The Land of Decoration
10 best books like The Land of Decoration (Grace McCleen): The Sea Change, Absolution, Agamemnon's Daughter: A Novella and Stories, This Is How It Ends, Learning from the Heart: Lessons on Living, Loving, and Listening, Shelter, The Translation of the Bones, The Fields, The Bellwether Revivals, Signs of Life
| Author | Joanna Rossiter |
| ISBN | 0241964156 |
The Sea Change by Joanna Rossiter is a haunting and moving novel about a mother and a daughter, caught between a tsunami and a war.
Yesterday was Alice's wedding day. She is thousands of miles away from the home she is so desperate to leave, on the southernmost tip of India, when she wakes in the...
| Author | Patrick Flanery |
| ISBN | 0307401278 |
In this stunning literary debut, Patrick Flanery delivers a devastating and intimate portrait of post-apartheid South Africa, and the perils of taking sides when the sides are changing around you.
Told in shifting perspectives, Absolution is centred on the mysterious character of Clare...
| Author | Ismail Kadare |
| ISBN | 1559707887 |
In this spellbinding novel, written in Albania and smuggled into France a few pages at a time in the 1980s, Ismail Kadare denounces with rare force the machinery of a dictatorial regime, drawing us back to the ancient roots of tyranny in Western Civilization. During the waning years of Communism, a young...
| Author | Kathleen MacMahon |
| ISBN | 1847445462 |
THIS IS HOW IT ENDS tells the story of two people who collide with each other just as the whole world seems to be caught between the hope and promise of Obama’s election and the catastrophic collapse of the global economy.
Bruno is a middle-aged American banker who has come to Ireland to escape...
| Author | Daniel Gottlieb |
| ISBN | 1402749996 |
In the nearly 30 years since the accident that made radio personality and columnist Dan Gottlieb a quadriplegic, he developed a finely-tuned quality of awareness that most people never achieve: he became an outsider among us—”like a foreign correspondent,” as he puts it. From that vantage...
A gorgeous, poetic literary debut from award-winning author Frances Greenslade, Shelter is a brilliant coming-of-age story of two strong, brave sisters searching for their mother.
For sisters Maggie and Jenny growing up in the Pacific mountains in the early 1970s, life felt nearly perfect....
| Author | Francesca Kay |
| ISBN | 0297865080 |
Reality or delusion? Fantasy or fact? When word gets out that Mary-Margaret O'Reilly, a slow-witted but apparently harmless young woman, may have been witness to a miracle, religious mania descends on the Church of the Sacred Heart in Battersea. The consequences will be profound, not only for Mary-Margaret...
| Author | Kevin Maher |
| ISBN | 0316223565 |
A warm and funny debut about a young man in trouble and a family in love and in pieces. It's the first summer of lust for 14-year-old Jim Finnegan, a boy trying to become a man in 1980s Dublin. Jim's vivid and winning voice leaps off the page and into the reader's heart as he watches his parents argue, his five...
| Author | Benjamin Wood |
| ISBN | 0771089317 |
Bright, bookish Oscar Lowe has made a life for himself amid the colleges and spires of Cambridge and yet is a world apart from the students who study in the hallowed halls. He has come to love the quiet routine of his job as a care assistant at a nursing home, where he has forged a close relationship with its...
| Author | Anna Raverat |
| ISBN | 1447202376 |
It started quietly and without her looking for it, but the aftershock was profound. Ten years ago, Rachel had an affair. It spiralled out of control and left her and her life in pieces. Now, writing at her window, she tries to put those pieces back together. She has her memories, recollections of dreams,...
| Author | Sarah Murray |
| ISBN | 0312533020 |
With the surprising humor of Mary Roach’s Stiff and the globe-spanning bravado of Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations, this is a journey into the astonishingly diverse ways in which we send off our dead
Journalist Sarah Murray never gave much thought to what might ultimately happen...
| Author | Elżbieta Cherezińska |
| ISBN | 8375063517 |
Saga Sigrun
to pierwsza część cyklu Północna Droga.
Mamy w tej książce wszystko, co pozwala zupełnie zatopić się w napisanej z epickim rozmachem opowieści o życiu wikingów i na czas lektury stać się jednym z nich. Ogromna erudycja i wyobraźnia Autorki sprawia, że uczestniczymy...
| Author | David Hosp |
| ISBN | 0230753345 |
I have always enjoyed Hosp's books, especially those related to the law. This one, while a good read and filled with some last minute switcheroo, failed to hit the mark on the legal thriller checklist. i suppose sprinkling in a few 'court' and 'lawyer' references will suffice for some, but I expected...
| Author | Carolyn Jess-Cooke |
| ISBN | 0824948793 |
After her death, a woman is sent back to life as her own guardian angel in this lyrical first novel that examines questions of fate, free will, regret, and hope. Returned to earth as her own guardian angel, Margot Delacroix, now named Ruth, watches herself, through her own birth, a troubled childhood,...
| Author | Martyna Raduchowska |
Medium ma w życiu przerąbane. Medium, które nie chce być medium, ma przerąbane w dwójnasób. Medium bez powołania, za to z awersją do duchów, ma przerąbane wzdłuż, wszerz i naokoło.
Ida Brzezińska świetnie wie, czego chce: normalnego życia. I gdyby to od niej zależało,...
| Author | Cyril Massarotto |
| ISBN | 2845633890 |
Il a trente ans, il est plutôt sympa et son meilleur ami, c’est Dieu. Très utile, surtout quand on rencontre la femme de sa vie, qu’elle est étudiante à la Sorbonne alors qu’on est… vendeur dans un sex-shop.
« En l’an zéro de cette histoire, je rencontre les deux personnes qui...
The Turning Point: Creating Resilience in a Time of Extremes
| Author | Gregg Braden |
| ISBN | 1401929230 |
I was worried that this book was going to be all hyperbole and not a lot of substance. Braden has a bit of a love affair with dramatic phrases like, "the most difficult question" and "the greatest crisis we face" and "the greatest challenge" and "the most profound question," which would be okay if he used...
| Author | Robert Goddard |
| ISBN | 0593065204 |
The new race-against-the-clock thriller from the master of the triple cross.
Not all scars are visible. Jonathan Kellaway needs no reminding of that on the verge of his retirement from china clay conglomerate Intercontinental Kaolins. The company has left its mark in pits and spoil heaps...
| Author | Tua Harno |
| ISBN | 9511271423 |
Fridan isä oli Leonard Cohenin näköinen mies. Lapsuudenkodissa isä soitti Fridalle levyjä ja kehotti kuuntelemaan sanoituksia tarkkaan. Sitten isä katosi, ensin oman mielensä pimentoihin, myöhemmin kokonaan. Jäljelle jäivät laulut: "Suzanne", "I'm Your Man", "Take This Waltz"....
Dzisiaj narysujemy śmierć
Dzisiaj narysujemy śmierć to reporterska opowieść o tym, jakie konsekwencje niesie ludobójstwo nie tylko dla jego sprawców i ofiar, ale także dla nas – świadków. Tochman wikła czytelników w cierpienie swoich bohaterów, a każdy z nich jest ze swoją historią konkretny, pojedynczy,...
| Author | Michelle Holman |
| ISBN | 1869506790 |
What would happen if an Angel decided to play Devil's Advocate?
After a head-on collision between a glamorous sports car and a serviceable but very plain little car, a kind-hearted angel does a swap in Heaven's waiting room.
A short, feisty, rugby-loving school teacher gets a second chance...
Bridges to Heaven: True Stories of Loved Ones on the Other Side
| Author | Sue Frederick |
| ISBN | 1250001811 |
I received this copy as a FirstRead giveaway.
This book was very well written, inspiring as well. My rating of 4 stars is not a reflection solely on the book. I wanted this book to help myself get some peace after my father passed away over 8 years ago, I was very excited when I started reading it, until...
| Author | Wendy Wallace |
| ISBN | 1451660820 |
An elegant, emotionally suspenseful debut, The Painted Bridge is a story of family betrayals, illicit power, and a woman sent to an asylum against her will in Victorian England.
JUST OUTSIDE LONDON, behind a high stone wall, lies Lake House, a private asylum for genteel women of a delicate...
| Author | Ali Shaw |
| ISBN | 0857890328 |
From the author of the stunning debut novel The Girl with Glass Feet comes another magical story of love, discovery, and nature
When Elsa's father is killed in a tornado, all she wants is to escape—from New York, her job, her boyfriend—to somewhere new, anonymous, set apart. For...
Psychic Children: Revealing the Intuitive Gifts and Hidden Abilities of Boys and Girls
| Author | Sylvia Browne |
| ISBN | 0525950133 |
The respected, world-renowned New York Times bestselling psychic takes on an intriguing new subject—the psychic abilities of children. Sylvia Browne shares profound stories of how children can be channels to the Other Side. A child’s world is comprised of extraordinary things—vivid imaginations,...
