The Mere Wife
By: Maria Dahvana Headley
3.89
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Two mothers—a suburban housewife and a battle-hardened veteran—struggle to protect those they love …
Want to Read $ 9.99"Half of the dead are killed by their friends. Maybe that's the history of everything."-Maria Dahvana Headley, The Mere Wife
"We haven't slept in years. This is an advantage of menopause. Some nights, we meet for coffee at 4:00 a.m."-Maria Dahvana Headley, The Mere Wife
"Why is she here at Herot Hall, where at any second something bad could come down the mountain, or tunnel up from below? Monsters. There's a whole world filled with monsters. They everywhere"-Maria Dahvana Headley, The Mere Wife
"Dogs can tell how many times a person's heart beats, how many breaths they've taken, whether they're sick, whether they're dying. Dogs can find the secrets their people don't know, tip them over, spill them onto the ground, roll in them"-Maria Dahvana Headley, The Mere Wife
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1. The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf (Naked Werewolf, #2)
By: Molly Harper
3.73
Format: 238 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Baring It All Generations of werewolves have been secretly residing in a secluded valley a stone's … read more
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- fantasy
2. Alcestis
By: Katharine Beutner
3.92
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
"Beutner has elevated a relatively minor character in Greek mythology to a major player. Taking cen… read more
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- retellings
- mythology
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3. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
4. Grendel's Mother: The Saga of the Wyrd-Wife
By: Susan Signe Morrison
3.64
Format: 192 pages, ebook
Grendel's Mother from Beowulf - a queen, whose birth is shrouded in mystery - threatens the fragile… read more
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- mythology
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5. Alcestis and Other Plays
By: Euripides , Philip Vellacott
3.47
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Includes Alcestis, Hippolytus and Iphigenia in Tauris. Euripides' tragedies proved highly controver… read more
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6. Grendel
By: John Gardner
4.03
Format: 606 pages,
The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tel… read more
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7. Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me
By: Thomas Pynchon , Richard Fariña
3.93
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
Farina evokes the Sixties as precisely, wittily, and poignantly as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the… read more
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8. Indigo
By: Graham Joyce
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Indigo is a color the human eye can never truly see, a slice of the spectrum imbued with the promis… read more
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9. My Real Children
By: Jo Walton
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It's 2015, and Patricia Cowan is very old. "Confused today," read the notes clipped to the end of h… read more
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10. The Mere Wife
By: Maria Dahvana Headley
3.89
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Two mothers—a suburban housewife and a battle-hardened veteran—struggle to protect those they love … read more
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- literary fiction
- retellings
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- contemporary
- adult
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- audiobook
"Half of the dead are killed by their friends. Maybe that's the history of everything."-Maria Dahvana Headley, The Mere Wife
"We haven't slept in years. This is an advantage of menopause. Some nights, we meet for coffee at 4:00 a.m."-Maria Dahvana Headley, The Mere Wife
"Why is she here at Herot Hall, where at any second something bad could come down the mountain, or tunnel up from below? Monsters. There's a whole world filled with monsters. They everywhere"-Maria Dahvana Headley, The Mere Wife
"Dogs can tell how many times a person's heart beats, how many breaths they've taken, whether they're sick, whether they're dying. Dogs can find the secrets their people don't know, tip them over, spi…"-Maria Dahvana Headley, The Mere Wife
11. The Crane Husband
By: Kelly Barnhill
3.88
Format: 118 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Kelly Barnhill brings her singular talents to The Crane Husband, a raw, powerf… read more
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"Your mother doesn't know these things,"-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband
"But Michael was only six. He should be worrying about learning how to tie his shoes, not about our mother’s checking account."-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband
"I was, as I said, only nine. But my mother often spoke to me as though I were a peer rather than a child and expected me to understand things for which I did not yet have context. I didn’t know then …"-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband
"My dad told me stories of weavers who stitched the world and spun fortunes and pulled on strings to change someone's fate. Was there a string I could pull to stop my father from dying? Was there a pa…"-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband
12. Landbridge: life in fragments
By: Y-Dang Troeung
4.56
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
The inaugural title from Alchemy by Knopf A searing account by an exquisite writer who came to Can… read more
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13. The Wife of Willesden
By: Zadie Smith
3.74
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Zadie Smith's first time writing for the stage, a riotous twenty-first century translation of Geoff… read more
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14. Bea Wolf
By: Zach Weinersmith
4.37
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A modern middle-grade graphic novel retelling of Beowulf, featuring a gang of troublemaking kids wh… read more
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"Dawn rose, like a jerk."-Zach Weinersmith, Bea Wolf
"Make no more clouds. I have drawn the rainbow here."-Zach Weinersmith, Bea Wolf
15. Djinn City
By: Saad Z. Hossain
3.71
Format: 413 pages, Paperback
Indelbed is a lonely kid living in a crumbling mansion in the super dense, super chaotic third worl… read more
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16. Edith Holler
By: Edward Carey
3.91
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The witty and entrancing story of a young woman trapped in a ramshackle English playhouse—and the m… read more
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17. Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel
By: Julian K. Jarboe
3.93
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
In this debut collection of body-horror fairy tales and mid-apocalyptic Catholic cyberpunk, memory … read more
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"Eventually, even Pavlov found that when he heard a bell he had the overwhelming urge to feed a dog."-Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel
"God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason he made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine: so that humanity might share in the act of creation."-Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel
18. Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
By: Benjamin Breen
3.90
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, ill… read more
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19. The Unstill Ones: Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)
By: Miller Oberman
4.22
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
An exciting debut collection of original poems and translations from Old English An exciting debut… read more
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20. Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education
By: Noliwe Rooks
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Public schools are among America's greatest achievements in modern history, yet from the earliest d… read more
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21. An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work
By: Charlotte Shane
3.28
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Through the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a provocative and tende… read more
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