he Night-Coloured Pearl: A Taoist Adventure by Tzunami Renivaro
The book is along the line of the "Celestine Prophecies" but way better apparently. BTW the CP movie is very bad, stay away from it at all costs! :P
But regardless...The Night-Coloured Pearl was written under the pen name Tzunami but the real name of the author is David Silverberg born in Toronto , in 1948 . He studied medicine at the University of Toronto and eventually became a neurologist practicing in the Maritimes from 1980 to the present. He's written another book: he Divorce of Buddy Figaro.
Laughing Sutra (Vintage)by Mark Salzman, 1992
# ISBN-10: 0679735461
# ISBN-13: 978-0679735465
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb same author as She's Come Undone
A paranoid schizophrenic and his brother whose life is dominated by his resentment of and love for his damaged twin Dominick Birdsey's whole existence is coloured by the knowledge that his twin brother can never be fully responsible for his frightening behaviour, while he himself has beaten the biochemical odds to remain sane.
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
Milika was taken from her parents at an early age and spent her childhood within the palace, raised more or less as a princess. Although she enjoyed this 'experience' she deeply missed her family, especially her mother whom she longed to live with once again. The Oufkir family were reunited but their future was unimaginable.
As a result of certain events, the family were persecuted for 20 years for their father's actions. It is difficult to comprehend who could actually treat people, especially children, in such a way.
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston 1993
When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries her off to an old man with sixty acres. Refusing to compromise in spite of society's expectations, Janie endures two stifling marriages before meeting the man of her dreams, who offers not diamonds, but a packet of flowering seeds.
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Callie approaches adolescence and comes to terms with the descovery that she is a hermaphrodite.
The Bean Trees
a young woman leaving her hometown to travel across the US to start a new life with more hope and possibility than in the smalltown, limited environment where she grew up. On the way she is given care of a young child.
Prodigal Summer
From an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, is caught off-guard by a young hunter who changes utterly her self-assured, solitary life. Lusa Maluf Landowski finds herself unexpectedly marooned on her husband's farm where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land. Garnett Walker and Nannie Rawley, a pair of elderly, feuding neighbours, tend their respective farms and wrangle about God, pesticides, and the possibilities of a future neither of them expected. Over the course of one humid summer in the Appalachian mountains these characters discover their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with which they share their place in the world.
The Tenderness of Wolves
Mrs. Ross, the narrator, is a Scottish pioneer and ex-asylum inmate who discovers the body of a French trapper, murdered and scalped in his house near Dove river. Her beautiful, adopted 17 year old son Francis has disappeared, and so has the victim's money and a piece of bone which may prove the "Indians" had a written culture. A half-breed Cherokee trapper is arrested and beaten up to try nad force a confession out of him, but the magistrate has more compassion than the fur-trading company to whom all are in thrall, and releases him. Mrs Ross and Parker embark on an epic journey, tracking her son and another, fainter set of footprints, across snow and ice. In their wake are more Company hunters, bent on tracking them down...It is a wonderful story, set in 1867 and featuring an agoraphobic heroine who must overcome her fears (and her growing passion for her guide) to find justice.
Under Their Skin by Dinah Lee Kung
One autumn, the serene marriage of a Swiss dermatologist to an English WHO leprosy expert is shattered by three intrusions on his Geneva practice: an American violinist marred by a birthmark; a tattooed Japanese gangster; and the doctor's old rival-in-love, now Manhattan's Botox King, Both dark satire and moving love story, this novel confirms the author's far-ranging talents.
The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai
At the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, lives an embittered old judge who wants nothing more than to retire in peace. But with the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, and his cook's son trying to stay a step ahead of US immigration services, this is far from easy. When a Nepalese insurgency threatens Sai's blossoming romance with her handsome tutor they are forced to consider their colliding interests. The judge must revisit his past, his own journey and his role in this grasping world of conflicting desires every moment holding out the possibility for hope or betrayal.
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
This is a really good modern day read written in the old style, reminscent of Daphne Du Mauriers Rebecca and My Cousin Rachel.Atmospheric, thought provoking will keep you hanging on till the last page.
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But regardless...The Night-Coloured Pearl was written under the pen name Tzunami but the real name of the author is David Silverberg born in Toronto , in 1948 . He studied medicine at the University of Toronto and eventually became a neurologist practicing in the Maritimes from 1980 to the present. He's written another book: he Divorce of Buddy Figaro.
Laughing Sutra (Vintage)by Mark Salzman, 1992
# ISBN-10: 0679735461
# ISBN-13: 978-0679735465
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb same author as She's Come Undone
A paranoid schizophrenic and his brother whose life is dominated by his resentment of and love for his damaged twin Dominick Birdsey's whole existence is coloured by the knowledge that his twin brother can never be fully responsible for his frightening behaviour, while he himself has beaten the biochemical odds to remain sane.
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
Milika was taken from her parents at an early age and spent her childhood within the palace, raised more or less as a princess. Although she enjoyed this 'experience' she deeply missed her family, especially her mother whom she longed to live with once again. The Oufkir family were reunited but their future was unimaginable.
As a result of certain events, the family were persecuted for 20 years for their father's actions. It is difficult to comprehend who could actually treat people, especially children, in such a way.
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston 1993
When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries her off to an old man with sixty acres. Refusing to compromise in spite of society's expectations, Janie endures two stifling marriages before meeting the man of her dreams, who offers not diamonds, but a packet of flowering seeds.
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Callie approaches adolescence and comes to terms with the descovery that she is a hermaphrodite.
The Bean Trees
a young woman leaving her hometown to travel across the US to start a new life with more hope and possibility than in the smalltown, limited environment where she grew up. On the way she is given care of a young child.
Prodigal Summer
From an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, is caught off-guard by a young hunter who changes utterly her self-assured, solitary life. Lusa Maluf Landowski finds herself unexpectedly marooned on her husband's farm where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land. Garnett Walker and Nannie Rawley, a pair of elderly, feuding neighbours, tend their respective farms and wrangle about God, pesticides, and the possibilities of a future neither of them expected. Over the course of one humid summer in the Appalachian mountains these characters discover their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with which they share their place in the world.
The Tenderness of Wolves
Mrs. Ross, the narrator, is a Scottish pioneer and ex-asylum inmate who discovers the body of a French trapper, murdered and scalped in his house near Dove river. Her beautiful, adopted 17 year old son Francis has disappeared, and so has the victim's money and a piece of bone which may prove the "Indians" had a written culture. A half-breed Cherokee trapper is arrested and beaten up to try nad force a confession out of him, but the magistrate has more compassion than the fur-trading company to whom all are in thrall, and releases him. Mrs Ross and Parker embark on an epic journey, tracking her son and another, fainter set of footprints, across snow and ice. In their wake are more Company hunters, bent on tracking them down...It is a wonderful story, set in 1867 and featuring an agoraphobic heroine who must overcome her fears (and her growing passion for her guide) to find justice.
Under Their Skin by Dinah Lee Kung
One autumn, the serene marriage of a Swiss dermatologist to an English WHO leprosy expert is shattered by three intrusions on his Geneva practice: an American violinist marred by a birthmark; a tattooed Japanese gangster; and the doctor's old rival-in-love, now Manhattan's Botox King, Both dark satire and moving love story, this novel confirms the author's far-ranging talents.
The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai
At the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, lives an embittered old judge who wants nothing more than to retire in peace. But with the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, and his cook's son trying to stay a step ahead of US immigration services, this is far from easy. When a Nepalese insurgency threatens Sai's blossoming romance with her handsome tutor they are forced to consider their colliding interests. The judge must revisit his past, his own journey and his role in this grasping world of conflicting desires every moment holding out the possibility for hope or betrayal.
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
This is a really good modern day read written in the old style, reminscent of Daphne Du Mauriers Rebecca and My Cousin Rachel.Atmospheric, thought provoking will keep you hanging on till the last page.
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