The Ski Jumpers
By: Peter Geye
4.01
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
A writer and former ski jumper facing a terminal diagnosis takes one more leap—into a past of soari…
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1. The Beet Queen
By: Louise Erdrich
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. Aft… read more
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2. House Made of Dawn
By: N. Scott Momaday
3.45
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a stranger in his native land A young Native Americ… read more
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3. The Fourth Man
By: K.O. Dahl
4.11
Format: 15 pages,
Internationally renowned author Kjell Ola Dahl has attained cult status in his home country of Norw… read more
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4. To Catch a Storm
By: Mindy Mejia
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this brand new series from national bestseller Mindy Mejia, a physicist and a psychic reluctantl… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
5. Sinister Graves (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #3)
By: Marcie R. Rendon
3.97
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Set in 1970s Minnesota on the White Earth Reservation, Pinckley Prize–winner Marcie R. Rendon’s gri… read more
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- fiction
6. 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
"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"[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
7. Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
By: J. Ryan Stradal
3.63
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal, a story of a couple from two very diffe… read more
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- contemporary
"This place is in your blood, but not your heart. Go find a place that is."-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
"People here liked to say they rooted for the underdog, but some of them got real quiet when the underdog was different from them."-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
"Winter was her cathedral, and the snow-decked trees its endless pillars, and although it was quiet, it wasn't empty. The silence coaxed voices into her imagination, voices of the past and future, voi…"-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
8. Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor, #19)
By: William Kent Krueger
4.21
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
Cork races against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthi… read more
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- fiction
9. The Seed Keeper
By: Diane Wilson
4.30
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family's struggle t… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"My father traveled now with the stars, returned to the vast mystery that had so fascinated him all his life."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"What the white settlers called progress was a storm of fury thundering its way across the land, and none of us were strong enough to withstand it."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"I decided to give Rosie all the facts I could—because that's how the corporations work against us, twisting the truth till we're at war with each other."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"I thought about the aftermath of the 1862 war, when thirty-eight hastily condemned warriors had been hung in Mankato, in the country's largest-ever mass execution. Their bodies were buried in shallow…"-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
10. I Cheerfully Refuse
By: Leif Enger
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more
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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
"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"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
11. Forsaken Country (Detective Max Rupert, #5)
By: Allen Eskens
4.24
Format: None pages, Audiobook
11 hours, 9 minutes Three fathers collide far beyond the reach or safety of the law in this bre… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
12. Saving Emma (Boady Sanden, #2)
By: Allen Eskens
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
A lawyer's race to reveal a wrongful conviction collides with the dark shadow of a murder in his ow… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"There are no miracles, my friend. God's hand is in everything; it's only when we can't explain it that we call it a miracle."-Allen Eskens, Saving Emma (Boady Sanden, #2)
13. Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey
By: Edel Rodriguez
4.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From “America’s illustrator in chief” ( Fast Company ), a graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, co… read more
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14. Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life
By: Kao Kalia Yang
4.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing and hauntingly beautiful memoir about a Hmong family’s epic journey to safety told fr… read more
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15. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more
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16. A Good Family
By: Matt Goldman
3.64
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
Katie Kuhlmann's marriage is falling apart. But she has a secure job, her children are healthy, and… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
17. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
By: Kevin Fedarko
4.36
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more
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"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
18. No Hiding in Boise
By: Kim Hooper
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When Angie is awakened by a midnight call from an officer with the Boise Police Department, she thi… read more
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- contemporary
19. True North
By: Andrew J. Graff
3.74
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Raft of Stars comes a heartfelt novel of marriage and whitewater rafting, follow… read more
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- contemporary
20. The English Experience
By: Julie Schumacher
3.91
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
Jason Fitger may be the last faculty member the dean wants for the job, but he’s the only professor… read more
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21. Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
By: Chantha Nguon
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during… read more
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"When you must flee and can carry only one thing, what will it be? What single seed from your old life will be the most useful in helping you sow a new one?"-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
"A refugee must learn to be anything people want her to be at any given moment. But behind the masks, I am only myself - a mosaic of flavors from near and far."-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
"But if there's one thing I learned from my mother, it's that losing everything is not the end of the story. She taught me that lost civilizations can be rebuilt from zero, even if the task will requi…"-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
"But the past never goes away. The fear and pain are still there, buried in our brains like mines. It is better to defuse them than to leave them entombed, quietly, waiting for a single misstep. That …"-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
22. Last Circle of Love
By: Lorna Landvik
3.74
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
A funny, heartwarming story about a feisty group of women who shake, spice, and heat things up with… read more
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- contemporary
23. Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20)
By: William Kent Krueger
4.34
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A disappearance and a dead body put Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twe… read more
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24. The Ski Jumpers
By: Peter Geye
4.01
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
A writer and former ski jumper facing a terminal diagnosis takes one more leap—into a past of soari… read more
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25. The Seaplane on Final Approach
By: Rebecca Rukeyser
3.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A lusty young woman seeks out experience on a remote Alaskan homestead in this erotic and darkly hu… read more
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- contemporary
"My ferocity was leveled at becoming."-Rebecca Rukeyser, The Seaplane on Final Approach
26. The Net Beneath Us
By: Carol Dunbar
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her debut novel, Carol Dunbar draws from her own lived experiences, vividly describing the wonde… read more
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- contemporary
27. The North Line
By: Matt Riordan
3.76
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Matt Riordan’s debut novel, a college student in need of quick money finds work on an Alaskan fi… read more
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- contemporary
28. The Faculty Lounge
By: Jennifer Mathieu
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
By the acclaimed author of Moxie, a funny, bighearted adult debut that is at once an ode to educato… read more
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- contemporary
29. Sisters of Mokama: The Pioneering Women Who Brought Hope and Healing to India
By: Jyoti Thottam
3.97
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Sisters of Mokama is proof that faith and courage does move mountains. -- Abraham Verghese, author … read more
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30. Where They Last Saw Her
By: Marcie R. Rendon
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
From the award-winning author of the Cash Blackbear series, a harrowing novel of a Native American … read more
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- contemporary
31. A Christmas Carol (Real Reads)
By: Gill Tavner
4.11
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
This is an adaptation of Dickens' tale. read more
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