Strange Bewildering Time: Istanbul to Kathmandu in the Last Year of the Hippie Trail
By: Mark Abley
3.72
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
A poet and journalist looks back on a remarkable journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978, when the reg…
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1. Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
By: Bill Buford
3.90
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Bill Buford—author of the highly acclaimed best-selling Among the Thugs— had long thought of himsel… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do."-Bill Buford, Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
"In normal life, "simplicity" is synonymous with "easy to do," but when a chef uses the word, it means "takes a lifetime to learn."-Bill Buford, Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
"You can't do traditional work at a modern pace. Traditional work has traditional rhythms. You need calm. You can be busy, but you must remain calm."-Bill Buford, Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
"Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season."-Bill Buford, Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
2. City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
By: William Dalrymple , Olivia Fraser
4.12
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old his… read more
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- history
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"There was that all-pervasive evening scent of cut grass and jasmine."-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
"Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone."-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
"His diaries had begun to assume something of the knowingness of incipient middle age; at times, indeed, he was in danger of becoming priggish and opinionated. As with many later European voyagers, tr…"-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
3. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
By: Nate Silver
3.75
Format: None pages,
Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 elec… read more
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- nonfiction
4. The Sisters Brothers
By: Patrick deWitt , Marcelo Barbão
4.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has… read more
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5. Jesus and the Disinherited
By: Vincent Harding , Howard Thurman
4.57
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
In this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman … read more
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6. The Librarianist
By: Patrick deWitt
3.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more
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7. A Winter Grave
By: Peter May
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
It is the year 2051. Warnings of climate catastrophe have been ignored, and vast areas of the plane… read more
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8. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
By: Roxanna Asgarian
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more
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- history
- audiobook
9. The Future
By: Catherine Leroux
3.32
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more
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"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."-Catherine Leroux, The Future
"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."-Catherine Leroux, The Future
10. Can We Talk About Israel?: A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted
By: Daniel Sokatch
4.33
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
National Jewish Book Award finalist An essential and accessible introduction to one of the most … read more
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- history
- audiobook
11. Cocktails & Chloroform (A Rip Through Time, #2.5)
By: Kelley Armstrong
4.22
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
For modern-day detective Mallory Atkinson, being trapped in the body of Victorian housemaid means o… read more
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12. Fi: A Memoir of My Son
By: Alexandra Fuller
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more
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- memoir
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"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
13. The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club
By: Helen Simonson
3.96
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A timeless comedy of manners—refreshing as a summer breeze and bracing as the British seaside—about… read more
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14. Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans
By: Jane Marie
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to ex… read more
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- history
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15. Coronation Year
By: Jennifer Robson
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The USA Today bestselling author of The Gown returns with another enthralling and royal-adjacent hi… read more
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16. French Exit
By: Patrick deWitt
3.55
Format: 256 pages, ebook
From bestselling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow an… read more
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"Oh, to be youngish and in love-ish!"-Patrick deWitt, French Exit
"I've been neither lucky nor unlucky. I've been luckless - such a bore"-Patrick deWitt, French Exit
"She studied her son with a melancholic endearment. “Did you drink to the brink of sound reasoning?"-Patrick deWitt, French Exit
"She knew she was living improperly but hadn’t the strength to correct herself. She had twenty thousand euros left; she’d taken to flushing hundreds down the toilet each morning."-Patrick deWitt, French Exit
17. The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
By: C.J. Hauser
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
CJ Hauser expands on her viral essay sensation, "The Crane Wife," in a brilliant collection of essa… read more
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"What were you told had to happen in a story for it to feel complete?"-C.J. Hauser, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
"The Story rules are coming from inside the house. And the house always wins."-C.J. Hauser, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
"How do we talk about the loss of a thing for which their is no word? The lack of a word implies that it was never anything. It was never real."-C.J. Hauser, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
"How can we be surrounded by friends of many genders and still have people look at us and think that because we are unpartnered, we are alone? Sometimes even we forget."-C.J. Hauser, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
18. Have You Seen Her
By: Catherine McKenzie
3.59
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling and timely novel about three women with dark secrets whose lives intersect in the pictu… read more
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19. Junie
By: Chelene Knight
3.78
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Longlisted for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction A riveting exploration of the complexity w… read more
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20. Mystery in the Title (Miranda Abbott Mystery, #2)
By: Ian Ferguson
3.39
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling authors of I Only Read Murder comes a sidesplitting mystery of epic movie-of-t… read more
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21. Hum
By: Helen Phillips
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more
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22. What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust (Flavia de Luce, #11)
By: Alan Bradley
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the absence of adult supervision, Flavia has taken on the mentorship of her “pestilent” younger … read more
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23. The Highly Sensitive: How to Find Inner Peace, Develop Your Gifts, and Thrive
By: Judy Dyer
3.64
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
https://amzn.to/2Pmm3PmDo you feel too sensitive for this world? Are you at the mercy of your emoti… read more
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24. The New Tourist: Waking Up to the Power and Perils of Travel
By: Paige McClanahan
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly evocative, surprising, and page-turning exploration of how tourism has shaped the wor… read more
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25. The Booklover's Library
By: Madeline Martin
4.24
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
A heartwarming story about a mother and daughter in wartime England and the power of the books that… read more
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26. The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards
By: Jessica Waite
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A widow’s life is turned upside when she uncovers the truth about her late husband in this lyrical,… read more
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27. Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant
By: Stephanie Kiser
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
What are the lives of America's richest families really like? Their nannies see it all… When S… read more
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28. The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child’s Life
By: Rachel Clarke
4.66
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A riveting and inspiring true story of two families linked by one heart—written by a bestselling au… read more
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- memoir
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29. The Treasure Hunters Club
By: Tom Ryan
3.95
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone meets The Goonies in The Treasure Hunters Club—a rollickin… read more
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30. Strange Bewildering Time: Istanbul to Kathmandu in the Last Year of the Hippie Trail
By: Mark Abley
3.72
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
A poet and journalist looks back on a remarkable journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978, when the reg… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- audiobook
31. The Capital of Dreams
By: Heather O'Neill
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
“The Capital of Dreams is not so much a novel to read but one to live (and dream) in. A dark, wistf… read more
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