The Free World
8 best books like The Free World (David Bezmozgis): Day After Night, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss, Straight Man, The Orenda, The Little Shadows, Coming Closer to Ourselves: Making Everything the Path of Awakening, The Art of Leaving, Alone in the Classroom
| Author | Anita Diamant |
| ISBN | 0743299841 |
Atlit is a holding camp for illegal immigrants in Israel in 1945. There about 270 men and women await their future and try to recover from their past. Diamant with infinite compassion and understanding tells the stories of the women gathered in this place. Shayndel is a Polish Zionist who fought the Germans...
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
| Author | Edmund de Waal |
| ISBN | 0374105979 |
The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who “burned like a comet” in nineteenth-century Paris and Vienna society. Yet by the end of World War II, almost the only thing remaining of their vast empire was a collection of 264 wood and ivory carvings, none...
| Author | Richard Russo |
| ISBN | 0375701907 |
In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak. Russo's protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. Devereaux's...
| 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...
| Author | Marina Endicott |
| ISBN | 0385668910 |
The Little Shadows revolves around three sisters in the world of vaudeville before and during the First World War. We follow the lives of all three in turn: Aurora, the eldest and most beautiful, who is sixteen when the book opens; thoughtful Clover, a year younger; and the youngest sister, joyous headstrong...
Coming Closer to Ourselves: Making Everything the Path of Awakening
| Author | Pema Chödrön |
| ISBN | 1604077948 |
How to Befriend Your Most Challenging Emotions and Experiences
In challenging times, why do so many of us turn to Pema Chödrön for guidance? Many say that it’s her honest and caring way of communicating the core teachings of Buddhism—not just conceptually, but directly from her heart...
| Author | Ayelet Tsabari |
| ISBN | 1443447889 |
An unforgettable memoir about a young woman who tries to outrun loss, but eventually finds a way home.
Ayelet Tsabari was 21 years old the first time she left Tel Aviv with no plans to return. Restless after two turbulent mandatory years in the Israel Defense Forces, Tsabari longed to get away....
| Author | Elizabeth Hay |
| ISBN | 0771037945 |
In a small prairie school in 1929, Connie Flood helps a backward student, Michael Graves, learn how to read. Observing them and darkening their lives is the principal, Parley Burns, whose strange behaviour culminates in an attack so disturbing its repercussions continue to the present day.
Connie’s...
