In a Time of Distance: And Other Poems
By: Alexander McCall Smith
3.58
Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. A Night in the Lonesome October
By: Gahan Wilson , Roger Zelazny , James Warhola
4.18
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
All is not what it seems… In the murky London gloom, a knife-wielding gentleman named Jack prowl… read more
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2. Nathan Coulter
By: Wendell Berry
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Nathan Coulter begins Wendell Berry's sequence of novels about the citizens of Port William, Kentuc… read more
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"Oh Lord, make us able To eat all that's on this table, And if there's some we haven't got Bring it to us while it's hot"-Wendell Berry, Nathan Coulter
"Tobacco,' Jig said. 'I used to raise tobacco once. But I quit. I was plowing one morning, and the Lord said, "Jig, how'd you like for your daughter to smoke?" And I said, "I wouldn't like it, Lord. I…"-Wendell Berry, Nathan Coulter
3. Thornyhold
By: Mary Stewart
3.99
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The story is about a lonely child who is made to see the world through her cousin's unusual eyes. W… read more
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4. The Copper Beech
By: Maeve Binchy
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
In the Irish town of Schancarrig, the young people carve their initials--and those of their loves-i… read more
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5. By the Great Horn Spoon!
By: Sid Fleischman
4.48
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
For fans of theI Survivedseries--a rollicking adventure from the California Gold Rush! When Jack's … read more
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6. My Purple Scented Novel
By: Ian McEwan
3.61
Format: 192 pages, ebook
Short story published in the March Edition of The New Yorker. Also available to read online. read more
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7. Natsume's Book of Friends, Volume 1
By: Yuki Midorikawa
3.66
Format: 259 pages,
With friends like these, enemies are overkill. R to L (Japanese Style). Takashi Natsume can see the… read more
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8. Ring of Bright Water (Ring of Bright Water, #1)
By: Gavin Maxwell
3.95
Format: 315 pages, Paperback
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9. The Past
By: Tessa Hadley
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing novel about family and the modern world encroaching upon the old, from one of Britain… read more
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10. The High Mountains of Portugal
By: Yann Martel
2.88
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomas discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of a… read more
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11. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By: Margaret Renkl
4.37
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more
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12. The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World
By: Sharon Brous
4.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From one of our country’s most prominent rabbis, an inspiring book about the power of community bas… read more
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13. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
14. The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
By: Dwight Garner
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal … read more
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"There's no verb for traveling while hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool. Perhaps "cheevering" would suffice."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
"A friend once told her that he had seen graffiti in a restaurant's men's room that read, "Gael Greene uses a thesaurus."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
15. The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)
By: Hisashi Kashiwai
3.70
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series f… read more
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"Ah, Setchubai. "Plum Blossoms in the Snow." Perfect, and not just because of the name. It's a little sweet, but it'll go very well with the hotpot."-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)
"We get used to things too easily. You think something's tasty the first time you eat it, but then you start taking it for granted. Never forget your first impressions."-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)
"It's Swatow lace, I believe-- beautiful, isn't it? The design is titled "The Disc of the Moon"-- apparently it was inspired by the poem "Midnight Song" by the Tang-era poet Li Bai. I looked it up, an…"-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)
"Miyajima oysters, simmered Kurama-style, miso-glazed baked butterburs with millet cake, bracken and bamboo shoot stew, chargrilled moroko, breast of Kyoto-reared chicken with a wasabi dressing, and v…"-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)
16. Cassandra Darke
By: Posy Simmonds
3.88
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Cassandra Darke is an art dealer, mean, selfish, solitary by nature, living in Chelsea in a house w… read more
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17. Wandering through Life: A Memoir
By: Donna Leon
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Theinternationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells herown adventurous life… read more
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18. Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
By: Alua Arthur
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead b… read more
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19. An Irish Country Yuletide (Irish Country #16)
By: Patrick Taylor
3.97
Format: 193 pages, Hardcover
A charming Christmas entry in Patrick Taylor's beloved internationally bestselling Irish Country se… read more
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20. Blossomise
By: Simon Armitage
4.22
Format: 63 pages, Hardcover
Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its mela… read more
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21. Pride and Preston Lin
By: Christina Hwang Dudley
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Lissie Cheng is the middle of three sisters, orphaned and taken in by their aunt and uncle. Both he… read more
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22. Three Fires
By: Denise Mina
3.73
Format: 141 pages, Kindle Edition
From the award-winning master of crime fiction, Denise Mina re-imagines the "Bonfire of the Vanitie… read more
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23. Normal Distance
By: Elisa Gabbert
3.70
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A collection of funny and thought-provoking poems inspired by surprising facts that will appeal to … read more
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24. Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
By: Lee Berger
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A true-life scientific adventure story, this thrilling book takes the reader deep into South Africa… read more
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"Protein is more stable than DNA over time, and so this new technology offers a fresh way to study fossils."-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
"By almost any definition, Homo naledi is not human. But if the present archaeological record reflects the complexity of Homo sapiens accurately, it means that naledi was significantly more complex th…"-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
"Their synchrotron, a super-powerful x-ray machine, can harness the radiation of überfast subatomic particles in order to -- among many other things -- look inside solid objects. It's spectacular scie…"-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
25. Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World
By: Rae Wynn-Grant
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In this vulnerable and urgent memoir, Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant explores the ever-shifting relationship be… read more
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26. How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves
By: Tristan Gooley
4.13
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
New York Times–bestselling author Tristan Gooley opens our eyes to the secret language of trees—and… read more
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27. Feel the Bern (Bernie Sanders Mystery #1)
By: Andrew Shaffer
3.60
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Who knew fighting for a living wage could be so deadly? Bernie Sanders and his Gen Z intern are dra… read more
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28. The Art of Avatar The Way of Water
By: Tara Bennett
4.56
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Take an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the creative process of James Cameron’s Avatar: The Wa… read more
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29. Maisie Dobbs: A Mysterious Profile
By: Jacqueline Winspear
3.94
Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition
Four fictional characters are interviewed in this profile of the adventurous sleuth, by the New Yor… read more
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30. In a Time of Distance: And Other Poems
By: Alexander McCall Smith
3.58
Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition
What really counts in this life? For the writer, Alexander McCall Smith, it is friendship and love … read more
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31. My Heart’s in the Highlands: Classic Scottish Poems
By: Gaby Morgan
3.97
Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition
My Heart’s in the Highlands: Classic Scottish Poems is a glorious collection of classic poems and v… read more
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