A Saint from Texas
By: Edmund White
3.03
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Edmund White, a bold and sweeping new novel that traces the extraordinary fates of twin sister…
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1. Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #3)
By: Tana French
3.68
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen year old kid with a dream of escaping his family's crampe… read more
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2. The Cider House Rules
By: John Irving
3.76
Format: 180 pages,
Raised from birth in the orphanage at St. Cloud's, Maine, Homer Wells has become the protege of Dr.… read more
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3. The Solace of Open Spaces
By: Gretel Ehrlich
3.21
Format: 192 pages,
"Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless a… read more
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4. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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5. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- novels
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
6. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
By: Lyz Lenz
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more
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"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
7. Memory Piece
By: Lisa Ko
3.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece
8. The Road from Belhaven
By: Margot Livesey
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young wom… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
9. This Other Eden
By: Paul Harding
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
10. Day
By: Michael Cunningham
3.57
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- novels
- adult
"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"-Michael Cunningham, Day
11. Summerwater
By: Sarah Moss
3.51
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
No dia mais longo do verão, a chuva cai fortemente sobre uma pequena aldeia rural nas Terras Altas … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
12. Those We Thought We Knew
By: David Joy
4.30
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning writer David Joy comes a searing new novel about the cracks that form in a small… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
13. Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul
By: Michael Fanone
4.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent warning about the growing threat to our democracy from… read more
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"That’s why “reforming"-Michael Fanone, Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul
"Mom, they tried to kill me."-Michael Fanone, Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul
"I wasn't a "good" cop or a "bad" cop. I was an "every" cop."-Michael Fanone, Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul
"To say that members of Congress have egos is like saying that I like cold beer."-Michael Fanone, Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul
14. There Is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
By: Fiona Hill
4.13
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity ha… read more
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15. The Home Scar
By: Kathleen MacMahon
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
From the Women's Prize longlisted author of Nothing But Blue Sky'The home scar - that's what they c… read more
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- novels
- fiction
16. Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
By: Jamie Raskin
4.51
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the star… read more
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"If a person can grow through unthinkable trauma and loss, perhaps a nation may, too."-Jamie Raskin, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
"Memory requires active engagement with the complexities of the past. It is not an unthinking or passive process, like breathing or (for most people) sleeping. I have found that good memory, like good…"-Jamie Raskin, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
17. Familiaris
By: David Wroblewski
4.21
Format: 979 pages, Hardcover
The follow-up to the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling modern classic The Story of Edgar Sawtel… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
"Suppose you could do one impossible thing."-David Wroblewski, Familiaris
"Time is a snake-oil remedy if you ask me. Some wounds just keep hurting as bad as they ever did. That's what I think."-David Wroblewski, Familiaris
"John once claimed that the way to convince a person to do something outlandish was to ask them to do something even more outlandish."-David Wroblewski, Familiaris
"You can never watch too many pups climb through the straw for the first time, but there are just so many dogs you can bear watch to die."-David Wroblewski, Familiaris
18. The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill
By: Rowenna Miller
3.64
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
"A warm-hearted yet fierce fairy tale."―H. G. Parry In the early 1900s, two sisters must navigat… read more
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- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Mama, is that Aunt Eula’s chicken recipe?"-Rowenna Miller, The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill
" Where flowers bloom And leaves are ever green Fortune’s winds are shifting By fairy touch unseen —Folk song"-Rowenna Miller, The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill
" Set the table, china fine Acorn cup and dewdrop wine Crumbs of cake, berries wild High tea for Fae beguiled --- Children's rhyme"-Rowenna Miller, The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill
" Here's to thee, old apple-tree, To buds in the spring and roots in the loam, To the Fae who brings the apples home. ---Wassail song"-Rowenna Miller, The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill
19. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
By: Anthony Fauci
4.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more
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20. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
By: Nancy Pelosi
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more
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- historical
21. A Saint from Texas
By: Edmund White
3.03
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Edmund White, a bold and sweeping new novel that traces the extraordinary fates of twin sister… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- historical
- religion
- france
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- adult
