Vancouver’s Raincoast Books has compiled a list of must-reads for the July edition of Lifetime, including everything from major summer fiction to non-fiction to autobiographies.
Lifetime is giving away a bag of books to get you through the summer, including the new Ujjal Dosanjh autobiography Journey after Midnight, as well asFull Moon over Noah’s Ark by Rick Antonson, former CEO and president of Tourism Vancouver. Enter to win at vancourier.com/contests.
Journey after Midnight
Ujjal Dosanjh
This is a deeply personal and thoughtful memoir of Ujjal Dosanjh’s journey from his beloved India to the upper echelons of Canadian politics.
Full Moon Over Noah’s Ark: An Odyssey to Mount Ararat and Beyond Rick Antonson
Rick Antonson joined a five-member expedition to Mount Ararat in Eastern Turkey, rumoured to be the final resting place of Noah’s Ark.
All is not Forgotten Wendy Walker
In the small, affluent town of Fairview, Connecticut, everything seems picture perfect until one night when young Jenny Kramer is attacked at a local party. In the hours immediately after, she’s given a controversial drug to medically erase her memory of the violent assault. But, in the weeks and months that follow, as she heals from her physical wounds, and with no factual recall of the attack, Jenny struggles with her raging emotional memory. Her father, Tom, becomes obsessed with his inability to find her attacker and seek justice while her mother, Charlotte, prefers to pretend this horrific event did not touch her perfect country club world.
Ashes of Fiery Weather Kathleen Donohoe
A debut novel about the passionate loves and tragic losses of six generations of women in a family of firefighters, spanning from famine-era Ireland to Brooklyn a decade after 9/11
The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow
Benoît Nadeau and Barlow explain why, culturally and historically, conversation with the French is not about communicating or being nice. It's about being interesting. After reading The Bonjour Effect, even readers with a modicum of French language ability will be able to hold their own the next time they step into a bistro on the Left Bank.
The Children Ann Leary
From New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary comes the captivating story of a wealthy, but unconventional New England family, told from the perspective of a reclusive 29-year-old who has a secret (and famous) life on the Internet.
Dietland Sarai Walker
Part coming-of-age story, part revenge fantasy , Dietland is a bold, original, and funny debut novel that takes on the beauty industry, gender inequality, and our weight loss obsession-from the inside out, and with fists flying. Described as "Fight Club meets Margaret Atwood." Now in paperback.
Everybody Rise Stephanie Clifford
Everyone yearns to belong, to be part of the "in crowd," but how far are you willing to go to be accepted? In the case of bright, funny and socially ambitious Evelyn Beegan, the answer is much too far...
