The Grammarians
By: Cathleen Schine
3.58
Format: 8 pages, Audio CD
"The Grammarians" are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an …
Want to Read $ 11.99"The word is "love," the story tells her, but she says No, that is nonsense. "Love" is a four-letter word, the story says, but Sally says, No, you are missing the point. There is no word, just words, lots and lots of them, a universe of words, galaxies of them"-Cathleen Schine, The Grammarians
"His point is, informal English is not wrong, and some of it stems from models older than 'standard' English, and he always puts 'standard' in quotes because there is no standard English, language keeps changing. And to understand language and teach it, you have to know what is actually spoken."-Cathleen Schine, The Grammarians
"There were not words for what she felt, the depth of the emptiness, the breadth of the emptiness, the emptiness of the emptiness. Words could only cloak what she felt. Words were supposed to illuminate and clarify. Words were meant to communicate and and feelings from one person to another. But today words stood numb and in the way."-Cathleen Schine, The Grammarians
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1. The Widow Nash
By: Jamie Harrison
3.56
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
Dulcy Remfrey has traveled the globe with her eccentric father Walton, a wealthy entrepreneur obses… read more
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2. Finn
By: Jon Clinch
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this masterful debut by a major new voice in fiction, Jon Clinch takes us on a journey into the … read more
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- literary fiction
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- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
3. The London Train
By: Tessa Hadley
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Hadleyis a lovely, subtly teasing writer." --New York Times Book Review Long-listed forthe Orange … read more
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- literary fiction
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4. The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War
By: Fred Anderson , R. Scott Stephenson
3.64
Format: 24 pages,
The globe's first true world war comes vividly to life in this "rich, cautionary tale" (The New Yor… read more
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- audiobook
5. Boys of Blur
By: N.D. Wilson
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Fans of Jerry Spinelli's Maniac Mageeand Louis Sachar's Holeswill enjoy this story about a boy and … read more
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6. Death On The Ice: The Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster Of 1914
By: Cassie Brown , None
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Each year, for generations, poor, ill-clad Newfoundland fisherman sailed out 'to the ice' to hunt s… read more
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7. Pilgrimage, Volume 1: Pointed Roofs, Backwater, Honeycomb
By: Dorothy M. Richardson
3.75
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
The thirteen magnificent novels that comprise Pilgrimageare the first expression in English of what… read more
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8. Cat Out of Hell
By: Lynne Truss
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed New York Timesbestselling author Lynne Truss (Eats, Shoots & Leaves) is back with a mesme… read more
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9. 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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- adult fiction
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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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- literary fiction
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- contemporary
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- adult
- audiobook
"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
11. The Librarianist
By: Patrick deWitt
3.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more
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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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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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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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15. The Road from Belhaven
By: Margot Livesey
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young wom… read more
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16. The Bee Sting
By: Paul Murray
3.96
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more
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- literary fiction
- family
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- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"It is for love. You are doing this for love."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
17. Family Family
By: Laurie Frankel
4.00
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more
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- contemporary
- novels
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"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"-Laurie Frankel, Family Family
18. Absolution
By: Alice McDermott
3.81
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more
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19. Table for Two
By: Amor Towles
4.26
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more
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- historical fiction
- contemporary
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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
20. 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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"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)
21. The Grammarians
By: Cathleen Schine
3.58
Format: 8 pages, Audio CD
"The Grammarians" are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- historical fiction
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"The word is "love," the story tells her, but she says No, that is nonsense. "Love" is a four-letter word, the story says, but Sally says, No, you are missing the point. There is no word, just words, …"-Cathleen Schine, The Grammarians
"His point is, informal English is not wrong, and some of it stems from models older than 'standard' English, and he always puts 'standard' in quotes because there is no standard English, language kee…"-Cathleen Schine, The Grammarians
"There were not words for what she felt, the depth of the emptiness, the breadth of the emptiness, the emptiness of the emptiness. Words could only cloak what she felt. Words were supposed to illumina…"-Cathleen Schine, The Grammarians
22. This Strange Eventful History
By: Claire Messud
3.63
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
23. Phase Six
By: Jim Shepard
3.47
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A spare and gripping novel about the next pandemic--completed by the award-winning Jim Shepard befo… read more
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- audiobook
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"loneliness as solitude with self-pity thrown in."-Jim Shepard, Phase Six
"Her [Valerie Landry's] mentor in med school had reminded her more than once that doctors got even less time than families had to deal with patients dying. Someone died and the relatives went off by t…"-Jim Shepard, Phase Six
"In the U.S., whichever party was in power wasn't interested in support for public health. Public health never competed well for resources in either the House or the Senate. Countries were like people…"-Jim Shepard, Phase Six
"It took a month after the breakup for her to realize that she was refusing to go anywhere that didn't have cell service on the off chance he'd call, and after that revelation she [Jeannine Dziri] fou…"-Jim Shepard, Phase Six
24. An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country
By: David Finkel
3.79
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An immersive account of a man navigating the startling changes underway in contemporary America, fr… read more
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25. How to Say Goodbye
By: Wendy MacNaughton
4.25
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A USA TODAY Bestseller “A poem to mortality and the beauty of how we can cope with it.”―Atul Gaw… read more
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26. Marley
By: Jon Clinch
3.77
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“By some uncanny act of artistic appropriation, [Clinch] has, without imitating Dickens, entered in… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"The situation is unendurable, and yet he endures."-Jon Clinch, Marley
"The orchestra concludes to a merry burst of applause and the orchestra slides into a waltz—a much-needed chance for the dancers to catch their breath, perhaps even an opportunity for the whispering o…"-Jon Clinch, Marley
27. High Time
By: Hannah Rothschild
3.56
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A modern English comedy of morals and manners, about a highborn family of outrageous characters, in… read more
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- humor
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- contemporary
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28. There's a Word for That
By: Sloane Tanen
3.70
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
"Engrossing, hilarious, and tender... I couldn't put it down." ---Gretchen Rubin, #1 New York Times… read more
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- humor
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29. NPR Road Trips Collection
By: NPR
3.50
Format: None pages, Audio CD
With frequent stops at pop culture meccas, and unforgettable encounters with humans of singular int… read more
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30. Strangers and Cousins
By: Leah Hager Cohen
3.36
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A novel about what happens when an already sprawling family hosts an even larger and more chaotic w… read more
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31. The Price of a Throne (The Hiberno-Norman Chronicles #1)
By: Sean J. Fitzgerald
4.09
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
Dive into the heart of medieval Ireland with this historical tale of courage, deception, and the re… read more
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