A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories
By: Bettye Collier-Thomas
4.08
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
An Esquire “Best Christmas Book to Read During the Holidays” A collection of Christmas stories wri…
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1. The Halloween Tree
By: Ray Bradbury
3.78
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
A fast-moving, eerie tale set on Halloween night... Eight costumed boys running to meet their fr… read more
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- classics
- fiction
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"Because of this one brave, new-thinking man, summer lives in the winter cave."-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
"When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die."-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
"Night and day. Summer and winter, boys. Seedtime and harvest. Life and death. That's what Halloween is, all rolled up in one."-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
"The day Joe Pipkin was born all the Orange Crush and Nehi soda bottles in the world fizzed over; and joyful bees swarmed countrysides to sting maiden ladies."-Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
2. A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, & The Thanksgiving Visitor
By: Truman Capote
4.28
Format: 107 pages, Hardcover
Taking its place next to Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood on the Modern Library bookshelf i… read more
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- classics
- holiday
- christmas
- short stories
- fiction
- historical fiction
3. Picnic at Hanging Rock
By: Joan Lindsay
3.67
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Yo… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Thinking's all right if you have the time for it."-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"At every step the prospect ahead grew more enchanting with added detail of crenellated crags and lichen-patterned stone. Now a mountain laurel glossy above the dogwood's dusty silver leaves, now a da…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"And now, at last, after a lifetime of linoleum and asphalt and Axminster carpets, the heavy flat-footed woman trod the springing earth. Born fifty-seven years ago in a suburban wilderness of smoke-gr…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
4. Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I
By: Hazel Gaynor , Heather Webb
4.29
Format: 128 pages, ebook
New York Timesbestselling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create this unforgett… read more
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- holiday
- christmas
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
5. Nutcracker
By: E.T.A. Hoffmann , Ralph Manheim , Maurice Sendak
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
The tale of Nutcracker, written by E.T.A. Hoffmann in 1816, has fascinated and inspired artists, co… read more
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- christmas
- classics
- fiction
6. On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
By: Matsuo Bashō , Lucien Stryk
4.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and … read more
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- poetry
- classics
- fiction
7. Holidays on Ice
By: David Sedaris
4.40
Format: None pages,
David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never bef… read more
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- christmas
- short stories
- audiobook
8. Letters from Father Christmas
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Baillie Tolkien
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkien's ch… read more
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- classics
- holiday
- christmas
- fiction
- audiobook
9. A Christmas Story
By: Jean Shepherd
3.76
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana--the book that inspired the equa… read more
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10. The Return of Simple
By: Langston Hughes , None
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Jesse B. Simple, Simple to his fans, made weekly appearances beginning in 1943 in Langston Hughes' … read more
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11. Mr. Dickens and His Carol: A Novel of Christmas Past
By: Samantha Silva
3.81
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
Shakespeare in Lovemeets A Christmas Carolin this transporting debut novel set during the whirlwind… read more
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12. Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Motives for Murder: A fortune in uncut diamonds, hidden by an eccentric old man - A woman's love, t… read more
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13. Half of a Yellow Sun
By: None
3.73
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence o… read more
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14. A Christmas to Remember (Blessings, #11)
By: Beverly Jenkins
4.33
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Ever since Bernadine Brown bought the town of Henry Adams, her relationship with diner owner Malach… read more
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- holiday
- christmas
- fiction
- african american
- audiobook
15. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
By: Nikole Hannah-Jones
4.62
Format: 590 pages, Hardcover
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a revealing vision of the American past and present. … read more
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- race
- african american
- audiobook
16. Fight Night
By: Miriam Toews
4.04
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
The beloved author of bestsellers Women Talking, A Complicated Kindness, and All My Puny Sorrows r… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"She (mom) yelled from upstairs, Those are books that help me to live! Those books are my life! Get down here! I yelled back. I'm your goddamn life!"-Miriam Toews, Fight Night
17. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
By: Claire Keegan
3.99
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
18. Finding Me
By: Viola Davis
4.55
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-cha… read more
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- african american
- audiobook
19. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
By: Elif Shafak
4.09
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
An intensely powerful new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Honour … read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Grief is a swallow,"-Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
"كانت ليلى هي الوحيدة التي اعتقدت أنه قادر على تحقيق الأشياء العظيمة"-Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
"Because what was love if it wasn't nursing someone else's pain as if it wasn't your own?"-Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
"How could meditation help you to quieten your mind when you needed to quieten your mind in order to meditate?"-Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
20. The Water Dancer
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.06
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here and here. Young Hiram Walker was bo… read more
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- race
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
"...it was never the costume that made the Quality, but how the lady wore it."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
"It's like summer wear the world out, and by October everyone is just ready for a nap"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
"The tree of our family was parted - branches here, roots there - parted for their lumber."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
"And by then, I well knew what would be done upon that land, how the sin of theft would be multiplied by the sin of bondage."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
21. Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
By: Olivia Ford
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food Nothing… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"To want something, she realized, was to make yourself vulnerable to losing it."-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
"It's sometimes easy to feel left behind at my age, as if the world has a future and you have no place in it...but I hope to discover that there is meaning and adventure still to be found."-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
"...the strongest couples I know have grown together, supporting their partner's changes rather than harnessing or fearing them. It's a bit like growing roses - you don't get to choose exactly which w…"-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
22. All You Have to Do Is Call
By: Kerri Maher
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A dramatic and inspiring novel based on the true story of the Jane Collective and the brave women w… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- historical fiction
"I wish you could understand what it's like to have to stop doing something you love, something important , just because your body is made to carry children. No one else can do this for me...."-Kerri Maher, All You Have to Do Is Call
"No matter what you want to call it," Veronica said, steering clear of words like cells and fetus that might further inflame Patty, "it resides inside a fully grown woman with a life to lead. Jane hel…"-Kerri Maher, All You Have to Do Is Call
"[She] hadn't given a lot of thought to the many reasons why women needed abortions, but there was such a wide range: maternal health, money, rape and incest, shocking cluelessness about how pregnancy…"-Kerri Maher, All You Have to Do Is Call
23. Transcendent Kingdom
By: Yaa Gyasi
4.11
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, … read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"I like you best when you're feeling holy. You make me feel holy too."-Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom
"There is no living thing on God's green earth that doesn't come to know pain sometime."-Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom
"Surely, there's strength in being dressed for a storm, even when there's no storm in sight?"-Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom
"The anger has notes of understanding in it. He's saying, *Yes, she's insufferable, but she's ours and so we must suffer her.*"-Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom
24. What Storm, What Thunder
By: Myriam J. A. Chancy
3.98
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
At the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an … read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- historical fiction
25. No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
By: Rachel Louise Snyder
4.50
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In No Visible Bruises, journalist Rachel Louise Snyder frames this urgent and immersive account of … read more
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"Michelle saw was what so many other women before her had seen: that an abuser appears more powerful than the system."-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
"The average batterer, Adams told me, “is more likable than his victim, because domestic violence affects victims a lot more than it affects batterers."-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
"When I questioned whether she believed he really had changed, she said yes, but she also said she believed she could probably trigger him again in a minute."-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
"The very fact that intimate partner violence is so often addressed in civil court, rather than criminal court, gives insight into how we as a society still view it."-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
26. Blue Hawaiian (Blackwood Cellars #1)
By: Carla Luna
3.54
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
The first rule of serving as the maid of honor at your perfect sister’s destination wedding? No mis… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
27. Mary Not Broken (The Bishop Women - prequel)
By: Deborah L. King
4.38
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Bookshelf Writing 2nd Place in New ReleasesIn 1930s Mississippi, Mary Johnson hates the oppressive… read more
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- african american
- fiction
28. On the Corner of Hope and Main (Blessings, #10)
By: Beverly Jenkins
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Citizens of Henry Adams, Kansas, know there’s never a dull moment in their small town… Trent July … read more
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- african american
- fiction
- audiobook
"Paula shrugged, "Haven't found the right person yet. Having to share me with God scared off a lot of men."-Beverly Jenkins, On the Corner of Hope and Main (Blessings, #10)
29. A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories
By: Bettye Collier-Thomas
4.08
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
An Esquire “Best Christmas Book to Read During the Holidays” A collection of Christmas stories wri… read more
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- poetry
- classics
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- holiday
- christmas
- short stories
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
30. A Very Bad Thing
By: J.T. Ellison
4.31
Format: 446 pages, Kindle Edition
From New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison comes a taut thriller about one author at the p… read more
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- fiction
