Lost and Wanted
By: Nell Freudenberger
3.42
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
'In the first few months after Charlie died, I began hearing from her much more frequently.' Hel…
Want to Read $ 13.99"I had an uncomfortable feeling I sometimes get in conversation with another person, as if the fundamental part of myself had evaporated-not in the sense of being gone, but as if it has undergone a phase transition and is hovering over my actual body as a vapor. That's the best I can describe it, as if my consciousness and my physical person are suddenly separated."-Nell Freudenberger, Lost and Wanted
"I had an uncomfortable feeling I sometimes get in conversation with another person, as if the fundamental part of myself had evaporated-not in the sense of being gone, but as if it has undergone a phase transition and is hovering over my actual body as a vapor. That's the best I can describe it, as if my consciousness and my physical person are suddenly separated."-Nell Freudenberger, Lost and Wanted
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1. Ship Fever: Stories
By: Andrea Barrett
3.60
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction. The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love… read more
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2. The Giant's House
By: Elizabeth McCracken
3.85
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
An unusual love story about a little librarian on Cape Cod and the tallest boy in the world, The Gi… read more
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3. My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
By: Kelly Link , Joyce Carol Oates , Neil Gaiman , Jim Shepard , Aimee Bender , Kate Bernheimer , John Updike , Karen Joy Fowler , Brian Evenson , Francine Prose , Lydia Millet , Katherine Vaz , Gregory Maguire , Lily Hoang , Joy Williams , Neil LaBute , Timothy Schaffert , Shelley Jackson , Kathryn Davis , Francesca Lia Block , Chris Adrian , Lucy Corin , Kevin Brockmeier , Jonathon Keats , Rabih Alameddine , Ludmilla Petrushevskaya , Michael Cunningham , Michael Martone , Alissa Nutting , Sarah Shun-lien Bynum , Kim Addonizio , Stacey Richter , Karen Brennan , Joyelle McSweeney , None , Hiromi Itō , Ilya Kaminsky , Kellie Wells , Sabrina Orah Mark , None , None , None
4.30
Format: 256 pages,
Michael Cunningham, Francine Prose, Aimee Bender, Kelly Link, Jim Shepard, and more than thirty oth… read more
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4. Eat Only When You're Hungry
By: Lindsay Hunter
3.22
Format: 111 pages, Hardcover
A father searches for his addict son while grappling with his own choices as a parent (and as a use… read more
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5. A Long Way from Verona
By: Jane Gardam
3.33
Format: 75 pages, Paperback
'I ought to tell you at the beginning that I am not quite normal having had a violent experience at… read more
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6. Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction
By: Ann Leckie
4.05
Format: 403 pages, Hardcover
Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winner Ann Leckie is a modern master of the SFF genre, for… read more
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- science fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
7. North Woods
By: Daniel Mason
4.15
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
8. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"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
9. The Morningside
By: Téa Obreht
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a ma… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- mystery
- science fiction
- audiobook
10. A History of Present Illness
By: Anna DeForest
3.26
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A novel of meticulous brevity and a tone and vision all its own, transmuting the practice of medici… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
11. Only to Sleep
By: Lawrence Osborne
3.59
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
The new Philip Marlowe novel, from Lawrence Osborne, a master of the psychological thriller In t… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
- audiobook
"There was, I thought, something calling to me from out in the dark. It came from out in the tempest, even from the lights of the fishing boats a mile out at sea. You can be called to a last effort, a…"-Lawrence Osborne, Only to Sleep
12. Wolf at the Table
By: Adam Rapp
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The Corrections meets We Need to Talk About Kevin in this harrowing multigenerational saga about a … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- audiobook
13. We Loved It All: A Memory of Life
By: Lydia Millet
3.85
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom, and the diff… read more
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- audiobook
14. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
By: Elizabeth Strout
4.46
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- adult
"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
15. The Boy in the Field
By: Margot Livesey
3.71
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy delivers another “luminous, unfo… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- audiobook
16. Parasol Against the Axe
By: Helen Oyeyemi
3.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The prize-winning, bestselling author of Peaces and Gingerbread returns with a novel about competit… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
17. Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story
By: Kristine S. Ervin
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of My Dark Places and I'll Be Gone in the Dark , a beautiful, brutal memoir documenting… read more
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- mystery
- adult
18. Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
By: Isabel Waidner
3.69
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A novel that celebrates radical queer survival and gleefully takes a hammer to false notions of suc… read more
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- science fiction
- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
19. The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers
By: Peter Lovesey
3.25
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Eighteen delightful holiday short stories by some of your favorite Soho Crime authors! This captiva… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
- audiobook
20. The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
By: Alexander Stille
3.47
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult… read more
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- audiobook
21. Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World
By: Rae Wynn-Grant
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In this vulnerable and urgent memoir, Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant explores the ever-shifting relationship be… read more
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- audiobook
22. Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse"
By: Emily Raboteau
4.15
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau uses the lens of motherhood to craft a powerfully mo… read more
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- audiobook
23. Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
By: Emily Bernard
4.08
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary, exquisitely written memoir (of sorts) that looks at race--in a fearless, penetrat… read more
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- audiobook
"...in every scar there is a story. The salve is the telling itself."-Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
"...perpetuating the pain of the past. Is the telling the salve or the wound?"-Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
"In order to narrate her own life, she needs another person to listen, to aid in the tending of her interior."-Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
"This was real life - no magic, only practice, commitment, and labor. This lesson, about life, about art, is one I am still learning."-Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
24. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)
By: Kate Atkinson
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
25. The Knockout Queen
By: Rufi Thorpe
3.70
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling and darkly comic novel of love, violence, and friendship in the California suburbs Bu… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"At root, I seemed to be upset about the existence of physical power at all. That violence is nothing but another kind of touching."-Rufi Thorpe, The Knockout Queen
"You can hit. Not anybody in this world can really and truly stop you if hitting is how you want to be. But if you do, you’re risking all that love you could have. Because nobody, nobody, nobody is go…"-Rufi Thorpe, The Knockout Queen
"But sometimes when you are in a moment, it’s so close to your face, reality, it’s pressed up so close to you, that you just flinch, you react, and then your fate is decided, and all you have done was…"-Rufi Thorpe, The Knockout Queen
26. Omega Farm: A Memoir
By: Martha McPhee
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A long-awaited memoir from an award-winning novelist—a candid, riveting account of her complicated,… read more
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27. Lost and Wanted
By: Nell Freudenberger
3.42
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
'In the first few months after Charlie died, I began hearing from her much more frequently.' Hel… read more
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- audiobook
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- adult
- physics
- science fiction
"I had an uncomfortable feeling I sometimes get in conversation with another person, as if the fundamental part of myself had evaporated-not in the sense of being gone, but as if it has undergone a ph…"-Nell Freudenberger, Lost and Wanted
28. The Reservoir Tapes
By: Jon McGregor
3.75
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The Reservoir Tapes returns to the extraordinary territory of Jon McGregor's Man Booker Prize-longl… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- audiobook
29. Sedating Elaine
By: Dawn Winter
3.29
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Frances was not looking for a relationship when she met Elaine in a bar. She was, in fact, looking … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
30. The Coin
By: Yasmin Zaher
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin
31. Time's Agent
By: Brenda Peynado
3.74
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
Pocket World―a geographically small, hidden offshoot of our own reality, sped up or slowed down by … read more
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- science fiction
- adult
- fiction
