The Great Peshtigo Fire: An Eyewitness Account (Wisconsin)
By: Peter Pernin
4.06
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Reverend Peter Pernin was the parish priest for Peshtigo and nearby Marinette, whose churches burne…
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1. I Am the Messenger
By: Markus Zusak
4.03
Format: 357 pages, Paperback
protect the diamonds survive the clubs dig deep through the spades feel the hearts Ed Kennedy… read more
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2. Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History
By: Denise Gess , William Lutz
3.94
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Novelist Denise Gess and historian William Lutz brilliantly restore the event to its rightful plac… read more
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3. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
By: Helen Simonson
4.11
Format: 288 pages,
You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled wi… read more
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4. The Book of Unknown Americans
By: Cristina Henríquez
3.17
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling, heartbreaking page-turner destined for breakout status: a novel that gives voice to mil… read more
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5. The Taming of the Shrew
By: William Shakespeare
3.78
Format: 438 pages,
Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young … read more
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6. Purgatory Ridge (Cork O'Connor, #3)
By: William Kent Krueger
4.17
Format: 428 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Winner of the prestigious Loft-McKnight Fiction Award and the Anthony Award for Best First Novel, W… read more
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7. Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
By: Daniel James Brown
3.80
Format: 220 pages,
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8. The Swans of Fifth Avenue
By: Melanie Benjamin
1.00
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife comes an enthralling new novel abo… read more
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9. The Murder Book (Alex Delaware, #16)
By: Jonathan Kellerman
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In seventeen consecutive bestselling novels, Jonathan Kellerman has distinguished himself as the ma… read more
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10. Population: 485 : Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time
By: Michael Perry
4.18
Format: 411 pages,
Here the local vigilante is a farmer's wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, the most senior member… read more
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11. 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
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"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
12. Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
By: Nick Offerman
3.71
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about … read more
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"...when you make art with confidence, then clumsiness doesn't play as clumsiness, but panache."-Nick Offerman, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
"Break up your cycle. Get out of your rut. Find a way in your normal setting to "feel alive." One thing I'll do is get up early and see the sunrise from my yard, or for some bonus points, from my roof…"-Nick Offerman, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
13. Family Meal
By: Bryan Washington
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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14. A Holly Jolly Ever After
By: Julie Murphy
3.52
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Kallum Liebermanis the funny one™. As the arguably lesser of the three former members of the boy ba… read more
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15. Serpentine (Alex Delaware, #36)
By: Jonathan Kellerman
4.18
Format: 368 pages, ebook
Psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis search for answers to a brutal, decades-old c… read more
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16. Desolation Mountain (Cork O'Connor, #17)
By: William Kent Krueger
4.14
Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition
New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger delivers yet another “punch-to-the-gut blend… read more
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17. Wild Houses
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more
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"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
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"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
18. Twisted Twenty-Six (Stephanie Plum, #26)
By: Janet Evanovich
4.10
Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition
Stephanie Plum's career has taken more wrong turns than a student driver on the Jersey Turnpike, an… read more
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"Some men enter a woman's life and screw it up forever."-Janet Evanovich, Twisted Twenty-Six (Stephanie Plum, #26)
"I helped myself to coffee and brought it to the little kitchen table. I'd eaten baby food at that table, and I'd done my homework at it too. The refrigerator and the stove got changed out, but the ta…"-Janet Evanovich, Twisted Twenty-Six (Stephanie Plum, #26)
19. The Vulnerables
By: Sigrid Nunez
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more
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"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables
20. Little Souls
By: Sandra Dallas
3.93
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Now a Denver Post bestseller Finalist, 2023 Colorado Book Awards Sandra Dallas's Little Souls… read more
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21. 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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22. 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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23. Warrior Girl Unearthed
By: Angeline Boulley
4.34
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that wa… read more
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"Some friendships can endure anything."-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed
"Sometimes you need to protect your heart from the pain."-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed
"Everything is connected. The past. The future. The beginning and ending."-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed
"You jump, and I'll catch you. Every time. I'm your ride or die, niijiikwe."-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed
24. The Last Russian Doll
By: Kristen Loesch
3.79
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
A novel about betrayal, revenge, and redemption that follows three generations of Russian women, fr… read more
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25. A Council of Dolls
By: Mona Susan Power
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native Amer… read more
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"Shame invades one's thoughts like a parasite, twists them like wet laundry until all sense is wrung out."-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls
"When Winona whispered her memories to me in later years, she said that Whitestone Hill was the day the world ended. I never asked what she meant, how the world could be gone when the sun was still in…"-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls
26. White Horse
By: Erika T. Wurth
3.51
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
White Horse is a gritty, vibrant debut from Erika T. Wurth about an Indigenous woman who must face … read more
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27. Sisters of the Lost Nation
By: Nick Medina
3.88
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's r… read more
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"What am I supposed to do? Listen, Anna, we all try to get noticed. All the time. Everywhere. That’s lige. Especially for people like us. If the others, don’t notice us, we disappear."-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation
"We all reach for something… Sometimes what we long for is so out of reach that we get stuck or lost in our pursuit of it. The point is not to lose sight of what you already have because if you try to…"-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation
"She said Frog eximplified transformation. He entered life in one form and left it in another. From egg to tadpole, to tadpole with legs, to amphibian with tail, to tailless frog, he was never the sam…"-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation
28. The Great Peshtigo Fire: Stories and Science from America’s Deadliest Fire
By: Scott Knickelbine
3.93
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
On the night of October 8, 1871, a whirlwind of fire swept through northeastern Wisconsin, destroyi… read more
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29. The English Experience
By: Julie Schumacher
3.91
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
Jason Fitger may be the last faculty member the dean wants for the job, but he’s the only professor… read more
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30. The Memorare Moment
By: Francis J. Hoffman
4.58
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
The Memorare Moment The 30 second Prayer that will change your life---and the world. read more
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31. The Great Peshtigo Fire: An Eyewitness Account (Wisconsin)
By: Peter Pernin
4.06
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Reverend Peter Pernin was the parish priest for Peshtigo and nearby Marinette, whose churches burne… read more
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