Father Brown Short Stories
By: G.K. Chesterton
3.34
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
G. K. Chesterton's fictional amateur detective, the genial Father Brown, was greeted with huge enth…
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1. Green Dolphin Street
By: Elizabeth Goudge
4.22
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A haunting love story set in the Channel Islands and New Zealand in the 19th century. William Oz… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Someone once said to me,"-Elizabeth Goudge, Green Dolphin Street
"Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation; a very difficult word. . . .that tries to describe something that can’t be described but is the only thing worth ha…"-Elizabeth Goudge, Green Dolphin Street
"Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect…"-Elizabeth Goudge, Green Dolphin Street
"You're mad, you missionaries,' ejaculated Tai Haruru angrily. 'What good do you think you do, crawling out to the extremities of all the different world's ends and dying there like lizards spiked on …"-Elizabeth Goudge, Green Dolphin Street
2. Doctor Zhivago
By: Boris Pasternak , John Bayley , Manya Harari , Max Hayward
4.01
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family … read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Only the superfluous is sordid"-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"And the strong are dominated by the weak and the ignoble."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
3. A Passage to India
By: E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass
3.68
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, th… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Adventures do occur, but not punctually."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air..."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
4. Hannah Coulter
By: Wendell Berry
4.38
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman charac… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
5. Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)
By: L.M. Montgomery
4.12
Format: 339 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely—until her beloved father died. Now Emily's an orpha… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Never on painter's canvas lives The charm of his fancy's dream."-L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)
"The happiest countries, like the happiest women, have no history."-L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)
"Good-bye, and may you always see a happy face in your looking-glass!"-L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)
"If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't."-L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)
6. The Maltese Falcon
By: Dashiell Hammett
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a l… read more
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- mystery
- classics
- fiction
7. Hearts of Fire: Eight Women in the Underground Church and Their Stories of Costly Faith
By: Gracia Burnham , The Voice of the Martyrs
3.60
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
Eight women from eight very different backgrounds. Yet the struggles they each faced rang with eeri… read more
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9. An Irish Country Village (Irish Country #2)
By: Patrick Taylor
4.16
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Patrick Taylor first charmed readers with An Irish Country Doctor,a warm and enchanting novel in th… read more
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- fiction
10. Thank You, Jeeves (Jeeves, #5)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.29
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A Jeeves and Wooster novel Thank You, Jeevesis the first novel to feature the incomparable valet Je… read more
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- classics
- fiction
11. Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation
By: Bill Nye
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Sparked by a provocative comment to BigThink.com last fall, and fueled by a highly controversial de… read more
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12. The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904
By: Anton Chekhov , Ronald Wilks , None
3.91
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
This collection contains the following thirteen stories: The House with the Mezzanine Peasants Man … read more
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- short stories
- classics
- fiction
13. An Irish Country Doctor (Irish Country #1)
By: Patrick Taylor
3.75
Format: None pages,
De jonge dokter Barry Laverty kan Ballybucklebo, een schilderachtig dorpje in Noord-Ierland, nauwel… read more
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14. Miracle on 34th Street
By: Tomie dePaola , Valentine Davies
3.73
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
Generations of believers in hope and goodwill have made Valentine Davies' Miracle on 34th Streeta t… read more
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15. The Practice of the Presence of God
By: Brother Lawrence
4.32
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover edition of ISBN 0883681056 can be found here Brother Lawrence was a man of hum… read more
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- classics
"We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed."-Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
"We must know before we can love. In order to know God, we must often think of Him; and when we come to love Him, we shall then also think of Him often, for our heart will be with our treasure."-Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
" Prayer is so simple. It is like quietly opening a door and slipping into the very presence of God. There, in the stillness, to listen to His voice, perhaps in petition or only to listen. It matters …"-Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
"That with him the set times of prayer were not different from other times: that he retired to pray, according to the directions of his Superior, but that he did not want such retirement. nor ask for …"-Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
16. The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)
By: George MacDonald , Arthur Hughes
4.02
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
A little princess is protected by her friend Curdie from the goblin miners who live beneath the cas… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"That's all nonsense," said Curdie. "I don't know what you mean." "Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?"-George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)
"But in the meantime, you must be content, I say, to be misunderstood for a while. We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary."…"-George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)
17. The Princess and Curdie
By: George MacDonald , Helen Stratton
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Princess Irene's great-grandmother has a testing task for Curdie. He will not go alone though, as s… read more
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18. Linnets and Valerians
By: Elizabeth Goudge
4.00
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Locked away in separate rooms as punishment by their ruthless grandmother, Nan, Robert, Timothy and… read more
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19. Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
By: L.M. Montgomery
4.17
Format: 227 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780553213188 Anne's own true love, Gilbert Blythe, … read more
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- classics
- fiction
"…but youth yearned to youth."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
"We belong to the race that knows Joseph"-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
"Death grows friendlier as we grow older."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
"It takes all kinds of people to make a world."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
20. Anne of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables, #6)
By: L.M. Montgomery
3.88
Format: None pages,
Anne is the mother of five, with never a dull moment in her lively home. And now with a new baby on… read more
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21. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
By: Mark Twain
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A nineteenth-century American travels back… read more
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22. The Guest Cat
By: Takashi Hiraide , Eric Selland
2.60
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A bestseller in France and winner of Japan's Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the ac… read more
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23. All Things Bright and Beautiful
By: James Herriot
4.00
Format: None pages,
"A very warm, very engaging read. . . . The reader falls totally under his spell." --Associated Pre… read more
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24. Marketing Made Simple: A Step-by-Step StoryBrand Guide for Any Business (Made Simple Series)
By: Donald Miller
4.25
Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition
This guide from New York Times bestselling author Donald Miller, is a must-have for any marketing p… read more
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25. Robin
By: Dave Itzkoff
4.11
Format: 527 pages, Kindle Edition
From New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff, the definitive biography of Robin Williams – a c… read more
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26. Red at the Bone
By: Jacqueline Woodson
3.97
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson's taut and powerful new novel uncovers the … read more
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- fiction
"A new fear like a dragging bruise moving in his stomach."-Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone
". . . Love changes and changes. Then it changes again. . ."-Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone
"God'll make a butt-ugly boy, but I ain't never seen him make a ugly girl child."-Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone
"Iris didn't understand his happiness. How this was so absolutely enough for him."-Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone
27. Before We Say Goodbye (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #4)
By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
3.96
Format: 173 pages, ebook
The fourth novel in the internationally bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series, following a… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Yet, even so, Mieko and I shared our lives. But Meiko had an accident and fell into a vegetative state. Her eyes no longer saw; her ears no longer heard. My children grieved, but as much as I felt it…"-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before We Say Goodbye (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #4)
28. Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen
By: Donald Miller
4.27
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Donald Miller uses the seven universal elements of powerful stori… read more
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29. When Among Crows
By: Veronica Roth
3.73
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
When Among Crows is swift and striking, drawing from the deep well of Slavic folklore and asking if… read more
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- fiction
"I don't find it painful to be ordinary."-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows
"He pinches one of the petals and breaks it away from the flower. It doesn't feel like it's as powerful as it is, but maybe that's just how powerful things are- like the zmory, like Baba Jaga herself,…"-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows
30. Study with Me: Effective Bullet Journaling Techniques, Habits, and Hacks To Be Successful, Productive, and Organized - With Special Strategies for Mathematics, Science, History, Languages, and More
By: Jasmine Shao
3.77
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Inspired by the global "study with me"/#studygram Study smarter, stay motivated, improve your grad… read more
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31. Father Brown Short Stories
By: G.K. Chesterton
3.34
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
G. K. Chesterton's fictional amateur detective, the genial Father Brown, was greeted with huge enth… read more
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