If We Had Known
By: Elise Juska
3.40
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A literary tour de force from the acclaimed author of The Blessings-a riveting new novel about one …
Want to Read $ 13.99"This, she thought, was the sadness of teachers. Each semester is a contained little life - a relationship that begins, peaks, but always ends. They cycle in, cycle out, but you stay in one place. The teacher grows older, but the students never age. They are perpetually eighteen, twenty-one, lives always just on the cusp of beginning. You watch them walk off into the world, knowing you helped them become what they're becoming. You suffer the same ending again and again."-Elise Juska, If We Had Known
"This, she thought, was the sadness of teachers. Each semester is a contained little life - a relationship that begins, peaks, but always ends. They cycle in, cycle out, but you stay in one place. The teacher grows older, but the students never age. They are perpetually eighteen, twenty-one, lives always just on the cusp of beginning. You watch them walk off into the world, knowing you helped them become what they're becoming. You suffer the same ending again and again."-Elise Juska, If We Had Known
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1. Commencement
By: J. Courtney Sullivan
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Hardcover
A sparkling debut novel: a tender story of friendship, a witty take on liberal arts colleges, and a… read more
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2. After Annie
By: Anna Quindlen
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more
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- audiobook
3. Leaving
By: Roxana Robinson
3.87
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again? “I never thought I’d see you her… read more
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"Being a mother is paying it forward, sending that energy and feeling to someone who needed it at first to survive, but who, the older she becomes, needs you less. The older you become, the more irrel…"-Roxana Robinson, Leaving
"The justification for leaving a marriage was that you were increasing the sum of happiness in the world. You were ending your own unhappiness, and your spouse’s (if you weren’t happy, your spouse cou…"-Roxana Robinson, Leaving
4. Piglet
By: Lottie Hazell
3.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more
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- audiobook
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
5. The Fetishist
By: Katherine Min
3.71
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this hilariously savage, poignant novel by acclaimed author Katherine Min, a grieving daughter’s… read more
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- contemporary
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- audiobook
6. Brooklyn
By: Tracy Brown
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Tracy Brown crafts a tale about a master manipulator and serial survivor, who will scorch earth to … read more
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- adult fiction
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- audiobook
7. Acts of Forgiveness
By: Maura Cheeks
3.73
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this stirring, tender-hearted debut about ambition and inheritance, a family grapples with how m… read more
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"You can't tour a plantation and come home to 512 Lewaro without understanding its significance. By walking through the front doors of their home, they were rewriting history."-Maura Cheeks, Acts of Forgiveness
"During moments of national importance, it feels as though bills will be paid and mortgages covered, dreams no longer deferred. It feels as though, maybe, it can be less about money than about honor."-Maura Cheeks, Acts of Forgiveness
8. Swift River
By: Essie J. Chambers
3.54
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
10 hours, 30 minutes A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK | A Most Anticipated Book from… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Your hometown makes you and breaks you and makes you again."-Essie J. Chambers, Swift River
9. Shanghailanders
By: Juli Min
3.51
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in tim… read more
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- literary fiction
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10. Big Time
By: Ben H. Winters
3.43
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
Ben Winters, whom critics attest "you'll follow...anywhere" ( New York Times Book Review ), return… read more
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- audiobook
11. We Loved It All: A Memory of Life
By: Lydia Millet
3.85
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom, and the diff… read more
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- audiobook
12. His Favorites
By: Kate Walbert
3.26
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
From the highly acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award finalist and author of A Short History o… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
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- audiobook
"So here is what actually happened, what happens still: the scene on its parallel track to now, to me: linear and constant, never passing into the past, never speeding into the future."-Kate Walbert, His Favorites
"Thank you for listening, he wrote. Dear Beautiful, he wrote. I know I can trust you, he wrote. I think of you all day, he wrote. I wonder how you taste, he wrote. Secret-keeper, he wrote."-Kate Walbert, His Favorites
"I don’t know how others reconcile what happened before with what happens now. For me, the past is a cool, dark pond in which I will always stand partially submerged. That’s just the way it is."-Kate Walbert, His Favorites
"I would leave the story here-the snow erasing the day so that none of the rest of it ever happened, like when a film gets stuck in a projector, the images consumed, distorted, vanished. All traces go…"-Kate Walbert, His Favorites
13. Early Sobrieties
By: Michael Deagler
3.85
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Don’t worry about what Dennis Monk did when he was drinking. He’s sober now, ready to rejoin the wo… read more
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- contemporary
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- audiobook
14. Same As It Ever Was
By: Claire Lombardo
4.00
Format: 498 pages, Hardcover
Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was
15. If We Had Known
By: Elise Juska
3.40
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A literary tour de force from the acclaimed author of The Blessings-a riveting new novel about one … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- crime
- teachers
- audiobook
"This, she thought, was the sadness of teachers. Each semester is a contained little life - a relationship that begins, peaks, but always ends. They cycle in, cycle out, but you stay in one place. The…"-Elise Juska, If We Had Known
16. Consent: A Memoir
By: Jill Ciment
3.96
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more
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17. Lilith
By: Eric Rickstad
3.96
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of I Am Not Who You Think I Am—a New… read more
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"I find no comfort in it, eternity, everlasting life. When I am dead, I will be gone, and I will never know I existed. I will not know I ever was. Just as when I am asleep, I do not know I exist or ev…"-Eric Rickstad, Lilith
18. The Day Tripper
By: James Goodhand
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
It’s 1995, and Alex Dean has it all: a spot at Cambridge University next year, the love of an amazi… read more
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"People who pursue money are those with nothing better to pursue."-James Goodhand, The Day Tripper
19. Wait
By: Gabriella Burnham
3.36
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A young woman reunites with her teenage sister in their childhood home on Nantucket Island after th… read more
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- audiobook
20. How the Light Gets In
By: Joyce Maynard
4.27
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her… read more
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21. Red, White, Blue
By: Lea Carpenter
3.01
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
A dark, powerful, and subtly crafted novel that traces the intertwined fates of a CIA case officer … read more
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