An Obesity of Grief: A Journey from Traumatic Loss to Undying Love
By: Lynn Haraldson
4.78
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Nineteen years old with an eleven-day-old baby, Lynn Haraldson's world shatters when her husband, B…
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1. The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)
By: Louise Penny
4.07
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide w… read more
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"If love was compass enough, said Armand quietly, there would be no missing children."-Louise Penny, The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)
"You too?" She asked Ruth. "How do your poems start out?" "They start as a lump in the throat," she said."-Louise Penny, The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)
"Like a ship changing course. It might take a while to get to port, but at least it was going in the right direction."-Louise Penny, The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)
"He wasn't addicted to pain, to panic, but he might be addicted to the bliss of having them stop. The mind, he knew, really was its own place."-Louise Penny, The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)
2. Pat the Bunny
By: Dorothy Kunhardt
4.08
Format: 20 pages, Board Book
The timeless children’s classic full of interactive fun—a perfect gift for new babies and first bir… read more
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3. Glass Houses (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #13)
By: Louise Penny
4.03
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
When a mysterious figure appears on the village green on a cold November day in Three Pines, Armand… read more
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4. The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
By: Jim DeFede
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
Perfect for fans of the hit Broadway musical Come from Away When 38 jetliners bound for the United … read more
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5. Our Souls at Night
By: Kent Haruf
3.70
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, co… read more
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6. A Great Reckoning (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #12)
By: Louise Penny
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Louise Penny pulls back the layers to reveal a brilliant and emotionally powerfu… read more
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7. The Nature of the Beast (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #11)
By: Louise Penny
4.00
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
Hardly a day goes by when nine-year-old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to w… read more
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8. Out of Darkness
By: Ashley Hope Pérez
4.04
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"This is East Texas, and there's lines. Lines you cross, lines you don't cross. That clear?" New Lo… read more
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9. Vanished in Vermillion: The Real Story of South Dakota’s Most Infamous Cold Case
By: Lou Raguse
3.91
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The result of hundreds of interviews, Vanished in Vermillion is a cold case story that flips the sc… read more
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10. Everything Sad Is Untrue
By: Daniel Nayeri
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Da… read more
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"Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"I won't tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. If other people find out, they will attack it."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"Sometimes you just want somebody to look at a thing with you and say, "Yes. That is a thing you're looking at. You haven't lied to yourself."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"Maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Maybe there’s a lot more to it---maybe you choose and you practice, and that’s what makes the love true."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
11. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
By: Isabel Wilkerson
4.53
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more
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"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
12. Out of the Corner
By: Jennifer Grey
3.81
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
A deeply candid and refreshingly spirited memoir of identity lost and found from the star of the ic… read more
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13. Take My Hand
By: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
4.37
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in po… read more
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"There wasn’t any justice for little Black girls, and never had been."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
"The world was an enigma. My country was an enigma. Still, she was mine. And I loved every square inch of her."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
"The past doesn't work that way. You can't just make it disappear. You can't pretend certain things didn't happen."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
"She wore a belted yellow dress that screamed springtime even though it was chilly out. Anybody in a dress that bright had to be doing some good in the world, I decided."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
14. Family Family
By: Laurie Frankel
4.00
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more
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"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"-Laurie Frankel, Family Family
15. A Heart That Works
By: Rob Delaney
4.62
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
New York Times Bestseller * The New Yorker Best Books of 2022 * Entertainment Weekly Best Boo… read more
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"I felt like I was being asked to find an individual lentil in a warehouse that a tornado had just torn through"-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works
"Why don't you just leave open the possibility that others love you, whether you like it or not, and that the people who'd like you to stick around aren't, to a man, wrong."-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works
16. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.37
Format: 538 pages, Hardcover
The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam … read more
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17. Of Women and Salt
By: Gabriela Garcia
3.69
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is… read more
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18. The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family
By: Ron Howard
4.27
Format: 393 pages, Hardcover
Happy Days, The Andy Griffith Show, Gentle Ben—these shows captivated millions of TV viewers in the… read more
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19. The World Played Chess
By: Robert Dugoni
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just graduated high school. His only desire: collect a little beer mone… read more
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20. The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir
By: Paul Newman
3.89
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. The greatest … read more
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21. I am Frida Kahlo (Ordinary People Change the World)
By: Brad Meltzer
4.33
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
The famous Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is the 23rd hero in the New York Times bestselling picture b… read more
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22. Family Lore
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
3.53
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for ad… read more
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23. In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
By: Amy Bloom
4.27
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
This powerful memoir by New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom is an illuminating story of two… read more
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24. The Foundling
By: Ann Leary
3.89
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good House , the story of two friends, raised in … read more
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25. Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories
By: Kelly Ripa
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller from Kelly Ripa—a sharp, funny, and honest collection of rea… read more
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26. Cradles of the Reich
By: Jennifer Coburn
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Three women, a nation seduced by a madman, and the Nazi breeding program to create a so-called mast… read more
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27. Going There
By: Katie Couric
4.04
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
Heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest, Going There is the deeply personal life story of a g… read more
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28. 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
29. We Are All the Same in the Dark
By: Julia Heaberlin
3.80
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The discovery of a girl abandoned by the side of the road threatens to unearth the long-buried secr… read more
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"Imperfect pieces that when put together make something beautiful and original."-Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark
"Moral high ground is a pleasant place to perch, even if the view turns about to be rather limited, in scope."-Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark
30. An Obesity of Grief: A Journey from Traumatic Loss to Undying Love
By: Lynn Haraldson
4.78
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Nineteen years old with an eleven-day-old baby, Lynn Haraldson's world shatters when her husband, B… read more
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31. From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir
By: Lisa Marie Presley
4.48
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole s… read more
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