A Catalog of Birds
By: Laura Harrington
3.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Laura Harrington's new novel is a portrait of a family in the midst of recovery, the mysterious dis…
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1. A Thousand Acres
By: Jane Smiley
3.82
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
Aging Larry Cook announces his intention to turn over his 1,000-acre farm—one of the largest in Zeb… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Seeing him somewhere was always a pleasure, like taking a drink of water."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
"Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
"At sixty miles per hour, you could pass our farm in a minute, on County Road 686, which ran due north into the T intersection at Cabot Street Road."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
"I had a burden lift off me that I hadn't even felt the heaviness of until then, and it was the burden of having to wait and see what was going to happen."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
2. Wizard's Hall
By: Jane Yolen
3.62
Format: 133 pages, Paperback
A bungling sorcerer's apprentice, who makes a mess of even the simplest spells, finds an opportunit… read more
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3. Moon Tiger
By: Penelope Lively
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history, lies alone in a London hospi… read more
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- literary fiction
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
"We all act as hinges - fortuitous links between other people."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"God," she says, 'is an unprincipled bastard, wouldn't you agree?"-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
4. The Thing About Jellyfish
By: Ali Benjamin
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
This stunning debut novel about grief and wonder was an instant New York Times bestseller and captu… read more
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- realistic fiction
- fiction
5. A Catalog of Birds
By: Laura Harrington
3.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Laura Harrington's new novel is a portrait of a family in the midst of recovery, the mysterious dis… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- family
6. Affliction
By: Russell Banks
3.99
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
Wade Whitehouse is an improbable protagonist for a tragedy. A well-digger and policeman in a bleak … read more
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7. Arcadia
By: Lauren Groff
4.37
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the fields and forests of western New York State in the late 1960s, several dozen idealists set … read more
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8. Lone Wolf
By: Jodi Picoult
3.99
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A life hanging in the balance...a family torn apart. The #1 internationally bestselling author Jodi… read more
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9. The Pilot's Wife
By: Anita Shreve
3.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
A pilot's wife is taught to be prepared for the late-night knock at the door. But when Kathryn Lyon… read more
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10. Year of Wonders
By: Geraldine Brooks
2.65
Format: 34 pages,
When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named… read more
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11. The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy (Harold Fry, #2)
By: Rachel Joyce
3.62
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
When Queenie Hennessy discovers that Harold Fry is walking the length of England to save her, and a… read more
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12. The Shell Seekers
By: Rosamunde Pilcher
3.87
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
The Shell Seekersis a novel of connection: of one family, and of the passions and heartbreak that h… read more
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13. In This Grave Hour (Maisie Dobbs, #13)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.08
Format: 432 pages, ebook
"A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander." --Maureen Corr… read more
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14. The Berry Pickers
By: Amanda Peters
4.14
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
15. The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle
By: Matt Cain
4.06
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Albert Entwistle is a private man with a quiet, simple life. He lives alone with his cat Gracie. An… read more
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- fiction
"I feel like a carefree, beautiful butterfly!"-Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle
"In some ways I’m like a picture that hasn’t been colored in yet."-Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle
"Come on, we only get one chance at life. This isn't a dress rehearsal."-Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle
"I love you a little bit more than yesterday and a little bit less than tomorrow."-Matt Cain, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle
16. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
17. 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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- literary fiction
- family
- 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
18. Welcome Home, Stranger
By: Kate Christensen
3.44
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growin… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
19. The Only Story
By: Julian Barnes
3.61
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"If you're going to be a grown-up,"-Julian Barnes, The Only Story
"And who does not want their love authenticated?"-Julian Barnes, The Only Story
"You realize that tough love is also tough on the lover."-Julian Barnes, The Only Story
"The sadness of life. That was another conundrum he would occasionally ponder."-Julian Barnes, The Only Story
20. Learned by Heart
By: Emma Donoghue
3.51
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
21. The Sentence
By: Louise Erdrich
3.95
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
The Sentence asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small in… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"I'd taken a pink eraser to my childhood and blurred the pain."-Louise Erdrich, The Sentence
"A newborn baby has a powerful effect on character. But so does a toddler. A child. A preteen. A teenager. A mother changes with every stage. Some stages are within a mother's skill set. Some stages a…"-Louise Erdrich, The Sentence
22. Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59, #1)
By: Attica Locke
3.84
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A powerful thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and p… read more
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- fiction
23. Call Your Daughter Home
By: Deb Spera
4.23
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A stunning tour de force following three fierce, unforgettable Southern women in the years leading … read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- historical fiction
24. Red at the Bone
By: Jacqueline Woodson
3.97
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson's taut and powerful new novel uncovers the … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"A new fear like a dragging bruise moving in his stomach."-Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone
". . . Love changes and changes. Then it changes again. . ."-Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone
"God'll make a butt-ugly boy, but I ain't never seen him make a ugly girl child."-Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone
"Iris didn't understand his happiness. How this was so absolutely enough for him."-Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone
25. The Water Dancer
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.06
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here and here. Young Hiram Walker was bo… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"...it was never the costume that made the Quality, but how the lady wore it."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
"It's like summer wear the world out, and by October everyone is just ready for a nap"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
"The tree of our family was parted - branches here, roots there - parted for their lumber."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
"And by then, I well knew what would be done upon that land, how the sin of theft would be multiplied by the sin of bondage."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
26. Bad Cree
By: Jessica Johns
3.92
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more
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- fiction
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree
27. Mother Daughter Traitor Spy
By: Susan Elia MacNeal
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A mother and daughter find the courage to go undercover after stumbling upon a Nazi cell in Los Ang… read more
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- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
28. True North
By: Andrew J. Graff
3.74
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Raft of Stars comes a heartfelt novel of marriage and whitewater rafting, follow… read more
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- family
- fiction
- historical fiction
29. We Must Be Brave
By: Frances Liardet
3.63
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A powerful story that proves how love itself requires courage. --… read more
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- family
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
"No hunger or thirst of my youth was as strong as my love for my child. We'd never be apart, not completely. Even after death we'd find each other. Our atoms would be released into the earth, air, wat…"-Frances Liardet, We Must Be Brave
30. A Great Country
By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires E… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
31. O Beautiful
By: Jung Yun
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed author of Shelter, an unflinching portrayal of a woman trying to come… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"She's been doing this more and more lately, letting her feelings toward one person spill over into her interactions with others."-Jung Yun, O Beautiful
"This is dangerous, familiar territory for them. There's no convincing her that being judgemental and having god judgement aren't the same thing."-Jung Yun, O Beautiful
"It's a weight, but not the kind she carries on her shoulder, which almost makes it sound noble. Instead, she drags hers around like a net, catching more and more refuse in its wake."-Jung Yun, O Beautiful
"For several long minutes after Ned leaves the diner, Harry eats in distracted silence, stabbing chunks of melon with his fork. Elinor recognised the lit match of embarrassment when she sees it."-Jung Yun, O Beautiful
