The Barrens
By: Kurt Johnson
4.06
Format: 288 pages, ebook
This riveting debut is at once a white-water adventure, coming-of-age novel, and tale of tragic lov…
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1. 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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- adult
- book club
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
2. Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon
By: Mim Eichler Rivas , Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
3.63
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
Today he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads c… read more
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3. The Lucky Ones
By: Tiffany Reisz
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
They called themselves "the lucky ones." They were seven children either orphaned or abandoned by t… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
4. A String of Beads (Jane Whitefield, #8)
By: Thomas Perry
4.39
Format: None pages, Hardcover
After two decades protecting innocent victims on the run, and a year after getting shot on a job th… read more
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- fiction
5. The Pyramid: And Four Other Kurt Wallander Mysteries (Kurt Wallander, #9)
By: Henning Mankell , Laurie Thompson , Ebba Segerberg
3.78
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Filling in the missing pieces of the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander mystery series, The… read more
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- fiction
6. Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds
By: Charles W. Sasser , Norma Cobb
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1973, Norma Cobb, her husband Lester, and the their five children, the oldest of whom was nine-y… read more
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- survival
- adventure
7. In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
By: Neil W. White III
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
White bought into the modern American Dream, hook, line, and sinker. By the time he was in his earl… read more
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8. The Kitchen Counter Cooking School: How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks
By: Kathleen Flinn
0.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The author of The Sharper Your Knifetells the inspiring story of how she helped nine others find th… read more
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9. Kitchens of the Great Midwest
By: J. Ryan Stradal
3.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When Lars Thorvald's wife, Cynthia, falls in love with wine--and a dashing sommelier--he's left to … read more
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10. We Never Asked for Wings
By: Vanessa Diffenbaugh
3.16
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Language of Flowers comes her much-antici… read more
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11. Dear Jacob: A Mother's Journey of Hope
By: Patty Wetterling
4.60
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
With stunning detail, Patty Wetterling shares the untold story of the 27-year search for her son Ja… read more
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- book club
12. Vanished in Vermillion: The Real Story of South Dakota’s Most Infamous Cold Case
By: Lou Raguse
3.91
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The result of hundreds of interviews, Vanished in Vermillion is a cold case story that flips the sc… read more
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- adult
13. Girl Gone Missing (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #2)
By: Marcie R. Rendon
3.98
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Nothing in Renee Blackbear’s world had prepared her for college or for the hurt that happens in the… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"But this is the country I know. This Valley. This river. This flat land that goes on forever. The dang wind chill every winter. The wind blowing across this prairie we bend over and walk into. We get…"-Marcie R. Rendon, Girl Gone Missing (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #2)
"Happens more than we want to know. There are Indian kids, just like your brother, heck just like me, all over this Valley. Fostered out, adopted out, working their fingers to the bone--heck, many of …"-Marcie R. Rendon, Girl Gone Missing (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #2)
14. The Frozen River
By: Ariel Lawhon
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more
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- adult
- book club
- fiction
15. Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
By: J. Ryan Stradal
3.63
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal, a story of a couple from two very diffe… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"This place is in your blood, but not your heart. Go find a place that is."-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
"People here liked to say they rooted for the underdog, but some of them got real quiet when the underdog was different from them."-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
"Winter was her cathedral, and the snow-decked trees its endless pillars, and although it was quiet, it wasn't empty. The silence coaxed voices into her imagination, voices of the past and future, voi…"-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
16. Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor, #19)
By: William Kent Krueger
4.21
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
Cork races against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthi… read more
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- fiction
17. Famished (Ash Park, #1)
By: Meghan O'Flynn
3.68
Format: None pages, None
Starvation Takes Many Forms Ash Park, a run-down suburb of Detroit, might not be the most idyllic … read more
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- fiction
18. The Seed Keeper
By: Diane Wilson
4.30
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family's struggle t… read more
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- book club
- fiction
- contemporary
"My father traveled now with the stars, returned to the vast mystery that had so fascinated him all his life."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"What the white settlers called progress was a storm of fury thundering its way across the land, and none of us were strong enough to withstand it."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"I decided to give Rosie all the facts I could—because that's how the corporations work against us, twisting the truth till we're at war with each other."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"I thought about the aftermath of the 1862 war, when thirty-eight hastily condemned warriors had been hung in Mankato, in the country's largest-ever mass execution. Their bodies were buried in shallow…"-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
19. The Road to Dalton (Dalton, Maine, #1)
By: Shannon Bowring
4.04
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
From debut author Shannon Bowring comes a novel of small town America that Pulitzer-winner Richard … read more
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- contemporary
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
20. Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility
By: Michelle Tea
4.02
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
From PEN/America Award winner, 2021 Guggenheim fellow, and beloved literary and tarot icon Michelle… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
21. 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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- contemporary
- survival
- fiction
- adventure
22. A Good Family
By: Matt Goldman
3.64
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
Katie Kuhlmann's marriage is falling apart. But she has a secure job, her children are healthy, and… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
23. Sheltering Angel: A Novel Based on a True Story of the Titanic
By: Louella Bryant
4.56
Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition
"Sheltering Angel tells the true story of several lesser-known individuals whose lives were impacte… read more
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- fiction
24. 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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- fiction
25. Light from Other Stars
By: Erika Swyler
3.81
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
From the author of national bestseller The Book of Speculation, a poignant, fantastical novel about… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"She'd been taught that fear was worry that something bad would happen to you. It wasn't. Fear was something horrible happening to someone you love, someone you need, and you being left alone."-Erika Swyler, Light from Other Stars
"Judy Resnik was Jewish, and Nedda didn't believe in Heaven or Hell. If her dad was right, people who died were just thoughts traveling like light, continuing. It was sad, but not. Being sure about th…"-Erika Swyler, Light from Other Stars
"Inventions were not like your children. Your children were all your flaws shown to you in a way that made you love them: your worst made good. Inventions were your best attempt at beautiful thought. …"-Erika Swyler, Light from Other Stars
"When customers asked why Betheen's baking was better than anyone else's, she forced herself to blush and say her kitchen was downwind from Prater Grove; everything had a little orange blossom in it. …"-Erika Swyler, Light from Other Stars
26. Last Circle of Love
By: Lorna Landvik
3.74
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
A funny, heartwarming story about a feisty group of women who shake, spice, and heat things up with… read more
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- adult
- book club
- fiction
- contemporary
27. Endpapers
By: Jennifer Savran Kelly
3.74
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this page-turning novel set in 2003 New York City, a genderqueer book conservator feels trapped … read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
28. Chronicles of a Radical Hag
By: Lorna Landvik
3.90
Format: None pages, ebook
A bittersweet, seriously funny novel of a life, a small town, and a key to our troubled times trace… read more
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- adult
- book club
- fiction
- contemporary
"Few women are able to relax in the classic executive pose, mainly because too few women are executives."-Lorna Landvik, Chronicles of a Radical Hag
"She was a master cake baker and her creations were not just oohed and ahhed over by other kids at my birthday parties, but requested by those kid's mothers for their own celebrations... She not only …"-Lorna Landvik, Chronicles of a Radical Hag
"This is the first birthday I've had without the person who's responsible for bringing me into the world all those decades ago. My mother... Because it was her desire to be the first to wish me a happ…"-Lorna Landvik, Chronicles of a Radical Hag
29. Till the Wheels Fall Off
By: Brad Zellar
3.98
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
From roller rinks and record players to coin-operated condom dispensers and small-town mobsters, Ti… read more
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- fiction
30. The Barrens
By: Kurt Johnson
4.06
Format: 288 pages, ebook
This riveting debut is at once a white-water adventure, coming-of-age novel, and tale of tragic lov… read more
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- lesbian
- survival
- canada
- lgbt
- adventure
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- queer
31. Tired Ladies Take a Stand
By: Gretchen Anthony
3.38
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
You've heard of Year of Yes. Introducing... Year of No. During one unforgettable year in their t… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
