The Liar's Dictionary
By: Eley Williams
3.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating and laugh-out-loud debut novel from a prize-winning new talent which chronicles the…
Want to Read $ 4.99"Too precise a meaning erases the mystery of your literature."-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary
"Too precise a meaning erases the mystery of your literature."-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary
"He was a sweet man who loved words, and played chess with ghosts."-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary
"He was a sweet man who loved words, and played chess with ghosts."-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary
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1. The Blue Hour
By: Isabelle Simler
4.16
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
A lovely and tranquil celebration of nature The sun has set, the day has ended, but the night hasn'… read more
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2. A Story, a Story
By: Gail E. Haley
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the Caldecott Medal Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He… read more
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3. The Librarianist
By: Patrick deWitt
3.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more
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- literary fiction
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- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- books about books
- audiobook
4. 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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- literary fiction
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- adult
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5. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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- literary fiction
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- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
6. Shatila Stories
By: Omar Khaled Ahmad
4.24
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
‘This remarkable novel isn’t about the refugee voice; it is born from it and told through it. On ev… read more
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- fiction
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7. The Sentence
By: Louise Erdrich
3.95
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
The Sentence asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small in… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
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"I'd taken a pink eraser to my childhood and blurred the pain."-Louise Erdrich, The Sentence
"A newborn baby has a powerful effect on character. But so does a toddler. A child. A preteen. A teenager. A mother changes with every stage. Some stages are within a mother's skill set. Some stages a…"-Louise Erdrich, The Sentence
8. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain
By: Victoria Mackenzie
3.85
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Sometimes I reworked, with much crossing out and burning of papers; I had to sift through my thoughts for words that gleamed with truth. But other times the words came fast, and then I was an arrow, …"-Victoria Mackenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain
9. The Britannias: An Archipelago's Tale
By: Alice Albinia
3.53
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory portrait of Britain through its islands, The Britannias weaves history, myth, and trav… read more
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10. The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
By: Sarah Ogilvie
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, … read more
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- historical
- books about books
- audiobook
"Murray took Dictionary work with him to the hospital when Ada was giving birth. If you look at page 2, column 1 of the first volume of the printed Dictionary, twenty-third line from the bottom, you w…"-Sarah Ogilvie, The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
11. Ramadan Ramsey
By: Louis Edwards
3.81
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The Guggenheim and Whiting Award-winning author makes his long-awaited comeback with this epic tale… read more
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12. Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
By: Carl Safina
3.92
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A moving account of raising, then freeing, an orphaned owl, whose lasting friendship with the autho… read more
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"As the offspring of Platonist-Abrahamic de-enchantment of nature, science bears the birth scar of a world unvalued. Through a kind of emotionally detached childhood, science grew strong but felt litt…"-Carl Safina, Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
"A forest is not just a bricolage of trees; it is an immensity of functional relationships and feedbacks whereby each thing makes other things possible within the dynamic and constantly adjusting suit…"-Carl Safina, Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
13. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more
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14. The Liar's Dictionary
By: Eley Williams
3.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating and laugh-out-loud debut novel from a prize-winning new talent which chronicles the… read more
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"Too precise a meaning erases the mystery of your literature."-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary
"He was a sweet man who loved words, and played chess with ghosts."-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary
"Onomatopoeia is onomatopoeia for mashing your hands unthinkingly but hopefully onto a keyboard."-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary
"All words are made up," I said. "That is true," David Swansby replied, "and also not a useful contribution."-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary
15. Murder at the Green Mill (The Sandie Shaw Mysteries, #1)
By: R.T. Green
4.11
Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition
When Sandie witnesses her client committing a cut-and-dried murder, her head tells her to walk away… read more
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16. The Owl and the Nightingale
By: Unknown
4.09
Format: 100 pages, Hardcover
Following his acclaimed translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl , Simon Armitage … read more
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"Who speaks well ... fights well,' goes the song; she'd wage war with her voice instead. 'To fight well, speak well,' Alfred said."-Unknown, The Owl and the Nightingale
"If Beauty called it didn't stay, & Virtue looked the other way. Another charge that I will file: your habits, like your looks, are vile."-Unknown, The Owl and the Nightingale
"The wise have noted more than once that he who argues with a dunce might just as well compare his jaw against an oven's yawning door. And now a saying comes to mind, a proverb that King Alfred coined…"-Unknown, The Owl and the Nightingale
"Through pity, then, I can't resist delivering a song of bliss when witnessing the painful trace that love leaves in a young girl's face. I try to teach them, through my song, love of that kind will n…"-Unknown, The Owl and the Nightingale
17. The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
By: Boyce Upholt
4.07
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping history of the Mississippi River―and the centuries of human meddling that have transform… read more
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18. SPELLS: 21st Century Occult Poetry
By: Sarah Shin
3.59
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Spells brings together thirty-six contemporary voices exploring the territory where justice, selfho… read more
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19. Hush Harbor
By: Anise Vance
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A resistance group takes America's racial reckoning into its own hands in this powerful, stirringly… read more
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20. The Dictionary Wars: The American Fight over the English Language
By: Peter Martin
3.48
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first defi… read more
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21. Lord of Secrets (The Empty Gods #1)
By: Breanna Teintze
3.78
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
Magic is poison. Secrets are power. Death is . . . complicated.Outlaw wizard Corcoran Gray has enou… read more
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