Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia
By: Anthony Cavender
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In the first comprehensive exploration of the history and practice of folk medicine in the Appalach…
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By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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2. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
By: John Berendt
4.27
Format: 67 pages,
A sublime and seductive reading experience. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, this eno… read more
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3. Are Prisons Obsolete?
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.15
Format: None pages,
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more
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4. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By: Margaret Renkl
4.37
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more
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5. Hide
By: Kiersten White
3.33
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The challenge: spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don't get caught. The priz… read more
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"What a generation long before her summoned and paid for, and what subsequent generations decided to make others pay for. Trickle-down economics. They got the economy, and the blood trickled down the …"-Kiersten White, Hide
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"He doesn't love you," she said matter-of-factly. "He didn't love your mother, either, and I don't want you to spend your whole life waiting for something he can't give. Men like that, people are thin…"-Kiersten White, Hide
6. Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
By: Susan Cain
3.98
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet reveals the power of a bitte… read more
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"Everything that you love, you will eventually lose. But in the end, love will return in a different form."-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
"The place you suffer is the place you care. You hurt because you care. Therefore, the best response to pain is to dive deeper into your caring."-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
"The third answer is the most difficult one to grasp, but it's also the one that can save you. The love you lost, or the love you wished for and never had: That love exists eternally. It shifts its sh…"-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
7. My Best Friend's Exorcism
By: Grady Hendrix
3.94
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fifth grade, when they bonded over a shared love of … read more
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"Are you going to do it?"-Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism
"Abby Rivers was a certified grown-up because she'd finally cried at a movie."-Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism
"I love you, Gretchen Lang. You are my reflection and my shadow and I will not let you go. We are bound together forever and ever! Until Halley’s Comet comes around again. I love you dearly and I love…"-Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism
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8. Clown in a Cornfield (Clown in a Cornfield, #1)
By: Adam Cesare
3.74
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
Quinn Maybrook just wants to make it until graduation. She might not make it to morning. Quinn a… read more
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9. Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives
By: Adam Cesare
3.87
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Set a year after the first book, it looks at how the surviving characters are dealing with fame and… read more
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10. The Cabin at the End of the World
By: Paul Tremblay
3.33
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet N… read more
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"Too many people have smiles that don’t mean what a smile is supposed to mean."-Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World
"She juts out her lower jaw, a purposeful imitation of Daddy Eric when she asks him a question with an answer that isn't yes right away, but will be yes eventually if she waits long enough."-Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World
"No matter how bleak or dire, end-of-the-world scenarios appeal to us because we take meaning from the end... there's also undeniable allure to witnessing the beginning of the end and perishing alone …"-Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World
"They share another long look. This one is reserved for ill-fated observers in the moments before impending, inescapable calamity, whether it be natural disaster or violent failure of humanity; a look…"-Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World
11. Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
By: Anderson Cooper
3.82
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestsell… read more
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12. One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow
By: Olivia Hawker
4.19
Format: 497 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of The Ragged Edge of Night comes a powerful and poetic novel of surviv… read more
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"Beyond the borders of the land that was his lay the wilderness that was its own. The upthrust stone, the shoulders of the Bighorns, reddish gray where they stood near to the homestead and blue where …"-Olivia Hawker, One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow
13. Wild Witchcraft: Folk Herbalism, Garden Magic, and Foraging for Spells, Rituals, and Remedies
By: Rebecca Beyer
4.13
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Learn how to cultivate your own magical garden, begin your journey with folk herbalism, and awaken … read more
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"…it can be helpful to think of herbalism in America as a stool with three legs; one Indigenous, one African, and one European."-Rebecca Beyer, Wild Witchcraft: Folk Herbalism, Garden Magic, and Foraging for Spells, Rituals, and Remedies
14. The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America
By: Matt Kracht
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
For those who have a disdain for birds, or for bird lovers with a sense of humor, this snarky illus… read more
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15. Mountain Magic: Explore the Secrets of Old Time Witchcraft (Volume 1) (Modern Folk Magic, 1)
By: Rebecca Beyer
3.92
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
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16. The Mighty Red
By: Louise Erdrich
4.01
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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17. Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia
By: Anthony Cavender
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In the first comprehensive exploration of the history and practice of folk medicine in the Appalach… read more
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