These Precious Days: Essays
By: Ann Patchett
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in …
Want to Read $ 11.99"It is possible to love someone with all your heart and still know your union would never have survived having children together."-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays
"The future is not one thing. So many possibilities can arise as a result of intelligence, education, curiosity, and hard work. No one ever told me that, and I'm sorry it took this long for me to figure it out."-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays
"The future is not one thing. So many possibilities can arise as a result of intelligence, education, curiosity, and hard work. No one ever told me that, and I'm sorry it took this long for me to figure it out."-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays
"People want you to want what they want. If you want the same things they want, then their want is validated. If you don’t want the same things, your lack of wanting can, to certain people, come across as judgment."-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays
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1. The Magician's Elephant
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3.35
Format: 520 pages, Hardcover
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By: Claire Keegan
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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3. Uncommon Type
By: Tom Hanks
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Format: 223 pages,
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4. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
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Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A timeless tale by the incomparable Kate DiCamillo, complete with stunning full-color plates by Bag… read more
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"I have been loved said Edward to the stars."-Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
"Someone will come for you, but first you must open your heart..."-Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
"He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)"-Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
"But answer me this: how can a story end happily if there is no love?"-Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
5. Small Things Like These
By: Claire Keegan
4.18
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal me… read more
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"Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour’s hou…"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. Lucy by the Sea
By: Elizabeth Strout
3.91
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bund… read more
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10. 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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11. Horse
By: Geraldine Brooks
4.27
Format: 401 pages, Hardcover
A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American… read more
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"I don't rightly know who was my great-grandfather, much less his father. How come you know that about a horse?"-Geraldine Brooks, Horse
"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
12. 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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13. Hello Beautiful
By: Ann Napolitano
4.16
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
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"The child inside Julia lay wide-eyed in the dark, knowing that she was Jo, but only because Sylvie was Beth."-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
"You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history," William said. "I never get used to it."-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
"She was Julia's wild hair, she was the lake her husband had once been carried out of, and no matter what happened next, she was love."-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
"You’re depressed, not crazy. It’s not insane to be depressed in this world. It’s more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the o…"-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
14. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)
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15. Absolution
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3.81
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16. Table for Two
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4.26
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
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"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."-Amor Towles, Table for Two
"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
17. These Precious Days: Essays
By: Ann Patchett
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in … read more
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"It is possible to love someone with all your heart and still know your union would never have survived having children together."-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays
"The future is not one thing. So many possibilities can arise as a result of intelligence, education, curiosity, and hard work. No one ever told me that, and I'm sorry it took this long for me to figu…"-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays
"People want you to want what they want. If you want the same things they want, then their want is validated. If you don’t want the same things, your lack of wanting can, to certain people, come acros…"-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays
"Without ever meaning to, my father taught me at a very early age to give up on the idea of approval. I wish I could bottle that freedom now and give it to every young writer I meet, with an extra bot…"-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays
18. Demon Copperhead
By: Barbara Kingsolver
4.50
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
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20. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
21. Sandwich
By: Catherine Newman
3.75
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
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"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
