The Memory of an Elephant
By: Alex Lasker
4.62
Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition
“The Memory of an Elephant" is an epic saga told by an aging African elephant as he makes a last, p…
Want to Read $ 6.99"I remembered the second most important rule of life, but I should have paid more heed; when things are going well, embrace the days, because they never last for long. The dark wind is always waiting over the horizon, and it can come racing down the plains at any moment."-Alex Lasker, The Memory of an Elephant
"In almost every life there is a moment where a choice is made that changes everything from that point on; the road not taken, the courage to speak up or remain silent in a face of a bully, the carrier chosen or abandoned, the decision and its effects are only apparent with time. And there is no way to go back and change it for better or worse, a life's course is set from that moment on."-Alex Lasker, The Memory of an Elephant
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- africa
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2. The Women
By: Kristin Hannah
4.64
Format: 471 pages, Hardcover
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more
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- adult fiction
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"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
3. The Berry Pickers
By: Amanda Peters
4.14
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more
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- adult fiction
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4. The Frozen River
By: Ariel Lawhon
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more
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- adult
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5. Go as a River
By: Shelley Read
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman's journey to becoming, set against the harsh beaut… read more
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- adult
- book club
- fiction
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"Women endure. That’s what we do."-Shelley Read, Go as a River
"Loss has nothing to do with what you do deserve and don’t deserve."-Shelley Read, Go as a River
"I learned from their subtle relations... that love is a private matter, to be nurtured, and even mourned, between two beings alone. It belongs to them, and no one else, like a secret treasure, like a…"-Shelley Read, Go as a River
"Try as we might to convince ourselves otherwise, the moments of our becoming cannot be carefully plucked like the ripest and most satisfying peach from the bough. In the endless stumble toward oursel…"-Shelley Read, Go as a River
6. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
By: Lisa See
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* An immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woma… read more
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- adult
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7. The River We Remember
By: William Kent Krueger
4.29
Format: 421 pages, Hardcover
In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more
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- fiction
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"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
8. The Covenant of Water
By: Abraham Verghese
4.45
Format: 724 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial ep… read more
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- book club
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9. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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- fiction
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10. The Little Liar
By: Mitch Albom
4.59
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Beloved bestselling author Mitch Albom returns with a powerful novel that moves from a coastal Gree… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
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"Dead men tell no lies, but their truths must be unearthed."-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar
"But the lies you tell by daylight leave you lonesome in the dark."-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar
"The sad thing is, by the time you share what a loved one wants to hear, they no longer want to hear it."-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar
"...a lie told once is easy to expose, but a lie told a thousand times can look like the truth. And destroy the world."-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar
11. 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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- adult fiction
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12. Crow Mary
By: Kathleen Grissom
4.33
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of the book club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Ev… read more
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- adult
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13. West With Giraffes
By: Lynda Rutledge
4.36
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
An emotional, rousing novel inspired by the incredible true story of two giraffes who made headline… read more
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- adventure
- animals
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
"Destiny is a mobile thing — that every choice you make, along with every choice made around you, can cause it to spin this way and that, offering destinies galore."-Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes
"Problem was, whenever I locked eyes with an animal I felt something more soulful than I ever felt from the humans I knew, and what I saw in that sprawled giraffe’s eye made me ache to the bone."-Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes
"People look at you peculiar if you talk about the feeling you got for animals, saying animals have no souls, no sense of good or bad, no value up next to humans," he said. "I don't know about that. S…"-Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes
14. Queenie of Norwich
By: L.K. Wilde
4.44
Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition
"You're Nellie Westrop and don't you forget it. We'll see each other again one day, but until we do… read more
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15. The Secret Life of Sunflowers
By: Marta Molnar
4.13
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
A gripping, inspiring novel based on the true story of Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh's sister-in… read more
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16. The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride
By: Joe Siple
4.63
Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition
With all his family and friends gone, one-hundred-year-old Murray McBride is looking for a reason t… read more
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17. From Under A Mango Tree
By: Alan Fagan
4.71
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
“This story based on actual events is authentic, powerful, achingly beautiful and sad, and often br… read more
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18. The Memory of an Elephant
By: Alex Lasker
4.62
Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition
“The Memory of an Elephant" is an epic saga told by an aging African elephant as he makes a last, p… read more
Want to Read $ 6.99Similar categories in Alex Lasker's The Memory of an Elephant book and Alex Lasker's The Memory of an Elephant
- adult fiction
- africa
- adventure
- travel
- animals
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- nature
"I remembered the second most important rule of life, but I should have paid more heed; when things are going well, embrace the days, because they never last for long. The dark wind is always waiting …"-Alex Lasker, The Memory of an Elephant
"In almost every life there is a moment where a choice is made that changes everything from that point on; the road not taken, the courage to speak up or remain silent in a face of a bully, the carrie…"-Alex Lasker, The Memory of an Elephant
19. All the Glimmering Stars
By: Mark T. Sullivan
4.66
Format: 475 pages, Kindle Edition
Inspired by a true story, two teens kidnapped by an African warlord find salvation through love in … read more
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- africa
- book club
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20. All the Colors of the Dark
By: Chris Whitaker
4.44
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an e… read more
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- adult
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21. Four Nails
By: G.J. Berger
4.35
Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition
In ancient India, tragedy strikes a young elephant trainer. Forced into a slave caravan that takes … read more
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- historical fiction
- animals
- fiction
- adventure
"Look upon friend and foe with equal regard, be not lifted up by praise or cast down by blame, regard heat and cold, pleasure and pain, honor and dishonor with the same quiet inner eye in harmony with…"-G.J. Berger, Four Nails
