The Voyageur's Highway
By: Grace Lee Nute
3.58
Format: 129 pages, Paperback
The voyageur's highway was the route from Lake Superior along inland waterways to the Minnesota Nor…
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1. 1776
By: David McCullough
4.09
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with … read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
"I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene"-David McCullough, 1776
"Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society."-David McCullough, 1776
"It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books."-David McCullough, 1776
"as the Sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established"-David McCullough, 1776
2. Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)
By: William Kent Krueger
3.97
Format: 464 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Part Irish, part Anishinaabe Indian, Cork is having difficulty dealing with the marital meltdown th… read more
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"What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve."-William Kent Krueger, Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)
"Word is you heard the Windigo too." I did. The difference is I'm ready for the son of a bitch." --Cork O'Connor"-William Kent Krueger, Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)
" "He looked at his hands. Big hands. How useless a man’s hands were, he thought, when it came to fixing the important things." "-William Kent Krueger, Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)
" They fasted the rest of the day and breathed in the smoke of a cedar fire. At first light next morning, they blackened their faces with the cedar ash, a sign to the spirits of the deep woods that th…"-William Kent Krueger, Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)
3. Black Hawk: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
By: Black Hawk , Donald Jackson
3.72
Format: None pages, Paperback
This story is told in the words of a tragic figure in American history - a hook-nosed, hollow-cheek… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
By: Steven Rinella
3.50
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the host of the Travel Channel's "The Wild Within." A hunt for the American buffalo--an advent… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- nature
5. The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Hardcover
Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of langu… read more
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6. The Singing Wilderness
By: Sigurd F. Olson , None
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sigurd F. Olson was for more than thirty years a wilderness guide in the Quetico-Superior country, … read more
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7. 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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8. The Call of the Wild
By: Jack London
3.91
Format: 172 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on Lo… read more
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"The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck"-Jack London, The Call of the Wild
"…and from that moment Buck hated him with a bitter and deathless hatred."-Jack London, The Call of the Wild
"There is a patience of the wild – dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself."-Jack London, The Call of the Wild
"A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated."-Jack London, The Call of the Wild
9. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.00
Format: 592 pages,
All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acr… read more
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10. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)
By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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11. The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
By: John Buchan
3.60
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life—un… read more
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"By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle."-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing"-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place."-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I have always fancied I had a kind of instinct about questions like thi…"-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
12. The River We Remember
By: William Kent Krueger
4.29
Format: 421 pages, Hardcover
In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more
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"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
13. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
14. Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
By: J. Ryan Stradal
3.63
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal, a story of a couple from two very diffe… read more
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"This place is in your blood, but not your heart. Go find a place that is."-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
"People here liked to say they rooted for the underdog, but some of them got real quiet when the underdog was different from them."-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
"Winter was her cathedral, and the snow-decked trees its endless pillars, and although it was quiet, it wasn't empty. The silence coaxed voices into her imagination, voices of the past and future, voi…"-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
15. Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
By: Anna Lembke
3.91
Format: 304 pages, ebook
This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important, it's about how to find the delic… read more
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- nonfiction
"The reason we’re all so miserable may be because we’re working so hard to avoid being miserable."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"The paradox is that hedonism, the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake, leads to anhedonia, which is the inability to enjoy pleasure of any kind."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"With prolonged and repeated exposure to pleasurable stimuli, our capacity to tolerate pain decreases, and our threshold for experiencing pleasure increases."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"Beyond extreme examples of running from pain, we’ve lost the ability to tolerate even minor forms of discomfort. We’re constantly seeking to distract ourselves from the present moment, to be entertai…"-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
16. The Night Watchman
By: Louise Erdrich
4.10
Format: 464 pages, ebook
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather … read more
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"But every so often the government remembered about Indians and when they did they always tried to solve Indians, thought Thomas. They solve us by getting rid of us. And do they tell us when they plan…"-Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman
17. The Netanyahus
By: Joshua Cohen
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but … read more
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18. The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven
By: Nathaniel Ian Miller
4.21
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this "briskly entertaining" ( New York Times Book Review ), "transporting and wholly original" (… read more
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19. Figure Eight: A Northern Lakes Mystery (John Cabrelli Northern Lakes Mysteries Book 1)
By: Jeff Nania
4.11
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A shattered career. A crooked lawyer. An unsolved murder. Seeking peace in the Northwoods is fraugh… read more
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20. Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20)
By: William Kent Krueger
4.34
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A disappearance and a dead body put Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twe… read more
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21. The Voyageur's Highway
By: Grace Lee Nute
3.58
Format: 129 pages, Paperback
The voyageur's highway was the route from Lake Superior along inland waterways to the Minnesota Nor… read more
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- history
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- nonfiction
- nature
