Sagebrush Empire: How a Remote Utah County Became the Battlefront of American Public Lands
By: Jonathan P. Thompson
4.32
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
San Juan County, Utah, contains some of the most spectacular landscapes in the world, rich in natur…
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1. The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
By: Jasper Fforde
3.89
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected p… read more
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"Mücken haben die blaue Ziege gestochen."-Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
"The name is Schitt," he replied. "Jack Schitt."-Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
"Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books."-Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
"Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse."-Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
2. The Painter
By: Peter Heller
3.82
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
Peter Heller, the celebrated author of the breakout best seller The Dog Stars, returns with an achi… read more
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"You rest now. Rest for longer than you are used to resting. Make a stillness around you, a field of peace. Your best work, the best time of your life will grow out of this peace."-Peter Heller, The Painter
"It didn't get better, not in my book. I mean if you weren't looking too hard at what just happened or who might be down the road or at some other stuff. Maybe living well is the art of not looking at…"-Peter Heller, The Painter
"The reason people are so moved by art and why artists tend to take it all so seriously is that if they are real and true they come to the painting with everything they know and feel and live, and all…"-Peter Heller, The Painter
"We made love again. This time it was me who asked. Lying there again, on the bed, this time with heat, almost an oven heat, coming through the screen, and sweat instead of tears, I wondered how simpl…"-Peter Heller, The Painter
3. I Am the Grand Canyon: The Story of the Havasupai People
By: Stephen Hirst
4.03
Format: 276 pages, Paperback
I Am the Grand Canyon is the story of the Havasupai people. From their origins among the first grou… read more
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4. The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
By: Kevin Fedarko
3.94
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From one of Outsidemagazine's "Literary All-Stars" comes the thrilling true tale of the fastest boa… read more
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5. Open Midnight: Where Ancestors and Wilderness Meet
By: Brooke Williams
4.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
Open Midnightweaves two parallel stories about the great wilderness--Brooke Williams's year alone w… read more
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6. American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
By: Steven Rinella
3.50
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the host of the Travel Channel's "The Wild Within." A hunt for the American buffalo--an advent… read more
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7. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
By: Mike Davis
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
The hidden story of L.A. Mike Davis shows us where the city's money comes from and who controls it … read more
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8. The Last Season
By: Eric Blehm
3.14
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
To pick up The Last Seasonis to lose oneself in a mesmerizing story about a place few could survive… read more
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9. The Spectator Bird
By: Wallace Stegner
4.01
Format: None pages, Paperback
This tour-de-force of American literature and a winner of the National Book Award is a profound, in… read more
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10. The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession
By: David Grann
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed New Yorkerwriter and author of the breakout debut bestseller The Lost City of Z, David Gr… read more
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11. Out of Africa
By: Isak Dinesen , Karen Blixen
3.65
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Out of Africais Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand… read more
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12. In the Distance
By: Hernan Diaz
3.50
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
A young Swedish boy finds himself in penniless and alone in California. He travels East in search o… read more
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13. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
By: Adam Hochschild
4.21
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more
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14. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
15. Romney: A Reckoning
By: McKay Coppins
4.36
Format: 416 pages, ebook
A remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written … read more
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16. The Paradox Hotel
By: Rob Hart
3.54
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An impossible crime. A detective on the edge of madness. The future of time travel at stake. Jan… read more
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"The reason humans process pain by inflicting it on others is because it’s a really shitty and childish way of asking for help."-Rob Hart, The Paradox Hotel
17. The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees
By: Douglas W. Tallamy
4.35
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
“With our hearts and minds focused on the stewardship of the only planet we have, the best way to e… read more
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18. Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
By: Melissa L. Sevigny
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, acc… read more
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19. Tracing Time: Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau
By: Craig Childs
4.16
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
"An engaging glimpse into a world both fascinating and fundamentally unknowable to those who aren't… read more
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"One of the more flexible words in the English language, art is defined as a human creative skill, doing something as a result of knowledge and practice. It is the mind's eye rendered in visual form."-Craig Childs, Tracing Time: Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau
20. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By: David Grann
4.19
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more
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21. The Fox Wife
By: Yangsze Choo
4.01
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
Some people think foxes are similar to ghosts because we go around collecting qi, or life force, bu… read more
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"Chinese traditionally consider shadows part of the soul. Harm done to a shadow, whether by pinning it to the ground or stepping on it, was considered spiritual damage to the person. Of course none of…"-Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife
"Sometimes our wishes come back in the darkest, most twisted ways, like a thorn that pierces and grows through your flesh. A tree that drinks blood and blots out the sun. The sin was mine; I had water…"-Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife
22. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
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23. The Friendship Pact (Sunrise Cove, #2)
By: Jill Shalvis
3.99
Format: 384 pages, ebook
New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis returns to Sunrise Cove with a powerful, moving stor… read more
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24. Nowhere for Very Long
By: Brianna Madia
4.11
Format: 304 pages, ebook
In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures in an… read more
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"Many times I wanted to delete the app entirely, but it felt like people had bought shares in our lives. These people saved my dog's life. I felt I owed them my own in some ways."-Brianna Madia, Nowhere for Very Long
25. The Queen of the Valley
By: Lorena Hughes
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Set amid Colombia’s unparalleled beauty and inspired by the real-life 1925 Cali earthquake, this ri… read more
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26. The Sorcerer of Pyongyang
By: Marcel Theroux
3.78
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
Ten-year-old Jun-su is a bright and obedient boy whose only desire is to be a credit to his family,… read more
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27. Loot
By: Tania James
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century - a hero’s quest, a love story, the s… read more
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"She is reading; he loves the lost expression on her face when she reads."-Tania James, Loot
28. Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
By: Richard D. Kahlenberg
3.98
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An indictment of America's housing policy that reveals the social engineering underlying our segreg… read more
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29. Sagebrush Empire: How a Remote Utah County Became the Battlefront of American Public Lands
By: Jonathan P. Thompson
4.32
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
San Juan County, Utah, contains some of the most spectacular landscapes in the world, rich in natur… read more
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30. True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America
By: Betsy Gaines Quammen
4.18
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
“ True West disentangles reality from centuries of myth and mystique." —HAMPTON SIDES, New York Tim… read more
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31. River of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics, and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster
By: Jonathan P. Thompson
4.27
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Award-winning investigative environmental journalist Jonathan P. Thompson digs into the science, po… read more
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