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
Author | Francesca Segal |
ISBN | 1401341810 |
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
Author | Pauline Holdstock |
ISBN | 1554686342 |
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...
Author | Rachel Coker |
ISBN | 0310729734 |
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...
Author | Barbara Cleverly |
ISBN | 1569479879 |
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...
Author | Suzette Mayr |
ISBN | 1552452417 |
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;...
Author | Ethel Rohan |
ISBN | 0615400930 |
**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
Author | Suneel Dhand |
ISBN | 0983677123 |
"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...
Author | Gerald Jay |
ISBN | 0385535481 |
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
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
Author | Ben Stephenson |
ISBN | 1926812719 |
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...
Author | Alexander Yates |
ISBN | 0385533780 |
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...
Author | Emily Jeanne Miller |
ISBN | 0547734360 |
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...
Author | Kim Barnes |
ISBN | 0307273393 |
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...
Author | Lisa Carey |
ISBN | 0066212898 |
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,...
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...
Author | Jacqueline Yallop |
ISBN | 0143120670 |
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...
Author | Russell Wangersky |
ISBN | 0887629369 |
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...
Author | Johanna Skibsrud |
ISBN | 0735234566 |
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...
Author | David Gilmour |
ISBN | 0887628079 |
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
Author | Juan Gabriel Vásquez |
ISBN | 1594488037 |
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...
Author | Andrew F. Sullivan |
ISBN | 1938103408 |
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
Author | Grace Dobush |
ISBN | 1600613209 |
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...
Author | Anthony Rivera |
ISBN | 1940658039 |
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
Author | Gerry Hadden |
ISBN | 0062020072 |
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...