The Theory of Light and Matter
10 best books like The Theory of Light and Matter (Andrew Porter): The Age of Miracles, The Round House, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories, Ishmael, Dead Poets Society, Canada, Levels of Life, The Erratics, Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness, Синдром Петрушки
| Author | Karen Thompson Walker |
| ISBN | 0812983602 |
“It’s never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass—it’s the ones you don’t expect at all,” says Julia, in this spellbinding novel of catastrophe and survival by a superb new writer. Luminous, suspenseful, unforgettable, The Age of Miracles tells the haunting and beautiful...
| Author | Louise Erdrich |
| ISBN | 0062065246 |
One of the most revered novelists of our time - a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life - Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves with The Round House, transporting readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. It is an exquisitely...
| Author | Kevin Wilson |
| ISBN | 0061579025 |
Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. "Grand Stand-In" is narrated by an employee of a Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider—a company that supplies "stand-ins" for families with deceased, ill, or just...
An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned office with a full-grown gorilla who is nibbling delicately on a slender...
| Author | N.H. Kleinbaum |
| ISBN | 0553282980 |
Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keating, has challenged them to "make your lives extraordinary! " Inspired by Keating, the boys resurrect the Dead Poets Society--a secret club where, free...
| Author | Richard Ford |
| ISBN | 0061692042 |
"First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later."
When fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons' parents rob a bank, his sense of normal life is forever altered. In an instant, this private cataclysm drives his life into before and after, a threshold...
| Author | Julian Barnes |
| ISBN | 0385350775 |
Julian Barnes's new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart.
"You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed..."
One of the judges who awarded...
| Author | Vicki Laveau-Harvie |
| ISBN | 0648100855 |
When her elderly mother is hospitalised after an accident, Vicki is summoned to her parents' isolated and run-down ranch home in Alberta, Canada, to care for her father. She has been estranged from her parents for many years (the reasons for which become quickly clear) and is horrified by what she discovers...
Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness
It was a culinary journey like no other: Over the course of 195 weeks, food writer and blogger Sasha Martin set out to cook—and eat—a meal from every country in the world. As cooking unlocked the memories of her rough-and-tumble childhood and the loss and heartbreak that came with it, Martin became...
Дина Рубина совершила невозможное - соединила три разных жанра: увлекательный и одновременно почти готический роман о куклах и кукольниках, стягивающий...
