The Moment of Tenderness
By: Madeleine L'Engle
3.46
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of A Wrinkle in Time comes a deeply personal, genre-bending short story co…
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1. The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)
By: Wendell Berry
4.34
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
Old Jack, born just after the American Civil War and dying in contemporary times, spends one beauti… read more
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"She mourns for the future, as the past has taught her. And yet there is a rejoicing in her, persistent and unbidden as the beating of her heart."-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)
"The modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. It is in the arrogance that will believe nothing that cannot be proved, and respect nothing it cannot understan…"-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)
"Now when he walked in his fields and pastures and woodlands he was tramping into his mind the shape of the land, his thought becoming indistinguishable from it, so that when he came to die his intell…"-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)
"Sitting there, eyes shut, head tilted back, hands at rest upon his cane's crook, he seems to sink immeasurably, to float down into a well of light as warm and red as blood. He has met the sun at its …"-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)
2. The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain
By: Lloyd Alexander
4.25
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
When Lloyd Alexander finished the Chronicles of Prydain, readers asked for more! So, in 1973, Mr. A… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
3. How It All Began
By: Penelope Lively
4.10
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
When Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer Lord P… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
4. The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals
By: Merlin Tuttle
3.87
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A lifetime of adventures with bats around the world reveals why these special and imperiled creatur… read more
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5. The Writing Life
By: Annie Dillard
3.26
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An American Childhood;… read more
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6. In This House of Brede
By: Rumer Godden
3.98
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
This extraordinarily sensitive and insightful portrait of religious life centers on Philippa Talbot… read more
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- literary fiction
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- historical fiction
7. What is Not Yours is Not Yours
By: Helen Oyeyemi
4.01
Format: 511 pages, Hardcover
The key to a house, the key to a heart, the key to a secret--Oyeyemi's keys not only unlock element… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
8. The Icarus Girl
By: Helen Oyeyemi
4.00
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
Jessamy "Jess" Harrison, age eight, is the child of an English father and a Nigerian mother. Posses… read more
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- literary fiction
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9. This Book Will Not Be Fun
By: Olivier Tallec , Cirocco Dunlap
1.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A mouse who acts as a careful custodian of his book tries to guarantee his reader some peace and or… read more
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- fiction
10. The Cove
By: Ron Rash
3.77
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
This lyrical, heart-rending tale, as mesmerizing as its award-winning predecessor Serena, shows onc… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
11. Walking Across Egypt
By: Clyde Edgerton
4.67
Format: 112 pages,
"An unpretentious, finely-crafted novel that will linger with the readers like the last strains of … read more
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12. For the Family's Sake
By: Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
4.67
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
For many of us the word home brings warm thoughts and happy memories--far more than the dictionary'… read more
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14. Lucky Us
By: Amy Bloom
3.49
Format: 465 pages, Hardcover
"My father's wife died. My mother said we should drive down to his place and see what might be in i… read more
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15. Above the Waterfall
By: Ron Rash
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Les, a long-time sheriff nearing retirement, contends with the ravages of poverty and crystal meth … read more
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16. An Irish Country Courtship (Irish Country #5)
By: Patrick Taylor
4.15
Format: None pages,
Welcome to the colourful Ulster village of Ballybucklebo, where two doctors work hand in hand to me… read more
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17. They May Not Mean To, But They Do
By: Cathleen Schine
4.01
Format: 0 pages,
From one of America's greatest comic novelists, a hilarious new novel about aging, family, loneline… read more
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18. Black Girl You Are Atlas
By: Renée Watson
4.61
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson. In thi… read more
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- audiobook
19. The Heiress: The Revelations of Anne de Bourgh
By: Molly Greeley
3.69
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
In this gorgeously written and spellbinding historical novel based on Pride and Prejudice, the auth… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
20. One Woman Show
By: Christine Coulson
3.92
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A sly and stylish novel—remarkably told through museum wall labels—about a twentieth-century woman … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
21. The Moment of Tenderness
By: Madeleine L'Engle
3.46
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of A Wrinkle in Time comes a deeply personal, genre-bending short story co… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- short story collection
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
22. Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses
By: Katie Spalding
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, whe… read more
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- short stories
- adult
- audiobook
23. Parasol Against the Axe
By: Helen Oyeyemi
3.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The prize-winning, bestselling author of Peaces and Gingerbread returns with a novel about competit… read more
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- literary fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
24. Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories
By: GennaRose Nethercott
3.76
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
From the author of the breakout fantasy novel Thistlefoot : a collection of dark fairytales and fra… read more
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- short stories
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- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
25. Witches of Brooklyn (Witches of Brooklyn, #1)
By: Sophie Escabasse
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
There's a new witch in town! Life in Brooklyn takes a strange turn when Effie discovers MAGIC runs … read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"The feelings you've experienced through her music are yours, pumpkin. It's okay to like her music and not like her, and it's okay to not like her music after meeting her. These are your feelings and …"-Sophie Escabasse, Witches of Brooklyn (Witches of Brooklyn, #1)
26. Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place
By: Neema Avashia
4.26
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
When Neema Avashia tells people where she’s from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving “T… read more
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27. A Question Mark Is Half a Heart
By: Sofia Lundberg
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
How deeply can you love when your heart is full of secrets? A sweeping, propulsive family story abo… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"When you’re gone all the stars go out. It’s all black."-Sofia Lundberg, A Question Mark Is Half a Heart
"But don’t you get it? You keep us, the people closest to you, so far from the truth that it’s impossible for us to love you. For you to love us."-Sofia Lundberg, A Question Mark Is Half a Heart
28. All That's Good: Recovering the Lost Art of Discernment
By: Hannah Anderson
4.25
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
“And God saw that it was good…”Look out over the world today, it seems a far cry from God’s origina… read more
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"Discernment gives you the ability to both appreciate the subtle beauty of a Renoir and spot a fake."-Hannah Anderson, All That's Good: Recovering the Lost Art of Discernment
29. On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
By: Karen Swallow Prior
4.36
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue. Great literature increases knowled… read more
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"Pride is always a way of not seeing oneself properly, whereas humility is"self-knowledge perfected."-Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
"What does it mean to practice faith well? While our works cannot save us, our habits can strengthen our faith."-Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
"Seeing who we really are--which requires seeing ourselves in relationship to God--is true humility. Humility is taking our place, no matter how small (or big), and fulfilling that place with a heart …"-Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
"Humility is not, therefore, simply a low regard for oneself; rather, it is a proper view of oneself that is low in comparison to God and in recognition of our own fallenness. "Humility is thinking le…"-Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
30. Becoming Madeleine: A Biography of the Author of A Wrinkle in Time by Her Granddaughters
By: Charlotte Jones Voiklis
3.89
Format: 163 pages, Hardcover
This middle-grade biography explores the life and works of Madeleine L'Engle --written by her grand… read more
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31. The White Mosque
By: Sofia Samatar
3.72
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A historical tapestry of border-crossing travelers, of students, wanderers, martyrs and invaders, … read more
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