Malice Aforethought: A True Story of the Shocking Double Crime That Horrified Nineteenth-Century New England
By: Avree Kelly Clark
4.38
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
2024 Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award winner for best debut novel. In the summer of 1874, a bel…
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1. Black Like Me
By: John Howard Griffin
4.11
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Usi… read more
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"Now you go into oblivion."-John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me
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2. Mrs. Poe
By: Lynn Cullen
3.79
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A vivid and compelling novel about a woman who becomes entangled in an affair with Edgar Allan Poe-… read more
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3. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
By: Katherine Howe
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding, beautifully written novel that moves between contemporary times and one of the most… read more
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4. In the Midnight Rain
By: Barbara O'Neal
4.37
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
Two converging mysteries compel a woman’s search for the truth in a captivating novel about loss, l… read more
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5. The Princess of Las Vegas
By: Chris Bohjalian
3.53
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A Princess Diana impersonator and her estranged sister find themselves drawn into a dangerous game … read more
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6. The Frozen River
By: Ariel Lawhon
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more
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7. Extinction
By: Douglas Preston
4.14
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand–acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, … read more
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"If something can be done, it will be done-no matter how dangerous."-Douglas Preston, Extinction
"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception." Carl Sagan, in Extinction by Douglas Preston"-Douglas Preston, Extinction
"You actually think we want to be like you? You Sapiens, with your bleak and apocalyptic history? What a grim and self-loathing species you are! Look at what you worship as progress. The agricultural …"-Douglas Preston, Extinction
8. The Main Character
By: Jaclyn Goldis
3.37
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bestselling thriller author arranges a luxury train trip that is not what it appears to be in thi… read more
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9. The Sweet Blue Distance
By: Sara Donati
4.31
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
In 1857 a young midwife braves the perilous journey west from New York City to Santa Fe, New Mexico… read more
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- historical
10. One Puzzling Afternoon
By: Emily Critchley
3.86
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
A mystery she can't remember. A friend she can't forget. I kept your secret Lucy. I've kept it f… read more
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11. By Any Other Name
By: Jodi Picoult
4.19
Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition
From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Mad Honey comes an “inspiring” (Elle) novel about … read more
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12. Scorpions (Never Tell Collection, #4)
By: Rachel Howzell Hall
3.36
Format: 49 pages, Kindle Edition
A man’s lifetime of secrets and lies. A woman on the hunt for his hidden riches. But there’s a stin… read more
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13. An American Beauty
By: Shana Abe
4.15
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
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14. Canary Girls
By: Jennifer Chiaverini
4.04
Format: 417 pages, Paperback
Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling novelist Jennifer Chiav… read more
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15. Before and After
By: Judy Christie
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
7 hours, 57 minutes The incredible, poignant true stories of victims of a notorious adoption sca… read more
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16. Not You It's Me (Boston Love, #1)
By: Julie Johnson
3.89
Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition
Gemma Summers is unlucky in love. She’s known it since third grade, when her first crush blew a … read more
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"Take a risk on messy. Live Fearlessly. Love recklessly. Most of all, just love."-Julie Johnson, Not You It's Me (Boston Love, #1)
"When you start to fall, don't try to talk yourself out of it. The right man will be there at the bottom, to catch you."-Julie Johnson, Not You It's Me (Boston Love, #1)
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"The way I see it, everyone’s been telling the story wrong. I mean, take Cinderella, for example. She never asked for a Prince, let alone waited around for one. Hell, all she ever wanted was a night o…"-Julie Johnson, Not You It's Me (Boston Love, #1)
17. Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds
By: Michelle Horton
4.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking memoir about two sisters and a high-profile Nikki Addimando, incarcerated for killi… read more
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18. The Family Gathering (Sullivan's Crossing, #3)
By: Robyn Carr
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An exceptional storyteller, #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr beautifully captures th… read more
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"It's not what you get in life that will make you whole, but what you give."-Robyn Carr, The Family Gathering (Sullivan's Crossing, #3)
19. Our Woman in Moscow
By: Beatriz Williams
4.06
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Her Last Flight returns with a gripping and profoundly hum… read more
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"Ruth, I spent most of my life just trying to be safe. Trying to hide from what scared me. Letting other people control what happened to me. Then I realized the idea of safety itself is just a delusio…"-Beatriz Williams, Our Woman in Moscow
"...humans are corrupt. We are all of us selfish, ignorant beasts, loyal only to ourselves and our own kind, interested only in getting a leg up on others, whether it's money or status or moral virtue…"-Beatriz Williams, Our Woman in Moscow
"A man had appeared out of nowhere—a thick-shouldered, square-jawed, cleft-chinned all- American of a type Iris hadn’t seen in years. He showed her some friendly white teeth and continued in a slow co…"-Beatriz Williams, Our Woman in Moscow
"[In marriage you] go through stages, like acts in a play. Act One, you fall in love, and the birds twitter and the bees go buzz, and you'll never love somebody else as long as you both shall live, am…"-Beatriz Williams, Our Woman in Moscow
20. The Last Beekeeper
By: Julie Carrick Dalton
3.95
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Julie Carrick Dalton's The Last Beekeeper is a celebration of found family, an exploration of truth… read more
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21. 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
22. Cross the Line (Boston Love, #2)
By: Julie Johnson
4.00
Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition
Phoebe West has been head-over-heels in love with her brother’s best friend for as long as she can … read more
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"Nate and me... we aren't built for truces, for good times, for light jokes and giggles. We're meant for the shadows. For the dirty, ugly, secret parts of our souls, the parts we can't hide because we…"-Julie Johnson, Cross the Line (Boston Love, #2)
23. Incidents Around the House
By: Josh Malerman
3.82
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled f… read more
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24. All the Colors of the Dark
By: Chris Whitaker
4.44
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an e… read more
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25. Killing Me
By: Michelle Gagnon
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Amber Jamison cannot believe she's about to become the latest victim of a serial killer-she's savvy… read more
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26. Pitch Dark (Mike Bowditch, #15)
By: Paul Doiron
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Game Warden Mike Bowditch must chase down a cunning and dangerous fugitive in the North Maine Woods… read more
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27. Paradise of the Damned: The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El Dorado, the Legendary City of Gold
By: Keith Thomson
3.80
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The transporting account of an obsessive quest to find El Dorado, set against the backdrop of Eliza… read more
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28. The Briar Club
By: Kate Quinn
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse… read more
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"You can't call yourself a proper home without the regular smell of good food..."-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club
"And guilt roiled in his stomach because he wanted to love his mother, and sometimes what pulsed through him came horribly close to hate."-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club
"Be selfish, stick to the plan Claire had clung to since she was 16. Look out for herself and no one else, because love was for suckers and happiness meant a well-stocked bank account and a house you …"-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club
"Happiness is a choice as much as anything. Or you could choose to be angry, and if you stay angry long enough, it will become comfortable, like an old robe. But eventually you’ll realize that old rob…"-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club
29. Malice Aforethought: A True Story of the Shocking Double Crime That Horrified Nineteenth-Century New England
By: Avree Kelly Clark
4.38
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
2024 Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award winner for best debut novel. In the summer of 1874, a bel… read more
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30. Memorials
By: Richard Chizmar
4.51
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A group of students encounter a supernatural terror while on a road trip through Appalachia in this… read more
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31. The Abduction: A Suspenseful Novella
By: T.O. Paine
3.89
Format: 135 pages, Kindle Edition
She should never have gotten into his car.Marcus Crawford doesn't want to go back to jail. They sho… read more
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