The Little Shadows
10 best books like The Little Shadows (Marina Endicott): Alligator, February, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings, Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants, The Free World, This Cake is for the Party: Stories, A Good House, Everything Was Goodbye, The Assassin's Song, Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?
| Author | Lisa Moore |
| ISBN | 0802170250 |
Lisa Moore's wickedly fresh first novel, a Canadian best seller, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Canadian and Caribbean region), and a Globe and Mail Book of the Year moves with the swiftness of an alligator in attack mode through the lives of a group of brilliantly rendered characters mingling...
Winner of Canada Reads 2013 and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
In 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a Valentine's Day storm. All eighty-four men aboard died. February is the story of Helen O'Mara, one of those left behind when her husband, Cal,...
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
| Author | Charles Dickens |
| ISBN | 0140439056 |
An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here.
'Merry Christmas!...every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding'
Dickens' story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series...
Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants
| Author | Ann Hui |
| ISBN | 1771622229 |
In 2016, Globe and Mail reporter Ann Hui drove across Canada to answer two questions: Why is there a Chinese restaurant in every small town? And who are the families who run them? It was only after the story was published that she discovered her own family could have been included — her parents...
| Author | David Bezmozgis |
| ISBN | 0374281408 |
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title
Summer, 1978. Brezhnev sits like a stone in the Kremlin, Israel and Egypt are inching towards peace, and in the bustling, polyglot streets of Rome, strange new creatures have appeared: Soviet Jews who have escaped...
| Author | Sarah Selecky |
| ISBN | 0887625258 |
"Finalist for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize and longlisted for the 2010 Frank O Connor Award" Sarah Selecky s first book takes dead aim at a young generation of men and women who often set out with the best of intentions, only to have plans thwarted or hopes betrayed. These are stories about friendships...
| Author | Bonnie Burnard |
| ISBN | 0805064958 |
In Canadian short-story writer Bonnie Burnard's deeply moving novel, we meet the Chambers family: Bill and Sylvia and their three children, an ordinary family from Ontario. Beginning in 1949, we follow the Chambers for the next fifty years through the many joys and disappointments of their lives:...
| Author | Gurjinder Basran |
| ISBN | 0143186817 |
The youngest of six daughters raised by a widowed mother, Meena is a young woman struggling to find her place in the world. Originally from India, her family still holds on to many old-world customs and traditions that seem stifling to a young North American woman. She knows that the freedom experienced...
| Author | M.G. Vassanji |
| ISBN | 1400042178 |
In the aftermath of the brutal violence that gripped western India in 2002, Karsan Dargawalla, heir to Pirbaag – the shrine of a mysterious, medieval sufi – begins to tell the story of his family. His tale opens in the 1960s: young Karsan is next in line after his father to assume lordship of the shrine,...
Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?
| Author | Anita Rau Badami |
| ISBN | 0676976050 |
Set against the tumultuous backdrop of a fragmenting Punjab and moving between Canada and India, Can you Hear the Nightbird Call? charts the interweaving stories of three Indian women – Bibi-ji, Leela and Nimmo – each in search of a resting place amid rapidly changing personal and political landscapes.
The...
| Author | Ian Williams |
| ISBN | 0735274053 |
A hilarious, surprising and poignant love story about the way families are invented, told with the savvy of a Zadie Smith and with an inventiveness all Ian Williams' own, Reproduction bangs lives together in a polyglot suburb of Toronto.
Felicia and Edgar meet as their mothers are dying. Felicia,...
| 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...
