The Animal Keepers - The Story of an Unlikely Hero and an Unforgettable Season
By: Donn Behnke
4.40
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The Animal Keepers tells the true story of the Stevens Point High School cross country team and the…
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1. Last Bus to Wisdom
By: Ivan Doig
4.08
Format: 453 pages, Hardcover
The final novel from a great American storyteller. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmot… read more
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2. At Home in Mitford (Mitford Years, #1)
By: Jan Karon
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
Enter the world of Mitford, and you won't want to leave. It's easy to feel at home in Mitford. In t… read more
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3. Ordinary Grace
By: William Kent Krueger
4.09
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger comes a brilliant new novel about a you… read more
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4. Thinner
By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman
3.77
Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
After an old gypsy woman is killed by his car, lawyer Billy Halleck is stricken with a flesh-wastin… read more
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"Purpurfargade ansiktet"-Stephen King, Thinner
"It's the people who aren't scared who die young."-Stephen King, Thinner
"Things hurt more when you were alone, that was all."-Stephen King, Thinner
"The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing."-Stephen King, Thinner
5. March
By: Geraldine Brooks
4.23
Format: None pages,
Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize For Fiction. From the author of the acclaimed YEAR OF WONDERS, an… read more
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6. The Prince of Tides
By: Pat Conroy
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
PAT CONROY has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding … read more
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7. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.71
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
8. Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
By: J. Ryan Stradal
3.63
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal, a story of a couple from two very diffe… read more
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"This place is in your blood, but not your heart. Go find a place that is."-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
"People here liked to say they rooted for the underdog, but some of them got real quiet when the underdog was different from them."-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
"Winter was her cathedral, and the snow-decked trees its endless pillars, and although it was quiet, it wasn't empty. The silence coaxed voices into her imagination, voices of the past and future, voi…"-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
9. A Long Petal of the Sea
By: Isabel Allende
4.06
Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of The House of the Spirits, this epic novel spanning decades and crossing continen… read more
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"Despite being English, they served an edible meal."-Isabel Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea
"She embellished the facts, because she was aware that life is"-Isabel Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea
"Victor's nephew was plump and bald: all babies that age looked like Winston Churchill to him."-Isabel Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea
"Nothing can grow in the shade of secrets, she would say, love needs light and space to flourish."-Isabel Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea
10. Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
By: Daniel Quinn
4.01
Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition
An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search f… read more
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"With gorilla gone, will there be hope for man?"-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
"You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer"-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
"The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity’s captive."-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
"The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way."-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
11. Touching Spirit Bear
By: Ben Mikaelsen
3.86
Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition
Within Cole Matthews lies anger, rage and hate. Cole has been stealing and fighting for years. This… read more
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"Whatever you do to the animals, you do to yourself."-Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear
"Anger is a memory never forgotten. You only tame it."-Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear
"Being invisible had nothing to do with being seen. Being invisible meant not being sensed or felt"-Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear
"Being invisible had nothing to do with being seen. Being invisible meant not being sensed or felt."-Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear
12. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
By: David Grann
4.14
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklaho… read more
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- nonfiction
"An Indian Affairs agent said, 'The question will suggest itself, which of these people are the savages?"-David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
"The Osage elders sang the traditional songs for the dead, only now the songs seemed for the living, for those who had to endure this world of killing."-David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
13. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
By: Fintan O'Toole
4.34
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
14. Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World
By: Lauren Fleshman
4.47
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren Fleshman offers her… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"It takes guts to put yourself out there when your body doesn't match the ideal, and to keep doing your best when your best isn't what you hoped for, or what others expected."-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World
"She must have known what she planned to do, the risk she was going to take. 'Where did that calm come from?' I had wondered at the time. Now I knew. It was a resolve to execute the plan without attac…"-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World
"…my whole life I had been engaging in the hard work of learning to run for myself, not for others. I had been learning how to return to myself, again and again, in a world full of forces that consist…"-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World
"Title IX opened a door fifty years ago that can never be closed again, but equality doesn’t end at the equal right to play. True equality in sports, like any other industry, requires rebuilding the s…"-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World
15. The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team
By: Kara Goucher
4.45
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In this unvarnished and affecting memoir, Olympian Kara Goucher reveals her experience of living th… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
16. Choosing to Run: A Memoir
By: Des Linden
4.28
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Featuring both the story of an historic, unforgettable win and insight into the life of an indelibl… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
17. The Puzzle Master
By: Danielle Trussoni
3.32
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
Reality and the supernatural collide when an expert puzzle maker is thrust into an ancient mystery—… read more
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"these changes to his way of experiencing reality were so strange that he didn't say anything about them at first. All he knew was he was experiencing highly-structured geometric hallucinations on reg…"-Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master
"There is a story from the midrash that I've always loved," she said. "It's about Lailah, the angel of conception. Lailah, the story goes, bequeaths babies the totality of knowledge in the womb. Then,…"-Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master
"the next seconds swelled, slowed, filled with a tension that pressed through me. And then, in that close stillness, the creature awoke. The eyes fluttered open and for ten seconds, perhaps twenty, I …"-Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master
18. When My Time Comes: Conversations About Whether Those Who Are Dying Should Have the Right to Determine When Life Should End
By: Diane Rehm
4.10
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The renowned radio host and one of the most trusted voices in the nation candidly and compassionate… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
19. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
By: Nicola Twilley
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific my… read more
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20. The Animal Keepers - The Story of an Unlikely Hero and an Unforgettable Season
By: Donn Behnke
4.40
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The Animal Keepers tells the true story of the Stevens Point High School cross country team and the… read more
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- memoir
21. News of the Air
By: Jill Stukenberg
3.98
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Allie Krane is heavily pregnant when she and her husband flee urban life after a rash of eco-terror… read more
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