As Close to Us as Breathing
By: Elizabeth Poliner
3.66
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1948, a small stretch of the Woodmont, Connecticut shoreline, affectionately named "Bagel Beach,…
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1. The Care and Management of Lies
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.53
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The New York Timesbestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series turns her prodigious talents to thi… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Their love was thus seeded in the rich soil of mutual understanding."-Jacqueline Winspear, The Care and Management of Lies
2. White Houses
By: Amy Bloom
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Based on truth, the "sensuous, captivating account of a forbidden affair between two women" (People… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
"Those of us who knew him and needed him didn't want to stop grieving, for fear we'd step forward, toward the future, and entirely lose the trace, the smell, and the feel of him."-Amy Bloom, White Houses
"Every couple has the same five arguments in their lifetime, which is really just the one, over and over, until people die or divorce. What it is depends on who you are and what your parents did to yo…"-Amy Bloom, White Houses
"We used to say, we’re no beauties, because it was impossible to tell the truth. In bed, we were beauties. We were goddesses. We were the little girls we’d never been: loved, saucy, delighted, and del…"-Amy Bloom, White Houses
"We think- oh, we will never forget these northern lights, but we do. What we remember is only the curling picture in the left-hand drawer (Presque Isle, Maine, 1934) or a gorgeous half-page photo in …"-Amy Bloom, White Houses
3. The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder
By: Claudia Rowe
3.21
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A true story of a female journalist, her unusual connection with a convicted serial killer and her … read more
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4. Miller's Valley
By: Anna Quindlen
3.89
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
For generations the Millers have lived in Miller’s Valley. Mimi Miller tells about her life with in… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- family
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- adult
"I was good with being alone, always liked it, but there's something about doing a job alone that you've always done with someone else that just doesn't feel right. Maybe it's like making Christmas co…"-Anna Quindlen, Miller's Valley
5. The Rest of Her Life
By: Laura Moriarty
3.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In The Rest of Her Life, Laura Moriarty delivers a luminous, compassionate, and provocative look at… read more
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- family
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"Worrying was painful .... but compared to the alternative, a privilege"-Laura Moriarty, The Rest of Her Life
"You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally, and then it was just too late to get them back"-Laura Moriarty, The Rest of Her Life
"Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted, be it silence or information, affection or independence--so that child, in turn…"-Laura Moriarty, The Rest of Her Life
"She wondered when her daughter would realise that for the most part, people weren't that different. Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things: The wanted to …"-Laura Moriarty, The Rest of Her Life
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- fiction
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7. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
By: Nancy Isenberg
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In her groundbreaking history of the class system in America, extending from colonial times to the … read more
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8. Tapestry of Fortunes
By: Elizabeth Berg
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A wonderful new novel about four women who take a trip into their past, to find again the people th… read more
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- fiction
9. Moon Shell Beach
By: Nancy Thayer
3.70
Format: 264 pages,
New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer delighted readers with her sparkling Hot Flash Club … read more
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- fiction
10. Mudbound
By: Hillary Jordan
4.26
Format: 168 pages,
In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, an… read more
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11. Five Days Left
By: Julie Lawson Timmer
3.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
Mara Nichols is a successful lawyer, devoted wife, and adoptive mother who has received a life-shat… read more
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12. A Fine Imitation
By: Amber Brock
4.23
Format: 187 pages, Hardcover
Set in the glamorous 1920s, A Fine Imitationis an intoxicating debut that sweeps readers into a pri… read more
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13. Somebody Else's Daughter
By: Elizabeth Brundage
4.20
Format: 252 pages,
Two young drifters, Nate and Cat, are forced by stress and circumstance to give up their infant dau… read more
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14. The President’s Wife
By: Tracey Enerson Wood
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The incredible story of the First Lady who clandestinely assumed the presidency, from the USA Today… read more
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- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
15. Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence
By: James Renner
3.74
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Ann Rule and Gregg Olsen, a riveting new true crime book from the acclaimed author o… read more
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- adult
- family
16. The Evolution of Annabel Craig
By: Lisa Grunwald
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A young Southern woman sets out on a journey of self-discovery as the infamous 1925 Scopes Trial te… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
17. The Temptation of Gracie
By: Santa Montefiore
4.13
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Never give up on your dreams, no matter how long you hold on to them . . . Gracie Burton is a g… read more
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- novels
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18. The Tiffany Girls
By: Shelley Noble
4.09
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble wows with a gripping historical novel about the rea… read more
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19. Homestead
By: Melinda Moustakis
3.53
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Anchorage, 1956. When Marie and Lawrence first lock eyes at the Moose Lodge, they are immediately d… read more
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- adult
20. Bear
By: Julia Phillips
3.38
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more
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- adult
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"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."-Julia Phillips, Bear
"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"-Julia Phillips, Bear
21. The Memory House
By: Rachel Hauck
4.29
Format: 373 pages, Paperback
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Dress comes a new captivating novel of tw… read more
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- historical fiction
"So she tasted of his soul and drank from the well he offered."-Rachel Hauck, The Memory House
22. The Burning Girl
By: Claire Messud
3.25
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Julia and Cassie have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including the… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
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- novels
- adult
"It's a different story depending on where you start: who's good, who's bad, what it all means. Each of us shapes our stories so they make sense of who we think we are. I can begin when Cassie and I w…"-Claire Messud, The Burning Girl
"You get to middle school, and you think about these things. The world opens up; history stretches behind you, and the future stretches before you, and you're suddenly aware of the wild, unknowable in…"-Claire Messud, The Burning Girl
23. Familiaris
By: David Wroblewski
4.21
Format: 979 pages, Hardcover
The follow-up to the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling modern classic The Story of Edgar Sawtel… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- family
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- historical fiction
- adult
"Suppose you could do one impossible thing."-David Wroblewski, Familiaris
"Time is a snake-oil remedy if you ask me. Some wounds just keep hurting as bad as they ever did. That's what I think."-David Wroblewski, Familiaris
"John once claimed that the way to convince a person to do something outlandish was to ask them to do something even more outlandish."-David Wroblewski, Familiaris
"You can never watch too many pups climb through the straw for the first time, but there are just so many dogs you can bear watch to die."-David Wroblewski, Familiaris
24. What the Mountains Remember
By: Joy Callaway
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
At this wondrous resort, secrets can easily be hidden in plain sight when the eye is trained on bea… read more
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- adult
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- historical fiction
25. The Last Train from Paris
By: Juliet Greenwood
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
For Iris , each visit to her mother in St Mabon’s Cove, Cornwall has been the same – a serene escap… read more
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26. Red Island House
By: Andrea Lee
3.60
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Shay is surprised when her husband Senna declares his intention to build her a spectacular dream ho… read more
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27. As Close to Us as Breathing
By: Elizabeth Poliner
3.66
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1948, a small stretch of the Woodmont, Connecticut shoreline, affectionately named "Bagel Beach,… read more
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- jewish
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- family
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- adult
28. Little Pieces of Me
By: Alison Hammer
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Following her acclaimed debut novel, You and Me and Us, Alison Hammer offers a deeply moving story … read more
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"The only blank pages in your life story are the ones yet to be written." ~Helen, chptr 44"-Alison Hammer, Little Pieces of Me
"She can't help. No one can. I rest my head in my hands and let the flood of hot angry tears fall. I can't even begin to wrap my head around the enormity of it all. She lied to me, probably lied to my…"-Alison Hammer, Little Pieces of Me
29. On Her Own
By: Lihi Lapid
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A moving, page-turning story of two families in crisis that melds the clock-ticking tension of Laur… read more
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30. Operation Bethlehem
By: Yariv Inbar
4.35
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of The 2023 National Jewish Book Awards for Hebrew Fiction in Translation. Discover a rare g… read more
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31. The Rabbi Who Prayed with Fire
By: Rachel Sharona Lewis
3.99
Format: 276 pages, ebook
Congregation Beth Abraham expected their newest rabbi to "sing some songs and go to an environmenta… read more
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