Bowlaway
By: Elizabeth McCracken
3.10
Format: 384 pages, ebook
A sweeping and enchanting new novel from the widely beloved, award-winning author Elizabeth McCrack…
Want to Read $ 13.49"They found a body in the Salford cemetery, but aboveground and alive."-Elizabeth McCracken, Bowlaway
"What she wanted was a kind of greatness that women were not allowed ..."-Elizabeth McCracken, Bowlaway
"Movie kisses looked like they'd hurt. She couldn't get enough of them. They made her feel alive - not in any expansive way, but assessed, her pulse taken, a rubber mallet to the knee that made her kick."-Elizabeth McCracken, Bowlaway
"Maybe better that way, to not know our parents, to love them as we move away from them--they're on the shore and we're on a ship, moving away; later we will switch places as they sail away from us, and we say to them, a little longer."-Elizabeth McCracken, Bowlaway
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1. About Alice
By: Calvin Trillin
4.01
Format: 78 pages, Hardcover
In Calvin Trillin’s antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had “a weird pred… read more
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- audiobook
"Why in the world are you a Republican?"-Calvin Trillin, About Alice
"School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities."-Calvin Trillin, About Alice
"Someone who managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and still delighting in the many things there are to take pleasure in."-Calvin Trillin, About Alice
"among married couples the person who actually makes out the mortgage check is likely to be more cautious about spending money than the person who doesn't. There is something sobering about sending aw…"-Calvin Trillin, About Alice
2. Smile
By: Roddy Doyle
4.48
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
Smilehas all the features for which Roddy Doyle has become famous: the razor-sharp dialogue, the hu… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
3. The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee
By: Marja Mills
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But f… read more
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- audiobook
4. Arcadia
By: Lauren Groff
4.37
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the fields and forests of western New York State in the late 1960s, several dozen idealists set … read more
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5. Stand Your Ground
By: Victoria Christopher Murray
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the #1 Essence bestselling and award-winning author Victoria Christopher Murray comes Stand Yo… read more
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6. A Prayer for the Dying
By: Stewart O'Nan
3.69
Format: 32 pages,
Set just after the Civil War, A Prayer for the Dyingis the story of a small Wisconsin town gripped … read more
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7. French Lessons
By: Ellen Sussman
4.12
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
A single day in Paris changes the lives of three Americans as they each set off to explore the city… read more
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8. Unmentionables
By: Laurie Loewenstein
3.46
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Exceptionally readable and highly recommended." --Library Journal(starred review) A January 2014 M… read more
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9. Mrs. Queen Takes the Train
By: William Kuhn
3.67
Format: 363 pages, Hardcover
An absolute delight of a debut novel by William Kuhn--author of Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography i… read more
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10. Elsewhere
By: Richard Russo
4.22
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
After eight commanding works of fiction, the Pulitzer Prize winner now turns to memoir in a hilario… read more
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11. North Woods
By: Daniel Mason
4.15
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
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- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
12. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
13. Inland
By: Téa Obreht
3.43
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives unfo… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
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- adult
- audiobook
"There are wounds of time and there are wounds of person, Misafir. Sometimes people come through their wounds, but time does not. Sometimes it's the other way around. Sometimes the wounds are so griev…"-Téa Obreht, Inland
"He lived in a state of agitation, at odds with everything: the heat, the weather, the gold or lack thereof; the density of the crowds and the absence of quality people; his neighbors and their procli…"-Téa Obreht, Inland
"Whoever had thought to instate a watering hole in this spot could not have been a woman. It was impossible to linger here without feeling observed. The goblin barrens rose up on either side of the pa…"-Téa Obreht, Inland
14. Bowlaway
By: Elizabeth McCracken
3.10
Format: 384 pages, ebook
A sweeping and enchanting new novel from the widely beloved, award-winning author Elizabeth McCrack… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- unfinished
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"They found a body in the Salford cemetery, but aboveground and alive."-Elizabeth McCracken, Bowlaway
"What she wanted was a kind of greatness that women were not allowed ..."-Elizabeth McCracken, Bowlaway
"Movie kisses looked like they'd hurt. She couldn't get enough of them. They made her feel alive - not in any expansive way, but assessed, her pulse taken, a rubber mallet to the knee that made her ki…"-Elizabeth McCracken, Bowlaway
"Maybe better that way, to not know our parents, to love them as we move away from them--they're on the shore and we're on a ship, moving away; later we will switch places as they sail away from us, a…"-Elizabeth McCracken, Bowlaway
15. Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit (Kopp Sisters, #4)
By: Amy Stewart
3.95
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
Trailblazing Constance's hard-won job as deputy sheriff is on the line in Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit… read more
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- adult
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16. Moonbound
By: Robin Sloan
4.09
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Robin Sloan expands the Penumbraverse to new reaches of time and space in a rollicking far-future a… read more
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- adult fiction
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17. American Mermaid
By: Julia Langbein
3.24
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly funny and razor-tongued debut which follows a writer lured to Los Angeles to adapt he… read more
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- adult fiction
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- contemporary
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"How could we be readers, how could we be lovers of the impossible and the imagined, and not want to swell up with a new character, pull it onto land from a sea we made, and trick it by disappearing b…"-Julia Langbein, American Mermaid
"This is one of the dangers of their [teenagers] ineluctable depth: they live the poetry, the true value of the way words resonate and not their dictionary meanings or conventional uses. It's why teen…"-Julia Langbein, American Mermaid
18. That Kind of Mother
By: Rumaan Alam
3.07
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
From the celebrated author of Rich and Pretty, a novel about the families we fight to build and tho… read more
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19. I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both
By: Mariah Stovall
3.28
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise meets Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity in a Black woman’s coming-of-age stor… read more
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20. Death Wins a Goldfish: Reflections from a Grim Reaper's Yearlong Sabbatical
By: Brian Rea
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Even Death cares about his work-life balance...Death never takes a day off. Until he gets a letter … read more
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- adult
- fiction
"As I get older and I crest the top of that imaginary slope of life, I am more aware of how finite life is—that there are fewer days left than those I’ve already explored."-Brian Rea, Death Wins a Goldfish: Reflections from a Grim Reaper's Yearlong Sabbatical
21. Kopp Sisters on the March (Kopp Sisters, #5)
By: Amy Stewart
3.94
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
In the fifth installment of Amy Stewart’s clever and original Kopp Sisters series, the sisters lear… read more
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