The Nightingale Won't Let You Sleep
10 best books like The Nightingale Won't Let You Sleep (Steven Heighton): An Ocean of Minutes, Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts, Brother, Son of a Trickster, The Butterfly Girl, First Snow, Last Light, Dear Evelyn, The Innocents, Hope in a Jar, By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz
| Author | Thea Lim |
| ISBN | 1501192566 |
Shortlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize and a Best Book of the Year according to Real Simple, the Globe and Mail, and the CBC, this follows the love story of two people who are at once mere weeks and many years apart.
In this novel America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. When Frank...
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts
| Author | Kate Racculia |
| ISBN | 0358023939 |
A dying billionaire sends one woman and a cast of dreamers and rivals on a citywide treasure hunt in this irresistible novel by the author of Bellweather Rhapsody.
Tuesday Mooney is a loner. She keeps to herself, begrudgingly socializes, and spends much of her time watching old Twin Peaks and...
| Author | David Chariandy |
| ISBN | 1635572045 |
An intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, tightly constructed novel, Brother explores questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity as they are played out in a Scarborough housing complex during the sweltering heat and simmering violence of the summer of 1991.
With shimmering...
| Author | Eden Robinson |
| ISBN | 0345810783 |
With striking originality and precision, Eden Robinson, the Giller-shortlisted author of the classic Monkey Beach and winner of the Writers Trust Engel/Findley Award, blends humour with heartbreak in this compelling coming-of-age novel. Everyday teen existence meets indigenous beliefs, crazy...
| Author | Rene Denfeld |
| ISBN | 0062698184 |
After captivating readers in The Child Finder, Naomi—the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children—returns, trading snow-covered woods for dark, gritty streets on the search for her missing sister in a city where young, homeless girls have been going missing and turning...
| Author | Wayne Johnston |
| ISBN | 0735272565 |
In the last of the trilogy of Newfoundland novels that began with the critically acclaimed, prizewinning and internationally bestselling The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Wayne Johnston brings us an epic family mystery told in two voices: that of Ned Vatcher, the first Newfoundland media mogul,...
| Author | Kathy Page |
| ISBN | 1911508288 |
Born between the wars in a working-class South London street, Harry Miles is a sensitive and capable boy who attends school on a scholarship and grows into a thoughtful young man. Full of energy and literary ambition, he visits Battersea Library in search of New Writing: instead, however, he discovers...
From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story of survival in which a brother and sister confront the limits of human endurance and their own capacity for loyalty and forgiveness.
A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline....
| Author | Beth Harbison |
| ISBN | 0312381964 |
Twenty years ago, Allie Denty was the pretty one and her best friend Olivia Pelham was the smart one. Throughout high school, they were inseparable…until a vicious rumor about Olivia— a rumor too close to the truth—ended their friendship. Now, on the eve of their twentieth high school reunion,...
By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz
| Author | Max Eisen |
| ISBN | 1443449288 |
In the tradition of Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz comes a new memoir by Canadian survivor
More than 70 years after the Nazi camps were liberated by the Allies, a new Canadian Holocaust memoir details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau,...
This brilliant new novel is an urgent bulletin from an all-too-believable near future in which the religious right has come out on top. And where a smart young girl who questions the new order is suddenly a terrorist. By the bestselling author of
The Girls
and
The Mountain Story
.
Taking...
