On Homesickness: A Plea (In Place)
By: Jesse Donaldson
4.20
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
One day, Jesse Donaldson wakes up in Portland, Oregon, and asks his wife to uproot their life toget…
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1. Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)
By: bell hooks
3.85
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Author, activist, feminist, teacher, and artist bell hooks is celebrated as one of the nation's lea… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
"When poetry stirs in my imagination it is almost always from an indirect place, where language is abstract, where the mood and energy is evocative of submerged emotional intelligence and experience."-bell hooks, Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)
"sometimes falling rain carries memories of betrayal there in the woods where she was not meant to be too young she believes in her right to be free in her body free from harm believing nature a wilde…"-bell hooks, Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)
2. A Separate Peace
By: John Knowles
3.97
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peaceis timeless in its … read more
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3. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
By: Gregory Maguire , Douglas Smith
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale we heard o… read more
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4. Weather
By: Jenny Offill
3.55
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a v… read more
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"How do you know all this?"-Jenny Offill, Weather
"They say when you're lonely you start to lose words."-Jenny Offill, Weather
"Later, I remember to tell Ben about the girl. “Seconds!"-Jenny Offill, Weather
"If only I’d remembered that old proverb: When three people say you are drunk, go to sleep. "-Jenny Offill, Weather
5. Kick the Latch
By: Kathryn Scanlan
4.11
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman’s life at the racetrack—the … read more
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6. I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
By: Jessi Klein
3.90
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed New York … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"A mother's heroic journey is not about how she leaves, but how she stays."-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
"But becoming a mother alters every ince of your body, your routine, your soul, your heart."-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
"Motherhood leaves you inevitably and profoundly changed; you can be similar to who you were - maybe? - but you'll never be the same."-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
"Because now I know that everything bad can happen, and I am responsible for it not. Because sometimes I feel like keeping us from dying will kill me. Because I am on board, and I'm exhausted. Because…"-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
7. Terminal Boredom: Stories
By: Izumi Suzuki
3.59
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Seven punky and pitch-black stories offer English-language readers an overdue introduction to Izumi… read more
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"INSUFFICIENT VEGETABLE OIL,’ quoth the replicator."-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
"And having four kids? Giving birth to them naturally? What is she, an animal?"-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
"When we first met, Reiko still had something of a wrecked beauty. Now, not even those ruins remained."-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
"I’m a sucker for trends. I don’t have much in the way of agency. I always want to try whatever’s popular."-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
8. The Book of Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; som… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
9. Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
By: Kristen Radtke
4.01
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Imagine Wanting Only This--a timely and moving meditation on isolation… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Perhaps we see loneliness in others simply to feel less lonely ourselves."-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
"Or the times I've watched the people I love so unsatisfied, clawing toward connection that surpasses what I'm able to give them."-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
"To arm ourselves is the most extreme form of separation I can imagine. To move through life without weapons is another way to remain open to the world, and at its mercy."-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
"But loneliness isn’t necessarily tied to whether you have a partner or a best friend or an aspirational active social life in which you’re laughing all the time. It’s a variance that rests in the spa…"-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
10. Assembly
By: Natasha Brown
3.84
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Step out into a world of Go Ho… read more
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"I traded in my life for a sliver of middle-class comfort. For a future."-Natasha Brown, Assembly
"Explain air. Convince a sceptic. Prove it's there. Prove what cant be seen."-Natasha Brown, Assembly
"Because they watch (us). They're taught how to, from school. They are taught to view our bodies (selves) as objects."-Natasha Brown, Assembly
"Everything now is profit. I am what we’ve always been to the empire: pure, fucking profit. A natural resource to exploit and exploit, denigrate, and exploit."-Natasha Brown, Assembly
11. Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
By: Cassie Chambers
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"This holler feels like home, and this house feels like family. There are women’s stories here, stories of resilience, love, and strength. This community knows them well, but their echo hasn’t reached…"-Cassie Chambers, Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
12. Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last
By: Wright Thompson
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestseller! “A warm and loving reflection that, like good bourbon, will stand… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"What became clear in Michigan was that Julian and Sissy have become the fully realized version of themselves through success. That's actually rare. I profile famous and successful athletes for a livi…"-Wright Thompson, Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last
13. Southernmost
By: Silas House
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning novel about judgment, courage, heartbreak, and change, author Silas House wrestles… read more
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"Some nights he thinks they are just a dream God is having"-Silas House, Southernmost
"Surely there is a light in that boy that will never go out, no matter what he has to face along the way. That's all a father can hope for his child, that a little fire will burn in them to keep them …"-Silas House, Southernmost
14. Sooley
By: John Grisham
4.13
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author John Grisham takes you to a different kind of court in his first … read more
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"Men, we don't deserve respect. Yet. Respect is out there on the floor, just waiting for us to go get it."-John Grisham, Sooley
15. Clay's Quilt
By: Silas House
4.04
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
In his New York Times bestselling debut novel, Silas House introduced himself as an important voice… read more
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"She had woken up with the song swirling around in her mind and couldn't make it sizzle down her arm and out onto the stiff strings of her fiddle."-Silas House, Clay's Quilt
16. The Coal Tattoo
By: Silas House
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In World War II-era rural Kentucky, twenty-two-year-old Easter and Anneth, her teenaged sister, los… read more
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17. A Parchment of Leaves
By: Silas House
4.22
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
In this nationally bestselling novel, A Parchment of Leaves, Silas House produced an iconic story o… read more
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"I wondered if we were put on this earth only to destroy every beautiful thing, to make chaos. Or were we meant to overcome this? Did bad things happen so that goodness could show through in people?"-Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves
"Every morning I was renewed, though. Air and light healed me, over and over. I got to where I depended on it. When I was feeling my worst, I would step out into the yard and put my hands on the branc…"-Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves
18. Groundskeeping
By: Lee Cole
3.57
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
In the run-up to the 2016 election, Owen Callahan, an aspiring writer, moves back to Kentucky to li… read more
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"Complication makes life interesting."-Lee Cole, Groundskeeping
"You know how doctors are, he said. Could be weeks, could be months. They say it’s not an exact science. I’m like, “What are we paying you for then? Isn’t medicine an exact science?"-Lee Cole, Groundskeeping
"Love is simple, she said. That’s my advice to both of you, not that you’re asking for it….People try to make it complicated , but it’s very simple, she said. You’ll realize that when you’re dying."-Lee Cole, Groundskeeping
"We both laughed. I felt the competing desires, as I often did when meeting someone new, to know everything at once and to save it all for later. It was like the feeling one has reading a good book, t…"-Lee Cole, Groundskeeping
19. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.68
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision … read more
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20. On Homesickness: A Plea (In Place)
By: Jesse Donaldson
4.20
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
One day, Jesse Donaldson wakes up in Portland, Oregon, and asks his wife to uproot their life toget… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
21. Turkeyfoot
By: Rick Childers
4.57
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Lucy Perley is nine-years-old and as far as she can tell her world is solid as packed dirt. She spe… read more
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