The Cutters
By: Bess Streeter Aldrich
3.97
Format: 276 pages, Paperback
All unhappy families are alike, to invert Tolstoy, but each happy family is happy in its own way. A…
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1. On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams
4.22
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the pra… read more
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- historical
- classics
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- historical fiction
"Mary was too scared to move. Laura was too scared to stand to still."-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
"Snow as fine and grainy as sugar covered the windows in and sifted off to the floor and did not melt."-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
"When gloomy clouds across the sky Cast shadows o'er the land, Bright rays of hope illumine my path, For Jesus holds my hand."-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
"All day the storm lasted. The windows were white and the wind never stopped howling and screaming. It was pleasant in the warm house. Laura and Mary did their lessons, then Pa played the fiddle while…"-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
2. The Scent of Water
By: Elizabeth Goudge
4.16
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
Mary Lindsay met her little niece and namesake only once, but she saw in the quiet, imaginative chi… read more
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- historical
- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Understanding is a creative act in a dimension we do not see."-Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water
"She knew there could be no certainty, only faith. Could she find faith?"-Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water
"What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew."-Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water
"Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it."-Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water
3. The Silver Star
By: Jeannette Walls
4.36
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It is 1970 in a small town in California. "Bean" Holladay is twelve and her sister, Liz, is fifteen… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
4. Little Men (Little Women, #2)
By: Louisa May Alcott , James Spanfeller
3.50
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
With two sons of her own, and twelve rescued orphan boys filling the informal school at Plumfield, … read more
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- historical
- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
5. The Prayer Box (Carolina Heirlooms #1)
By: Lisa Wingate
3.64
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
When Iola Anne Poole, an old-timer on Hatteras Island, passes away in her bed at ninety-one, the st… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
6. All Creatures Great and Small & All Things Bright and Beautiful
By: James Herriot
3.59
Format: 251 pages,
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- classics
7. Surprised by Oxford
By: Carolyn Weber
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
A "girl-meets-God" style memoir of an agnostic who, through her surprising opportunity to study at … read more
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8. A Place Called Freedom
By: Ken Follett
4.05
Format: None pages, Paperback
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, tw… read more
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9. Lab Girl
By: Hope Jahren
3.81
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers,… read more
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10. By the Shores of Silver Lake (Little House, #5)
By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams
3.61
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
Laura and her family are head to the Dakota Territory for a chance to own their own land--and stop … read more
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11. The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams
4.17
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
On the empty winter prairie, gray clouds to the northwest meant only one thing: a blizzard was seco… read more
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- historical
- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em."-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
"These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em."-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
"Beyond them the darkness was like a mist thickening over a flat, white world. Stars twinkled far away around part of its rim. Before him, the black storm climbed rapidly up the sky and in silence des…"-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
"Laura said faintly, 'I thought God takes care of us.' 'He does,' Pa said, 'so far as we do what's right. And He gives us a conscience and brains to know what's right. But He leaves it to us to do as …"-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
12. Heidi
By: Johanna Spyri , Beverly Cleary , None
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Little orphan Heidi goes to live high in the Alps with her gruff grandfather and brings happiness t… read more
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- historical
- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
"...if you take big steps and climb with all your little might!"-Johanna Spyri, Heidi
"Let's enjoy the beautiful things we can see, my dear, and not think about those we cannot."-Johanna Spyri, Heidi
"we could not pray for anything any more, because we would feel that He always knows of something better."-Johanna Spyri, Heidi
"God does not give us what we ask for, even when we pray and pray and pray, if He knows there is something better for us."-Johanna Spyri, Heidi
13. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
By: John Fox Jr.
3.48
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
John Fox Jr. published this great romantic novel of the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky and Virgin… read more
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14. Re-Creations
By: Grace Livingston Hill
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
When lovely Cornelia Copley's mother becomes ill, Cornelia must leave her beloved college and retur… read more
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15. The First Four Years (Little House, #9)
By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams
3.62
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Laura Ingalls Wilder is beginning life with her new husband, Almanzo, in their own little house. La… read more
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16. My Side of the Mountain (Mountain, #1)
By: Jean Craighead George
2.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Terribly unhappy in his family's crowded New York City apartment, Sam Gribley runs away to the soli… read more
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17. Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen, #1)
By: Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
3.99
Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition
"Dad had enough gall to be divided into three parts." Dad was Frank B. Gilbreth, to the world a dis… read more
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- classics
"Some simpleton with pimples in his voice wants to speak to Ernestine," he grumbled to Mother when he answered the phone."-Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen, #1)
"Ernestine used to remark, in a tone tinged with envy, that Lill was probably New Jersey's youngest gold digger, and that few adult gold diggers ever had received more, in return for less."-Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen, #1)
"But it was Mother who spun the stories that made the things we studied really unforgettable. If Dad saw motion study and teamwork in an ant hill, Mother saw a highly complex civilization governed, pe…"-Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen, #1)
18. Tending Roses (Tending Roses, #1)
By: Lisa Wingate
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Librarian Note: This is the updated cover for ISBN 9780451203076 Author Lisa Wingate drew upon h… read more
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- fiction
"Time passes... but memories do not."-Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses (Tending Roses, #1)
"...It's hard to feel like much is wrong in the world when you're looking into the eyes of a happy baby."-Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses (Tending Roses, #1)
"...The best times of my life, the times that passed by me the most quickly, were the times when the roses grew wild."-Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses (Tending Roses, #1)
"Sometimes life moves so fast, the road splits in an instant, and you only have a heartbeat to decide which way to turn."-Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses (Tending Roses, #1)
19. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
By: Abigail Shrier
4.06
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more
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"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
20. Modern Miss Mason
By: Leah Boden
4.30
Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition
For every mother who desires to cultivate a lasting foundation of curiosity and wonder for her chil… read more
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21. Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow
By: Jamie Erickson
4.13
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Women were made to give life—and they can do that right in their own homes. Hygge [HYOO-guh] ha… read more
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"I’m caring enough about me to enjoy the simple pleasures I’ve planned for during this dark season so I can approach my days with a sense of abundance rather than scarcity."-Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow
22. Farmhouse
By: Sophie Blackall
4.53
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
Two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall invites readers to peek through windows that shine like… read more
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- historical
- fiction
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23. Aggressively Happy: A Realist's Guide to Believing in the Goodness of Life
By: Joy Marie Clarkson
4.43
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
This old world can be exhausting, despairing, and cynical. But you don't have to be. Instead, yo… read more
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24. Know and Tell: The Art of Narration
By: Karen Glass
4.52
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Narration, the art of telling, has been used as a pedagogical tool since ancient times. Over one hu… read more
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25. An American Childhood
By: Annie Dillard
3.91
Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition
Annie Dillard remembers. She remembers the exhilaration of whipping a snowball at a car and having… read more
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- classics
"I myself was both observer and observable, and so a possible object of my own humming awareness."-Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
"Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world."-Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
"Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit."-Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
"Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy and a secret hope: There is a life worth living where history is still taking place; there are ideas worth dy…"-Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
26. Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives
By: Mary Laura Philpott
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of I Miss You When I Blink comes a poignant and powerful memoir that ta… read more
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27. Every Living Thing (All Creatures Great and Small, #8)
By: James Herriot
4.49
Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition
For more than twenty years, James Herriot has captivated millions of readers and television viewers… read more
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- classics
28. Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life
By: Sarah Clarkson
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
When you hear a riveting story, does it thrill your heart and stir your soul? Do you hunger for tru… read more
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"To know yourself as an agent in the story of the world, one able to bring light and goodness in the midst of suffering, is a profoundly empowering knowledge, one that I believe comes to every woman w…"-Sarah Clarkson, Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life
"A woman who reads is a woman who knows she must act: in courage, in creativity, in kindness, and often in defiance of the darkness around her. She understands that life itself is a story and that she…"-Sarah Clarkson, Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life
29. The Cutters
By: Bess Streeter Aldrich
3.97
Format: 276 pages, Paperback
All unhappy families are alike, to invert Tolstoy, but each happy family is happy in its own way. A… read more
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