Summer Hours at the Robbers Library
By: Sue Halpern
3.61
Format: 384 pages, ebook
From journalist and author Sue Halpern comes a wry, observant look at contemporary life and its ref…
Want to Read $ 9.59"Trauma is not just one thing."-Sue Halpern, Summer Hours at the Robbers Library
"Trauma is not just one thing."-Sue Halpern, Summer Hours at the Robbers Library
"What you're thinking of as the end of the story now, is only the end of the chapter."-Sue Halpern, Summer Hours at the Robbers Library
"What you're thinking of as the end of the story now, is only the end of the chapter."-Sue Halpern, Summer Hours at the Robbers Library
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1. Thirty-Four Going on Bride (Spinster #3)
By: Becky Monson
4.06
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
Julia Dorning’s got way too much on her plate. Can she juggle it all without having a nervous break… read more
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- audiobook
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2. The Bookshop at Water's End
By: None
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
The women who spent their childhood summers in a small southern town discover it harbors secrets as… read more
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- audiobook
- books about books
- fiction
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3. The Sunlit Night
By: None
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In the beautiful, barren landscape of the Far North, under the ever-present midnight sun, Frances a… read more
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- novels
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
4. Miss Grimsley's Oxford Career
By: Carla Kelly
3.43
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
School For Scandal Beautiful and brilliant Miss Ellen Grimsley considered it a scandal and a shame … read more
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5. The Library at the Edge of the World
By: Felicity Hayes-McCoy
3.73
Format: 32 pages,
A warm, feel-good novel about the importance of finding a place where you belong - perfect for fans… read more
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6. George and Lizzie
By: Nancy Pearl
3.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From "America's librarian" and NPR books commentator Nancy Pearl comes an emotionally riveting debu… read more
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7. Seashell Season
By: Holly Chamberlin
4.26
Format: 91 pages, ebook
A picturesque Maine beach town is the setting for Holly Chamberlin's touching and thought-provoking… read more
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8. The Painted Bridge
By: Wendy Wallace
3.91
Format: 528 pages,
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9. On Turpentine Lane
By: Elinor Lipman
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
At thirty-two, Faith Frankel has returned to her claustro-suburban hometown, where she writes insti… read more
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10. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
By: Katarina Bivald , Alice Menzies
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Once you let a book into your life, the most unexpected things can happen... Broken Wheel, Iowa, ha… read more
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11. Death in the Garden
By: Elizabeth Ironside
3.84
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1925, Diana Pollexfen was found innocent of killing her husband, but the accusation shadowed the… read more
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12. The Underground Library
By: Jennifer Ryan
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
When the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighti… read more
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- adult fiction
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- audiobook
13. The Museum of Lost Quilts (Elm Creek Quilts, #22)
By: Jennifer Chiaverini
4.11
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Jennifer Chiaverini’s beloved and bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series returns with the first Elm Cr… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
14. Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
By: Janet Skeslien Charles
4.02
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the “captivating, richly drawn” (Woman… read more
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- fiction
- adult
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- audiobook
15. Summer Hours at the Robbers Library
By: Sue Halpern
3.61
Format: 384 pages, ebook
From journalist and author Sue Halpern comes a wry, observant look at contemporary life and its ref… read more
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- adult fiction
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- novels
- adult
- books about books
- audiobook
"Trauma is not just one thing."-Sue Halpern, Summer Hours at the Robbers Library
"What you're thinking of as the end of the story now, is only the end of the chapter."-Sue Halpern, Summer Hours at the Robbers Library
"It is not to diffuse you that you were born of you your mother and father, it is to identify you...Walt Whitman"-Sue Halpern, Summer Hours at the Robbers Library
"Somewhere in the unfolding story, something is going to happen that will change everything that happens after it."-Sue Halpern, Summer Hours at the Robbers Library
16. The Last Chance Library
By: Freya Sampson
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
June Jones emerges from her shell to fight for her beloved local library, and through the efforts a… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- books about books
- audiobook
17. The Bookshop of Yesterdays
By: Amy Meyerson
3.65
Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition
A woman inherits a beloved bookstore and sets forth on a journey of self-discovery in this poignant… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
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- adult
- books about books
- audiobook
"Every day has a past. Every day has a tomorrow."-Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays
"You don’t have to like your family, you only have to love them."-Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays
"It's difficult seeing parents for who they are rather than who we want them to be."-Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays
"The law’s a profession of the written word. Do you know what most lawyers want to be? Writers."-Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays
18. The Messy Lives of Book People
By: Phaedra Patrick
3.69
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Have you ever wished you were someone else? Mother of two Liv Green barely scrapes by as a maid … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- adult
- books about books
- audiobook
19. The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses)
By: Terri-Lynne DeFino
3.77
Format: 336 pages, ebook
A whimsical, moving novel about a retirement home for literary legends who spar, conjure up new sto… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- books about books
- audiobook
"It was no longer today, and not yet tomorrow. It was now and she was, for once, content."-Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses)
"There are many yesterdays. With any luck, many tomorrows. But there's only one today. Don't fuck it up."-Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses)
"Love is not passion, my dear. Love is sweet and good and righteous. Passion is wild and messy and dangerous."-Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses)
"Alfonse gave her his words, a mad jumble that didn't sound as lovely coming from his mouth as it would have flying out of the tips of his fingers."-Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses)
20. The Library of Lost and Found
By: Phaedra Patrick
3.74
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Librarian Martha Storm has always found it easier to connect with books than people - though not fo… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- adult
- books about books
- audiobook
"You should always make time for books"-Phaedra Patrick, The Library of Lost and Found
"You're still the same people, underneath."-Phaedra Patrick, The Library of Lost and Found
"Sometimes there's no right decision. Just the one you make at the time."-Phaedra Patrick, The Library of Lost and Found
"They set off and drove up and along Maltsborough road to the sound of AC/DC, played volume level two and a half."-Phaedra Patrick, The Library of Lost and Found
21. Close Knit
By: Jenny Colgan
3.98
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
Follow Gertie MacIntyre from knitting circle to air stewardess in this glorious and romantic summer… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
22. The Littlest Library
By: Poppy Alexander
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A heartwarming literary-themed novel about a woman who turns an ordinary red phone box into the lit… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- books about books
- audiobook
"There was a book to cure ever ill and solve every problem that was what Mimi had always thought. It was like a tiny sanctuary providing a balm for all of life’s challenges."-Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library
"Manga is a highly respected form of storytelling. Calling it comics doesn’t do it justice. I’ll sort her out with some other graphic novels, too. It’s all stories. It all counts."-Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library
"There is that poem. Scott Holland, I think. How does it go? ‘I have only slipped away into the next room’…or something. Yes. ‘I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I and you are you. What…"-Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library
23. 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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- realistic fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- books about books
- audiobook
"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
24. The Transatlantic Book Club (Finfarran Peninsula, #5)
By: Felicity Hayes-McCoy
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The beloved author of The Mistletoe Matchmaker returns with an enchanting new novel, perfect for fa… read more
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- audiobook
25. The Book Haters' Book Club
By: Gretchen Anthony
3.47
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
All it takes is the right book to turn a Book Hater into a Book Lover… That was Elliott’s belief an… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
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- audiobook
26. Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
By: Kirsten Miller
4.19
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking!… read more
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- fiction
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- audiobook
27. The Twilight Garden
By: Sara Nisha Adams
3.80
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There's life all around you, if you just take the time to look for it... In a small pocket of th… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
28. The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation
By: Raquel Willis
4.35
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A passionate, powerful memoir by a trailblazing Black transgender activist, tracing her life of tra… read more
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29. The One Who Loves You the Most
By: Medina
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
I have never felt like I belonged to my body. Never in the way rhythm belongs to a song or waves be… read more
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- realistic fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
30. Law and Order: Dead Line
By: J. Madison Davis
3.62
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
When a woman's body is found at the bottom of a hotel air shaft in Times Square, it looks like a ro… read more
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- mystery
31. The Battle for Loudoun County: Inside the Culture War Between a "Woke" School Board and the Radical Right in America's Wealthiest Suburb
By: Wayde B. Byard
4.56
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In 2021, a new battleground in America’s political and cultural wars emerged—local school boards. … read more
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