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10 best books like The Invitation (Anne Cherian): By Love Possessed, Where I Belong, All Woman and Springtime, The Collective, Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic, The Reluctant Matchmaker, Every Last Secret, The Many Conditions of Love, Pastors' Wives, Steamfunk!

By Love Possessed
AuthorLorna Goodison
ISBN0062127357
“A beautifully written and evocative book.”
—Danielle Evans, author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize

“Written by the hand of a poet, the prose in this collection is consistently beautiful.”
—Elizabeth Nunez, author...
Where I Belong
AuthorGillian Cross
ISBN0192755544
There are guns and bandits in this story. And supermodels. And there's drought and starvation too. Are you wondering how they can all come together? Well, that's how life is these days. Things don't happen neatly, in separate little places. We're all caught by the great spider's web of media that spans...
All Woman and Springtime
AuthorBrandon W. Jones
ISBN1616200774
Before she met Il-sun in an orphanage, Gi was a hollow husk of a girl, broken from growing up in one of North Korea’s forced-labor camps. A mathematical genius, she learned to cope with pain by retreating into a realm of numbers and calculations, an escape from both the past and the present. Gi becomes...
The Collective
AuthorDon Lee
ISBN0393083217
A sparkling bildungsroman about friendship and betrayal, art and race.

In 1988, Eric Cho, an aspiring writer, arrives at Macalester College. On his first day he meets a beautiful fledgling painter, Jessica Tsai, and another would-be novelist, the larger-than-life Joshua Yoon. Brilliant,...
Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic
AuthorEduardo Jiménez Mayo
ISBN1931520313
A huge, energetic, and ambitious groundbreaking anthology from emerging and established Mexican authors which showcases all-new supernatural folktales, alien incursions, ghost stories, apocalyptic narratives, and more. Stereotypes of Mexican identities and fictions are identified and...
The Reluctant Matchmaker
AuthorShobhan Bantwal
ISBN0758258852
In her thought-provoking, uplifting new novel, Shobhan Bantwal vividly blends the nuances of contemporary Indian-American culture with an unconventional romance... At thirty-one, Meena Shenoy has a fulfilling career at a New Jersey high-tech firm. Not that it impresses her mother and aunts,...
Every Last Secret
AuthorLinda Rodriguez
ISBN1250005450
Half-Cherokee Marquitta “Skeet” Bannion thought she was leaving her troubles behind when she fled the stress of being the highest-ranking woman in the Kansas City Police Department, a jealous cop ex-husband, and a disgraced alcoholic ex-cop father. Moving to a small town to be chief of a...
The Many Conditions of Love
AuthorFarahad Zama
ISBN0349121389
Can true love triumph in the face of fierce family opposition? Mr Ali's marriage bureau is flourishing but trouble isn't far away once son Rehman begins secretly to woo TV journalist Usha in the small cafes and on the beautiful beaches of South Indian Vizag in an ill-advised romance. Meanwhile the lovely...
Pastors' Wives
AuthorLisa Takeuchi Cullen
ISBN0452298822
What’s it like when the man you married is already married to God? asks Pastors’ Wives, an often surprising yet always emotionally true first novel set in a world most of us know only from the outside.

Lisa Takeuchi Cullen’s debut novel Pastors’ Wives follows three women whose lives...
Steamfunk!
AuthorMilton J. Davis
A witch, more machine than human, judges the character of the wicked and hands out justice in a ravaged Chicago. John Henry wields his mighty hammers in a war against machines and the undead. Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman rule a country of freed slaves that rivals – and often bests – England...
The Socrates Project
AuthorDaron Sheehan
The Socrates Project is a secret attempt by the United Nations to avert the predicted collapse of our civilisations. Simon Oceandis heads up the sicads, who must blend modern science and ancient wisdom to find the solutions before time runs out.

Not everybody welcomes the Project. An influential...
The Sea of Innocence
AuthorKishwar Desai
ISBN1471128377
According to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), every day 93 women are being raped in India.

I know, being an Indian, it's not only a shocking information but also an embarrassing piece of data. Moreover, in my country, we do not celebrate Republic Day, instead, we celebrate "Rape-"public...
The Gaggle: How the Guys You Know Will Help You Find the Love You Want
AuthorJessica Massa
ISBN1451657536
Now in paperback, The Gaggle captures the zeitgeist of today's “post-dating” world where instead of traditionally dating, women find love by cultivating a “gaggle” of men.You know you’re great, so why haven’t you been on a classic dinner-and-a-movie date since . . . well, forever? Because...
On Sal Mal Lane
AuthorRu Freeman
ISBN1555976425
A tender, evocative novel, in the tradition of In the Time of the Butterflies and The Kite Runner, about the years leading up to the Sri Lankan civil war.

On the day the Herath family moves in, Sal Mal Lane is still a quiet street, disturbed only by the cries of the children whose triumphs and tragedies...
The Case of the Haunted Chapel
AuthorKaren Kelly Boyce
ISBN0982895925
Sisters of the last Straw is the story of a group of misfit nuns who solve little mysteries. It is comical - containing lots of slapstick and prat falls. While is is entertaining it teaches the Gospel lesson of tolerance and the need to help others. Written for children at a 3-5 grade level, it has delighted...
Invisible Lives
AuthorAnjali Banerjee
ISBN1416517057
From the acclaimed author of Imaginary Men comes an enchanting new novel about a young woman with an uncanny ability to see deep into every heart but her own. Lakshmi Sen was born with a magical ability to perceive the secret longings in others. Putting aside her own dreams to help run her widowed mother's...
Oregon Hill
AuthorHoward Owen
ISBN1579622089
Willie Black is a newspaper reporter who has squandered a lot of things in this life - his liver, his lungs, a couple of former wives and a floundering daughter can all attest to his abuse. He's lucky to be employed, having managed to drink and smart-talk his way out of a nice, cushy job covering (and partying...
Six Metres of Pavement
AuthorFarzana Doctor
ISBN1554887674
Ismail Boxwala made the worst mistake of his life one summer morning twenty years ago: he forgot his baby daughter in the back seat of his car. After his daughter's tragic death, he struggles to continue living. A divorce, years of heavy drinking, and sex with strangers only leave him more alone and isolated.

But...
Black Thunder
AuthorAimée Thurlo
ISBN0765324512
A construction crew found the first body. The cops found three more, in a cluster that lay on both sides of the border of the Navajo Reservation.
Because some of the bodies were buried outside the Rez, Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah and her team must work a delicate joint investigation...
Gun Dealers' Daughter
AuthorGina Apostol
ISBN0393062945
A young woman pieces together her troubled past in this story of rebellion and romance set in the Marcos-era Philippines.

Soon after she leaves home for university in Manila, Soledad Soliman (Sol) transforms herself from bookish rich girl to communist rebel. But is her allegiance to the principles...
The Bohemian Love Diaries: A Memoir
AuthorSlash Coleman
ISBN0762786981
Infused with southern charm, this irresistibly weird and wonderful story chronicles Slash Coleman’s upbringing in a warped but warm-hearted household of eccentric artists. Descended from a posse of off-beat immigrants--including a grandfather who danced at the Moulin Rouge--and raised near...
Reading the Ceiling
AuthorDayo Forster
ISBN0743295714
Ayodele has just turned eighteen and has decided, having now reached womanhood, that the time is right to lose her virginity. She's drawn up a shortlist: Reuben, the fail safe; a long-admired school friend; abd Frederick Adams, the 42-year-old, soon-to-be-pot-bellied father of her best friend....
As Sweet as Honey
AuthorIndira Ganesan
ISBN0307960447
In her latest novel, Indira Ganesan, a writer often likened to Arundhati Roy and Chitra Divakaruni (see back of jacket for reviews), gives us an enchanting story of family life that is a dance of love and grief and rebirth set on a gorgeous island in the Indian Ocean.

The island is filled with exotic...
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