Picnic in the Ruins
By: Todd Robert Petersen
3.60
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A madcap caper across the RV-strewn vacation lands of southern Utah meets a meditation on mythology…
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1. Waiting for Gertrude: A Graveyard Gothic
By: Bill Richardson , Bill Pechet
3.69
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
In Paris's Pere-Lachaise cemetery lie the bones of many renowned departed. It is also home to a lar… read more
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- fiction
2. Shooting Chant (Ella Clah, #5)
By: Aimée Thurlo , David Thurlo
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
With tensions rising between traditional and modern Navajo, a break-in at the health clinic reveals… read more
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- westerns
- mystery
- crime
- fiction
3. Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
By: Terry Tempest Williams
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same… read more
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4. The Book of Unknown Americans
By: Cristina Henríquez
3.17
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling, heartbreaking page-turner destined for breakout status: a novel that gives voice to mil… read more
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5. The Princess of Las Vegas
By: Chris Bohjalian
3.53
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A Princess Diana impersonator and her estranged sister find themselves drawn into a dangerous game … read more
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- mystery thriller
- adult
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
6. Shutter
By: Ramona Emerson
3.80
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico’s Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller,… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
"Downtown Village was one of the oldest apartment buildings in Albuquerque, rising five stories above the street below. The first four floors housed six small apartments, each just like the one next t…"-Ramona Emerson, Shutter
7. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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- fiction
8. Calling for a Blanket Dance
By: Oscar Hokeah
4.25
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young Native American man struggling to find stren… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"We danced, the way Kiowas danced, when called by our people, by our ancestors, to help each other heal."-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance
"Driving out of Lawton, I laid my hand onto Ever's quilt and traced my fingertips around the edges of the bird pattern. I couldn't help but wonder, tla, couldn't help but worry: Would my grandson ever…"-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance
9. Paper Cage
By: Tom Baragwanath
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This prizewinning debut from New Zealand novelist Tom Baragwanath is both a nail-biting thrill-ride… read more
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- mystery thriller
- adult
- fiction
- mystery
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- crime
10. Dinosaurs
By: Lydia Millet
3.88
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
A man named Gil walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"They say those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, but don’t we all?"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"You gotta be a generalist, in the new climate. But that’s not enough either. If there’s too much poison around. We’re talking pesticides, mostly. Agrochemicals everywhere. Take the sparrows. So anywa…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"Good news. Maybe the insects would handle it. Since the dinosaurs didn’t have it in them. The insects might be naturals at revolution, with their hive minds. Their brainless, decentralized intelligen…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"And freedom, that sacred cow that was always invoked as an excuse for bad behavior, all manner of atrocity—what was it, even? They told you to love it, in the schools and the songs, but never said wh…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
11. Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
By: Melissa L. Sevigny
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, acc… read more
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- adventure
12. Under the Rainbow
By: Celia Laskey
3.73
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
When a group of social activists arrive in a small town, the lives and beliefs of residents and out… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"It was a soft kiss that only lasted for about two seconds, but I felt something in my stomach rev, like an old car trying to start. I wanted to see what it would feel like for the engine to turn over."-Celia Laskey, Under the Rainbow
13. Secrets of the Octopus
By: Sy Montgomery
4.43
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Remarkable new discoveries affirm the octopus as one of nature’s most intelligent and complex anima… read more
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- adult
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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- westerns
- adult
- fiction
15. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
By: Deborah Jackson Taffa
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An Oprah Daily "Best New Book" and "Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read" * A New York T… read more
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"My Laguna grandmother, Esther, is the one who taught me that a deep intimacy with a homeland requires three things: sensory experiences of particular geographies, a storied history of the trails, and…"-Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
16. 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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- adult
- fiction
"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
17. Winter Counts
By: David Heska Wanbli Weiden
3.84
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dange… read more
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- mystery thriller
- adult
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
"There is no word for goodbye in Lakota. That's what my mother used to tell me. Sure, there are words like toksa, which meant "later," that were used by people as a modern substitute. She'd told me la…"-David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Winter Counts
"But as I thought about it, I liked the idea more and more. Depredation claims. If something was stolen from you, all you had to do was file a claim and your losses would be restored. How about a depr…"-David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Winter Counts
18. Rednecks
By: Taylor Brown
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A historical drama based on the Battle of Blair Mountain, pitting a multi-ethnic army of 10,000 co… read more
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- westerns
- adult
- fiction
19. The Bullet Swallower
By: Elizabeth Gonzalez James
3.79
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The… read more
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- westerns
- adult
- fiction
20. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
By: Ada Limon
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Published association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more
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- adult
21. Behind You Is the Sea
By: Susan Muaddi Darraj
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more
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- adult
- fiction
22. All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology
By: Circe Moskowitz
3.83
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to the Dark. We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, … read more
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- fiction
23. A Mansion for Murder (Kate Shackleton, #13)
By: Frances Brody
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
1930, Yorkshire. Intrigued by a mysterious letter from a stranger offering important information, P… read more
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- mystery
- crime
- fiction
24. 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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- adventure
"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
25. Things We Lost to the Water
By: Eric Nguyen
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons, she is jobless, homeless, and worried ab… read more
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- adult
- fiction
26. Murder in Westminster (Lady Worthing Mysteries #1)
By: Vanessa Riley
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Perfect for readers looking for a darker twist on Bridgerton, this first story in a vibrant, inclus… read more
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- mystery
- mystery thriller
- adult
- fiction
27. Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare
By: Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From major new storytelling talent Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, a blazing, bodily, raucous journey throu… read more
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- fiction
28. Picnic in the Ruins
By: Todd Robert Petersen
3.60
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A madcap caper across the RV-strewn vacation lands of southern Utah meets a meditation on mythology… read more
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- mystery thriller
- american
- adventure
- westerns
- adult
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- archaeology
29. Volume 0: Issue One
By: Juliet Escoria
3.31
Format: 131 pages, Paperback
Darker. Edgier. Strang-er We like our stories intense, offbeat, and fun in the slightly naughty … read more
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- fiction
30. 88 Names
By: Matt Ruff
3.41
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
John Chu is a “sherpa", a paid guide to online role-playing games like the popular Call to Wizardry… read more
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- adult
- fiction
31. Wordhunter
By: Stella Sands
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
An utterly original and compulsively readable detective story about a woman who uses her uncanny ab… read more
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- mystery thriller
- adult
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
