Life Among Giants
By: Bill Roorbach , Alper Yesiltas
4.20
Format: 445 pages,
An exploration of lives touched by greatness and tragedy in equal measure, Roorbach's latest novel …
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1. The Sociopath Next Door
By: Martha Stout
3.77
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Who is the devil you know? Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?Your sadistic high school gym teac… read more
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"I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect."-Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door
"I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him."-Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door
"Conscience- protects the privileges of intimacy, makes ,friends keep their promises, prevents the angered spouse from striking back."-Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door
"As for the boys..."vulnerable fathers turn to time-honored defensive responses to maintain the function that father knows best' Parents, especially fathers, teach their sons to obey authority no matt…"-Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door
2. Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
By: Alexandra Horowitz
3.62
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling book that asks what dogs know and how they think. The answers will surprise and del… read more
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"Few celebrate a dog who jumps at people as they approach--but start with the premise that it is we who keep ourselves (and our faces) unbearably far away, and we can come to a mutual understanding."-Alexandra Horowitz, Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
"By standard intelligence texts, the dogs have failed at the puzzle. I believe, by contrast that they have succeeded magnificently. They have applied a novel tool to the task. We are that tool. Dogs h…"-Alexandra Horowitz, Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
"Pump changed my own umwelt. Walking through the world with her, watching her reactions, I began to imagine her experience. My enjoyment of a narrow winding path in a shady forest, lined with low bush…"-Alexandra Horowitz, Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
3. Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder
By: Randi Kreger , Paul T. Mason
4.01
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
Stop Walking on Eggshells: Coping When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder i… read more
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"It's important that you don't continue to ignore or accept rages. Realize that extreme rage directed at you or your children is verbal and emotional abuse. Even if you think you can handle it, over t…"-Randi Kreger, Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder
"Children who experience abuse also learn to deny pain and chaos or accept them as normal and proper. They learn that their feelings were wrong or didn't matter. They learn to focus on immediate survi…"-Randi Kreger, Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder
4. Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)
By: Richard Russo
4.11
Format: 549 pages, Paperback
Richard Russo's slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbea… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man."-Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)
"It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it."-Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)
"probably horse doo had a name in french also, but that didn't mean god intended for you to eat it."-Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)
"He couldn’t very well start lecturing the boy now. There was every reason to believe that the first thirty-five years of Peter’s life had been the formative ones."-Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)
5. The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
By: Noah Strycker
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An entertaining and profound look at the lives of birds, illuminating their surprising world--and d… read more
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6. The Other Typist
By: Suzanne Rindell
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A haunting debut novel set against the background of New York City in the 1920s... Confessions are … read more
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- mystery
- fiction
7. The Story of Lucy Gault
By: William Trevor
4.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
The stunning new novel from highly acclaimed author William Trevor is a brilliant, subtle, and movi… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
8. The Last Ballad
By: Wiley Cash
4.67
Format: 121 pages, ebook
The author of the celebrated bestseller A Land More Kind Than Homereturns with this eagerly awaited… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
9. Perfect Little World
By: Kevin Wilson
3.71
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
When Isabelle Poole meets Dr. Preston Grind, she's just about out of options. She recently graduate… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
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10. Life Among Giants
By: Bill Roorbach , Alper Yesiltas
4.20
Format: 445 pages,
An exploration of lives touched by greatness and tragedy in equal measure, Roorbach's latest novel … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- coming of age
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- mystery
- audiobook
11. Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste
By: Bianca Bosker
3.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For readers of Anthony Bourdain, Susan Orlean, and Mary Roach, a surprising, entertaining and hilar… read more
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12. Everybody's Fool (Sully, #2)
By: Richard Russo
4.11
Format: 477 pages, Hardcover
Richard Russo, at the very top of his game, now returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and the… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
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- contemporary
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"Still, what made people tick was no great mystery, was it? Greed. Lust. Anger. Jealousy. You could almost let your voice fall right there. Love? Some people claimed it made the world go round, but he…"-Richard Russo, Everybody's Fool (Sully, #2)
"«Y a Raymer, mientras la esperaba, le dio por pensar que esperar a una mujer que había olvidado algo era uno de los placeres más infravalorados de la vida.Cuántas veces, a punto de ir a cualquier lug…"-Richard Russo, Everybody's Fool (Sully, #2)
"Maybe that was what marriage meant, except that in theirs it had been a one-way street. He couldn't think of a single behavior of Becka's that he had altered in the slightest. But perhaps that was be…"-Richard Russo, Everybody's Fool (Sully, #2)
13. You Think It, I'll Say It: Stories
By: Curtis Sittenfeld
4.25
Format: 194 pages, ebook
'Most people I know who have read anything by Curtis Sittenfeld would read anything else the woman … read more
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14. The Sportswriter
By: Richard Ford
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people--men, mostly--who live entirely … read more
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15. The Tiger's Wife
By: Téa Obreht
3.20
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Tea Obreht, the youngest of The N… read more
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16. The Lacuna
By: Barbara Kingsolver
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City… read more
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17. Mothering Sunday
By: Graham Swift
4.25
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 19… read more
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18. 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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19. Somebody's Fool
By: Richard Russo
4.27
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and t… read more
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- contemporary
20. 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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- literary fiction
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- contemporary
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21. Like Me
By: Hayley Phelan
3.31
Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition
A propulsive psychological thriller that follows an aspiring model down a social media-fuelled rabb… read more
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- mystery
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
22. The Caretaker
By: Ron Rash
4.20
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, T… read more
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- literary fiction
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23. Table for Two
By: Amor Towles
4.26
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more
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"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."-Amor Towles, Table for Two
"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"-Amor Towles, Table for Two
24. Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
By: Michael Easter
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Reveals the biological and evolutionary foundations behind your brain’… read more
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"Embrace short-term discomfort to find a long-term benefit."-Michael Easter, Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
25. Bad, Bad Seymour Brown (Corie Geller, #2)
By: Susan Isaacs
3.83
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
When Corie Geller asked her parents to move from their apartment into the suburban McMansion she sh… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
- audiobook
26. Signal Fires
By: Dani Shapiro
3.91
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BEST SELLER • From the beloved author of INHERITANCE: “a haunting, moving, and propulsive … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- audiobook
"How long will molecular traces of the Wilfs remain inside 18 Division Street?"-Dani Shapiro, Signal Fires
"It wasn't scary. I mean, it was scary being in the dark and cold and everything, but when the lady, Mrs. Wilf, died, it was like everything had no beginning, and no end. Like we were lightyears away …"-Dani Shapiro, Signal Fires
27. The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir
By: Paul Newman
3.89
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. The greatest … read more
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28. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
29. 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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"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
30. Homestead
By: Melinda Moustakis
3.53
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Anchorage, 1956. When Marie and Lawrence first lock eyes at the Moose Lodge, they are immediately d… read more
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31. Pay Dirt Road (Annie McIntyre, #1)
By: Samantha Jayne Allen
3.36
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Friday Night Lights meets Mare of Easttown in this small-town mystery about an unlikely private inv… read more
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- fiction
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