The Ones Who Remember: Second-Generation Voices of the Holocaust
By: Rita Benn
4.73
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
How do you talk about and make sense of your life when you grew up with parents who survived the mo…
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1. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
By: Atul Gawande
4.49
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
In Being Mortal, author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine … read more
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"Endings matter, not just for the person but, perhaps even more, for the ones left behind."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"Death, of course, is not a failure. Death is normal. Death may be the enemy, but it is also the natural order of things."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"He moved his line in the sand. This is what it means to have autonomy -- you may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with …"-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
2. The Lost Saints of Tennessee
By: Amy Franklin-Willis
0.00
Format: 287 pages,
With enormous heart and dazzling agility, Amy Franklin-Willis expertly mines the fault lines in one… read more
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3. One Perfect Lie
By: Lisa Scottoline
3.70
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
On paper, Chris Brennan looks perfect. He's applying for a job as a high school government teacher,… read more
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4. The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Make Your Loved Ones’ Lives Easier and Your Own Life More Pleasant
By: Margareta Magnusson
3.59
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
Funny, wise, and deeply practical, Swedish artist Margareta Magnusson offers advice on how to declu… read more
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5. We Were the Lucky Ones
By: Georgia Hunter
4.00
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary, propulsive novel based on the true story of a family of Polish Jews who are separ… read more
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6. Kitchens of the Great Midwest
By: J. Ryan Stradal
3.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When Lars Thorvald's wife, Cynthia, falls in love with wine--and a dashing sommelier--he's left to … read more
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7. A Great Reckoning (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #12)
By: Louise Penny
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Louise Penny pulls back the layers to reveal a brilliant and emotionally powerfu… read more
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8. High Country (Anna Pigeon, #12)
By: Nevada Barr
4.00
Format: 384 pages, Mass Market Paperback
It's fall in the Sierra Mountains, and Anna Pigeon is slinging hash in Yosemite National Park's his… read more
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9. The Patron Saint of Liars
By: Ann Patchett
5.00
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
Since her first publication in 1992, celebrated novelist Ann Patchett has crafted a number of elega… read more
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10. The Nature of the Beast (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #11)
By: Louise Penny
4.00
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
Hardly a day goes by when nine-year-old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to w… read more
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11. The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy (Harold Fry, #2)
By: Rachel Joyce
3.62
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
When Queenie Hennessy discovers that Harold Fry is walking the length of England to save her, and a… read more
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12. The Postcard
By: Anne Berest
4.37
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-cen… read more
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"It would be wrong to call them memories; they are moments of life, that man hat es erlebt - one has lived. They are inside me, part of me, branded into my skin, you might say - but they're not memori…"-Anne Berest, The Postcard
"After the war, women in orthodox Jewish families had made it their mission to have as many children as possible to replenish the population -- and it seemed to me that the same was true for books. Th…"-Anne Berest, The Postcard
13. Beautiful Country
By: Qian Julie Wang
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when sev… read more
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"Words rolled out of my mouth one after another and I do not dare to interrupt them with a breath. They are new words, foreign words but familiar all the same because they have been sitting at my thro…"-Qian Julie Wang, Beautiful Country
14. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
By: Dara Horn
4.36
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more
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"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
15. The Little Liar
By: Mitch Albom
4.59
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Beloved bestselling author Mitch Albom returns with a powerful novel that moves from a coastal Gree… read more
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"Dead men tell no lies, but their truths must be unearthed."-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar
"But the lies you tell by daylight leave you lonesome in the dark."-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar
"The sad thing is, by the time you share what a loved one wants to hear, they no longer want to hear it."-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar
"...a lie told once is easy to expose, but a lie told a thousand times can look like the truth. And destroy the world."-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar
16. The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
By: Lucy Adlington
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching … read more
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"En Auschwitz-Birkenau, los internos aprendieron enseguida que era pocas las pertenencias personales realmente esenciales para vivir: ropa, calzado y un plato para la comida. Más allá de eso, lo que c…"-Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
"En Auschwitz-Birkenau, los internos aprendieron enseguida que eran pocas las pertenencias personales realmente esenciales para vivir: ropa, calzado y un plato para la comida. Más allá de eso, lo que …"-Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
17. Absolution
By: Alice McDermott
3.81
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more
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18. The Hero of This Book
By: Elizabeth McCracken
3.77
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, abo… read more
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"As for me, I don't think writing is that hard, as long as you're comfortable with failure on every single level."-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book
"My mother's favorite cats were male and nervous and needed her. "Come to Mommy," my mother would say to one of them. "Yes, I love you, too." "You are not that cat's mother," I said, sitting on the so…"-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book
"I've always hated the notion, in life or in fiction, that the human personality is a puzzle to be solved, that we are a single flashback away from understanding why this person is cruel to her childr…"-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book
19. The World Played Chess
By: Robert Dugoni
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just graduated high school. His only desire: collect a little beer mone… read more
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20. All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)
By: Louise Penny
4.43
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
The 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sû… read more
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"You were going to say the Death Star, weren’t you?"-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)
"I just sit where I'm put, composed of stone and wishful thinking: That the deity that kills for pleasure will also heal, That in the midst of your nightmare, the final one, a kind lion will pick your…"-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)
"Regarding Notre Dame cathedral: "He could see the huge rose window that had, incredibly, survived the fire. It looked, behind the works, like a giant third eye. Gazing perpetually out at the City of …"-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)
"I just sit where I’m put, composed of stone and wishful thinking: That the deity that kills for pleasure will also heal, That in the midst of your nightmare, the final one, a kind lion will come with…"-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)
21. For the Love of Friends
By: Sara Goodman Confino
4.24
Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition
A sharp and hilariously relatable novel about the business of weddings, the toll they can take, and… read more
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22. Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir
By: Lucinda Williams
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in… read more
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23. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
By: George Stephanopoulos
4.45
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor… read more
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24. Eternal
By: Lisa Scottoline
4.29
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
What war destroys, only love can heal. Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro grow up as the best of frie… read more
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"You can’t stay on track when your own government is derailing you"-Lisa Scottoline, Eternal
"My mother thinks my apartment is too big, but I fill it with my ego"-Lisa Scottoline, Eternal
"Marco felt despair, despite the victory. He had believed in Fascism, and they had believed in Nazism. Yet he was alive, and they were dead. There was no difference between him and them. They were all…"-Lisa Scottoline, Eternal
25. Mercury Pictures Presents
By: Anthony Marra
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's It… read more
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"Being broken delicately is what I call being whole."-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents
"Your father is the worst thing that's ever happened to me," her mother said. "He also happens to be the love of my life."-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents
"Artie had named the canary Charles Lindbergh, on account of it being an excellent aviator but otherwise a real piece of work."-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents
"Vincenzo told him he was naïve, but was it naïve to believe documentary photography could serve as an antidote to the propaganda poisoning the body politic?"-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents
26. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
By: Kamala Harris
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us,… read more
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"When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
"One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
"Politics is a realm where the grand pronouncement often takes the place of the painstaking and detail-oriented work of getting meaningful things done."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
". . . Being a good person meant standing for something larger than yourself; that success is measured in part by what you help others achieve and accomplish."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
27. The Vixen
By: Francine Prose
3.34
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Critically acclaimed, bestselling author Francine Prose returns with a dazzling new novel set in th… read more
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28. The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land
By: Omer Friedlander
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
he Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land announces the arrival of a natural-born storyteller of immense… read more
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29. Pillar of Salt: A Daughter's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust
By: Anna Salton Eisen
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
From Anna Salton Eisen, a National Jewish Book Awards Finalist for The 23rd A Holocaust Memoir , c… read more
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30. Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders' Dreams?
By: Daniel Gordis
4.34
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
On Israel's seventy-fifth anniversary comes a nuanced examination of the country's past, present, a… read more
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"Very little that happens in Israel is divorced from memory."-Daniel Gordis, Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders' Dreams?
31. The Ones Who Remember: Second-Generation Voices of the Holocaust
By: Rita Benn
4.73
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
How do you talk about and make sense of your life when you grew up with parents who survived the mo… read more
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