How Fire Runs
By: Charles Dodd White
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A chilling, timely reminder of the moral and human costs of racial hatred. What happens when a delu…
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1. A Town Like Alice
By: Nevil Shute
4.15
Format: 359 pages, Paperback
Nevil Shute's most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the… read more
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- fiction
"It was a gambler's action, but his whole life had probably been made up of gambles; it could hardly be otherwise in the outback."-Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice
"Men's souls are naturally inclined to covetousness; but if ye be kind towards women and fear to wrong them, God is well acquainted with what ye do."-Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice
"People who spent the war in prison camps have written a lot of books about what a bad time they had," she said quietly, staring into the embers. "They don't know what it was like, not being in a camp."-Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice
"It was so beautiful', he said. 'the Three Pagodas Pass must be one of the loveliest places in the world. you've got this broad valley with the river running down it, and the jungle forest, and the mo…"-Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice
2. The Essay
By: Robin Yocum
4.39
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Jimmy Lee Hickam grew up along Red Dog Road, a dead-end strip of gravel and mud buried deep in the … read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
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- southern
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- fiction
- contemporary
5. Fourth of July Creek
By: Smith Henderson
4.16
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In this shattering and iconic American novel, PEN prize-winning writer, Smith Henderson explores th… read more
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6. Dancing After Hours
By: Andre Dubus
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A New York TimesNotable Book of the Year From a genuine hero of the American short story comes a lu… read more
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7. Fugitive Pieces
By: Anne Michaels
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
A New York TimesNotable Book of the Year Winner of the Lannan Literary Fiction Award Winner of the … read more
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8. Pop. 1280
By: Jim Thompson
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose. He doesn't solve problems, enforce rules or arrest cri… read more
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9. The Imperfectionists
By: Tom Rachman
4.07
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Set against the gorgeous backdrop of Rome, Tom Rachman's wry, vibrant debut follows the topsy-turvy… read more
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10. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
11. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
12. The Caretaker
By: Ron Rash
4.20
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, T… read more
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- adult fiction
- southern
- fiction
13. North Woods
By: Daniel Mason
4.15
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
14. The Queen of Dirt Island
By: Donal Ryan
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the multi-award-winning and internationally bestselling author Donal Ryan, a searing, jubilant… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Time will wind its own sweet way. We have no choice but to keep up."-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
"Happiness was a strange notion, something that was wrapped neatly, and packed into the closing scenes of television shows and daytime films, sharply relieved on the screen, but blurry in real life, a…"-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
"her mother and grandmother and great-grandmother had walked her to the classroom door and Mammy had cried a bit and Granny had told her to cop on and Nana then had told Granny to cop on herself and t…"-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
"She felt sad in that moment for anyone in the world who didn’t have a mother like hers. A mother who was standing now above her quarry like a prizefighter in a swell of victory, looking slowly left a…"-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
15. Silver Alert
By: Lee Smith
3.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This funny and endearing novel of family, secrets, and aging follows an elderly man who heads off o… read more
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- adult fiction
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- contemporary
16. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
By: Claire Keegan
3.99
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
17. O Caledonia
By: Elspeth Barker
3.98
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern … read more
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- fiction
18. The Heart in Winter
By: Kevin Barry
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more
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- fiction
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
19. Clear
By: Carys Davies
3.92
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
20. Shifty's Boys
By: Chris Offutt
4.10
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
Army cop-turned-small-town-investigator Mick Hardin returns to the Kentucky hills in this second vi… read more
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- mystery thriller
- southern
- thriller
- fiction
21. Shoot the Moonlight Out
By: William Boyle
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A haunting crime story about the broken characters inhabiting yesterday's Brooklyn, this is the new… read more
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- mystery thriller
- adult fiction
- thriller
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22. Those We Thought We Knew
By: David Joy
4.30
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning writer David Joy comes a searing new novel about the cracks that form in a small… read more
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- mystery thriller
- thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
23. The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1)
By: Chris Offutt
3.88
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A literary master across genres, award-winning author Chris Offutt's latest novel, The Killing Hill… read more
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- mystery thriller
- southern
- thriller
- fiction
24. Blackwood
By: Michael Farris Smith
3.70
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
In this timeless, mythical tale of unforgiving justice and elusive grace, rural Mississippi townsfo… read more
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25. The Horse
By: Willy Vlautin
4.26
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, addiction, regret, love, and hard-won … read more
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- contemporary
26. A Parchment of Leaves
By: Silas House
4.22
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
In this nationally bestselling novel, A Parchment of Leaves, Silas House produced an iconic story o… read more
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- adult fiction
- southern
- fiction
"I wondered if we were put on this earth only to destroy every beautiful thing, to make chaos. Or were we meant to overcome this? Did bad things happen so that goodness could show through in people?"-Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves
"Every morning I was renewed, though. Air and light healed me, over and over. I got to where I depended on it. When I was feeling my worst, I would step out into the yard and put my hands on the branc…"-Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves
27. After the Lights Go Out
By: John Vercher
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A harrowing and spellbinding story about family, the complications of mixed-race relationships, mis… read more
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- thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
28. Pickard County Atlas
By: Chris Harding Thornton
3.52
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Small-town secrets loom large in this spellbinding rural noir about the aftershocks of crime and tr… read more
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29. How Fire Runs
By: Charles Dodd White
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A chilling, timely reminder of the moral and human costs of racial hatred. What happens when a delu… read more
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- adult fiction
- southern
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- thriller
30. Broiler
By: Eli Cranor
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The troubles of two desperate families—one white, one Mexican American—converge in the ruthless und… read more
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- mystery thriller
- adult fiction
- thriller
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