Following the Curve of Time: The Legendary M. Wylie Blanchet
By: Cathy Converse
3.71
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Who was this skipper, this mother, this writer? These questions motivated Cathy Converse to re-trac…
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1. Jane Austen at Home
By: Lucy Worsley
3.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
On the eve of the two hundredth anniversary of Jane Austen's death, take a trip back to her world a… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
2. The Nose
By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more
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3. The Long Way
By: Bernard Moitessier
5.00
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Long Way is Bernard Moitessier's own incredible story of his participation in the first Golden … read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- biography
4. Hawaii
By: James A. Michener
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener brings Hawaii's epic history vividly to life in a c… read more
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- travel
5. The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
By: John Vaillant
4.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest… read more
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- nonfiction
- canada
6. The Egg and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #1)
By: Betty MacDonald
4.00
Format: 412 pages, Paperback
When Betty MacDonald married a marine and moved to a small chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
7. The Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir of a Woman and Her Children Who Explored the Coastal Waters of the Pacific Northwest
By: M. Wylie Blanchet
3.41
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
This is the fascinating true adventure story of a woman who packed her five children onto a twenty-… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- biography
- canada
8. I Heard the Owl Call My Name
By: Margaret Craven
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In a world that knows too well the anguish inherent in the clash of old ways and new lifestyles, Ma… read more
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9. Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound
By: Grant Lawrence
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
From Captain George Vancouver to Muriel "Curve of Time" Blanchet to Jim "Spilsbury's Coast" Spilsbu… read more
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10. Crome Yellow
By: Aldous Huxley
3.71
Format: 498 pages, Paperback
Denis Stone, a naive young poet, is invited to stay at Crome, a country house renowned for its gath… read more
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11. Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
By: Martha N. Beck
4.00
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"Explorers depend on the North Star when there are no other landmarks in sight. The same relationsh… read more
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12. The Light on the Island: Tales of a Lighthouse Keeper's Family in the San Juan Islands
By: None
3.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Readers can once again enjoy Helene Glidden's classic The Light on the Island, as this 50th Anniver… read more
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13. Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
By: Yvon Chouinard
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
In his long-awaited memoir, Yvon Chouinard-legendary climber, businessman, environmentalist, and fo… read more
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14. The Portrait of a Lady
By: Henry James , Patricia Crick
3.79
Format: 797 pages, Paperback
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more
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"She has only one fault; too many ideas."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
15. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
By: Margaret Atwood
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of … read more
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"Many things get broken in a war."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"Holiness is a form of monstrosity"-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"Many obscure women have been done to death merely for existing."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"They're dead now. A thing that happens increasingly: people die."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
16. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
17. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
18. Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)
By: Jeremy Clarkson
4.15
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to Jeremy's farm. It's an idyllic spot, offering picturesque views across the Cotswolds, bu… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
19. The Secret to Superhuman Strength
By: Alison Bechdel
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Fun Home, a profound graphic memoir of Bechdel's lifelong love affair with exerc… read more
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- biography
"My transformation, thanks in part to Adrienne Rich, was easier than hers had been."-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength
"Life many gay people of my generation, I would not behave like a teenager until I was in my twenties."-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength
"Why have I spent so many hours of my life--very possibly as many as are actually recommended-- exercising ?!"-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength
"Most people don't even try to get what they want because of the painful reckoning with their parents it entails."-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength
20. 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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21. Less Is Lost (Arthur Less, #2)
By: Andrew Sean Greer
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In the follow-up to the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Less, the awkward and lovable Arthu… read more
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22. Western Lane
By: Chetna Maroo
3.51
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more
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23. Orwell's Roses
By: Rebecca Solnit
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"In the year 1936 a writer planted roses." So begins Rebecca Solnit's new book, a reflection on Geo… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"He asked that roses be planted on his grave. When I checked, a few years ago, a scrappy red rose was blooming there."-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses
"The contemporary world is full of things that look beautiful and are produced through hideous means. People died so that this mine may profit, that these shoes maybe produced as cheaply as possible, …"-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses
"As withheld information, a lie is a sort of shield for the liar; as falsity it is a sword. It matters whether or not people believe the lies, but unbelievable lies wielded by those with power do thei…"-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses
24. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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- nonfiction
- canada
25. Choosing to Run: A Memoir
By: Des Linden
4.28
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Featuring both the story of an historic, unforgettable win and insight into the life of an indelibl… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
26. The Sleeping Car Porter
By: Suzette Mayr
3.46
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more
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"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
27. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
By: Griffin Dunne
4.19
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
28. Return to Solitude: More Desolation Sound Adventures with the Cougar Lady, Russell the Hermit, the Spaghetti Bandit and Others
By: Grant Lawrence
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
It’s been over a decade since renowned broadcaster and indie rock musician Grant Lawrence launched … read more
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- biography
- canada
29. Following the Curve of Time: The Legendary M. Wylie Blanchet
By: Cathy Converse
3.71
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Who was this skipper, this mother, this writer? These questions motivated Cathy Converse to re-trac… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- canada
30. Totem Poles and Tea
By: Hughina Harold
4.27
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Hughina Harold paints a powerful picture of a world that no longer exists in this compelling accoun… read more
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- nonfiction
31. Up the Coast: One Family's Wild Life in the Forests of British Columbia
By: Kathryn Willcock
4.16
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Kathryn Willcock and her sisters grew up in logging camps on the coast of B.C. in the 1960s when ch… read more
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