Sapphira and the Slave Girl
By: Willa Cather , Hermione Lee
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Sapphira Dodderidge, a Virginia lady of the 19th century, marries beneath her and becomes irrationa…
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1. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
By: Toni Morrison
4.32
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensel… read more
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- african american
"What solicited my attention was whether the cultural associations of jazz were as important to Cardinal’s “possession"-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
"...Being simply illustrations, of how each of us reads, becomes engaged in and watches what is being read all at the same time."-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
"Der Afrikanismus ist das Vehikel, durch das sich das amerikanische Ich als nicht versklavt, sondern frei erfährt, als nicht abstoßend, sondern begehrenswert, nicht hilflos, sondern priviligiert und m…"-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
2. The House on the Strand
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.83
Format: 352 pages, ebook
Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agre… read more
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- historical
- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
"The world of today asleep, and my world not awakened, or not as yet, until the drug possessed me."-Daphne du Maurier, The House on the Strand
3. The Provincial Lady in London
By: E.M. Delafield
3.96
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
These highly acclaimed, delightful novels are written in diary form by the Provincial Lady, who liv… read more
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- classics
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
4. Four Quartets
By: T.S. Eliot
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- american
5. No Man Is an Island
By: Thomas Merton
3.39
Format: 440 pages, Hardcover
Here, in one of his most popular of his more than thirty books, Thomas Merton provides further medi… read more
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6. Jubilee
By: Margaret Walker
2.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress.… read more
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- classics
- historical
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- historical fiction
- african american
7. Sapphira and the Slave Girl
By: Willa Cather , Hermione Lee
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Sapphira Dodderidge, a Virginia lady of the 19th century, marries beneath her and becomes irrationa… read more
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- classics
- american
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- african american
8. Brick Shakespeare: The Tragedies-Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Julius Caesar
By: None , John McCann
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
Enjoy four of Shakespeare's tragedies told with LEGO bricks. Here are Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Ju… read more
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- classics
9. Mariana
By: Harriet Lane , Monica Dickens
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Monica Dickens's first book, published in 1940, could easily have been called Mariana - an Englishw… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
10. Little Dorrit
By: Charles Dickens , Helen Small , Stephen Wall
4.00
Format: 1021 pages, Paperback
A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs ove… read more
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- novels
- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
"One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind."-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
"We must have humbug, we all like humbug, we couldn't get on without humbug."-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
"[...] this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world."-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
"[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay."-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
11. Losing Battles
By: Eudora Welty
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
On the hot, dry first Sunday of August, three generations of Granny Vaughn's descendants gather at … read more
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- novels
- classics
- fiction
- american
12. Daniel Deronda
By: George Eliot , Edmund White
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
George Eliot's final novel and her most ambitious work, Daniel Derondacontrasts the moral laxity of… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
13. True Grit
By: Charles Portis
3.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more
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- historical
- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
14. Juvenilia
By: Jane Austen
4.30
Format: None pages,
Jane Austen's shorter works * Frederic & Elfrida * Jack & Alice * Edgar & Emma * Henry and Eliza * … read more
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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
15. A Place in Time: Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership
By: Wendell Berry
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For more than fifty years, Wendell Berry has been telling us stories about Port William, a mythical… read more
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16. The Way We Live Now
By: Anthony Trollope
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
Trollope's 1875 tale of a great financier's fraudulent machinations in the railway business, and hi… read more
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17. Dead Over Heels (Aurora Teagarden, #5)
By: Charlaine Harris
4.33
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
What's the world coming to - when you can't relax with an ice-cold beverage in your own backyard wi… read more
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18. Obscure Destinies
By: Willa Cather , Frederick M. Link , None
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The jacket of the first edition of Obscure Destiniesannounced "Three New Stories of the West," hera… read more
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19. He Leadeth Me
By: Walter J. Ciszek , Daniel L. Flaherty , Walter Ciszek
4.63
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
He Leadeth Me is the deeply moving personal story of one man's spiritual odyssey and the unflagging… read more
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"Solo puedo describir la experiencia de conversión como una sensación de «dejarse llevar», de renunciar a todo esfuerzo o incluso a mi deseo de tomar las riendas de mi propia vida. Aunque suene demasi…"-Walter J. Ciszek, He Leadeth Me
"La humildad significa eso: aprender a aceptar el desánimo e incluso la derrota como enviados por Dios; aprender a perseverar y seguir adelante con el corazón en paz y confiando en Dios, seguros de qu…"-Walter J. Ciszek, He Leadeth Me
"Durante esos largos de años de soledad y sufrimiento, Dios me condujo a una comprensión de la vida y de su amor que solo quienes la han experimentado son capaces de entender. Me despojó de muchos de …"-Walter J. Ciszek, He Leadeth Me
"Quizá Dios tenga que recordarnos con tremenda claridad que eso es exactamente lo que quería decirnos con esas palabras aparentemente tan simples del Sermón de la Montaña: «No estéis preocupados por v…"-Walter J. Ciszek, He Leadeth Me
20. Above the Waterfall
By: Ron Rash
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Les, a long-time sheriff nearing retirement, contends with the ravages of poverty and crystal meth … read more
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21. Diary of a Provincial Lady
By: E.M. Delafield
3.91
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
When Diary of a Provincial Ladywas first published in 1933, critics on both sides of the Atlantic g… read more
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22. Stones from the River
By: Ursula Hegi
2.83
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of Floating in My Mother's Palmcomes a stunning nov… read more
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23. The Ghost Keeper
By: Natalie Morrill
3.74
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Winner of the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction, this powerful, sweeping novel set in Vi… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
24. Night Watch
By: Jayne Anne Phillips
3.79
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more
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- historical
- novels
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- historical fiction
25. Chenneville
By: Paulette Jiles
4.13
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawles… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
26. Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather
By: Benjamin Taylor
3.73
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A tender biography of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century and an elegant explorati… read more
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27. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5
By: Beth Brower
4.79
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
I took Treasure Island to church with me as a talisman. “What a lovely bible,” Mrs. Tribly said. … read more
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28. Christy
By: Catherine Marshall
4.24
Format: 514 pages, Kindle Edition
The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Car… read more
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- historical
- classics
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"Truth could never be wholly contained in words."-Catherine Marshall, Christy
"I was too old for my father to (be protective), too young to be flattered."-Catherine Marshall, Christy
"The house, it's already been a-settin' here for a hundred years. It'll be right here tomorrow. It's today I must be livin'."-Catherine Marshall, Christy
"Have you ever thought that the only ugly things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains."-Catherine Marshall, Christy
29. Sons (House of Earth, #2)
By: Pearl S. Buck
3.86
Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition
The second installment in Pearl S. Buck’s acclaimed Good Earth the powerful story of three brother… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"In these days it never came to Wang the Tiger's mind that his son's dreams might not be his own and he lived for the spring."-Pearl S. Buck, Sons (House of Earth, #2)
30. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 6 (The Unselected Journals, #6)
By: Beth Brower
4.79
Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition
There is bedlam, and there is delightful bedlam.This afternoon touched on the second, much to my pl… read more
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31. This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing: A Memoir
By: Jacqueline Winspear
3.96
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
The author of the Maisie Dobbs series offers a personal memoir of her family’s resilience in the fa… read more
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"Memories appear in flashes of light, in short scenes, in reflections that can make us laugh or bring us to tears."-Jacqueline Winspear, This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing: A Memoir
