The Best Cook in the World
By: Rick Bragg
4.19
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Margaret Bragg does not own a single cookbook. She measures in "dabs" and "smidgens" and "tads" and…
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1. A Long Fatal Love Chase
By: Louisa May Alcott
3.67
Format: 356 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"I'd gladly sell my soul to Satan for a year of freedom," cries Rosamond Vivian to her callous gran… read more
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"Mine first -mine last - mine even in the grave! - Tempest"-Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase
"Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art."-Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase
"What would you have done had I persisted in stealing the 'poor little girl'?' 'Gone overboard; I never yield to injustice if I can help it,' and Rosamond's resolute mouth and flashing eyes proved the…"-Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase
"Suppose I broke away and left you, or made it impossible for you to stay. That I was base and false; in every way unworthy of your love, and it was clearly right for you to go, what would you do then…"-Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase
2. Island of the World
By: Michael D. O'Brien
4.70
Format: 850 pages, Hardcover
Island of the World is the story of a child born in 1933 into the turbulent world of the Balkans a… read more
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"Automobiles are unreliable and dangerous slaves. They frequently revolt and kill their masters. I hate them."-Michael D. O'Brien, Island of the World
"Social pressure is the fascism of the democracies. Fascism is the democracy of the ruthless. Social engineering is the opiate of romantic intellectuals."-Michael D. O'Brien, Island of the World
"So far beyond rational thought is your attitude, that nothing I can say will change it. A lifetime of reasoning with you would not alter your amazing inability to comprehend reality."-Michael D. O'Brien, Island of the World
"[T]he reason why Shakespeare and Pushkin were great writers was because from the time when they were boys they stood like policemen over their thoughts and didn't allow one small insincerity to creep…"-Michael D. O'Brien, Island of the World
3. Don't Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Day Jobs They Quit
By: John Grisham , Daniel Wallace , Rick Bragg , Michelle Richmond , Brad Watson , Pat Conroy , Silas House , Tom Franklin , William Gay , Tim Gautreaux , Larry Brown , Joshilyn Jackson , Sonny Brewer , Cassandra King , Winston Groom , Howard Bahr , Connie May Fowler , Janis Owens , George Singleton , Clay Risen , Steve Yarbrough , Suzanne Hudson , Barb Johnson , None
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The authors in Don't Quit Your Day Job have tried their hands at some of the same jobs as their rea… read more
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- southern
- nonfiction
4. The Man in the Window
By: Jon Cohen
3.66
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
"An off-beat love story...alternately deeply moving and laugh-aloud funny." --Good Housekeeping "Jo… read more
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- audiobook
5. The World's Largest Man: A Memoir
By: Harrison Scott Key
3.64
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
Harrison Scott Key was born in Memphis, but he grew up in Mississippi, among pious Bible-reading wo… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- southern
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. The Bird in the Tree (Eliots of Damerosehay, #1)
By: Elizabeth Goudge
4.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
A Vibrant Novel About the Joys of Life ... and The Pangs of Love Love had come to David for the fir… read more
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7. Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #1)
By: Miss Read
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Miss Read's charming chronicles of small-town life have achieved an almost legendary popularity wor… read more
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8. Lavender Lies (China Bayles, #8)
By: Susan Wittig Albert
3.59
Format: 370 pages,
Texas herbalist China Bayles must put her upcoming nuptials on the back burner when a murder invest… read more
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9. Pilgrim's Inn (Eliots of Damerosehay, #2)
By: Elizabeth Goudge
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
After WW II, Lucilla's soldier son George and his beautiful wife Nadine lived with their five child… read more
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10. If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska
By: Heather Lende
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Tiny Haines, Alaska, is ninety miles north of Juneau, accessible mainly by water or air--and only w… read more
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11. Mere Motherhood: Morning times, nursery rhymes, and my journey toward sanctification
By: Cindy Rollins
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
It was back in the 1980's when Cindy Rollins, then a new mom in search of the best ways to teach he… read more
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12. A Light in the Window (Mitford Years, #2)
By: Jan Karon
4.36
Format: 39 pages, Paperback
- Readers will enjoy a story from the popular series-packaged bestseller! - Includes new Reader's G… read more
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13. The Old Curiosity Shop
By: Charles Dickens , Norman Page
3.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
The archetypal Victorian melodrama, as heartfelt and moving today as when it was first published, C… read more
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14. Harbor Lights
By: James Lee Burke
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from “America’s best novelist” ( Denver Post ), the… read more
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- audiobook
15. The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
By: Dwight Garner
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- cooking
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- food
- audiobook
"There's no verb for traveling while hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool. Perhaps "cheevering" would suffice."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
"A friend once told her that he had seen graffiti in a restaurant's men's room that read, "Gael Greene uses a thesaurus."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
16. The Pioneer Woman Cooks―Dinner's Ready!: 112 Fast and Fabulous Recipes for Slightly Impatient Home Cooks (The Pioneer Woman Cooks, 8)
By: Ree Drummond
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author and Food Network favorite The Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond r… read more
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- cookbooks
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
17. How I Saved the World
By: Jesse Watters
4.28
Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! At one of the most chaotic periods in American history, in a time of… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"You don't judge the 1820s America by 2020 standards. You judge the 1820s by which people helped build what became 2020 America. As individuals, we can acknowledge our sins, repent and grow. As a nati…"-Jesse Watters, How I Saved the World
18. The French Ingredient: A Memoir
By: Jane Bertch
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The inspiring and delicious memoir of an American woman who had the gall to open a cooking school i… read more
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- memoir
- cooking
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- food
- audiobook
19. Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show
By: Tommy Tomlinson
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Elephant in the Room comes the first inside account … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
20. Reasons to Be Cheerful
By: Nina Stibbe
3.50
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
'When people in the village heard I was about to start working in the city they tried to unsettle m… read more
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- audiobook
21. Rednecks
By: Taylor Brown
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A historical drama based on the Battle of Blair Mountain, pitting a multi-ethnic army of 10,000 co… read more
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- southern
- audiobook
22. The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
By: Emma Copley Eisenberg
3.12
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outside… read more
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- history
- memoir
- audiobook
23. Habits for a Sacred Home: 9 Practices from History to Anchor and Restore Modern Families (Helping Moms Experience Peace & Return to Simple Daily Rhythms from Historic Christians like St. Benedict)
By: Jennifer Pepito
4.14
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Frightened by the chaos in society, many parents fear for their children's futures--and end up rais… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. The Best Cook in the World
By: Rick Bragg
4.19
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Margaret Bragg does not own a single cookbook. She measures in "dabs" and "smidgens" and "tads" and… read more
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- history
- biography
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- cookbooks
- southern
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- cooking
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- audiobook
25. The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-mile Horseback Journey into the Old West
By: Will Grant
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Spellbinding…an unforgettable journey across the American West.” - Douglas Preston For readers … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
26. The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America
By: Sara B. Franklin
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne… read more
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- biography
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- cookbooks
- biography memoir
- food
- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. Round Here and Over Yonder: A Front Porch Travel Guide by Two Progressive Hillbillies (Yes, that’s a thing.)
By: Trae Crowder
4.22
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Join Southern comedian duo Trae Crowder and Corey Ryan Forrester in this hilarious and irreverent t… read more
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- memoir
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- audiobook
28. Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America
By: Bill Geist
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Beloved TV host Bill Geist pens a reflective memoir of his incredible summers spent in the heart of… read more
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- biography
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- biography memoir
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- audiobook
29. Go to Hell Ole Miss
By: Jeff Barry
3.68
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
To what lengths will a father go to save his daughter? Big John, a former POW in WWII, thinks wome… read more
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30. Wordhunter
By: Stella Sands
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
An utterly original and compulsively readable detective story about a woman who uses her uncanny ab… read more
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