The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
By: Elizabeth Letts
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The incredible true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her…
Want to Read $ 14.99"As she passed through Maine, Annie would interpret a certain expression on someone's face as possibly a family trait. She saw the Stuart in a stranger's clear blue eyes, the Libby in someone's adventurous spirit. Everyone she encountered might be a distant cousin. She felt that her people were everywhere, and because of that she couldn't fully be a stranger."-Elizabeth Letts, The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
"As she passed through Maine, Annie would interpret a certain expression on someone's face as possibly a family trait. She saw the Stuart in a stranger's clear blue eyes, the Libby in someone's adventurous spirit. Everyone she encountered might be a distant cousin. She felt that her people were everywhere, and because of that she couldn't fully be a stranger."-Elizabeth Letts, The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
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1. Last of the Saddle Tramps: One Woman's Seven Thousand Mile Equestrian Odyssey
By: None
3.70
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Historically the world of equestrian travel has contained an exciting mixture of unique men and wom… read more
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2. The Women
By: Kristin Hannah
4.64
Format: 471 pages, Hardcover
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more
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"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
3. The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
By: Elizabeth Letts
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The incredible true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- historical
- animals
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- horses
"As she passed through Maine, Annie would interpret a certain expression on someone's face as possibly a family trait. She saw the Stuart in a stranger's clear blue eyes, the Libby in someone's advent…"-Elizabeth Letts, The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
4. After Annie
By: Anna Quindlen
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more
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5. 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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- historical
6. The Frozen River
By: Ariel Lawhon
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more
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- historical
7. Go as a River
By: Shelley Read
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman's journey to becoming, set against the harsh beaut… read more
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- historical
"Women endure. That’s what we do."-Shelley Read, Go as a River
"Loss has nothing to do with what you do deserve and don’t deserve."-Shelley Read, Go as a River
"I learned from their subtle relations... that love is a private matter, to be nurtured, and even mourned, between two beings alone. It belongs to them, and no one else, like a secret treasure, like a…"-Shelley Read, Go as a River
"Try as we might to convince ourselves otherwise, the moments of our becoming cannot be carefully plucked like the ripest and most satisfying peach from the bough. In the endless stumble toward oursel…"-Shelley Read, Go as a River
8. The First Ladies
By: Marie Benedict
4.04
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights a… read more
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9. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
By: Lisa See
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* An immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woma… read more
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10. Tom Lake
By: Ann Patchett
3.99
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more
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"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
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"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
11. The River We Remember
By: William Kent Krueger
4.29
Format: 421 pages, Hardcover
In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more
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- historical
"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
12. The Covenant of Water
By: Abraham Verghese
4.45
Format: 724 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial ep… read more
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13. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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14. North Woods
By: Daniel Mason
4.15
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
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15. Horse
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4.27
Format: 401 pages, Hardcover
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"She felt a little clandestine, as if she were ten years old again, sneaking a dead rat past her mother so she could articulate a Rattus norvegicus domestica for her bedroom display."-Geraldine Brooks, Horse
"You have to know that bigots are unwittingly handing you an edge. By thinking you're lesser than they are, they underestimate you. Lean on that. Learn to use it, and you'll get the upper hand."-Geraldine Brooks, Horse
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Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
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By: Amor Towles
4.26
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
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"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
18. West With Giraffes
By: Lynda Rutledge
4.36
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
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"Destiny is a mobile thing — that every choice you make, along with every choice made around you, can cause it to spin this way and that, offering destinies galore."-Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes
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"People look at you peculiar if you talk about the feeling you got for animals, saying animals have no souls, no sense of good or bad, no value up next to humans," he said. "I don't know about that. S…"-Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes
19. The Secret Life of Sunflowers
By: Marta Molnar
4.13
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20. Good Night, Irene
By: Luis Alberto Urrea
4.14
Format: 407 pages, Hardcover
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21. Lady Long Rider: Alone Across America on Horseback
By: Bernice Ende
4.24
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
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