Only Love Can Break Your Heart
By: Ed Tarkington
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Love can make people do terrible things." Welcome to Spencerville, Virginia, 1977. Eight-year-old …
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1. A Land More Kind Than Home
By: Wiley Cash
3.88
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
A stunning debut reminiscent of the beloved novels of John Hart and Tom Franklin, A Land More Kind … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- southern
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
2. Glitter and Glue
By: Kelly Corrigan
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A new memoir that examines the bond—sometimes nourishing, sometimes exasperating, occasionally divi… read more
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"It's easy to love kids who make you feel competent."-Kelly Corrigan, Glitter and Glue
"Pel-i-cans, their beaks hold more than their bellies can."-Kelly Corrigan, Glitter and Glue
"It may be that loving children, radically and beyond reason, expands our capacity to love others, particularly our own mothers."-Kelly Corrigan, Glitter and Glue
"And it occurs to me that maybe the reason my mother was so exhausted all the time wasn’t because she was doing so much but because she was feeling so much."-Kelly Corrigan, Glitter and Glue
3. Pull Me Under
By: Kelly Luce
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Elle 's 33 Best Books of the Year A Searing Debut Novel from One of the Most Imaginative Minds in … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
4. The Verdict
By: Nick Stone
2.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Terry Flynt is a struggling legal clerk, desperately trying to get promoted. And then he is given t… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
5. Dollbaby
By: Laura Lane McNeal
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A Top Ten Finalist for Best Historical Novel, Goodreads Choice Awards, and a LibraryReads and Okra … read more
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- adult fiction
- coming of age
- southern
- fiction
- historical fiction
6. Missing, Presumed (DS Manon, #1)
By: Susie Steiner
4.44
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Mid-December, and Cambridgeshire is blanketed with snow. Detective Sergeant Manon Bradshaw tries to… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
7. The Moor's Account
By: Laila Lalami
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In 1527, the conquistador Panfilo de Narvaez sailed from the port of Sanlucar de Barrameda with a c… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
8. All Things Cease to Appear
By: Elizabeth Brundage
4.01
Format: 30 pages, Hardcover
Late one winter afternoon in upstate New York, George Clare comes home to find his wife murdered an… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
9. 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
- southern
- fiction
- historical fiction
10. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
By: Ed Tarkington
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Love can make people do terrible things." Welcome to Spencerville, Virginia, 1977. Eight-year-old … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- coming of age
- southern
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
11. A House Without Windows
By: Nadia Hashimi
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A vivid, unforgettable story of an unlikely sisterhood--an emotionally powerful and haunting story … read more
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12. Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
By: Jill Leovy
3.50
Format: 140 pages, Hardcover
On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man was shot and killed on a sidewalk minute… read more
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13. A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
By: Kevin Hazzard
4.04
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
A former paramedic's visceral, poignant, and mordantly funny account of a decade spent on Atlanta's… read more
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14. Under the Influence
By: Joyce Maynard
3.86
Format: 536 pages, Hardcover
The New York Timesbestselling author of Labor Dayand After Herreturns with a poignant story about t… read more
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15. The Aviator's Wife
By: Melanie Benjamin
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For much of her life, Anne Morrow, the shy daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, has stood in … read more
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16. Leaving
By: Roxana Robinson
3.87
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again? “I never thought I’d see you her… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
"Being a mother is paying it forward, sending that energy and feeling to someone who needed it at first to survive, but who, the older she becomes, needs you less. The older you become, the more irrel…"-Roxana Robinson, Leaving
"The justification for leaving a marriage was that you were increasing the sum of happiness in the world. You were ending your own unhappiness, and your spouse’s (if you weren’t happy, your spouse cou…"-Roxana Robinson, Leaving
17. Mister Lullaby
By: J.H. Markert
3.60
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
From J. H. Markert, the author Peter Farris calls the "clear heir to Stephen King," Mister Lullaby … read more
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- mystery
- fiction
18. Day
By: Michael Cunningham
3.57
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"-Michael Cunningham, Day
19. Help Wanted
By: Adelle Waldman
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Help Wanted, Adelle Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and knack for social observation to the … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
20. Within Arm's Reach
By: Ann Napolitano
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A tender and perceptive debut novel about three generations of an Irish American family jarred into… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
21. I Cheerfully Refuse
By: Leif Enger
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
22. The Line That Held Us
By: David Joy
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From critically acclaimed author David Joy comes a remarkable novel about the cover-up of an accide… read more
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- mystery
- literary fiction
- southern
- fiction
"What I'm saying is that it's easy to take the high road so long as there aren't any stakes. But the minute you've got something to lose, a man'll do all sorts of things."-David Joy, The Line That Held Us
"You still can't see it and it's right in front of your eyes. It's the reason we're gathered here. The only reason we're here is because of the ones we loved. That the line that held us."-David Joy, The Line That Held Us
23. Little Monsters
By: Adrienne Brodeur
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complica… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
"Our scars are what make us unique. Nothing broken is ever lost."-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters
"Whenever I paint the truth, no matter how strange, people see themselves in it."-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters
"To stare into the spiral of a shell was to see the swirl of a galaxy, the logarithmic spiral of life itself, the intertwined miracle of art and science."-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters
24. Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media
By: Darrell Hartman
3.84
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
"Absolutely gripping… a perfectly splendid read—I highly, highly recommend it” -- Douglas Preston, … read more
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25. I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway]
By: Chelsea Devantez
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her… read more
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26. The Consequence of Anna
By: Kate Birkin
4.16
Format: 568 pages, Paperback
The Instant #1 BESTSELLER, reminiscent of The Thorn Birds, The Light Between Oceans, and Lady Chatt… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"The whole world is a hungry stomach with teeth."-Kate Birkin, The Consequence of Anna
"A face with no freckles is like a flower with no bloom."-Kate Birkin, The Consequence of Anna
"What is a moment in a day but a grain of sand . . . until that moment means everything in the world?"-Kate Birkin, The Consequence of Anna
27. Mercury
By: Amy Jo Burns
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A roofing family’s bonds of loyalty are tested when they uncover a long-hidden secret at the heart … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
28. Small World
By: Laura Zigman
3.47
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“[A] brave and heartfelt book of truths.”—New York Times Book Review (A Group Text Pick and Editors… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
"Yet no one is really alone; those who live no more echo still within our thoughts and words, and what they did is part of what we have become — Blessing of Memory, Mediations Before Kaddish"-Laura Zigman, Small World
29. The Ensemble
By: Aja Gabel
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"Pitch-perfect." — People "You won’t be able to quit these characters." —goop The addictive … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
"… you misunderstand ‘ease.’ I think whoever said that means joy, not the quality of being easy. And difficult things can bring joy. And joy can bring ease."-Aja Gabel, The Ensemble
"The story spanned the distance between their past and their future, and suddenly, briefly, they were two versions of themselves. And if they were two versions of themselves, they were also all the ve…"-Aja Gabel, The Ensemble
"She was sad, and she was angry with herself for being sad. She didn’t like wanting what she hadn’t intended to want as much as she didn’t like being denied what she hadn’t really wanted in the first …"-Aja Gabel, The Ensemble
30. No One Needs to Know
By: Lindsay Cameron
3.46
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
When an anonymous neighborhood forum gets hacked, the darkest secrets of New York’s wealthiest resi… read more
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- mystery
- adult fiction
- fiction
31. Picnic in the Ruins
By: Todd Robert Petersen
3.60
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A madcap caper across the RV-strewn vacation lands of southern Utah meets a meditation on mythology… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
