Life at the Precipice
By: R.F. Vincent
3.94
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
2023 Best Indie Book Award - Literary Fiction Winner 2024 Leacock Medal for Humour 🇨🇦 - Long Liste…
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1. What's So Funny?: My Hilarious Life
By: Jane Scovell , Tim Conway , Carol Burnett
3.81
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Six-time Emmy award-winning funny man Tim Conway, best known for his characters on The Carol Burnet… read more
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2. Secrets of Eden
By: Chris Bohjalian
3.46
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Midwives, and Skeletons at the Feast comes a novel … read more
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"With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight."-Chris Bohjalian, Secrets of Eden
"But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want."-Chris Bohjalian, Secrets of Eden
"Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory."-Chris Bohjalian, Secrets of Eden
"We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven."-Chris Bohjalian, Secrets of Eden
3. A Prayer for the Dying
By: Stewart O'Nan
3.69
Format: 32 pages,
Set just after the Civil War, A Prayer for the Dyingis the story of a small Wisconsin town gripped … read more
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4. Saint Maybe
By: Anne Tyler
3.62
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In 1965, the happy Bedloe family is living an ideal, apple-pie existence in Baltimore. Then, in the… read more
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5. The Douglas Bastard (Archibald the Grim, #1)
By: J.R. Tomlin
4.13
Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition
A sequel to The Black Douglas Trilogy The Black Douglas is dead. With their great knight no more… read more
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6. Starve Acre
By: Andrew Michael Hurley
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more
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"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre
"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre
7. In Ascension
By: Martin MacInnes
3.79
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more
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"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
8. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
9. We Run the Tides
By: Vendela Vida
3.65
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An achingly beautiful story of female friendship, betrayal, and a mysterious disappearance set in t… read more
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"Lazlo's mom, Ágota, and my dad had a falling out over the kinds of things siblings usually have falling outs over: money and love. My father made money and Aunt Ágota lost money. Then there was disag…"-Vendela Vida, We Run the Tides
10. Above the Fire
By: Michael O'Donnell
3.98
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
O'Donnell's debut, Above the Fire, is a novel which finds hope and resilience in the timelessness o… read more
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11. We Burn Daylight
By: Bret Anthony Johnston
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An epic novel of star-crossed lovers set in a doomsday cult on the Texas prairie that asks: what wo… read more
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12. The Water Witch
By: Jessica Thorne
4.19
Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition
The man smiles at the water witch as he opens the city gates and unleashes the wild sea. All will b… read more
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13. The Stellar Debut of Galactica MacFee (44 Scotland Street, #17)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
The latest installment in the warm and welcoming 44 Scotland Street series finds all our favorite r… read more
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14. The View from Half Dome
By: Jill Caugherty
4.15
Format: 286 pages, Paperback
1934. Isabel longs to escape her squalid San Francisco neighborhood. While her mother struggles to … read more
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15. Shiner
By: Amy Jo Burns
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
On a lush mountaintop trapped in time, two women vow to protect each other at all costs-and one you… read more
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16. Girl in Ice
By: Erica Ferencik
3.67
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The River at Night and Into the Jungle comes a harrowing new thriller set in the… read more
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17. Pitch Dark (Mike Bowditch, #15)
By: Paul Doiron
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Game Warden Mike Bowditch must chase down a cunning and dangerous fugitive in the North Maine Woods… read more
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18. Life at the Precipice
By: R.F. Vincent
3.94
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
2023 Best Indie Book Award - Literary Fiction Winner 2024 Leacock Medal for Humour 🇨🇦 - Long Liste… read more
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19. The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife
By: Anna Johnston
4.41
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Remarkably Bright Creatures and The Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a warm, life-affirming… read more
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20. Echo from a Bayou: One Man's Journey To Hunt Down His Murderer
By: J. Luke Bennecke
4.08
Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition
A high concept suspense thriller of adventure and betrayal with a supernatural twist.After a freak … read more
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21. Tartufo
By: Kira Jane Buxton
4.11
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Thurber Prize finalist and author of the beloved Hollow Kingdom returns with another fantastical an… read more
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