Peaceful Persistence: Essays On...
By: Michael Perry
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition
Brief essays by New York Times bestselling author Michael Perry on memorials and mercy, storms and …
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1. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
As good a rifle company as any, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, US Army, kept getting tough … read more
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"We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace..."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying"-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
2. The Lola Quartet
By: Emily St. John Mandel
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Gavin Sasaki is a promising young journalist in New York City, until he's fired in disgrace followi… read more
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3. White Dresses: A Memoir of Love and Secrets, Mothers and Daughters
By: Mary Pflum Peterson
4.75
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In this riveting, poignant memoir of three generations of women and the white dresses that adorned … read more
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4. The End We Start From
By: Megan Hunter
4.12
Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition
In the midst of a mysterious environmental crisis, as London is submerged below flood waters, a wom… read more
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5. Plainsong (Plainsong, #1)
By: Kent Haruf
4.30
Format: None pages,
A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of… read more
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6. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
By: David Sedaris
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
A guy walks into a bar car and... From here the story could take many turns. When this guy is David… read more
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7. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
By: James McBride
3.69
Format: 176 pages,
Touches readers of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and … read more
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8. Truth and Beauty
By: Ann Patchett
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writ… read more
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9. Uncommon Type
By: Tom Hanks
3.79
Format: 223 pages,
A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is a… read more
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10. A Walk in the Woods
By: Bill Bryson
3.20
Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Subtitle: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. The Appalachian Trail stretches from Geor… read more
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11. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By: Margaret Renkl
4.37
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more
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12. The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
By: David von Drehle
4.00
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
One of our nation’s most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life … read more
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13. Hudson Bay Bound: Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic
By: Natalie Warren
3.95
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
The remarkable eighty-five-day journey of the first two women to canoe the 2,000-mile route from Mi… read more
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"When in doubt, don't think too much, and walk around the block in your hiking boots."-Natalie Warren, Hudson Bay Bound: Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic
14. In the Time of Our History
By: Susanne Pari
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Inspired by her own Iranian-American heritage, the acclaimed author weaves a beautifully crafted st… read more
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15. Five Decembers
By: James Kestrel
4.43
Format: 429 pages, Hardcover
December 1941: America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe M… read more
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"Aishitemasu"-James Kestrel, Five Decembers
"It was a complete disaster and no one had done anything wrong."-James Kestrel, Five Decembers
16. The Lager Queen of Minnesota
By: J. Ryan Stradal
4.01
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
A novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate and the secrets of making a world-class beer.… read more
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"Young man"-J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota
"Her mother told her once that the nicest thing you can do for someone is be happy to see them,"-J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota
"Money allows people to survive their mistakes, she knew from having observed that phenomenon from a distance, and people like her were fucked."-J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota
"She held the bottle to her lips and tilted, slightly. It tasted the like how she'd imagine dirt would taste if someone burned it on the grill. Nope she said, and handed the bottle back."-J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota
17. The Seed Keeper
By: Diane Wilson
4.30
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family's struggle t… read more
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"My father traveled now with the stars, returned to the vast mystery that had so fascinated him all his life."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"What the white settlers called progress was a storm of fury thundering its way across the land, and none of us were strong enough to withstand it."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"I decided to give Rosie all the facts I could—because that's how the corporations work against us, twisting the truth till we're at war with each other."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"I thought about the aftermath of the 1862 war, when thirty-eight hastily condemned warriors had been hung in Mankato, in the country's largest-ever mass execution. Their bodies were buried in shallow…"-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
18. The Body: A Guide for Occupants
By: Bill Bryson
4.32
Format: 450 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the se… read more
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- humor
19. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
By: Barbara Kingsolver
4.05
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural lif… read more
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"This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market."-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
"Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing."-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
"When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke."-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
"Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly."-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
20. Musical Tables: Poems
By: Billy Collins
3.79
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A collection of more than 125 small poems, all of them new, each a thought or observation compresse… read more
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- humor
21. Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2)
By: Elizabeth Strout
4.11
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is … read more
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"I think our job--maybe even our 'duty'--is to--To bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can."-Elizabeth Strout, Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2)
22. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
By: Mary Oliver
4.58
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this defi… read more
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"All I know is that "thank you" should appear somewhere. So just in case I can't find the perfect place- "Thank you, thank you."-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your nones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it …"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is nothing in this world that can be said again…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"A blue preacher flew toward the swamp, in slow motion. On the leafy banks, an old Chinese poet, hunched in the white gown of his wings, was waiting. The water was the kind of dark silk that has silve…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
23. Northwoods
By: Amy Pease
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The dark underbelly of an idyllic Midwestern resort town is revealed in the aftermath of a murder w… read more
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"Besides, I have my pepper spray." When his expression turned skeptical, she looked at him as if he was utterly clueless. "I'm from Chicago," she said, slowly, as if explaining something to a backward…"-Amy Pease, Northwoods
24. Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)
By: William Kent Krueger
4.27
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
The author of the instant New York Times best seller This Tender Land returns with a powerful preq… read more
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25. The Pull of the Stars
By: Emma Donoghue
3.96
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospita… read more
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"Guilt was the sooty air we breathed these days."-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
"I’m beginning to know enough to know that I know nothing."-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
"I seem to have stumbled onto love, like a pothole in the night."-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
"Neither of us mentioned the kissing, so as not to burst the bubble by touching it. So as not to think about what it meant for the two of us to kiss."-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
26. The Other Valley
By: Scott Alexander Howard
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A literary speculative novel about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future Sixtee… read more
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27. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
By: Margaret Renkl
4.30
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and… read more
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"The loss you don't know about is no less a loss, but it costs you nothing and so it causes you no pain."-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
"When I didn't die, however, and then didn't die some more, I came one day to understand: I wasn't dying; I was grieving. I wasn't dying. Not yet."-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
"Back on the caregiving roller coaster, I struggled to remember the lesson I had just learned so painfully with Mom: the end of caregiving isn't freedom. The end of caregiving is grief."-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
28. Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
By: Jennifer Raff
3.79
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From celebrated anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story—and fascinating mystery—of how … read more
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29. Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World
By: Barry Lopez
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An urgent, deeply moving final work of nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of Ar… read more
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30. The Deluge
By: Stephen Markley
4.23
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching c… read more
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"Yeah, well, time marches on. Getting caught up in causes don’t interest me. Not anymore. Especially when you see the scope of what this is."-Stephen Markley, The Deluge
31. Peaceful Persistence: Essays On...
By: Michael Perry
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition
Brief essays by New York Times bestselling author Michael Perry on memorials and mercy, storms and … read more
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