7 best-selling history books like Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains by Kerri Arsenault

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Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains

By: Kerri Arsenault

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A galvanizing and powerful debut, Mill Town is an American story, a human predicament, and a moral …

"We broke the rules of our family's way of life, rules they encouraged us to break; we chose different paths."

-Kerri Arsenault, Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains

If you liked the history plot in Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains by Kerri Arsenault , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Lost on a Mountain in Maine

By: Donn Fendler , Joseph B. Egan

3.92

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Based on the true account of a boy's harrowing journey through the vast wilderness of the Katahdin … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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2. Bad Little Falls (Mike Bowditch, #3)

By: Paul Doiron

3.63

Format: 353 pages,

Maine game warden Mike Bowditch has been sent into exile, transferred by his superiors to a remote … read more

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  • audiobook
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3. Kentucky Straight: Stories

By: Chris Offutt

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Riveting, often heartbreaking stories that take readers through country that is figuratively and li… read more

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4. The Trees

By: Conrad Richter

4.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Trees is a moving novel of the beginning of the American trek to the west. Toward the close of … read more

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5. When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine

By: Monica Wood

4.06

Format: 32 pages,

1963, Mexico, Maine. The Wood family is much like its close, Catholic, immigrant neighbors, all dep… read more

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6. Red Moon

By: Benjamin Percy

3.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"A werewolf epic. Can't stop thinking about it."--Stephen King They live among us. They are our nei… read more

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7. Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938

By: R.A. Scotti

4.49

Format: 563 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of "The Perfect Storm, Sudden Sea" harkens back to a natural disaster that struck … read more

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8. To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care

By: Cris Beam

2.83

Format: 288 pages, ebook

"Beam presents both a sharp critique of foster-care policies and a searching exploration of the mea… read more

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9. Empire Falls

By: Richard Russo

3.57

Format: 10 pages, Paperback

Richard Russo--from his first novel, Mohawk, to his most recent, Straight Man--has demonstrated a p… read more

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10. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Midcoast

By: Adam White

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Propulsive . . . An absorbing look at small-town Maine and the thwarted drea… read more

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  • audiobook
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12. I Must Be Dreaming

By: Roz Chast

3.65

Format: 118 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast's new graphic narrativ… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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13. Beneficence

By: Meredith Hall

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"Beneficence is amazing in its vision. Luminous. With wisdom and compassion, Meredith Hall writes a… read more

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  • audiobook
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14. Dead Man's Wake (Mike Bowditch, #14)

By: Paul Doiron

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Game Warden Mike Bowditch's engagement party is interrupted by the discovery of a gruesome double m… read more

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  • audiobook
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15. Snakebit

By: Paul Doiron

4.01

Format: 117 pages, Kindle Edition

In “Snakebit," an original short story from bestselling author Paul Doiron, Maine game warden Mike … read more

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  • audiobook
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16. How to Read a Book

By: Monica Wood

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A charming, deeply moving novel about second chances, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing p… read more

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  • audiobook
"Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly, or maybe we expect so little of men their transgressions don't register the same."

-Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

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17. Night of the Living Rez

By: Morgan Talty

3.91

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

How do the living come back to life?  Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Re… read more

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  • audiobook
"There is that terrible memory, surely, but so too are there sweet ones, the tiny memories with the tiny details that are milder in climax, no doubt, but equally powerful..."

-Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez

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18. Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars

By: Francesca Wade

4.16

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

An engrossing group portrait of five women writers, including Virginia Woolf, who moved to London's… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Coyote Songs

By: Gabino Iglesias

4.18

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

In Gabino Iglesias’ second novel, ghosts and old gods guide the hands of those caught up in a viole… read more

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"Facts are harder to swallow than rocks, but just as solid."

-Gabino Iglesias, Coyote Songs

"The amount of pity you generate in others diminishes with every birthday."

-Gabino Iglesias, Coyote Songs

"Fishing… is like life: mostly about deception, waiting, luck, and going home empty-handed."

-Gabino Iglesias, Coyote Songs

"However, the man was wrong. It wasn’t a hundred coyotes with bullhorns howling at once and it wasn’t the Devil himself. The things that had screamed that night was the soul of a shattered, hurt mothe…"

-Gabino Iglesias, Coyote Songs

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20. 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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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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21. The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

By: Liza Mundy

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A thrilling and monumental new history of the CIA that reveals how women have always played crucial… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains

By: Kerri Arsenault

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A galvanizing and powerful debut, Mill Town is an American story, a human predicament, and a moral … read more

Similar categories in Kerri Arsenault's Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains book and Kerri Arsenault's Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains

  • audiobook
  • social science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • environment
  • science
"We broke the rules of our family's way of life, rules they encouraged us to break; we chose different paths."

-Kerri Arsenault, Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains

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23. Northeaster: A Story of Courage and Survival in the Blizzard of 1952

By: Cathie Pelletier

3.96

Format: 288 pages, ebook

A vivid and gripping story of an epic Maine snowstorm that tested the very limits of human enduranc… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution by Woody Holton

24. Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution

By: Woody Holton

3.90

Format: 800 pages, Hardcover

A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian)… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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25. Lungfish

By: Meghan Gilliss

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Jenny Offill, Marilynne Robinson, and Claire-Louise Bennett, Lungfish is the shimmer… read more

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  • audiobook
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26. Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream

By: David Leonhardt

4.28

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American D… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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27. Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America

By: Gigi Georges

3.58

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this captivating and empathetic book, Gigi Georges follows five girls as they come of age in one… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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28. The Lowering Days

By: Gregory Brown

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An emotionally powerful saga, set in 1980s Maine, that explores family love, the power of myths and… read more

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  • audiobook
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29. Pitch Dark (Mike Bowditch, #15)

By: Paul Doiron

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Game Warden Mike Bowditch must chase down a cunning and dangerous fugitive in the North Maine Woods… read more

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  • audiobook
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30. The Northern Reach

By: W.S. Winslow

3.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A heart-wrenching first novel about the power of place and family ties, the weight of the stories w… read more

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31. Moon in Full: A Modern Day Coming-of-Age Story

By: Marpheen Chann

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In his memoir, Moon in Full, Marpheen Chan recounts an emotional and modern day coming-of-age stor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"If you run from something you fear, it gives that fear power and that fear will continue to chase and haunt you. But if you turn around and face it, only then can you begin to see it for what it is a…"

-Marpheen Chann, Moon in Full: A Modern Day Coming-of-Age Story

"Changing hearts and minds requires humbleness, empathy, and understanding. It requires that we maintain our optimism about other people and their ability to evolve and change. It means not giving up …"

-Marpheen Chann, Moon in Full: A Modern Day Coming-of-Age Story

"In many ways, the pain was born of guilt. Guilt that I couldn’t turn back time and fix everything… Part of healing means confronting these very difficult feelings and emotions. For years, I wrestled …"

-Marpheen Chann, Moon in Full: A Modern Day Coming-of-Age Story

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3.63

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Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

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