The River
By: Peter Heller
3.85
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
The story of two college friends on a wilderness canoe trip—of a friendship tested by fire, white w…
Want to Read $ 11.99"He had a few good friends who respected him and would do anything for him. Why did anyone else need to be impressed?"-Peter Heller, The River
"He had a few good friends who respected him and would do anything for him. Why did anyone else need to be impressed?"-Peter Heller, The River
"Late August, a clear night becoming cold. There was no aurora borealis, just the dense sparks of the stars blown from their own ancient fire."-Peter Heller, The River
"Late August, a clear night becoming cold. There was no aurora borealis, just the dense sparks of the stars blown from their own ancient fire."-Peter Heller, The River
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1. Bull Mountain (Bull Mountain, #1)
By: Brian Panowich
3.99
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
Clayton Burroughs comes from a long line of outlaws. For generations, the Burroughs clan has made i… read more
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- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
2. The River at Night
By: Erica Ferencik
3.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A high-stakes drama set against the harsh beauty of the Maine wilderness, charting the journey of f… read more
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3. Scavenger Hunt
By: Chad Boudreaux
4.30
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
WHEN JUSTICE IS BLIND, SCAVENGERS DO THE HUNTING Blake Hudson just wants to serve his country we… read more
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- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
"What other problems do American soldiers face when hunting down these fanatical killers?"-Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt
"As Blake turned around to continue his walk back to Main Justice, he spotted one of the tourists taking his picture. “Don’t waste your film!"-Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt
"Home was the one place he wanted to forget, the place from which he’d run away but never could escape. And, yes, home was the place he’d been instructed to leave—the place where the trouble began and…"-Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt
"While waiting for her accomplice to gather his equipment, Hensley couldn’t help but think ahead to her next mission. She hadn’t told him. It wasn’t a mission for which she’d volunteered, nor a missio…"-Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt
4. Black Fire
By: William Kely McClung
4.29
Format: 517 pages, Kindle Edition
Major Tommy Black is at the crossroads of a brilliant, clandestine career. Lost... without purpose … read more
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- thriller
- fiction
"Okay, sure, he’s a great fucking guy,"-William Kely McClung, Black Fire
"It was time to start thinking of darker things."-William Kely McClung, Black Fire
"Black once tried to tackle a Humvee head-on. This was worse"-William Kely McClung, Black Fire
"Legends were mostly bullshit, even his own, but they sometimes could be useful."-William Kely McClung, Black Fire
5. Counter Identity (Remmich/Miller, #2)
By: Karl Braungart
4.31
Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition
Imagine you find yourself losing bits of time. Almost like a dream you only slightly remember. Envi… read more
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- mystery
- thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
"Well, here’s the shocker,"-Karl Braungart, Counter Identity (Remmich/Miller, #2)
"Yes, I never expected to see you!"-Karl Braungart, Counter Identity (Remmich/Miller, #2)
"Their war maneuvers excluded shame."-Karl Braungart, Counter Identity (Remmich/Miller, #2)
"I realized he was on the island when I found this matchbook."-Karl Braungart, Counter Identity (Remmich/Miller, #2)
6. Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24)
By: C.J. Box
4.36
Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging beasts—one animal, one human… read more
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- mystery thriller
- adventure
- suspense
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
7. All the Sinners Bleed
By: S.A. Cosby
4.24
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust. Titus Crown is the first Black … read more
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- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
"In the former capital of the confederacy, equalities surest foothold was found on the autopsy table."-S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed
"It occurred to him that no place was more confused about it's past or more terrified of the future than the South."-S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed
8. 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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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
9. 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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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"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
10. 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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- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- suspense
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
"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
11. The River
By: Peter Heller
3.85
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
The story of two college friends on a wilderness canoe trip—of a friendship tested by fire, white w… read more
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- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- adventure
- suspense
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- nature
- audiobook
"He had a few good friends who respected him and would do anything for him. Why did anyone else need to be impressed?"-Peter Heller, The River
"Late August, a clear night becoming cold. There was no aurora borealis, just the dense sparks of the stars blown from their own ancient fire."-Peter Heller, The River
"And the eagles. They seemed to mark the canoe's progress from the gray spires of dead spruce, spaced downriver like watchmen on some lost frontier..."-Peter Heller, The River
"Rich people are another species. Sort of lost in their own way. It's a good thing they have country clubs and shit because it keeps them kinda corralled up in one place."-Peter Heller, The River
12. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
13. North Woods
By: Daniel Mason
4.15
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more
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- nature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
14. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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- mystery
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
15. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)
By: Tana French
4.12
Format: 467 pages, Hardcover
It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more
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- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)
"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)
16. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By: David Grann
4.19
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more
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- mystery
- audiobook
- adventure
17. The Vaster Wilds
By: Lauren Groff
3.77
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more
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- literary fiction
- adventure
- fiction
- nature
- audiobook
"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
18. 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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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- adventure
"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
19. Bearskin
By: James A. McLaughlin
3.75
Format: 352 pages, ebook
Rice Moore is just beginning to think his troubles are behind him. He’s found a job protecting a re… read more
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- mystery thriller
- adventure
- suspense
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- nature
- audiobook
"While he watched, a fresh breeze brushed against the big tulip trees, red oaks, sugar maples. Heavy branches rose and fell in slow motion, and a million leaves twisted on their stems, showing silver …"-James A. McLaughlin, Bearskin
"He found it puzzling that so many rural people were hostile to, even terrified of, the place where they lived. It wasn't just that hard-working country folk had no time for the precious concerns of t…"-James A. McLaughlin, Bearskin
20. Distant Sons
By: Tim Johnston
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
By the New York Times bestselling author of Descent and The Current, an absorbing new work of liter… read more
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- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- suspense
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
21. Deep Awakening
By: Tye Langston
4.08
Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition
The glassy ocean off the south Florida coast is perfect for one last dive before Jasper reluctantly… read more
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