Dear Readers and Riders: The Beloved Books, Faithful Fans, and Hidden Private Life of Marguerite Henry
By: Lettie Teague
4.26
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
The untold story of the bestselling children’s book author and how her most popular titles came to …
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1. Justin Morgan Had a Horse
By: Marguerite Henry , Wesley Dennis
4.05
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Joel's face suddenly lit up as if he had thought of something for the first time. He spoke now to t… read more
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2. The Book of Speculation
By: Erika Swyler
4.15
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and captivating debut novel about a young librarian who is sent a mysterious old book, i… read more
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3. King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian
By: Marguerite Henry , Wesley Dennis
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
He was named "Sham" for the sun, this golden red stallion born in the Sultan of Morocco's stone sta… read more
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4. Brighty of the Grand Canyon
By: Marguerite Henry , Wesley Dennis
4.00
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Long ago, a lone little burro roamed the high cliffs of the Grand Canyon and touched the hearts of … read more
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5. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
By: Mildred D. Taylor
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year—the year… read more
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"Now one day, maybe I can forgive John Andersen for what he done to these trees, but I ain't gonna forget it. I figure forgiving is not letting something nag at you—rotting you out."-Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
"It's tough out there, boy, and as long as there are people, there’s gonna be somebody trying to take what you got and trying to drag you down. It's up to you whether you let them or not."-Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
"As soon as we were outside, I whipped my hand from his. 'What's the matter with you? You know he was wrong.' Stacey swallowed to flush his anger, then said gruffly, "I know it, and you know it, but h…"-Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
"Biting the hand that feeds you, that's what you're doing Mary Logan, biting the hand that feeds you.' Again Mama laughed, 'If that's the case, Daisy, I don't think I need that little bit of food.' Wi…"-Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
6. Stormy, Misty's Foal (Misty, #3)
By: Marguerite Henry
3.55
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A raging storm slashes across Assateague and Chincoteague islands. Water is everywhere The wild pon… read more
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7. Mustang: Wild Spirit of the West
By: Marguerite Henry , Robert Lougheed
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Horses were in Annie Bronn's blood. For as long as she could remember, she had been fascinated by t… read more
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8. Empire Falls
By: Richard Russo
3.57
Format: 10 pages, Paperback
Richard Russo--from his first novel, Mohawk, to his most recent, Straight Man--has demonstrated a p… read more
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9. The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
By: Elizabeth Letts
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The incredible true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her… read more
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- horses
- nonfiction
- biography
"As she passed through Maine, Annie would interpret a certain expression on someone's face as possibly a family trait. She saw the Stuart in a stranger's clear blue eyes, the Libby in someone's advent…"-Elizabeth Letts, The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
10. Lost Birds (A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito #27)
By: Anne Hillerman
4.29
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
“Anne Hillerman is a star.”—J. A. Jance, New York Times bestselling author From New York Times bes… read more
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11. Death of an Author
By: E.C.R. Lorac
3.99
Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition
'I hate murders and I hate murderers, but I must admit that the discovery of a bearded corpse would… read more
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12. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
By: Meg Kissinger
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more
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- biography
13. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- biography
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
14. The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
By: James Patterson
3.92
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, … read more
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"Different books speak to us at different times."-James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
15. The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.46
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! Psychologist and… read more
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"You've go to get on with it, my boy. Stop feeling sorry for yourselft, because what's done is done. You can't change it, so you've got to stiffen your backbone. You've a good job, a very nice roof ov…"-Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)
16. Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
By: Peggy Orenstein
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, sp… read more
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- biography
"The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling you what you're supposed to think."-Peggy Orenstein, Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
17. Meredith, Alone
By: Claire Alexander
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Meredith Maggs has everything a person needs.A best friend in Sadie.A beloved cat in Fred.Jigsaws t… read more
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18. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris
By: Glynnis MacNicol
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
19. The Littlest Library
By: Poppy Alexander
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A heartwarming literary-themed novel about a woman who turns an ordinary red phone box into the lit… read more
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"There was a book to cure ever ill and solve every problem that was what Mimi had always thought. It was like a tiny sanctuary providing a balm for all of life’s challenges."-Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library
"Manga is a highly respected form of storytelling. Calling it comics doesn’t do it justice. I’ll sort her out with some other graphic novels, too. It’s all stories. It all counts."-Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library
"There is that poem. Scott Holland, I think. How does it go? ‘I have only slipped away into the next room’…or something. Yes. ‘I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I and you are you. What…"-Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library
20. 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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"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
21. By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret
By: Piper Huguley
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The incredible untold story of Ann Lowe, Jackie Kennedy's wedding dress designer, a Black woman who… read more
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"It took one person. One lady with a good heart to see who I was and what I could do in this world."-Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret
"It has been many years since I let a man kiss me... When our lips met, parts of me that I had forgotten existed, thawed out from neglect and rose back to life like when Jesus was resurrected."-Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret
"The way she had seen me and treated me, was the way we should all see and treat one another. For to be able to see someone, to see them as a human being, to see them for what they can contribute in t…"-Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret
"For all of my life, ever since I was a little girl, I thought what I wanted was to be at one of these lovely dinner dances. Well. Now that I'm here, It's been marvelous, but I know that the main thin…"-Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret
22. Las Madres
By: Esmeralda Santiago
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family,… read more
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23. Same As It Ever Was
By: Claire Lombardo
4.00
Format: 498 pages, Hardcover
Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more
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"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was
24. My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me
By: Caleb Carr
4.33
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling author of The Alienist, Caleb Carr , tells the extraordinary story of Masha, … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
25. Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University
By: Richard White
3.26
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son.… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
26. Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20)
By: William Kent Krueger
4.34
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A disappearance and a dead body put Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twe… read more
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27. The Showdown (Saddlehill Academy, #2)
By: Jessica Burkhart
4.20
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of the Canterwood Crest series comes the second book in a middle grade series about… read more
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28. If You Want to Ride a Horse
By: Amy Novesky
3.92
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Carson Ellis' Home meets Carter Higgins' Everything You Need for a Treehouse in this poetic, open-e… read more
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- nonfiction
29. Dear Readers and Riders: The Beloved Books, Faithful Fans, and Hidden Private Life of Marguerite Henry
By: Lettie Teague
4.26
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
The untold story of the bestselling children’s book author and how her most popular titles came to … read more
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- nonfiction
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30. The Book of Nature: The Astonishing Beauty of God's First Sacred Text
By: Barbara Mahany
4.30
Format: None pages, Hardcover
We live inside a nautilus of prayer--if only we open our senses and perceive what is infused all ar… read more
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31. What's Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service
By: Melissa Fitzgerald
4.49
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A behind-the-scenes look into the creation and legacy of The West Wing as told by cast members Mel… read more
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