Country Editor's Boy: A Memoir
By: Hal Borland
4.34
Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition
A memoir of youthful years spent in Colorado as the American West was transformed, by the author of…
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1. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
By: William Finnegan
4.27
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer Barbaria… read more
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- history
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"Writing felt like it justified, barely, my existence -- this extremity of obscurity I had chosen."-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
"I did not consider, even passingly, that I had a choice when it came to surfing. My enchantment would take me where it would."-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
"Still, I wondered what Sam, mental illness and all, might have to tell us about adulthood. Why, for example, did it seem to be always receding as a concept, even as we got older?"-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
"But surfing always had this horizon, this fear line, that made it different from other things, certainly from other sports I knew. You could do it with friends, but when the waves got big, or you got…"-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
2. Free Country: A Penniless Adventure the Length of Britain
By: George Mahood
4.13
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
The plan is simple. George and Ben have three weeks to cycle 1000 miles from the bottom of England … read more
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3. Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
3.59
Format: 320 pages,
Maisie Dobbs isn't just any young housemaid. Through her own natural intelligence--and the patronag… read more
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4. The Lord God Made Them All
By: James Herriot
4.27
Format: 637 pages, Paperback
The Lord God Made Them Allis the bestselling sequel to All Things Wise and Wonderfuland the fourth … read more
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5. Cimarron
By: Edna Ferber
2.83
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
1929. Edna Ferber, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Show Boat and Giant, gives us a ripping good re… read more
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6. My Ántonia
By: Willa Cather
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant … read more
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7. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
By: Joshua Hammer
3.82
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls o… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
8. Envious Casca (Inspector Hemingway Mystery #2)
By: Georgette Heyer
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
It is no ordinary Christmas at Lexham Manor. Six holiday guests find themselves the suspects of a m… read more
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9. Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
By: Ben Montgomery
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2014 National Outdoor Book Awards for History/Biography Emma Gatewood told her family… read more
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10. My Reading Life
By: Pat Conroy
3.50
Format: None pages,
Bestselling author Pat Conroy acknowledges the books that have shaped him and celebrates the profou… read more
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11. All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2)
By: James Herriot
3.59
Format: 251 pages,
The classic multimillion copy bestseller Delve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herri… read more
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12. An Irish Country Doctor (Irish Country #1)
By: Patrick Taylor
3.75
Format: None pages,
De jonge dokter Barry Laverty kan Ballybucklebo, een schilderachtig dorpje in Noord-Ierland, nauwel… read more
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13. It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the Politics of Extremism
By: Norman J. Ornstein , Thomas E. Mann
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Acrimony and hyperpartisanship have seeped into every part of the political process. Congress is de… read more
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14. Desert Solitaire
By: Edward Abbey
4.00
Format: None pages,
When Desert Solitairewas first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude an… read more
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15. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
By: David Wroblewski
4.60
Format: None pages,
Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their fa… read more
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16. All Things Wise and Wonderful
By: James Herriot
4.89
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
The third volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series Readers adored James Herriot's tales o… read more
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17. Shoeless Joe
By: W.P. Kinsella
3.97
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“If you build it, he will come.” These mysterious words inspire Ray Kinsella to create a cornfi… read more
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"I'm not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you."-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
"Any game becomes important when you know and love the players."-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
"Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it."-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
"I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head."-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
18. These High, Green Hills (Mitford Years, #3)
By: Jan Karon
4.36
Format: 39 pages, Paperback
For years, Mitford's sixtysomething rector has been happily married to his parish. Now he's also ma… read more
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19. The Mayor of Casterbridge
By: Thomas Hardy , Keith Wilson
4.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
'I've not always been what I am now' In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and… read more
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20. All Things Bright and Beautiful
By: James Herriot
4.00
Format: None pages,
"A very warm, very engaging read. . . . The reader falls totally under his spell." --Associated Pre… read more
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21. Chances Are...
By: Richard Russo
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a … read more
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"The only thing a warrior cannot fight is her own fierce nature."-Richard Russo, Chances Are...
"Fear is what makes us human and it is in overcoming fear that we show our strength."-Richard Russo, Chances Are...
"I don't know this song. They haven't taught me it to us at school." " When in doubt, just do what I do, Robs. Hum if you don't know the words"-Richard Russo, Chances Are...
"Bang, bang, bang. Bang, bang, bang. It seemed that only policemen and social workers—people who wanted to take you away—announced their arrival in that way."-Richard Russo, Chances Are...
22. The Way of the Bear (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito, #26)
By: Anne Hillerman
4.17
Format: 281 pages, Hardcover
Fossil harvesting, ancient lore, greed, rejected love and murder combine in this gripping new insta… read more
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23. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol. 1
By: Beth Brower
4.31
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
“I’ve arrived in London without incident. There are few triumphs in my recent life, but I count thi… read more
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24. The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
By: Roxane van Iperen
4.37
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The unforgettable story of two unsung heroes of World War II: sisters Janny and Lien Brilleslijper … read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
"But, above all, the people I met there had an urgent message for me: tell this story, because it is different from the many stories the world knows. The Jews did not go to their deaths willingly -- i…"-Roxane van Iperen, The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
25. Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–and WWII Heroes
By: Tim Brady
4.01
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
The astonishing WWII true story of a trio of fearless female resisters whose youth and innocence be… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
26. Under The Wave At Waimea
By: Paul Theroux
3.70
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
“Theroux’s work is like no one else’s.” –Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review From legenda… read more
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27. Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
By: Robert Specht
4.32
Format: 466 pages, Kindle Edition
Anne Hobbs is a prim and proper 19-year-old schoolteacher who yearns for adventure. She finds this … read more
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"It was like traveling through a stage setting, the air clear and tingling, the moonlight sparkling off bushes laced with frost."-Robert Specht, Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
28. Shelterwood
By: Lisa Wingate
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children ca… read more
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"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
29. Murder in the Scottish Hills (The Scottish Ladies' Detective Agency #2)
By: Lydia Travers
4.10
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
When Maud McIntyre and her lady’s maid Daisy travel into the Scottish Highlands, the last thing the… read more
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30. Country Editor's Boy: A Memoir
By: Hal Borland
4.34
Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition
A memoir of youthful years spent in Colorado as the American West was transformed, by the author of… read more
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31. The Rose Arbor
By: Rhys Bowen
4.30
Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition
An investigation into a girl’s disappearance uncovers a mystery dating back to World War II in a ha… read more
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