The Girl Giant

10 best books like The Girl Giant (Kristen Den Hartog): The Innocents, Into the Heart of the Country, Interrupted: Life Beyond Words, The Blood Royal, Monoceros, Cut Through the Bone, Thomas Jefferson: Lessons from a Secret Buddha, The Paris Directive, The Death Of Donna Whalen, A Matter of Life and Death Or Something

AuthorFrancesca Segal
ISBN1401341810
WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2012

What if everything you'd ever wanted was no longer enough?

Adam and Rachel are getting married at last. Childhood sweethearts whose lives and families have been intertwined for years; theirs is set to be the wedding of the year.

But...
Into the Heart of the Country
AuthorPauline Holdstock
ISBN1554686342
Set in eighteenth-century Churchill, this compelling new novel takes the reader deep into unexplored territory. Appearing only fleetingly in the historical record of the Hudson" s Bay Company are the Native women who lived at the company" s Prince of Wales Fort and served as " country wives" to the...
AuthorRachel Coker
ISBN0310729734
Can love really heal all things?

If Sam Carroll hadn't shown up, she might have been able to get to her mother in time. Instead, Allie Everly finds herself at a funeral, mourning the loss of her beloved mother. She is dealt another blow when, a few hours later, she is sent from Tennessee to Maine...
AuthorBarbara Cleverly
ISBN1569479879
A story of murder, mystery and espionage (with a dash of romance) set in London in the long, hot summer of 1922, against the backdrop the Romanov murders and the disappearance of the Tsar's fortune.

A beautiful and traumatized young Russian woman turns herself in at the British consulate in...
AuthorSuzette Mayr
ISBN1552452417
A seventeen-year-old boy, bullied and heartbroken, hangs himself. And although he felt terribly alone, his suicide changes everyone around him.

His parents are devastated. His secret boyfriend's girlfriend is relieved. His unicorn- and virginity-obsessed classmate, Faraday, is shattered;...
Cut Through the Bone
AuthorEthel Rohan
ISBN0615400930
**ARC (Advance Reading Copy) review by Mel Bosworth

An entire chocolate cake. A gallon of espresso. A liter of Jameson. For the average person, it’s probably not wise to consume any of these things in one sitting, regardless of how tempting it might be. Ethel Rohan’s debut collection Cut...
Thomas Jefferson: Lessons from a Secret Buddha
AuthorSuneel Dhand
ISBN0983677123
"A Thomas Jefferson historical fiction mashup book to make you think....."

Thomas Jefferson. Few in world history could claim such an astonishing array of talents and achievements. A true American legend, he played a pivotal role in the founding of a new nation. But one mysterious facet of...
The Paris Directive
AuthorGerald Jay
ISBN0385535481
Christopher Reich: "Outstanding! A beguiling, atmospheric, and entirely entertaining novel that promises intrigue and suspense from the very first page. Inspector Mazarelle is a wonderful creation: a world weary, gimlet-eyed detective who must rouse himself for one last case. I expect to see...
The Death Of Donna Whalen
AuthorMichael Winter
When Donna Whalen is stabbed thirty-one times in her home on Empire Avenue in St. John’s, her friends, family, and neighbours believe the culprit to be her abusive boyfriend, Sheldon Troke. But the evidence is circumstantial, the testimonies tainted by personal bias and attempts at deception....
A Matter of Life and Death Or Something
AuthorBen Stephenson
ISBN1926812719
Short-listed for the International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award.


The big-hearted story of a ten-year-old boy, a notebook and the meaning of the universe.


Even though he's only ten years old, Arthur Williams knows lots of things for sure. He knows all about trilobites, and...
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...
Brand New Human Being
AuthorEmily Jeanne Miller
ISBN0547734360
When your compass is taken away, how do you navigate? Stay-at-home dad Logan Pyle is holding his life together by a thread: his larger-than-life father, Gus, has just died, his wife is distant, and his kindergarten-age son has regressed to drinking from a baby bottle and sucking his thumb. Complicating...
AuthorKim Barnes
ISBN0307273393
Here is the first thing you need to know about me:  I’m a barefoot girl from red-dirt Oklahoma, and all the marble floors in the world will never change that.
Here is the second thing:  that young woman they pulled from the Arabian shore, her hair tangled with mangrove—my husband didn’t kill...
Every Visible Thing
AuthorLisa Carey
ISBN0066212898
When unthinkable tragedy strikes, at what point must a family turn away from the past and move forward into the future? The extraordinary new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Love in the Asylum and The Mermaids Singing is a darkly absorbing, deeply realistic portrait of adolescence, family,...
AuthorRyan Quinn
The new school year at Florence University, nestled in the Pennsylvania countryside, dawns bright with the possibilities that only a fresh start can bring. For three students in particular, it will be a year unlike any other, one that will alter the courses of their lives forever.

There is...
AuthorJacqueline Yallop
ISBN0143120670
Set in contemporary and World War II France, this is the story of Sister Bernard: her forbidden love, her uncertain faith, and her guilt- ridden past.

A once -bustling convent in the South of France is closing, leaving behind three elderly nuns. Forced, for the first time, to confront the community...
AuthorRussell Wangersky
ISBN0887629369

Everyone has something they’re good at: one particular personal skill that they use to keep their lives moving forward when their worlds suddenly become difficult or near-impossible. For some, it’s denial; for others, blunt pragmatism. Still others depend on an over-inflated view of self...
AuthorJohanna Skibsrud
ISBN0735234566
Shortlisted for the 2019 Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction

A collection of intrepid and incisive stories from the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of The Sentimentalists

Tiger, Tiger takes readers from the Paradise Valley Senior Centre parking lot all the way...
AuthorDavid Gilmour
ISBN0887628079
Like a tourist visiting his own life, David Gilmour’s narrator journeys in time to reexamine those critical moments that created him. He revisits the terrible hurt of a first love, the shock of a parent’s suicide, the trauma of a best friend’s bizarre dissembling, and the pain and humiliation...
The Secret History of Costaguana
AuthorJuan Gabriel Vásquez
ISBN1594488037
A bold historical novel from "one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature" (Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature).

In the early twentieth century, a struggling Joseph Conrad wrote his great novel Nostromo, about a South American republic he named...
AuthorAndrew F. Sullivan
ISBN1938103408
Larkhill, Ontario. 1989. A city on the brink of utter economic collapse. On the brink of violence. Driving home one night, unlikely passengers Jamie Garrison and Moses Moon hit a lion at fifty miles an hour. Both men stumble away from the freak accident unharmed, but neither reports the bizarre incident....
Crafty Superstar: Make Crafts on the Side, Earn Extra Cash, and Basically Have It All
AuthorGrace Dobush
ISBN1600613209
Sell Out!

If the church-basement sale isn't quite your scene, Crafty Superstar is your go-to resource for selling your crafty goods part-time. Packed with ideas for setting up and selling out, the book includes loads of advice from experts like Faythe Levine, Jenny Harada and Jenny Hart.

Want...
AuthorAnthony Rivera
ISBN1940658039
Offering a collection of terrifying stories of science fiction, dark fantasy and speculative horrors, OMINOUS REALITIES is a dark thrill ride that explores what is in store for mankind.

The terrifying journey takes you on an exploration of post-Apocalyptic worlds, to experience societies...
Never the Hope Itself: Love and Ghosts in Latin America and Haiti
AuthorGerry Hadden
ISBN0062020072
A former NPR correspondent takes you into his own ghost-filled life as he reports on a region in turmoil. Gerry Hadden was training to become a Buddhist monk when opportunity came knocking: the offer of a dream job as NPR’s correspondent for Latin America. Arriving in Mexico in 2000 during the nation’s...
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