The Acadian Saga: A People’s Story of Exile and Triumph
By: Dean Jobb
4.11
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
The Deportation of the Acadians—one of the darkest events in Canadian history—is replete with the d…
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1. The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)
By: Barbara Kingsolver
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pre… read more
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2. On Mystic Lake
By: Kristin Hannah
3.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
Annie Colwater's husband has just confessed that he's in love with a younger woman. Devastated, Ann… read more
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3. Thunderstruck
By: Erik Larson
3.77
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
The interwoven stories of two men whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal cases o… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
4. Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
4.23
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Longfellow's epic poem about the expulsion of the Acadians has become mythologized and immortalized… read more
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5. Prodigal Summer
By: Barbara Kingsolver
4.00
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
Prodigal Summerweaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabi… read more
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6. Commonwealth
By: Ann Patchett
4.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed, bestselling author - winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize - tells t… read more
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7. The Adversary
By: Michael Crummey
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Innocents (“Extraordinary”— Wall Street … read more
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8. The Librarianist
By: Patrick deWitt
3.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more
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9. The Bookbinder
By: Pip Williams
4.07
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more
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"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
10. The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
By: Shelley Puhak
4.09
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded i… read more
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- nonfiction
11. By Any Other Name
By: Jodi Picoult
4.19
Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition
From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Mad Honey comes an “inspiring” (Elle) novel about … read more
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12. Learned by Heart
By: Emma Donoghue
3.51
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more
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13. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder
By: Douglas Preston
3.81
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God , presents jaw-droppi… read more
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- nonfiction
14. Loyalty
By: Lisa Scottoline
3.76
Format: 417 pages, Hardcover
Franco Fiorvante is a handsome lemon-grower who has toiled for years on the estate of boss Baron Zi… read more
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15. A Single Thread
By: Tracy Chevalier
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become… read more
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"It is perhaps difficult to understand if you have not had children yourself. The biological imperative of the parent is to protect the child, and when that is impossible it feels like a failure, what…"-Tracy Chevalier, A Single Thread
16. The Surgeon's Daughter (Nora Beady, #2)
By: Audrey Blake
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
New from the USA Today bestselling author of The Girl in His Shadow! Women's work is a matter of… read more
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17. Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic
By: Adam Shoalts
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
National bestseller A thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from "Canada's greate… read more
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18. Hotline
By: Dimitri Nasrallah
4.15
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more
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"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline
19. Hester
By: Laurie Lico Albanese
3.97
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotlan… read more
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"The letter A is red,"-Laurie Lico Albanese, Hester
"Isobel, you're in my veins now--you know it, don't you? You're in my blood."-Laurie Lico Albanese, Hester
"...history isn't what's written or told. History is hidden away in dark corners and shadows..."-Laurie Lico Albanese, Hester
"But there's another kind of strength we've got...It comes from knowing the difference between who you are and who they think you are."-Laurie Lico Albanese, Hester
20. The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
By: Wayne Johnston
3.95
Format: 594 pages, Paperback
A mystery and a love story spanning five decades, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is an epic portra… read more
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"You’re not an artist, you’re not a scientist, you’re not an intellectual. All that’s left to you is politics."-Wayne Johnston, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
21. Canary Girls
By: Jennifer Chiaverini
4.04
Format: 417 pages, Paperback
Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling novelist Jennifer Chiav… read more
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22. Lady Clementine
By: Marie Benedict
3.83
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
From Marie Benedict, the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room, comes an … read more
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"Political wives are seldom seen and rarely heard."-Marie Benedict, Lady Clementine
"The risks of the conflict never overwhelmed me, only the fear of marginalization."-Marie Benedict, Lady Clementine
"I simply recall a dark hollow within me into which I crawled when the anxiety overwhelmed."-Marie Benedict, Lady Clementine
"In comparison to them and countless others, I had no right to suffer. But suffering came whether or not I was worthy."-Marie Benedict, Lady Clementine
23. The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
By: Robert Waldinger
4.16
Format: 352 pages, ebook
What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? In their book, the directors of the Ha… read more
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24. Oh William!
By: Elizabeth Strout
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. William, she conf… read more
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"I am not invisible no matter how deeply I feel that I am."-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!
"Mensen zijn eenzaam, dat wil ik hier maar mee zeggen. Veel mensen kunnen niet tegen degenen die ze goed kennen zeggen wat ze misschien wel zouden willen zeggen."-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!
"Er was iets aan haar wat ten diepste -bijna wezenlijk- in harmonie was met zichzelf, zoals iemand is, denk ik, wanneer allebei zijn ouders van hem hebben gehouden."-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!
"Verdriet is zoiets- o, het is zoiets éénzaams; dat is het beangstigende ervan, denk ik. Het is alsof je langs de glaswand van een heel hoog gebouw naar beneden glijdt terwijl niemand je ziet."-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!
25. The Water Keeper (Murphy Shepherd, #1)
By: Charles Martin
4.27
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A riveting new story of heroism, heartache, and the power of love to heal all wounds. Murphy She… read more
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"Love is an amazing thing. It takes the brokenness, the scars, the pain, the darkness, everything, and makes it all new."-Charles Martin, The Water Keeper (Murphy Shepherd, #1)
"Belonging comes before identity. Ownership births purpose. Someone speaks whose we are, and out of that we become who we are. It's just the way the heart works."-Charles Martin, The Water Keeper (Murphy Shepherd, #1)
"...we wrestle and search. But regardless of where we search and how we try to answer the question or what we ingest, inject, or swallow to numb the nagging, only the Father gets to tell us who we are…"-Charles Martin, The Water Keeper (Murphy Shepherd, #1)
"...despite the mask we are all so good at wearing, we somehow manage to wake up every day hoping there's still a chance. That maybe, somehow, we can balance the debt ledger we carry in our hearts. Th…"-Charles Martin, The Water Keeper (Murphy Shepherd, #1)
26. The Prospectors
By: Ariel Djanikian
3.67
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping rags-to-riches story of survival and greed across American history following a family tr… read more
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"How easy it was to adjust to extravagance."-Ariel Djanikian, The Prospectors
"Secrets have a way of nudging against their enclosures and bumping playfully against the walls."-Ariel Djanikian, The Prospectors
27. The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights
By: Kitty Zeldis
3.90
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Mesmerizing historical novel about three women in 1920s New York City and the secrets they hold. … read more
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28. Dangerous Women
By: Hope Adams
3.62
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Nearly two hundred condemned women on board a sailing ship bound for Australia. One of them is a mu… read more
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29. Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion
By: Tyler LeBlanc
4.21
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The untold story of one Acadian family: their experiences following their expulsion and their deter… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Twilight Territory
By: Andrew X. Pham
3.64
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping first novel of love, war, and resistance in post–World War II Japanese-occupied Vietnam,… read more
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31. The Acadian Saga: A People’s Story of Exile and Triumph
By: Dean Jobb
4.11
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
The Deportation of the Acadians—one of the darkest events in Canadian history—is replete with the d… read more
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