Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i
By: Garrett Hongo
3.71
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Part memoir, part Japanese American family chronicle, part luminous work of natural history, Volcan…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Hawaiian English is like kahiko, the ancient dance, the kanaka dance of tradition, she says, harsh moves, slaps, and full of pounding force."-Garrett Hongo, Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i
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1. The Orphan Master's Son
By: Adam Johnson
4.07
Format: 443 pages, Hardcover
Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother - a singer "stolen" to Pyongyang - and an influentia… read more
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"Acts of heroism are easy—becoming a hero is a bitch."-Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son
"Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past."-Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son
"Citizens, gather 'round your loudspeakers, for we bring important updates!"-Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son
"In a gesture of socialist support, the Dear Leader placed his hand upon her."-Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son
2. The Last Temptation of Christ
By: None , None , None
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
4. The Painted Drum
By: Louise Erdrich
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
When a woman named Faye Travers is called upon to appraise the estate of a family in her small New … read more
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5. The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Hardcover
Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of langu… read more
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6. Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
By: Frank McCourt
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion. This is a glorious book … read more
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7. Desert Solitaire
By: Edward Abbey
4.00
Format: None pages,
When Desert Solitairewas first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude an… read more
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8. So Brave, Young and Handsome
By: Leif Enger
3.60
Format: 212 pages,
A stunning successor to his best selling novel "Peace Like a River," Leif Enger's new work is a rug… read more
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9. Memories, Dreams, Reflections
By: C.G. Jung , Richard Winston , Clara Winston , Aniela Jaffé
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, C. G. Jung undertook the telling of his li… read more
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10. Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4)
By: Jasper Fforde
3.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
Can Thursday find a Shakespeare clone to stop the hostile takeover of Hamlet by Orphelia? Can Swind… read more
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11. Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves: An American Naturalist in Italy
By: Gary Paul Nabhan
3.61
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
After two decades in the Southwest studying plant use and cultivation by the native hunter-gatherer… read more
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12. Peace Like a River
By: Leif Enger
4.09
Format: 315 pages,
Once in a great while, we encounter a novel in our voluminous reading that begs to be read aloud. L… read more
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13. Heart of Darkness
By: Joseph Conrad
3.99
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more
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14. In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
3.25
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
There's an old Irish proverb: 'It is in the shelter of each other that the people live'. In this bo… read more
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15. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.00
Format: 592 pages,
All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acr… read more
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16. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
By: Daniel James Brown
4.34
Format: 413 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit and Unbroken, the dramatic story of the American rowi… read more
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17. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
18. Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
By: James Clavell
4.41
Format: 1152 pages, Paperback
After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and e… read more
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"I can't use hope against swords."-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
"What is pain to a man? A privilege!"-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
"Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now ."-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
"Horses are far worse than men for treachery..."-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
19. Dinosaurs
By: Lydia Millet
3.88
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
A man named Gil walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new… read more
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"They say those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, but don’t we all?"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"You gotta be a generalist, in the new climate. But that’s not enough either. If there’s too much poison around. We’re talking pesticides, mostly. Agrochemicals everywhere. Take the sparrows. So anywa…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"Good news. Maybe the insects would handle it. Since the dinosaurs didn’t have it in them. The insects might be naturals at revolution, with their hive minds. Their brainless, decentralized intelligen…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"And freedom, that sacred cow that was always invoked as an excuse for bad behavior, all manner of atrocity—what was it, even? They told you to love it, in the schools and the songs, but never said wh…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
20. Heat 2
By: Michael Mann
4.26
Format: 470 pages, Hardcover
Michael Mann, four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat, Collateral, Thief, M… read more
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21. Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2)
By: Alan Brennert
4.12
Format: 309 pages, ebook
This companion tale to Moloka'i tells the story of Ruth, the daughter that Rachel Kalama—quarantine… read more
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"We are together, all else can be endured."-Alan Brennert, Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2)
"Let the things of long ago drift away on the water"-Alan Brennert, Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2)
"Her grief was a storm, a driving rain falling too fast to be absorbed"-Alan Brennert, Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2)
"There might be more to the universe than any one religion could explain."-Alan Brennert, Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2)
22. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
23. George: A Magpie Memoir
By: Frieda Hughes
3.83
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“ He was a hectic, unprincipled bird, but it was impossible not to love him.” From poet and painter… read more
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- poetry
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"The joy of such a purpose is that it gives you a reason to ignore everything else. There is nothing so effective in taking one's mind off the practical concerns of our lives as a living creature that…"-Frieda Hughes, George: A Magpie Memoir
24. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
By: Colson Whitehead
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more
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"Misery is a money pit."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
25. Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
By: Lulu Miller
4.16
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
A wondrous debut from an extraordinary new voice in nonfiction, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a dark and … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"There is grandeur in this view,"-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
"In every organism at which you gaze, there is complexity you will never comprehend."-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
"We are specks, flickering in and out of existence, with no significance to the cosmos."-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
"When people have this feeling of personal inefficiency, compulsive collecting helps them in feeling better."-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
26. Virgil Wander
By: Leif Enger
4.01
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Virgil Wander is an all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in t… read more
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"Your tribe is always bigger than you think."-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander
"He had an advanced capacity for hatred. It came to him easily and fully formed."-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander
"She seemed to belong here, though maybe she was the sort to belong wherever she was at the time."-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander
"I wanted to hear about many small things, the smaller the better. I wanted to tell her small things in return."-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander
27. Fellowship Point
By: Alice Elliott Dark
4.07
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy—to complete what she… read more
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"I had been judicious in my warnings and instructions, phrasing them so as not to scare her, or inhibit her. I'm determined not to teach her to fear everything, as we were taught, or that manners are …"-Alice Elliott Dark, Fellowship Point
28. Bloomsbury Girls
By: Natalie Jenner
3.86
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
The internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society returns with a compelling and hea… read more
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"As her eyes met his, Grace took strength in that feeling of understanding, which she now knew to be another form of love. Being understood, appreciated, and not judged: these, surely, were the corner…"-Natalie Jenner, Bloomsbury Girls
29. Playground
By: Richard Powers
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more
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30. Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i
By: Garrett Hongo
3.71
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Part memoir, part Japanese American family chronicle, part luminous work of natural history, Volcan… read more
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- poetry
- memoir
- travel
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"Hawaiian English is like kahiko, the ancient dance, the kanaka dance of tradition, she says, harsh moves, slaps, and full of pounding force."-Garrett Hongo, Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i
31. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
