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…
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1. Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
By: Chuck Klosterman
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Empirically proving that -- no matter where you are -- kids wanna rock, this is Chuck Klosterman's … read more
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- nonfiction
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"It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn."-Chuck Klosterman, Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
"I sometimes wonder how many hours of my life I have wasted bitching about keyboards. The use of keyboards and synthesizers is the Roe v. Wade of '80s metal. It was-without question-the lamest instrum…"-Chuck Klosterman, Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
2. On Mexican Time: A New Life In San Miguel
By: Tony Cohan
3.43
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
When Tony Cohan and his wife visited central Mexico in 1985, they fell under the spell of an irresi… read more
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- biography
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3. Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
By: Will Harlan
4.00
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
Carol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She eats road kill, wrestles alligators, rides h… read more
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4. 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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5. Pink Chimneys: A Novel of Nineteenth-Century Maine
By: Ardeana Hamlin Knowles
4.00
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
Back in print by popular demand! Set against the backdrop of temperance crusades, emerging statehoo… read more
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6. Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey
By: Bill Roorbach
3.88
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
I call the stream ours because our house is in its valley and a corner of our land touches the stre… read more
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7. 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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- audiobook
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8. 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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- audiobook
9. This Other Eden
By: Paul Harding
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more
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- audiobook
10. 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
- contemporary
11. The Road to Dalton (Dalton, Maine, #1)
By: Shannon Bowring
4.04
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
From debut author Shannon Bowring comes a novel of small town America that Pulitzer-winner Richard … read more
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12. Return to Blood (Hana Westerman Thriller, #2)
By: Michael Bennett
3.94
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Better the Blood, the gripping second novel in a crime series starring Māori det… read more
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13. The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
By: Monica Potts
3.88
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small-town in Arkansas while her br… read more
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- audiobook
"When I was little, I thought that when people were drunk they were drunk forever. Later, I learned that this is not true. Even later, I learned that sometimes it is."-Monica Potts, The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
14. 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
- contemporary
"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
15. One Woman Show
By: Christine Coulson
3.92
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A sly and stylish novel—remarkably told through museum wall labels—about a twentieth-century woman … read more
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- contemporary
16. Elf Dog and Owl Head
By: M.T. Anderson
3.92
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A Newbery Honor Book A magical adventure about a boy and his dog—or a dog and her boy—and a fore… read more
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- audiobook
17. Old Crimes: and Other Stories
By: Jill McCorkle
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Beloved author Jill McCorkle delivers a collection of masterful stories that are as complex as nove… read more
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18. 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
- contemporary
"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
19. Shallow Graves: The Hunt for the New Bedford Highway Serial Killer
By: Maureen Boyle
3.70
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Eleven women went missing over the spring and summer of 1988 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, an old … read more
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- audiobook
20. 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
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
"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
21. 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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- audiobook
22. 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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- nature
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23. 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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- memoir
- the united states of america
- coming of age
- nonfiction
- family
- contemporary
- sociology
- nature
- audiobook
24. No Vacancy
By: Tziporah Cohen
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Buying and moving into the run-down Jewel Motor Inn in upstate New York wasn’t eleven-year-old Miri… read more
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- audiobook
25. The Cliffs
By: J. Courtney Sullivan
3.66
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New Y… read more
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26. 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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27. Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty
By: Joanne Samuel Goldblum
4.17
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Water. Food. Housing. The most basic and crucial needs for survival, yet 40 percent of people in th… read more
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- sociology
28. Everyone Knows But You
By: Thomas E. Ricks
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An FBI agent finds himself in the insular world of a fishing village on the Maine coast where the r… read more
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29. Operation Sisterhood
By: Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Fans of the Netflix reboot of The Babysitters Club will delight as four new sisters band together i… read more
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30. Salsa Magic
By: Letisha Marrero
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A magical debut middle-grade novel filled with loud but loving family members, santería, and powerf… read more
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31. We're Going Home: A True Story of Life and Death
By: Cynthia Thayer
4.75
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
They were an unlikely a “fast and frantic” woman and a steady, “pickin’ at it” man. And even thoug… read more
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