Dirty Work: My Gruelling, Glorious, Life-Changing Summer in the Wilderness
By: Anna Maxymiw
3.64
Format: 276 pages, Paperback
When Anna Maxymiw accepts a summer job as a housekeeper at a fishing lodge in Northern Ontario, she…
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1. An Invisible Thread
By: Alex Tresniowski , Laura Schroff , None
4.06
Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition
This inspirational New York Times bestseller chronicles the lifelong friendship between a busy sale… read more
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- biography memoir
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"If love is the greatest gift of all-and I believe it is- then the greatest privilege of all is to be able to love someone."-Alex Tresniowski, An Invisible Thread
"But sometimes we are not drawn to that which is different from what we know and fear. Sometimes we are drawn to that which is exactly the same."-Alex Tresniowski, An Invisible Thread
"If you make me lunch," he said, "will you put it in a brown paper bag?...Because when I see kids come to school with their lunch in a paper bag, that means that someone cares about them. Miss Laura, …"-Alex Tresniowski, An Invisible Thread
"We all want relationships that are healthy and resolved, and sometimes that simply doesn't happen. But the beauty of life is that inside these disappointments are hidden the most miraculous of blessi…"-Alex Tresniowski, An Invisible Thread
2. Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman
By: Lisa Scottoline
4.16
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious collection of stories from the life of the New York Times bestselling author of Look Ag… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
3. Sweetbitter
By: Stephanie Danler
3.49
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A lush, raw, thrilling novel of the senses about a year in the life of a uniquely beguiling young w… read more
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- audiobook
4. Little Deaths
By: Emma Flint
3.96
Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition
Inspired by a true story, Little Deaths, like celebrated novels by Sarah Waters and Megan Abbott, i… read more
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5. Reconstructing Amelia
By: Kimberly McCreight
3.43
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
Kate's in the middle of the biggest meeting of her career when she gets the telephone call from Gra… read more
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6. There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather: A Scandinavian Mom’s Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids
By: Linda Åkeson McGurk
3.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"A perfect antidote to the hyper-vigilant, extra-electrified, standardized-tested, house-arrested, … read more
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7. Heart Berries
By: Terese Marie Mailhot
3.84
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian … read more
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"Pain expanded my heart."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"You are such a home to me."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Romanticism requires bravery and risk."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Sometimes suicidality doesn’t seem dark; it seems fair."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
8. Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
By: Waubgeshig Rice
3.85
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, … read more
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"Yes, apocalypse. We've had that over and over. But we always survived. We're still here. And we'll still be here, even if the power and the radios don't come back on and we never see any white people…"-Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
9. Local Gone Missing (Elise King, #1)
By: Fiona Barton
3.48
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Detective Elise King investigates a man's disappearance in a seaside town where the locals and week… read more
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10. Five Little Indians
By: Michelle Good
4.48
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential sch… read more
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11. A Death at the Party
By: Amy Stuart
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In this tense, spellbinding thriller set over the course of a single day, a woman prepares for a pa… read more
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12. I Only Read Murder (Miranda Abbott, #1)
By: Ian Ferguson
3.28
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A once-famous TV sleuth An amateur theater production An onstage murder A town full of suspects…… read more
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13. Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic
By: Adam Shoalts
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
National bestseller A thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from "Canada's greate… read more
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- biography memoir
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- nature
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14. Kukum
By: Michel Jean
4.55
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
«C'est un de ces soirs où je trayais les vaches dans la lumière du soleil couchant que je l'ai vu p… read more
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- canada
"Péribonka, c'est un chemin creusé par des géants à même le roc. Cette nature indomptée et somptueuse m'a libérée de l'horizon."-Michel Jean, Kukum
"Ce soir d'été, quand je suis arrivée au pâturage, il m'attendait, assis sur la clôture, avec la patience de celui qui se moque du temps qui passe."-Michel Jean, Kukum
15. The Favor
By: Nora Murphy
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A gripping debut domestic suspense novel, The Favor explores with compassion and depth what can hap… read more
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16. Ducks, Newburyport
By: Lucy Ellmann
3.97
Format: 1022 pages, Paperback
LATTICING one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality … read more
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"Italians answer the phone, “Pronto,"-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport
"I think that Inuit duck is at the Peabody, Bringing Up Baby, “Ducky! Ducky!"-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport
"...the fact that there’s a lot you have to blank out if you want to get through life..."-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport
"the fact that you’ll never know what sort of person you might have been if you’d read different stuff"-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport
17. The Pull of the Stars
By: Emma Donoghue
3.96
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospita… read more
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"Guilt was the sooty air we breathed these days."-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
"I’m beginning to know enough to know that I know nothing."-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
"I seem to have stumbled onto love, like a pothole in the night."-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
"Neither of us mentioned the kissing, so as not to burst the bubble by touching it. So as not to think about what it meant for the two of us to kiss."-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
18. My Friends
By: Hisham Matar
4.34
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more
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"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"-Hisham Matar, My Friends
19. Rebel Rising
By: Rebel Wilson
3.91
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
From the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a refreshingly candid, hilariou… read more
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"Would this performance feel internally like I was going to die? Yes. But my desire to win, my desire to be somebody, is so strong that it compels me to do the hardest thing possible: to perform in pu…"-Rebel Wilson, Rebel Rising
"People would come up to me on the street and say, 'I just want to thank you for being so brave!' Why am I so fucking brave? I'm not going off to fight in a war! I'm not running into a burning buildin…"-Rebel Wilson, Rebel Rising
20. The New Wife
By: Sue Watson
4.05
Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition
You can never truly know what goes on behind closed doors… My darling son, Sam, is marrying his … read more
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21. Tanqueray
By: Stephanie Johnson
4.20
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
1970s New York City: Go-go dancers, The Peppermint Lounge, gangsters, Billy’s Topless, and Stephani… read more
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22. Funeral Songs for Dying Girls
By: Cherie Dimaline
3.53
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
After inadvertently starting rumors of a haunted cemetery, a teen befriends a ghost in this brand-n… read more
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23. The New Neighbour
By: Miranda Rijks
4.02
Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition
A small community. A deadly secret. Until recently, Isobel has always loved The Close. A quiet r… read more
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24. The Chicken Sisters
By: K.J. Dell'Antonia
3.40
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Three generations. Two chicken shacks. One recipe for disaster. In tiny Merinac, Kansas, Chicken… read more
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"The next morning, when she bent to buckle Ryder into the taxi to go to the airport, he was clutching the chicken tightly to his chest, looking so much like his father that it made Mae catch her breat…"-K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters
"The restaurants are very different, by asking which you like. The restaurants are very different, Mimi's is pretty simple and BYOB while Frannie's has a bar. Some people go to Mimi's because they rea…"-K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters
"Mimi's and Frannie's both served fried chicken, yes. And they had the same kind of name. And they had been started by sisters. But from there, the similarities---and any competition---ended. Frannie'…"-K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters
"Good fried chicken was remarkably hard to come by in New York, but this---tender, with just enough crust-only bits protruding, skin peeling easily away from the meat---this was good . The fries were …"-K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters
25. After the Flood
By: Kassandra Montag
3.69
Format: 448 pages, ebook
A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowl… read more
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"Maybe we all were born with trust and then lost it. Maybe we all had to find it again before we left."-Kassandra Montag, After the Flood
"I have faith," she had said. "But only for every minute out of a hundred. So I act on that one moment even when I'm not in it."-Kassandra Montag, After the Flood
26. Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic
By: Adam Shoalts
4.32
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
From Canada’s most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes a gripping journey into the vastne… read more
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27. Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences
By: Jedidiah Jenkins
4.03
Format: 221 pages, Hardcover
When his mother, Barbara, turns seventy, Jedidiah Jenkins is reminded of a sobering fact: Our pare… read more
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"In my midthirties, I realized that my parents would die soon. Not like a terminal illness. I just mean in the flow of time. It hit me hardest when my mother turned seventy. I did a quick bit of math.…"-Jedidiah Jenkins, Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences
"I wondered about my friendship with my mom. Is it friendship? How can it be? Friendship is chosen. Friendship is discovered. But a mother and a son have a bond that is necessary. If the son exists, t…"-Jedidiah Jenkins, Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences
28. Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest
By: Trina Moyles
4.29
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning memoir about a young woman's grueling, revelatory summers working alone in a remote … read more
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29. Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder: A Memoir
By: Julia Zarankin
3.82
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A writer discovers an unexpected passion for birding, along with a new understanding of the world a… read more
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30. Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay
By: Merilyn Simonds
4.20
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
From award-winning author Merilyn Simonds, a remarkable biography of an extraordinary woman -- a Sw… read more
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31. Dirty Work: My Gruelling, Glorious, Life-Changing Summer in the Wilderness
By: Anna Maxymiw
3.64
Format: 276 pages, Paperback
When Anna Maxymiw accepts a summer job as a housekeeper at a fishing lodge in Northern Ontario, she… read more
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