The Illness Lesson
By: Clare Beams
3.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The year is 1871. In Ashwell, Massachusetts, at the farm of Samuel Hood and his daughter Caroline, …
Want to Read $ 4.99"You think being unhappy has particular choreography?"-Clare Beams, The Illness Lesson
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1. A Fever of the Blood (Frey & McGray, #2)
By: Óscar de Muriel
3.90
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
New Year's Day, 1889. In Edinburgh's lunatic asylum, a patient escapes as a nurse lays dying. Lead… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
2. Mrs. Poe
By: Lynn Cullen
3.79
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A vivid and compelling novel about a woman who becomes entangled in an affair with Edgar Allan Poe-… read more
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3. Monique s'évade
By: Édouard Louis
4.20
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Une nuit, j’ai reçu un appel de ma mère. Elle pleurait. Elle me disait au téléphone que l’homme ave… read more
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- fiction
4. The Other Valley
By: Scott Alexander Howard
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A literary speculative novel about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future Sixtee… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
5. Fervor
By: Toby Lloyd
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A chilling and unforgettable story of a close-knit Jewish family in London pushed to the brink when… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- magical realism
- fiction
6. Bone China
By: Laura Purcell
3.65
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
Consumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft's family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- fantasy
7. Homesickness
By: Colin Barrett
3.87
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The second book from the "exact and poetic" (New York Times) author of critical smash Young Skins, … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
8. We Cast a Shadow
By: Maurice Carlos Ruffin
3.62
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, provocative debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty's The Sellout, about a father who wil… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
9. Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant's Search for Her Family's Lasting Legacy
By: Gayle Jessup White
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings’ family explores America’s racial reckonin… read more
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- historical
10. A Step Past Darkness
By: Vera Kurian
3.55
Format: 440 pages, Hardcover
SIX CLASSMATES. ONE TERRIFYING NIGHT. A MURDER TWENTY YEARS IN THE MAKING… There’s something sin… read more
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- mystery
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
11. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
12. The Illness Lesson
By: Clare Beams
3.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The year is 1871. In Ashwell, Massachusetts, at the farm of Samuel Hood and his daughter Caroline, … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- magical realism
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"You think being unhappy has particular choreography?"-Clare Beams, The Illness Lesson
13. My Name Is Iris
By: Brando Skyhorse
3.37
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
Brando Skyhorse, the PEN/Hemingway Award—winning author of The Madonnas of Echo Park, returns with … read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
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- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
14. The Invisible World
By: Nora Fussner
3.40
Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition
A gothic, ghostly horror novel set on a paranormal investigations TV show, with an ensemble cast ea… read more
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- mystery
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
15. Devil Is Fine
By: John Vercher
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he h… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- magical realism
- fiction
- historical fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"No way I'd let myself feel again like I felt that morning. Of course, I wouldn't. I didn't have to tell her any of that. When it's that easy to lie to yourself, lying to someone else is light work. […"-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine
"Among the many things unknown before becoming a parent is how to handle when the child becomes the teacher. They proffer up parental pearls dispensed to them, and while thinking they'd fallen on deaf…"-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine
16. Midnight Rooms
By: Donyae Coles
3.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in a foreboding Gothic mansion and infused with the heightened paranoia and creeping horror of … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
17. Christina Dalcher Collection 2 Books Set ( VOX & Q )
By: Christina Dalcher
3.75
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listin… read more
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18. The Sequel (The Book Series, #2)
By: Jean Hanff Korelitz
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
After the “insanely readable” (Stephen King) and “perfectly told” (Malcolm Gladwell) New York Times… read more
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- mystery
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
19. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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- mystery
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
20. Houris
By: Kamel Daoud
4.03
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
"Je suis la véritable trace, le plus solide des indices attestant de tout ce que nous avons vécu en… read more
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21. La fille de la grêle
By: Delphine Saubaber
4.12
Format: 208 pages, None
Un soir de sa vie, dans un dernier souffle, Marie décide de livrer à sa fille Adèle l’histoire de s… read more
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