Mamma
By: Diana Tutton
3.92
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
The doomed mutual attraction of a middle-aged widow and her new son-in-law, who is much closer to h…
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1. It Can't Happen Here
By: Sinclair Lewis , Christopher Hurt , Michael R. Meyer
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrow… read more
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"NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged."-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
"So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting."-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
"It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class."-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
"Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on."-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
2. Rhine Journey
By: Ann Schlee
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
It is the summer of 1851. An English family is making a romantic journey by paddle-steamer on the R… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
3. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
By: Winifred Watson
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly Englis… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- british literature
4. The Crowded Street
By: Winifred Holtby
3.00
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Muriel, who believes that 'men do as they like' whereas women 'wait to see what they will do', live… read more
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5. Henry VIII
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.50
Format: None pages,
Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare a… read more
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- fiction
6. My Cousin Rachel
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.16
Format: 315 pages, ebook
Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolute… read more
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7. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)
By: Jane Gardam
4.10
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
8. They Came Like Swallows
By: William Maxwell
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
First published in 1937, They Came Like Swallows was William Maxwell's second novel. It tells of an… read more
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9. One Writer's Beginnings
By: Eudora Welty
4.07
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Now available as an audio CD, in Eudora Welty's own voice, or as a book. Eudora Welty was born i… read more
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- classics
"She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him."-Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings
"Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it."-Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings
"Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening childr…"-Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings
"Barefooted on the slick brick walk I rushed to where I could breathe in the cool breath from the interior of the springhouse. On a cold bubbling spring, covered dishes and crocks and pitchers of milk…"-Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings
10. Elizabeth and Her German Garden
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. "Elizabeth and Her German Garden," a novel… read more
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"I shall not let myself be frightened away by the sarcasm of owls."-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
"We are none of us ever thankful enough, and yet we each get so much, so very much, more than we deserve."-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
", and there were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden, in spite of my years and children."-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
"Oh, I thought of calling it Journeyings in Germany. It sounds well, and would be correct. Or Jottings from German Journeyings--I haven't quite decided yet..."-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
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12. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
By: Lorrie Moore
3.31
Format: 193 pages, Hardcover
Lorrie Moore's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs--a daring, meditative exploration of love and… read more
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- fiction
"I've become. An object of dismay. I guess."-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
"Do I jar you?" he asks with his sly charm. "No," I say. “I am braced at every turn for disenchantment."-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
13. The Last Word
By: Elly Griffiths
3.92
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in The Postscript Murders, are running a detective agency in Shoreha… read more
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- british literature
14. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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- fiction
15. My Friends
By: Hisham Matar
4.34
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more
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"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"-Hisham Matar, My Friends
16. The Fortnight in September
By: R.C. Sherriff
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The Fortnight in September embodies the kind of mundane normality the men in the dug-out longed for… read more
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- british literature
17. 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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- fiction
18. Mrs. Lorimer's Quiet Summer
By: Molly Clavering
4.13
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
The two were friends and had been for many years before Miss Douglas, a little battered by war expe… read more
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19. Father
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
4.06
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
"There came a moment, she imagined, in the lives of most unmarried daughters, and perhaps in other … read more
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"...listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had …"-Elizabeth von Arnim, Father
"No one ever said aloud any of the kinds of things he was so constantly thinking, because no one in the parish, not Alice, not Lady Higgs, not anybody, ever seemed to see the things he saw. If they th…"-Elizabeth von Arnim, Father
20. Tea Is So Intoxicating
By: Mary Essex
3.51
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
“I shall turn this into a tea-house, with lunches if requested, and shall serve pleasant meals in t… read more
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21. The Home
By: Penelope Mortimer
3.68
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
A tragi-comedy published in 1971 that looks at the experience of a woman escaping a broken marriage… read more
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- british literature
22. Sally on the Rocks
By: Winifred Boggs
3.80
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
When her bohemian life in Paris falls flat at the beginning of the First World War, Sally Lunton re… read more
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23. My Husband Simon
By: Mollie Panter-Downes
3.68
Format: 214 pages, Paperback
My Husband Simon tells the story of the married life of Nevis Falconer, a young woman novelist, and… read more
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24. One Year's Time
By: Angela Milne
3.68
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
It's New Year's Day and Liza is painting her floor. Walter, who she met at the party the night befo… read more
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25. Which Way?
By: Theodora Benson
3.63
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
‘There was no one in the room. Blinds and curtains were closed; the light of the skies, if any, was… read more
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26. Strange Journey
By: Maud Cairnes
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In this body swap comedy from the 1930s, the minds of two strangers, aristocrat Lady Elizabeth and … read more
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27. Tension
By: E.M. Delafield
3.72
Format: 214 pages, Paperback
Miss Pauline Marchrose arrives at the Commercial and Technical College of South-West England as the… read more
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28. Shy Creatures
By: Clare Chambers
4.43
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be … read more
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- fiction
29. War Among Ladies
By: Eleanor Scott
3.95
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Miss Cullen finds herself in a dreadful predicament. Four years from retirement, she can no longer … read more
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30. Mamma
By: Diana Tutton
3.92
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
The doomed mutual attraction of a middle-aged widow and her new son-in-law, who is much closer to h… read more
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