Light from Other Stars
By: Erika Swyler
3.81
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
From the author of national bestseller The Book of Speculation, a poignant, fantastical novel about…
Want to Read $ 9.99"She'd been taught that fear was worry that something bad would happen to you. It wasn't. Fear was something horrible happening to someone you love, someone you need, and you being left alone."-Erika Swyler, Light from Other Stars
"She'd been taught that fear was worry that something bad would happen to you. It wasn't. Fear was something horrible happening to someone you love, someone you need, and you being left alone."-Erika Swyler, Light from Other Stars
"Judy Resnik was Jewish, and Nedda didn't believe in Heaven or Hell. If her dad was right, people who died were just thoughts traveling like light, continuing. It was sad, but not. Being sure about things, like Denny was, seemed easier."-Erika Swyler, Light from Other Stars
"Judy Resnik was Jewish, and Nedda didn't believe in Heaven or Hell. If her dad was right, people who died were just thoughts traveling like light, continuing. It was sad, but not. Being sure about things, like Denny was, seemed easier."-Erika Swyler, Light from Other Stars
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Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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2. All Our Wrong Todays
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3. The Summer of Good Intentions
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Format: 254 pages, Paperback
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4. The Murder of Harriet Krohn (Inspector Sejer Mysteries Book 7)
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Format: 225 pages,
Available for the first time in English, the seventh entry in the beloved Inspector Sejer series fr… read more
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5. The Mapmaker's Children
By: Sarah McCoy
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Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Timesbestselling author of The Baker's Daughter, a story of family, love, and cou… read more
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By: Karin Fossum , Charlotte Barslund
3.76
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When perpetual bachelor Gunder Jomann goes to India for two weeks and comes home married, the town … read more
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7. The Promise Girls
By: Marie Bostwick
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Format: 360 pages, Paperback
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8. The Stories We Tell
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9. The Country of Ice Cream Star
By: Sandra Newman
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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10. Fin & Lady
By: Cathleen Schine
4.50
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11. Half Way Home
By: Hugh Howey
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12. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)
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"Crystal owed the two of us so many apologies, but I’d spent enough years imagining extracting those from my father to know that wringing someone else out didn’t make you any fuller."-Ethan Chatagnier, Singer Distance
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16. Antimatter Blues (Mickey7, #2)
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18. Light from Other Stars
By: Erika Swyler
3.81
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
From the author of national bestseller The Book of Speculation, a poignant, fantastical novel about… read more
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"Inventions were not like your children. Your children were all your flaws shown to you in a way that made you love them: your worst made good. Inventions were your best attempt at beautiful thought. …"-Erika Swyler, Light from Other Stars
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30. A Certain Kind of Starlight
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