The Manning Girl
By: Catherine Browder
4.44
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
"The novel is a quiet but strong tour de force."~Marly Swick, author of Evening A Novel 1992. Tyle…
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1. The Ninth Hour
By: Alice McDermott
3.59
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent new novel from one of America’s finest writers—a powerfully affecting story spanning … read more
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2. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
By: Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey
4.00
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Librarian Note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here On a rainy Sunday in Januar… read more
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"Abrió el libro, pero ninguna página parecía ser lo bastante potente para borrar la soledad que sentía."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"La catastrofe de la vejez residía en no atreverse a ir a cualquier parte, en resignarse a perder la libertad"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"If you don't praise people just sometimes a little early on they die of despair, or turn into Hitlers, you know?"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"...pensaba en el amor y en sus espantosas desigualdades. Siempre hay alguien que ofrece la mejilla y otro que la besa."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
3. Lost Among the Living
By: Simone St. James
2.62
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
England, 1921. Three years after her husband, Alex, disappeared, shot down over Germany, Jo Manders… read more
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- fiction
4. Les oubliés du dimanche
By: Valérie Perrin
4.07
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
Justine, vingt et un ans, aime les personnes agees comme d'autres les contes. Helene, presque cinq … read more
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5. The Printmaker's Daughter
By: Katherine Govier
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A lost voice of old Japan reclaims her rightful place inhistory in this breathtaking work of imagin… read more
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6. The Christmas Guest
By: Peter Swanson
3.63
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
An American art student in London is invited to join a classmate for the holidays at Starvewood Hal… read more
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- fiction
7. The Warm Hands of Ghosts
By: Katherine Arden
4.02
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despit… read more
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- fiction
"Winter said there's ghosts all around you. Faland snorted. When you swim in the ocean there's water all around you, but no one mentions it."-Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts
8. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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- fiction
9. The Puppets of Spelhorst
By: Kate DiCamillo
4.19
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
From master storyteller Kate DiCamillo comes an original fairy tale—with enchanting illustrations b… read more
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- fiction
"The moon has no master," said the owl. "The moon is its own king." "Or queen," said the girl. The moon rose higher."-Kate DiCamillo, The Puppets of Spelhorst
10. 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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- fiction
- family
"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
11. Sipsworth
By: Simon Van Booy
4.26
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more
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- fiction
12. Simon Sort of Says
By: Erin Bow
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Simon O’Keeffe’s biggest claim to fame should be the time his dad accidentally gave a squirrel a ho… read more
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- fiction
- family
"Dad picks Denver [to get his rabies shots], and he's totally fine, but he's going to be away for three days. "Just like Jesus," Mom says. I can hear the phone say, "Isobel!"-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says
"In the tabernacle did the [squirrel]--" "Eat the Host?" says Dad. "Yes he did." "And was it--" "Consecrated?" says Dad. "Yes it was." ... "What, uh, happened to the squirrel?" "That squirrel is now 3…"-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says
"The dog- Todd?- looks up from its leaking beer, puffs a sigh, then crosses the room to head-butt the fridge door closed. "Ummm" I manage "Did you see he got a--" "It's okay," she says. "He only has o…"-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says
13. Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
By: Bianca Bosker
4.16
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey—thi… read more
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"Art Lovers pitied me: They said I lacked "Visual literacy", which they swore was downright dangerous in a world so saturated with pictures."-Bianca Bosker, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
14. The English Understand Wool
By: Helen DeWitt
4.10
Format: 69 pages, Hardcover
Maman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not … read more
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- fiction
15. Mockingbird Summer
By: Lynda Rutledge
4.25
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
A powerful and emotional coming-of-age novel set amid the turmoil and profound changes of the 1960s… read more
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- fiction
- family
16. The Woman on the Ledge
By: Ruth Mancini
3.93
Format: 398 pages, Hardcover
A woman falls to her death from a London bank's twenty-fifth-floor roof terrace. You're arreste… read more
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- fiction
17. The Madstone
By: Elizabeth Crook
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Lonesome Dove and News of the World, the riveting story of a pregnant young mother, … read more
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- fiction
"Your mother leaned her head on my shoulder. I hardly breathed for having it there. I had certainly never felt so alive and cozy whilst nearly frozen to death."-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone
"Despite I was tired, it was a comfort to stare at the red and brown stripes of the blanket in the lantern light and move my fingers along them. It was a steady, dependable task, as opposed to every o…"-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone
"We had one horse, one mule, and a wagon. We had Horhay with his limp arm and his long past, and Dickie with his hopes for the necklace now dashed and turned to dread of its curse, and me with my ache…"-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone
"Had we been in town amongst people, then we might have been merely interested at the news of having a cursed item in our possession. But out in the midst of no place, shielded by only a scanty wall o…"-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone
18. Catch the Rabbit
By: Lana Bastašić
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A moving story about loss, forgetting and female friendship: two women on a road trip across Bosnia… read more
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- fiction
"He reads books that are not for school as if he has nothing better to do with his time."-Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit
"The right to silence was always more important in our friendship than the right to questions."-Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit
"His hair was just like yours - black, uncombed, as if someone had left it behind on his head."-Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit
"Boys just stared at you as if you were a complicated dessert surrounded by unknown tableware."-Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit
19. How to Read a Book
By: Monica Wood
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A charming, deeply moving novel about second chances, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing p… read more
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- fiction
"Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly, or maybe we expect so little of men their transgressions don't register the same."-Monica Wood, How to Read a Book
20. Float Up, Sing Down
By: Laird Hunt
3.45
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Laird Hunt's masterful story collection capturing one summer's day in the Indiana community where t… read more
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- fiction
21. The Stolen Hours (Joe Talbert, #3)
By: Allen Eskens
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A woman finds herself in a race not only for justice but for her life in this " riveting, hold-you… read more
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"Joe would have told her that none of that had been her fault. He would have kissed the top of her head as he explained that she had done everything right. She almost called him but stopped herself. H…"-Allen Eskens, The Stolen Hours (Joe Talbert, #3)
22. The Which Way Tree
By: Elizabeth Crook
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The poignant odyssey of a tenacious young girl who braves the dangers of the Texas frontier to aven… read more
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- fiction
23. The Turtle House
By: Amanda Churchill
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Minnie and her granddaughter Lia are unforgettable protagonists, whose grit and grace will inspire … read more
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- fiction
- family
24. Life Without Lack: Living in the Fullness of Psalm 23
By: Dallas Willard
4.45
Format: 224 pages, ebook
What would it be like to live without fear? Join renowned philosopher Dallas Willard as he shares t… read more
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"Much of our effort to do things for the Lord is really the resurgence of our desire to dominate and make things happen in our own strength."-Dallas Willard, Life Without Lack: Living in the Fullness of Psalm 23
25. Bear
By: Julia Phillips
3.38
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more
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- fiction
- family
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."-Julia Phillips, Bear
"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"-Julia Phillips, Bear
26. Argylle
By: Elly Conway
3.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A luxury train speeding towards Moscow and a date with destiny. A CIA plane downed in the jungle… read more
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- fiction
27. There Are Rivers in the Sky
By: Elif Shafak
4.58
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more
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- fiction
"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky
28. Somebody Loves You
By: Mona Arshi
3.60
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A teacher asked me a question, and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly, k… read more
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- fiction
29. Under Your Spell
By: Laura Wood
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The daughter of an aging rock star finds herself working for the hottest musician on the planet and… read more
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- fiction
- family
30. Murder at Crime Manor (Detective Roger LeCarre #2)
By: Fergus Craig
3.61
Format: 197 pages, Kindle Edition
THE MANOR HOUSE MURDER MYSTERY AS YOU'VE NEVER SEEN IT . . . DETECTIVE ROGER LECARRE IS BACK!!!Dete… read more
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31. The Manning Girl
By: Catherine Browder
4.44
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
"The novel is a quiet but strong tour de force."~Marly Swick, author of Evening A Novel 1992. Tyle… read more
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