A Fair Wind Home
By: Ruth Moore
3.91
Format: 243 pages, None
A Fair Wind Home is Ruth Moore's well-crafted version of a historical novel. Based in eighteenth ce…
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1. A Prayer for Owen Meany
By: John Irving
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, h… read more
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2. A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history i… read more
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3. Burning Bright
By: John Steinbeck , None
4.16
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Written as a play in story form, this novel traces the story of a man ignorant of his own sterility… read more
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4. Goodbye to All That
By: Robert Graves
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society foll… read more
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5. The Pathfinder (Leatherstocking Tales, #3)
By: Thomas Berger , James Fenimore Cooper , John Stauffer
4.38
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
The third novel in James Fennimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, starring the heroic Natty Bumppo… read more
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6. Small Things Like These
By: Claire Keegan
4.18
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal me… read more
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"Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour’s hou…"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
7. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
8. The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
By: Malcolm Gladwell
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Ma… read more
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"Revolutions are birthed in conversation, argument, validation, proximity, and the look in your listener’s eye that tells you you’re on to something."-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
"I'm drawn again and again to obsessives. I like them. I like the idea that someone could push away all the concerns and details that make up everyday life and just zero in on one thing - the thing th…"-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
"The more you invest in a set of beliefs - the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction - the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. You do…"-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
9. The Midcoast
By: Adam White
3.51
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Propulsive . . . An absorbing look at small-town Maine and the thwarted drea… read more
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10. The Last Bookshop in London
By: Madeline Martin
4.15
Format: 325 pages, Paperback
Inspired by the true World War II history of the few bookshops to survive the Blitz, The Last Books… read more
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"You can't save the world, but keep trying in any small way you can."-Madeline Martin, The Last Bookshop in London
"...his mistreatment had nothing to do with her, and everything to do with him."-Madeline Martin, The Last Bookshop in London
"Word after word, page after page, she was pulled deeper into a place she had never experienced and walked in the footsteps of a person she's never been."-Madeline Martin, The Last Bookshop in London
"Word by word, page by page, she was pulled deeper into a place she had never expected and walked in the footsteps of a person she'd never been. (p. 107)"-Madeline Martin, The Last Bookshop in London
11. A Fair Wind Home
By: Ruth Moore
3.91
Format: 243 pages, None
A Fair Wind Home is Ruth Moore's well-crafted version of a historical novel. Based in eighteenth ce… read more
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