The Luminous Sea
By: Melissa Barbeau
3.75
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD *FINALIST - THE 2019 BMO WINTERSET AWA…
Want to Read $ 13.25"She hopes she might convince her sea monster that she will not abandon her."-Melissa Barbeau, The Luminous Sea
"Beneath the foggy sky the glowing sea is hazy, the soft light of a scarf over a lamp."-Melissa Barbeau, The Luminous Sea
"Well, what is a monster, anyway? Something you can't identify with no matter how hard you try. Something so far outside your experience."-Melissa Barbeau, The Luminous Sea
"Can you imagine sitting there letting the sea roll over you your whole life. No feet. No locomotion. Your whole fate decided by what washes over you."-Melissa Barbeau, The Luminous Sea
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1. Runaway
By: Alice Munro
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Here are the infinite betrayals and surprises of love-between men and women, between friends, betwe… read more
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2. Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
By: Jen Campbell
3.60
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
This Sunday Times bestseller is a miscellany of hilarious and peculiar bookshop moments: 'Can books… read more
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3. The Adversary
By: Michael Crummey
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Innocents (“Extraordinary”— Wall Street … read more
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4. Leech
By: Hiron Ennes
3.60
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The doctor’s repla… read more
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"Wherever we are, we want to be somewhere else."-Hiron Ennes, Leech
5. The Hole
By: Hiroko Oyamada
3.49
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
Asa’s husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family’s home in the cou… read more
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"I moved out here with my husband."-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole
"It's just, families are strange things, aren't they? You have this couple: one man, one woman. A male and a female, if you will. They mate, and why? To leave children behind. And what are the childre…"-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole
"Abrí la ventana y oí a las cigarras cantar. No sé si era porque estaba en el campo y había muchos árboles o por la influencia del clima de ese año, pero nunca las había oído con tanta intensidad. Era…"-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole
6. Ghost Wall
By: Sarah Moss
3.73
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie an… read more
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"It was bright again, as if England had forgotten how to rain"-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
"Lights blind you; there's a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside."-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
"Haven't you been listening, people don't bother to hurt what they don't love. To sacrifice it."-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
"I knew better than to challenge him; even the word 'Negro' was already some concession to my ideas because he preferred to use a more offensive term and wait, chin raised, for a reaction."-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
7. A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)
By: Alix E. Harrow
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A Mirror Mended is the next installment in USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's Fractured … read more
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"You have to make the best of whatever story you were born into, and if your story happens to suck ass, well, maybe you can do some good before you go."-Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)
"everybody knows that happily is never really ever after. The truth is buried in the phrase itself, if you look it up. The original version was “happy in the ever after,"-Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)
"The mirror showed me you, out of all the possible people in all the universes,' It sounds almost like an apology. 'Why?' 'Well, what were you doing at the time?' 'I was looking into the mirror, obvio…"-Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)
8. Washington Black
By: Esi Edugyan
3.95
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar … read more
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"You cannot know the true nature of another's suffering." "No. But you can try your damnedest not to worsen it."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
"I do not much care for childhood. It is a astate of terrible vulnerability, and is therefore unnatural and incomaptivle with human life."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
"...a good parent is as rare as snow in summer, I am afraid. Well." He smiled sadly. "It is possible I have some prejudices in this respect."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
"But then, gradually, miraculously, things began to clear between us. We were able to speak as we'd once done, with great love and little calculation."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
9. Even Though I Knew the End
By: C.L. Polk
3.85
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the… read more
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"A warm firework blossomed in my chest, the brilliant sparks flying along my nerves. I barely stopped myself from reaching across the table for her hand."-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End
"I never told her how she had saved me. I never told her how she became the dearest friend I’d ever had. I told her I loved her, but never enough. My Edith of the sparrows. My heart. My world."-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End
"Ten years. It wasn't enough time, but I would live every blessed second of it. "We're going to San Fransisco." She smiled up at me. "We'll get a house in North Beach." "Right away," I said. "I've got…"-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End
10. Butter Honey Pig Bread
By: Francesca Ekwuyasi
4.31
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tel… read more
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"Death is only a doorway."-Francesca Ekwuyasi, Butter Honey Pig Bread
11. The Good Women of Safe Harbour
By: Bobbi French
4.39
Format: 304 pages, ebook
An unforgettable, life-affirming novel about a woman living on her own terms at last and reclaiming… read more
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12. When We Lost Our Heads
By: Heather O'Neill
3.97
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding story about two girls whose friendship is so intense it not only threatens to destro… read more
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"Her heart leaped like a frog out of a child’s fist."-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads
"Loving everyone is the same thing as loving nobody at."-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads
"She felt jealousy pounding like enemy soldiers at the gate."-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads
"Her words squiggled onto the page like the laces of a girl running for her life with untied boots."-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads
13. Book Love
By: Debbie Tung
4.29
Format: 137 pages, Hardcover
Bookworms rejoice! These charming comics capture exactly what it feels like to be head-over-heels f… read more
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14. Grey Dog
By: Elliott Gish
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delu… read more
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15. The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
By: Rosemary Sullivan
3.83
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept... Using new technology, recently discovered doc… read more
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"The fact that Otto survived the horror of the concentration camps demonstrated his profound will to live."-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
"Fascism counts on people's credulity, on their craving to believe, on their fear that there is nothing to believe."-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
"While someone with the first person knowledge is still alive, while records are still available, while relatives of witnesses can come forward, the stories must be told."-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
"The Netherlands in 1940 was like a petri dish in which one can examine how people brought up in freedom react to catastrophe when it is brought to their door: It is a questions still worth asking tod…"-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
16. 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
17. Make Me (Broke and Beautiful, #3)
By: Tessa Bailey
3.55
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
USA TODAY BESTSELLER From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer an… read more
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18. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
By: Devon Price
4.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving in… read more
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"Therapy that is focused on battling “irrational beliefs,"-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It's also a radical act of self-love."-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength."-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we ca…"-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
19. Wandering Souls
By: Cecile Pin
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more
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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
20. The Secrets We Kept
By: Lara Prescott
3.66
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--the real-life sto… read more
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"Only privileged men romanticize tragedy"-Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept
"The way he pushed himself to write his great work no matter the cost."-Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept
"And as the years passed, her age always stayed the same, her beauty sealed in amber."-Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept
"Reading the letter, I felt something I think only the nuns of the camp could understand—the warmth and protection of faith."-Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept
21. The Colony
By: Audrey Magee
4.11
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west c… read more
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22. Strange Beasts of China
By: Yan Ge
3.80
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Chinese literature, an uncanny and playful nov… read more
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"All we have are stories."-Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China
"Never cry, or your tears will water your sorrow and it'll grow."-Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China
"We were city people, after all, and didn't ask too many questions."-Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China
"People should leave when their story is over,' he said. 'Don't you know that?"-Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China
23. Getaway Girl (Girl, #1)
By: Tessa Bailey
3.79
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
This unlikely getaway driver never expected to help the mayor escape… After a six-year absence, … read more
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24. Blackfish City
By: Sam J. Miller
3.58
Format: 336 pages, ebook
After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of m… read more
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"Wood smells like wealth"-Sam J. Miller, Blackfish City
"America has fallen and I don't feel so good myself."-Sam J. Miller, Blackfish City
"Everyone can afford to be nice to each other, when no one is trying to exterminate anybody."-Sam J. Miller, Blackfish City
"Slums are always a marvel; how human desperation can seem to warp the very laws of physics."-Sam J. Miller, Blackfish City
25. Finna (LitenVerse, #1)
By: Nino Cipri
3.66
Format: 103 pages, Kindle Edition
MP3 CD Format Nino Cipri's Finna is a rambunctious, touching story that blends all the horrors the … read more
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"We're here to tell you what to do if a worm-hole opens up on your shift!"-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)
"Getting lost for lack of a better option loses its appeal after a while."-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)
"It was the most obnoxiously heterosexual thing Ava had seen since the last St. Patrick's Day parade."-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)
"My boss, Tricia, always said tat we were a family. I should have realised she meant that I would have to put up with constant bullshit."-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)
26. Well Matched (Well Met, #3)
By: Jen DeLuca
3.85
Format: 313 pages, Paperback
Single mother April Parker has lived in Willow Creek for twelve years with a wall around her heart.… read more
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27. The Suite Spot (Beck Sisters, #2)
By: Trish Doller
3.77
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Trish Doller’s The Suite Spot is a charming romance novel about taking a chance on a new life and a… read more
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"Mamihlapinatapai Yaghan A meaningful, but wordless, exchange between two people who both desire to initiate something but are hesitant to act upon it."-Trish Doller, The Suite Spot (Beck Sisters, #2)
28. Well Met (Well Met, #1)
By: Jen DeLuca
3.83
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
All's faire in love and war for two sworn enemies who indulge in a harmless flirtation in a laugh-o… read more
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"Come over tonight,"-Jen DeLuca, Well Met (Well Met, #1)
"Ask the right question."-Jen DeLuca, Well Met (Well Met, #1)
"You stand out too much in a small town."-Jen DeLuca, Well Met (Well Met, #1)
"There’s something comforting about living where you’ve always been. Everyone knows you. You’re part of something."-Jen DeLuca, Well Met (Well Met, #1)
29. Well Traveled (Well Met, #4)
By: Jen DeLuca
3.79
Format: 305 pages, Paperback
A high-powered attorney from a success-oriented family, Louisa "Lulu" Malone lives to work, and eve… read more
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30. In Winter I Get Up at Night: A Novel
By: Jane Urquhart
4.28
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
From one of the greatest writers of our time comes a profound and moving novel of an unforgettable … read more
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- canada
31. The Luminous Sea
By: Melissa Barbeau
3.75
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD *FINALIST - THE 2019 BMO WINTERSET AWA… read more
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"She hopes she might convince her sea monster that she will not abandon her."-Melissa Barbeau, The Luminous Sea
"Beneath the foggy sky the glowing sea is hazy, the soft light of a scarf over a lamp."-Melissa Barbeau, The Luminous Sea
"Well, what is a monster, anyway? Something you can't identify with no matter how hard you try. Something so far outside your experience."-Melissa Barbeau, The Luminous Sea
"Can you imagine sitting there letting the sea roll over you your whole life. No feet. No locomotion. Your whole fate decided by what washes over you."-Melissa Barbeau, The Luminous Sea
