Promised Lands: A Novel of the Texas Rebellion (Southwest Life and Letters)
By: Elizabeth Crook
4.24
Format: 517 pages, Paperback
Crook's accomplished second novel, a sweeping saga of the Texas Revolution, tells the story of two …
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1. Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)
By: Lee Child
4.07
Format: 567 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here In a Chicago suburb, a dentist is met in his off… read more
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"Webster lapsed into silence. Started thinking hard. He was a smart enough bureaucrat to know if you can't beat them, you join them. You force yourself to think like they think."-Lee Child, Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)
"I had a teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was somewhere hot. I was always twice the size of the other kids, and she used to sa…"-Lee Child, Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)
"People, Reacher was certain about. Dogs were different. People had freedom of choice. If a man or a woman ran snarling toward him, they did so because they chose to. They were asking for whatever the…"-Lee Child, Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)
2. Dolores Claiborne
By: Stephen King
3.00
Format: None pages, ebook
Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story o… read more
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3. Thirteen Moons
By: Charles Frazier
3.59
Format: 128 pages,
At the age of twelve, an orphan named Will Cooper is given a horse, a key, and a map and is sent on… read more
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4. Tall Oaks
By: Chris Whitaker
3.50
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
For fans of Twin Peaksand The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair, this brilliant debut is dark ye… read more
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5. The Last Ranger
By:
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Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone Natio… read more
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6. All the Broken Places (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, #2)
By: John Boyne
4.50
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for dec… read more
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7. The Fire and the Ore
By: Olivia Hawker
4.07
Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition
Three spirited wives in nineteenth-century Utah. One husband. A compelling novel of family, sisterh… read more
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8. North Woods
By: Daniel Mason
4.15
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more
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9. Chenneville
By: Paulette Jiles
4.13
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawles… read more
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10. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)
By: Tana French
4.12
Format: 467 pages, Hardcover
It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more
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"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)
"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)
11. The Marriage Portrait
By: Maggie O'Farrell
4.01
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. The author of award-winning Hamnet… read more
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"May I keep this?"-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait
"Was there no hope? the tigress seemed to be asking her. Will I always remain here? Will I never return home?"-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait
"The animal was orange, burnished gold, fire made flesh; she was power and anger, she was vicious and exquisite;"-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait
"Is it possible for a woman to be so unsettled in spirit that a child will have no hope of taking root within her?"-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait
12. Hidden Mountains: Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong
By: Michael Wejchert
3.99
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The story of a climbing adventure gone wrong in a remote Alaskan mountain range, the impossible res… read more
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13. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By: David Grann
4.19
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more
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14. Great Circle
By: Maggie Shipstead
4.11
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
An alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780525656975 can be found here. Spanning Prohibition-era M… read more
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"Numbness is not an absence of feeling but a felt absence."-Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle
"Abandonment stings, even when it means freedom. [Hadley Baxter]"-Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle
"You don't just love a person, you love a vision of your life with them."-Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle
"We must bend in the wind sometimes.... So much is beyond our control. [Mrs. Fahey]"-Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle
15. Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
By: Bryan Burrough
4.26
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths,… read more
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16. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
17. The Berlin Exchange
By: Joseph Kanon
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From “the most accomplished spy novelist working today” ( The Sunday Times , London), a “heart-poun… read more
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18. Leonard and Hungry Paul
By: Ronan Hession
4.15
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
In this startling debut, Ronan Hession tells the story of two thirty-something men who take care of… read more
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"You may wish to note the above"-Ronan Hession, Leonard and Hungry Paul
"It was strange that after all the years of getting the kids to be independent, she would feel so daunted at having her life back. But it was the nature of being a parent. The kids' lives are their ow…"-Ronan Hession, Leonard and Hungry Paul
"Leonard wore a new feeling of peace. He had always associated peace with the idea of happiness, as if it were some sort of steady state that happiness turned into when it was for real. But now he rea…"-Ronan Hession, Leonard and Hungry Paul
19. Dear Edward
By: Ann Napolitano
4.08
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 o… read more
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"He watches his new life walk into his old life."-Ann Napolitano, Dear Edward
"Take stock of who we are and what we have and then use it for good."-Ann Napolitano, Dear Edward
"Since death is certain, but the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?" Pema Chodron"-Ann Napolitano, Dear Edward
"Because there are so many kids, they run schools like factories, or dare I say, jails. You're put into lines and rows and moved when a bell rings. None of this is conducive to deep thinking or creati…"-Ann Napolitano, Dear Edward
20. The Comanche Kid (The Comanche Kid, #1)
By: James Robert Daniels
4.47
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
Out of nowhere Comanches attack—and sixteen year-old Jane narrowly survives the slaughter of her fa… read more
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21. Promised Lands: A Novel of the Texas Rebellion (Southwest Life and Letters)
By: Elizabeth Crook
4.24
Format: 517 pages, Paperback
Crook's accomplished second novel, a sweeping saga of the Texas Revolution, tells the story of two … read more
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