Flying Cloud: The True Story of America's Most Famous Clipper Ship and the Woman Who Guided Her
By: David W. Shaw
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In 1851, Elanor Creesy, in a position almost unheard of for a woman in the mid-nineteenth century, …
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1. State of Wonder
By: Ann Patchett
3.90
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
In a narrative replete with poison arrows, devouring snakes, scientific miracles, and spiritual tra… read more
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"One must not be shy where language is concerned."-Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
"Questions are for the benefit of every student, not just the one raising his hand."-Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
"In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant."-Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
"It was not as natural as it appeared. It was more like milking a cow, easy as long as someone else was doing it."-Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
2. The Wind in the Willows
By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery
4.02
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more
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"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
3. Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford
By: Clint Hill , Lisa McCubbin Hill
4.27
Format: 451 pages, Hardcover
A rare and fascinating portrait of the American presidency from the #1 New York Times bestselling a… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"If there was one thing I had learned. . . it was that politics was a damn dirty business."-Clint Hill, Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford
4. The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
By: Peter S. Beagle
4.16
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451450524 She was magical, beautiful beyond belief—and comp… read more
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"I love whom I love."-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
"The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone."-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
"You're in the story with the rest of us now, and you must go with it, whether you will or no."-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
"The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart."-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
5. The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
By: Kevin Fedarko
3.94
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From one of Outsidemagazine's "Literary All-Stars" comes the thrilling true tale of the fastest boa… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
6. Let the Great World Spin
By: Colum McCann
4.35
Format: None pages,
In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring … read more
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7. My Name is Mary Sutter
By: Robin Oliveira
3.72
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An enthralling historical novel about a young woman's struggle to become a doctor during the Civil … read more
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8. A Voyage for Madmen
By: Peter Nichols
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate … read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
9. My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
By: Jill Bolte Taylor
3.93
Format: None pages,
A brain scientist's journey from a debilitating stroke to full recovery becomes an inspiring explor… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
10. Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Nathaniel Philbrick, the bestselling author ofIn the Heart of the Seaand Mayflower, brings his prod… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
11. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
3.88
Format: 461 pages, Hardcover
HOW DID AMERICA BEGIN? This simple question launches acclaimed author Nathaniel Philbrick on an … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"W"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
"The moment any of them gave up on the difficult work of living with their neighbors--and all of the compromise, frustration, and delay that inevitably entailed--they risked losing everything."-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
"Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust; Fear not the things thou suffer must; For, whom he loves he doth chastise, And then all tears wipes from their eyes. William Bradford Plymouth Colony Governor"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
"For all they had suffered during those first terrible winters in America, their best years were behind them, in Leiden. Never again would they know the same rapturous sense of divine fellowship that …"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
12. The Soul of a New Machine
By: Tracy Kidder
4.33
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
The computer revolution brought with it new methods of getting work done--just look at today's news… read more
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13. All Fishermen Are Liars: True Tales from the Dry Dock Bar
By: Linda Greenlaw
4.83
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
Just before Christmas, Linda meets up with her best friend and fellow fisherman Alden Leeman for lu… read more
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14. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
By: Dava Sobel , Neil Armstrong
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorni… read more
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15. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
By: Rebecca Skloot
4.65
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henriet… read more
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16. The Admiral's Daughter (Kydd Sea Adventures, #8)
By: Julian Stockwin
3.83
Format: 373 pages,
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17. Silverview
By: John Le Carré
3.66
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In Silverview, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past s… read more
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"Sometimes the whole of marriage was a cover story."-John Le Carré, Silverview
"Een radicaal is een radicaal. Het maakt niet uit of het een ex-communist is of een ex-wat dan ook. Het is en blijft dezelfde man. Je manier van denken verandert niet omdat die tot een andere conclusi…"-John Le Carré, Silverview
18. Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
By: Eric Jay Dolin
3.89
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told before, yet m… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
19. 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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20. Stone Cold Fox
By: Rachel Koller Croft
3.67
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
A compelling debut novel about an ambitious woman who, after a lifetime of conning alongside her mo… read more
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21. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By: David Grann
4.19
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
22. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.37
Format: 538 pages, Hardcover
The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
23. The Lost and Found Bookshop (Bella Vista Chronicles, #3)
By: Susan Wiggs
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In this thought-provoking, wise and emotionally rich novel, New York Times bestselling author Susan… read more
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"Sometimes you have to let the right book find you"-Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop (Bella Vista Chronicles, #3)
"You’ll never be happy with what you want until you can be happy with what you’ve got."-Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop (Bella Vista Chronicles, #3)
"Autumn was San Francisco's summer. The days were bright and warm, scented with drying leaves and fading flowers and the ever-present salt air."-Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop (Bella Vista Chronicles, #3)
"Seeing him amid the yellow leaves and berry-colored hips of the spent roses, and the fading hollyhocks gone to seed along the garden wall, filled her heart."-Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop (Bella Vista Chronicles, #3)
24. The Last Orphan (Orphan X #8)
By: Gregg Hurwitz
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Evan Smoak returns in The Last Orphan , the next New York Times bestselling Orphan X thriller--when… read more
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"Don’t surround yourself with like-minded people. You’ll get limited or radicalized."-Gregg Hurwitz, The Last Orphan (Orphan X #8)
25. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By: Ilyon Woo
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more
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- biography
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26. The Exiles
By: Christina Baker Kline
4.15
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train returns with an ambitious, emotionally … read more
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"A trick to play in your mind when your troubled. You think of yourself as a tree, with all the rings inside. And every ring is someone you care about, or a place you’ve been. You carry them with you …"-Christina Baker Kline, The Exiles
"This is why we can’t leave the making of laws to men. They result in travesties of injustice that unfairly burden the poor. And women. Those high and mighty aristocrats, in their black robes and powd…"-Christina Baker Kline, The Exiles
27. Portrait of an Unknown Woman (Gabriel Allon, #22)
By: Daniel Silva
4.24
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
In a spellbinding new masterpiece by #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva, Gabriel All… read more
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28. The Lincoln Highway
By: Amor Towles
4.23
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, soph… read more
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"There are few things more beautiful to an author's eye, he concluded to Billy, than a well-read copy of one of his books"-Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway
"There are few things more beautiful to an author's eye, he confessed to Billy, than a well-read copy of one of his books."-Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway
"Making a fresh start isn't just a matter of having a new address in a new town. It isn't a matter of having a new job or a new phone number or even a new name.A fresh start requires a cleaning of the…"-Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway
29. Ana María and the Fox (The Luna Sisters, #1)
By: Liana De la Rosa
3.46
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A forbidden love between a Mexican heiress and a shrewd British politician makes for a tantalizing … read more
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30. Big Summer
By: Jennifer Weiner
3.59
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the “nothing short of brilliant” (People) Mrs. Everythi… read more
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"Research shows that shaming fat folks into thinness doesn't work. And come on if it did, most of the fat women in the world would have probably disappeared by now"-Jennifer Weiner, Big Summer
"When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When you're angry, everything looks like a target. There are a lot of angry people in the world. And these days, they're all online"-Jennifer Weiner, Big Summer
"You are fine, just the way you are... Bodies come in all shapes and sized. Don't let anyone make you feel any differently. I wanted to believe him, but by then, of course, the damage had been done."-Jennifer Weiner, Big Summer
"The trick of the internet, I had learned, was not being unapologetically yourself or completely unfiltered; it was mastering the trick of appearing that way. It was spiking your posts with just the r…"-Jennifer Weiner, Big Summer
31. Flying Cloud: The True Story of America's Most Famous Clipper Ship and the Woman Who Guided Her
By: David W. Shaw
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In 1851, Elanor Creesy, in a position almost unheard of for a woman in the mid-nineteenth century, … read more
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- history
- biography
- maritime
- nonfiction
- womens
