hilarious and heart-warming debut that captures the dramas, delights and delirium of modern parenting. This is Marian Keyes meets Allison Pearson, with a dash of Caitlin Moran.
Going from one child to two is never all that easy for a family, but when Emma's husband simultaneously fathers...
| Author | Suzanne Rindell |
| ISBN | 0241963745 |
A haunting debut novel set against the background of New York City in the 1920s…
Confessions are Rose Baker’s job. A typist for the New York City Police Department, she sits in judgment like a high priestess. Criminals come before her to admit their transgressions, and, with a few strokes...
| Author | Peggy Riley |
| ISBN | 0316220884 |
Amity & Sorrow is a story about God, sex, and farming. It's an unforgettable journey into the horrors a true believer can inflict upon his family, and what it is like to live when the end of the world doesn't come.
A mother and her daughters drive for days without sleep until they crash their...
| Author | Cynthia Kadohata |
| ISBN | 1481446614 |
Hockey is Conor’s life. His whole life. He’ll say it himself, he’s a hockey beast. It’s his dad’s whole life too—and Conor is sure that’s why his stepmom, Jenny, left. There are very few things Conor and his dad love more than the game, and one of those things is their Doberman, Sinbad. When...
| Author | Erika Swyler |
| ISBN | 1635573165 |
From the author of national bestseller The Book of Speculation, a poignant, fantastical novel about the electric combination of ambition & wonder that keeps us reaching toward the heavens.
Eleven-year-old Nedda Papas is obsessed with becoming an astronaut. In 1986 in Easter, a small...
| Author | Hergé |
| ISBN | 2203001046 |
Alors qu'il est toujours l'hôte du Maharadjah, Tintin reçoit la visited'un chinois qui doit lui dire quelque chose de très important. Mais au moment de parler, le chinois est touché par une fléchette de poison qui rend fou. Avant de sombrer dans la démence, le malheureux à le temps de prononcer...
| Author | Robert Lawrence Smith |
| ISBN | 0688172334 |
The most valuable aspect of religion," writes Robert Lawrence Smith, "is that it provides us with a framework for living. I have always felt that the beauty and power of Quakerism is that it exhorts us to live more simply, more truthfully, more charitably."Taking his inspiration from the teaching of...
Love & Courage: My Story of Family, Resilience, and Overcoming the Unexpected
| Author | Jagmeet Singh |
| ISBN | 1982105399 |
From the leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party—Jagmeet Singh—comes a personal and heartfelt story about family and overcoming adversity.
In October 2017, Jagmeet Singh was elected as the first visible minority to lead a major federal political party in Canada. The historic milestone...
| Author | Elinor Lipman |
| ISBN | 0544808258 |
Daphne Maritch doesn't quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school yearbook she inherits from her mother, who held this relic dear. Too dear. The late June Winter Maritch was the teacher to whom the class of '68 had dedicated its yearbook, and in turn she went on to attend every...
| Author | Hank Phillippi Ryan |
| ISBN | 1250197236 |
"An exhilarating thrill ride that keeps you turning pages.. Ryan deftly delivers a denouement as shocking as it is satisfying."--Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish and The Last Time I Saw You
Law student Rachel North will tell you, without hesitation, what she knows...
Bad Girls with Perfect Faces
| Author | Lynn Weingarten |
| ISBN | 1481418602 |
When I looked up, his smile was wide and real. “Ready?” he said.
I faked a smile back. I had gotten so good at faking things.
I thought: You brought this on yourself, Sasha. You will have to pretend forever now.
He squeezed my hand again. He couldn’t begin to imagine what this...
