Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her
By: Erika Bolstad
3.38
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Beneath the windswept North Dakota plains, riches await... At first, Erika Bolstad knew only one…
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1. The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
By: Michael W. Twitty
3.86
Format: 480 pages, ebook
Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition, yet the question of who "owns" it is … read more
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"I picked cotton so you could pick up a book."-Michael W. Twitty, The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
2. Good Kings Bad Kings
By: Susan Nussbaum
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Inside the halls of ILLC, an institution for juveniles with disabilities, we discover a place that … read more
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- adult
- contemporary
"Once I make a decision, I stick to it."-Susan Nussbaum, Good Kings Bad Kings
"Once you laugh with a person? That person is your friend."-Susan Nussbaum, Good Kings Bad Kings
3. The Last Chance Matinee (The Hudson Sisters, #1)
By: Mariah Stewart
4.00
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
From New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes the first novel in her all new series, … read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- contemporary
4. The Chesapeake Bride (Chesapeake Diaries #11)
By: Mariah Stewart
3.94
Format: 111 pages, Mass Market Paperback
From New York Timesbestselling author Mariah Stewart comes a new chapter in her celebrated Chesapea… read more
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- adult
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5. Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
By: Caroline Fraser
4.03
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Lit… read more
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- audiobook
6. I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50
By: Annabelle Gurwitch
3.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Annabelle Gurwitch the humorist The Washington Post calls hilarious and O, The Oprah Magazine slyly… read more
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- womens
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7. A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope
By: Tom Brokaw
3.87
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
From Tom Brokaw, the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, comes a powerful memoir of a ye… read more
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8. The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
By: David von Drehle
4.00
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
One of our nation’s most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life … read more
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- audiobook
9. Unsinkable
By: Jenni L. Walsh
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER The Titanic was only the beginning. What she survived has become… read more
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- audiobook
10. Hidden Mountains: Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong
By: Michael Wejchert
3.99
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The story of a climbing adventure gone wrong in a remote Alaskan mountain range, the impossible res… read more
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11. I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
By: Lucy Sante
3.70
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
“Reading this book is a joy... much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a st… read more
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"(Although it is extremely exciting to have tits.)"-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"I wanted to so badly to be a woman that I could not really understand anyone wanting anything else"-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"It appeared that transitioning did not involve piling on additional stuff; rather it was a process of removal, dismantling the carapace of maleness that had kept me in its grip for so long."-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"My secret poisoned my entire experience of life. There was never a moment when I didn't feel the acute shame of being me, even as I denied to myself that my secret had anything to do with it."-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
12. A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
By: Lawrence Ingrassia
4.41
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
By: Sarah McCammon
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more
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- history
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Where Coyotes Howl
By: Sandra Dallas
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Beautifully rendered, Where Coyotes Howl is a vivid and deeply affecting ode to the early twentieth… read more
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- adult
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15. Never Give Up: A Prairie Family's Story (Random House Large Print)
By: Tom Brokaw
3.85
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
In this moving story, the New York Times bestselling author of The Greatest Generation chronicles t… read more
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- history
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16. The Prospectors
By: Ariel Djanikian
3.67
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping rags-to-riches story of survival and greed across American history following a family tr… read more
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"How easy it was to adjust to extravagance."-Ariel Djanikian, The Prospectors
"Secrets have a way of nudging against their enclosures and bumping playfully against the walls."-Ariel Djanikian, The Prospectors
17. Shelterwood
By: Lisa Wingate
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children ca… read more
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"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
18. Burn the Place: A Memoir
By: Iliana Regan
3.64
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
A singular, powerfully expressive debut memoir that traces one chef’s struggle to find her place an… read more
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19. Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain
By: Margaret Willson
3.93
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A notorious crime, a lone woman fighting for equality, and the thrills of the wide-open sea A da… read more
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- womens
- audiobook
"We are survivors, harboring all the acquiring insights strengths and scars that word implies."-Margaret Willson, Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain
"She had the courage to retain compassion, the intelligence and strength to grow wisdom. This is the meaning of resilience."-Margaret Willson, Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain
"He dreamed of this day as he'd listened to his foster mother, Sesselja, and grandmother Ingibjörg tell of their sea adventures with the great Captain Thuridur. Their stories he knew were true because…"-Margaret Willson, Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain
20. The Rye Bread Marriage: How I Found Happiness with a Partner I’ll Never Understand
By: Michaele Weissman
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
How do partners in long-lasting relationships live together without driving each other up a wall? A… read more
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- history
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I believe all of us, no matter who we are, where we come from, are imprinted by the wounds - and the occasional wonders - of the past."-Michaele Weissman, The Rye Bread Marriage: How I Found Happiness with a Partner I’ll Never Understand
"Immersing myself in the lyrics of Latvian folksongs, I sensed something else may be at work: A melancholy related to homesickness. A longing for an idealized home that is perpetually out of reach."-Michaele Weissman, The Rye Bread Marriage: How I Found Happiness with a Partner I’ll Never Understand
21. My Lost Freedom: A Japanese American World War II Story
By: George Takei
4.47
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
A moving, beautifully illustrated true story for children ages 6 to 9 about growing up in Japanese … read more
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22. Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her
By: Erika Bolstad
3.38
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Beneath the windswept North Dakota plains, riches await... At first, Erika Bolstad knew only one… read more
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- nonfiction
- contemporary
- womens
- adult
- environment
- audiobook
23. Playground
By: Richard Powers
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more
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- environment
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24. Roctogenarians: Late in Life Debuts, Comebacks, and Triumphs
By: Mo Rocca
4.04
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca, author of New York Times bestseller Mobitua… read more
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25. One Night Two Souls Went Walking
By: Ellen Cooney
3.43
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
A young interfaith chaplain is joined on her hospital rounds one night by an unusual companion: a r… read more
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- contemporary
26. I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir
By: Susan Kiyo Ito
4.61
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
“Susan Kiyo Ito is like a surgeon operating on herself. She is delicate, precise, and at times cutt… read more
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27. Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
By: Lucas Bessire
3.85
Format: None pages, ebook
Finalist for the National Book AwardAn intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heart… read more
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- environment
- audiobook
"I feared putting a child through more pain than I had gone through. Yet the more I tried to avoid acting like the men in my childhood, the more them I seemed to become."-Lucas Bessire, Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
28. The Farmer's Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm
By: Sarah Vogel
4.40
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The unforgettable true story of a young lawyer's impossible legal battle to stop the federal govern… read more
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- history
29. Beyond Ivy Walls
By: Rachel Fordham
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Reminiscent of Beauty and the Beast, a recluse and a young woman discover that the scars of life ar… read more
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30. Guide Me Home (Highway 59, #3)
By: Attica Locke
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the final novel in the "timely and evocative" (NPR) Highway 59 trilogy, from Edgar Award-winning… read more
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31. Drawn Testimony: My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist
By: Jane Rosenberg
4.27
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A penetrating, compulsively readable memoir about the four-decade career of America's top courtroom… read more
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