The Tenth Muse
By: Catherine Chung
4.03
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
From childhood, Katherine knows she is different, and that her parents are not who they seem to be.…
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1. Men We Reaped: A Memoir
By: Jesmyn Ward
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
'...And then we heard the rain falling, and that was the drops of blood falling; and when we came t… read more
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"But this grief, for all its awful weight, insists that he matters."-Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir
"But my father could be dark too. He was attracted to violence, to the basic beauty of fighting, the way it turned his body and those he fought into meticulously constructed machines."-Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir
"Men’s bodies litter my family history. The pain of the women they left behind pulls them from the beyond, makes them appear as ghosts. In death, they transcend he circumstances of this place that I l…"-Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir
"Some of them were my friends, and they never took up for me, for Black people, when I was in the room. And according to what some of them told me in private conversation, they didn't when I wasn't in…"-Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir
2. The Battle For Christabel
By: Margaret Forster
4.12
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
Rowena wants a baby. What she doesn't want is the baby's father. Yet five years after the birth of … read more
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3. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
By: Joshua Hammer
3.82
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls o… read more
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4. Panther In The Basement
By: Amos Oz
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
Jerusalem 1947. British soldiers patrol the streets, and bullets and bombs are a nightly occurrence… read more
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6. A Casualty of War (Bess Crawford #9)
By: Charles Todd
4.00
Format: None pages, ebook
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7. The Turning
By: Tim Winton , Humphrey Bower , Caroline Lee , Klaus Berr
3.93
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
Set on a coastal stretch of Western Australia, Tim Winton's stunning collection of connected storie… read more
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8. My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
By: Ariel Sabar
4.24
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kur… read more
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"Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent."-Ariel Sabar, My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
"If you knew which levers to pull, you could stop time just long enough to save the things you love most."-Ariel Sabar, My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
"Language lives. It inhales culture and history. It sprouts new limbs, sloughs off old ones. It goes through cycles of rapid growth, unremarkable periods of stable maturity, decay, and sometimes, as w…"-Ariel Sabar, My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
9. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
10. Miss Truesdale and the Fall of Hyperborea
By: Mike Mignola
3.32
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
One of the last followers of the Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra, the unassuming Miss Truesdale is the r… read more
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11. 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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12. Dixon, Descending
By: Karen Outen
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, heartrending debut novel about ambition, survival, and our responsibilities to one anot… read more
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"This was the feel at the top of the world. He waited. For something... But the mountain dismissed him like an unwanted suitor. There was nothing here that cared for him. He was king of small purchase…"-Karen Outen, Dixon, Descending
13. América del Norte
By: Nicolás Medina Mora
3.90
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A young man from an elite Mexican family travels back and forth between the United States and Mexic… read more
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14. Batman: Detective Comics, Vol. 1: Gotham Nocturne: Overture
By: Ram V.
3.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
It’s a new era for the detective of the night as we introduce award-winning writer Ram V ( Catwoman… read more
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15. The Great Unexpected
By: Dan Mooney
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
A curmudgeon and his eccentric new roommate join together to plan an epic escape in this charming, … read more
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16. Forget You Know Me
By: Jessica Strawser
3.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“Forget You Know Me is that book you can’t put down, and can’t stop thinking about when you are fin… read more
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17. 1947: Where Now Begins
By: Elisabeth Åsbrink
3.93
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning writer captures a year that defined the modern world, intertwining historical even… read more
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18. With My Back to the World: Poems
By: Victoria Chang
4.08
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
*A Today Show Pick *Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club Selection *Publisher's Weekly Starred Review a… read more
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19. The Tenth Muse
By: Catherine Chung
4.03
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
From childhood, Katherine knows she is different, and that her parents are not who they seem to be.… read more
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20. The Swan's Nest
By: Laura McNeal
3.73
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A tender and engrossing historical novel about the unlikely love affair between two great 19th-cent… read more
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21. The Eagles of Heart Mountain: A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America
By: Bradford Pearson
3.82
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The impeccably researched, deeply moving, never-before-told tale about a World War II concentration… read more
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