Whiskey When We're Dry
By: John Larison
4.05
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
In the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and alone on her f…
Want to Read $ 13.99"Tea has a manner of setting the world right."-John Larison, Whiskey When We're Dry
"Ain't nothing more natural than a girl on a pony."-John Larison, Whiskey When We're Dry
"...they think a man is made real by the violence he wields."-John Larison, Whiskey When We're Dry
"If you got a ma looking out for you, all you got to do is grow up."-John Larison, Whiskey When We're Dry
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2. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
By: Ed Tarkington
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Format: None pages, Hardcover
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3. Boone's Lick
By: Larry McMurtry
4.05
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Boone's Lickis Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry's return to the kind of story that made… read more
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4. Buffalo Girls
By: Larry McMurtry
4.05
Format: None pages, Paperback
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5. World, Chase Me Down
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6. 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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"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
7. 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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8. Tom Lake
By: Ann Patchett
3.99
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more
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"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
9. 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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"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
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"[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
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4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
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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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12. Demon Copperhead
By: Barbara Kingsolver
4.50
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
"Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Set in t… read more
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"Counting on Jesus to save the day is no more real than sending up the Batman signal."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
"life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don’t rule it out."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
13. I Cheerfully Refuse
By: Leif Enger
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
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"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
14. The Bullet Swallower
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3.79
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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15. Lucky Red
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3.92
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16. Doorman Wanted
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17. Whiskey When We're Dry
By: John Larison
4.05
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
In the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and alone on her f… read more
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"Tea has a manner of setting the world right."-John Larison, Whiskey When We're Dry
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18. Say Hello to My Little Friend
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3.77
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19. Only Killers and Thieves (Billy McBride #1)
By: Paul Howarth
4.04
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
Two adolescent brothers are exposed to the brutal realities of life and the seductive cruelty of po… read more
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20. Wolfpack
By: Amelia Brunskill
3.49
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21. Pity the Beast
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3.23
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
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