Driving to Treblinka: A long search for a lost father
By: Diana Wichtel
4.21
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
Diana Wichtel was born in Vancouver. Her mother was a New Zealander, her father a Polish Jew who ha…
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1. The Secret Lives of the Amir Sisters
By: Nadiya Hussain
3.57
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
The four Amir sisters – Fatima, Farah, Bubblee and Mae – are the only young Muslims in the quaint E… read more
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2. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By: Muriel Spark
3.70
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more
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"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
3. I Found My Tribe
By: Ruth Fitzmaurice
3.72
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
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4. Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2)
By: Marian Keyes
4.47
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Meet Rachel Walsh. She has a pair of size 8 feet and such a fondness for recreational drugs that he… read more
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5. The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)
By: Josephine Tey
3.95
Format: None pages,
Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is intrigued by a portrait of Richard III. Could such a sensitiv… read more
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6. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
By: James McBride
3.69
Format: 176 pages,
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7. Black Beauty
By: Gail Carson Levine , Anna Sewell
3.99
Format: 245 pages, Mass Market Paperback
As a young horse, Black Beauty is well-loved and happy. But when his owner is forced to sell him, h… read more
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"he thought people did not value their animals half enough, nor make friends of them as they ought to do"-Gail Carson Levine, Black Beauty
8. The Echo Chamber
By: John Boyne
3.87
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
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9. The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2)
By: Chris Hammer
4.29
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
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10. Pet
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more
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11. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
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12. The Bee Sting
By: Paul Murray
3.96
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
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"It is for love. You are doing this for love."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
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13. The Seventh Son
By: Sebastian Faulks
3.60
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more
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14. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
By: Ronan Farrow
4.40
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered abou… read more
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"All the women before feel I am their fault," she said. "And if there were women after me, I feel that is my fault."-Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
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15. The Bookseller at the End of the World
By: Ruth Shaw
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny book… read more
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"My mother, more than anyone, knew why I lived such a high-risk life. She gave me the freedom to run."-Ruth Shaw, The Bookseller at the End of the World
16. Wavewalker: Breaking Free
By: Suzanne Heywood
4.27
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing… read more
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"Do you want to hear a secret?' I asked him, leaning closer. 'I don't want to be different — I want to be normal. I don't want to be stuck out at sea away from my friends. I know Mum and Dad would lau…"-Suzanne Heywood, Wavewalker: Breaking Free
17. There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir
By: Emma Espiner
4.31
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
“I don’t know why medicine felt like coming home but, for some reason, it fits. I keep thinking abo… read more
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18. Lioness
By: Emily Perkins
3.43
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more
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19. The Fair Botanists
By: Sara Sheridan
3.91
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
It's the summer of 1822 and Edinburgh is abuzz with rumours of King George IV's impending visit. I… read more
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20. Did I Ever Tell You This?
By: Sam Neill
4.06
Format: 398 pages, Hardcover
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tell… read more
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21. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts
By: Josie Shapiro
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more
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22. The Axeman's Carnival
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.37
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more
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23. Sisters Under the Rising Sun
By: Heather Morris
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz… read more
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24. Auē
By: Becky Manawatu
4.50
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in t… read more
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"I thought how many terrible words there were, and how when they were let loose in the world, they sucked up all the air around them."-Becky Manawatu, Auē
25. Funeral Songs for Dying Girls
By: Cherie Dimaline
3.53
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
After inadvertently starting rumors of a haunted cemetery, a teen befriends a ghost in this brand-n… read more
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26. I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust
By: Julian Borger
4.28
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out adverts offering t… read more
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27. The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler
By: Deborah Cadbury
4.38
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Named one of Book Riot's BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF 2022 The extraordinary true story of a courageous sch… read more
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28. The Last Secret Agent
By: Pippa Latour
4.55
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The extraordinary untold story of Pippa Latour, who parachuted into occupied France in 1944 as an u… read more
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29. Dice
By: Claire Baylis
3.86
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
A compelling courtroom drama, Dice is an incredibly timely exploration of how sexual violence is vi… read more
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30. Driving to Treblinka: A long search for a lost father
By: Diana Wichtel
4.21
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
Diana Wichtel was born in Vancouver. Her mother was a New Zealander, her father a Polish Jew who ha… read more
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31. Vital Signs: Heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious stories of a junior doctor's first year
By: Izzy Lomax-Sawyers
3.94
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
An insight into what it's like to be a first-year junior doctor - the ups and downs, the drama, and… read more
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