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The First Lady of Three Rivers Ranch by Liz Isaacson, Elana Johnson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRead how it all started at Three Rivers Ranch in this bonus prequel novel that features Frank Ackerman and Heidi Duffin. Heidi Duffin has been dreaming about opening her own bakery since she was thirteen years old. She scrimped and saved for years to afford baking and pastry school in San Francisco. And now she only has one year left before she's a certified pastry chef...Categorized as:
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![THE IRISH COWBOY by D.W. Ulsterman]()
THE IRISH COWBOY by D.W. Ulsterman
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHe gave his word, refused to break a vow, and lost his one chance at true love. Now they’ve come for his land. Hap Wilkes is a man facing a painful past, an increasingly uncertain future, and now fights with everything left in a broken and failing body to keep the one thing still left to him – his pride... -
![Just Once by Karen Kingsbury]()
Just Once by Karen Kingsbury
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe #1 New York Times bestselling author “known for her deeply heartfelt novels” (Woman’s World) writes a sweeping and unforgettable World War II love story about a young woman torn between two brothers. In 1941, beautiful Irvel Ellis is too focused on her secret to take much notice in the war raging overseas...Categorized as:
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![The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai by Yehuda Amichai, C.K. Williams]()
The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai by Yehuda Amichai, C.K. Williams
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYehuda Amichai is Israel's most popular poet as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this revised and expanded collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have selected Amichai's most beloved and enduring poems, including forty new poems from his recent work... -
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![Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski]()
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsIn what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, women, and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D. H... -
![Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, William T. Vollmann]()
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, William T. Vollmann
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsLouis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language, Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of violence, cruelty and obscene nihilism... -
![Autumn Daffodils - Charlie's Story: Heart warming, thought provoking story. A look back on life and relationships. by Peter Turnham]()
Autumn Daffodils - Charlie's Story: Heart warming, thought provoking story. A look back on life and relationships. by Peter Turnham
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is the first book in the two-part "Autumn Daffodils" story. Five extraordinary people, having retired early in order to escape their past, find themselves reliving the very past they came to the 'Village' to forget. What unites the group is the guilt, shame or sorrow they have each tried so hard to leave behind... -
![In My Father's Court by Isaac Bashevis Singer]()
In My Father's Court by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLike Isaac Bashevis Singer's fiction, this poignant memoir of his childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father is full of spirits and demons, washerwomen and rabbis, beggars and rich men...Categorized as:
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Seven by Anthony Bruno
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMismatched partner cops Somerset and Mills are on the trail of a psychotic murderer who intends to avenge the seven deadly sins, starting with gluttony... -
![The Wild Iris by Louise Glück, Jonas Brun]()
The Wild Iris by Louise Glück, Jonas Brun
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWinner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunningly beautiful collection of poems that encompasses the natural, human, and spiritual realmsBound together by the universal themes of time and mortality and with clarity and sureness of craft, Louise Glück's poetry questions, explores, and finally celebrates the ordeal of being alive... -
![Further Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin]()
Further Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe residents of 28 Barbary Lane are back again in this racy, suspenseful and wildly romantic sequel to Tales of the City and More Tales of the City.DeDe Halcyon Day and Mary Ann Singleton track down a charismatic psychopath, Michael Tolliver looks for love, landlady Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchorwoman in her basement storeroom, and Armistead Maupin is in firm control... -
![Angels and Men by Catherine Fox]()
Angels and Men by Catherine Fox
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsParson’s daughter Mara Johns arrives as a postgraduate student at a great northern cathedral city. Antagonistic to the church and fiercely independent, she repels all friendly overtures and seeks spiritual answers in her theological research. But when her past involvement in an extreme sect resurfaces, she finds her quest won’t stay academic... -
![Texas Treasure by Sharon Gillenwater]()
Texas Treasure by Sharon Gillenwater
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsChristian Contemporary Romance Buckley, Texas Series -- Book 2 Deeply wounded by the infidelity of his late wife, widower Grant Adams has stuck to his vow to avoid all women. But when bright, bubbly antiques dealer Dawn Carson enters his life, he is unexpectedly touched by her gentle spirit... -
![A Million Little Lies by Bette Lee Crosby]()
A Million Little Lies by Bette Lee Crosby
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA lifetime of lies, and a truth too painful to tell.When Suzanna Duff was ten years old, she lost her mama, and that’s when the lies began. At first, they were just harmless little fibs, a way to hide her unbearable loneliness and the truth about a daddy who came home rip-roaring drunk every night... -
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![Cross My Heart by Robin Lee Hatcher]()
Cross My Heart by Robin Lee Hatcher
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTwo broken paths lead toward God’s redemption in the next installment of Robin Lee Hatcher’s Legacy of Faith series. Ashley Showalter and Ben Henning have so much in common. Both were raised by single moms. Both want to help where they see a need. And both work with horses in the Idaho valley...Categorized as:
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![Mount Analogue by René Daumal]()
Mount Analogue by René Daumal
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this novel/allegory the narrator/author sets sail in the yacht Impossible to search for Mount Analogue, the geographically located, albeit hidden, peak that reaches inexorably toward heaven. Daumal's symbolic mountain represents a way to truth that "cannot not exist," and his classic allegory of man's search for himself embraces the certainty that one can know and conquer one's own reality... -
![The Forgotten Recipe by Amy Clipston]()
The Forgotten Recipe by Amy Clipston
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter losing her fiancé in a tragic accident, Veronica Fisher finds solace in the old recipes stored in her mother’s hope chest—and in a special visitor who comes to her bake stand to purchase her old-fashioned raspberry pies. Veronica Fisher knows how lucky she is to be marrying her best friend. Seth Lapp is kind, hardworking, and handsome—but most importantly, he loves Veronica... -
![Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson]()
Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsA collection of linked stories narrated by a recovering alcoholic and heroin addict, Jesus' Son is a disturbing portrayal of loneliness and hope. He travels through an American underworld of burnt-out sports stars, hospital waiting rooms, doomed relationships and senseless violence... -
![Ask the Dust by John Fante]()
Ask the Dust by John Fante
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsAsk the Dust is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young Italian-American writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, at last, his first novel is published. But the bright light of success is extinguished when Camilla has a nervous breakdown and disappears . . -
![The Magus by John Fowles]()
The Magus by John Fowles
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThis daring literary thriller, rich with eroticism and suspense, is one of John Fowles's best-loved and bestselling novels and has contributed significantly to his international reputation as a writer of the first degree. At the center of The Magus is Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who accepts a teaching position on a remote Greek island, where he befriends a local millionaire... -
![Jenny Kissed Me! by Thomas Allen]()
Jenny Kissed Me! by Thomas Allen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Jenny finds an old letter in a shoebox, her mind is flooded with memories of a long forgotten love. She and Jonathan had secretly loved one another in high school, but never shared those feelings except for that one time in the library their senior year. Jenny had impetuously kissed Jonathan—a moment neither forgot. Four decades have passed...Categorized as:
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![The Witnesses by Linda Byler]()
The Witnesses by Linda Byler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNote: product cancelled, or possibly postponed--Good Books went out of business in December 2013 and was acquired by Skyhorse Publishing in a bankruptcy court auction in September 2014 The Witnesses is the third novel in Amish novelist, Linda Byler’s current series, “Lancaster Burning... -
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Iced by Ray Shell
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this harrowing debut, Shell mixes the syncopated language of the streets with poetry from the heart to take the reader deep into the horrifying, mesmerizing world of Cornelius Washington, Jr., a 40-year-old crack addict trapped in a life that's dominated by drugs. "A powerhouse."--Maya Angelou...Categorized as:
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![The Beloved: Reflections on the Path of the Heart by Kahlil Gibran]()
The Beloved: Reflections on the Path of the Heart by Kahlil Gibran
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsExquisite writings on love, marriage, and the spiritual union of souls add a fresh dimension to our understanding of the philosophy of love and the transformation of one's life through its all-encompassing power... -
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![One Night With a Rock Star by Chana Keefer]()
One Night With a Rock Star by Chana Keefer
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGood, Country-bred girl meets the Rock Star of her dreams and worlds collide.For Esther Collins, struggling journalism student and mediocre print model, international singing star Sky has been the ultimate male since she sported frizzy hair, braces and too-skinny legs. She has dreamed of meeting this icon countless times. But life has a way of happening when you least expect it.. -
![Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork by Richard Brautigan]()
Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork by Richard Brautigan
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFirst published 1976, Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork, a collection of ninety-four poems, was Brautigan's seventh collection of poetry; his ninth poetry book publication. This collection was unique in that the poems were grouped in eight titled sections and featured the crow as a dominant figure throughout... -
![Love Without End by Robin Lee Hatcher]()
Love Without End by Robin Lee Hatcher
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsChet and Kimberly have both failed when it comes to love. Will they risk their hearts to love again? Chet Leonard's life was forever changed when his seventeen year old son died and then, soon after, his wife walked out on their family. Over two years later, all he wants to do is hold onto his horse ranch and raise his remaining sons to be honorable men... -
![Kneller's Happy Campers by Etgar Keret]()
Kneller's Happy Campers by Etgar Keret
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKneller's Happy Campers is a strange, dark but funny tale set in a world very much like our own but it's an afterlife populated by people who have killed themselves - many of them are young, and most of them bear the marks of their death... bullet wounds, broken necks...(those who have over-dosed are known as 'Juliets')... -
![The Eagle's Gift by Carlos Castaneda]()
The Eagle's Gift by Carlos Castaneda
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCarlos Castaneda takes the reader into the very heart of sorcery, challenging both imagination and reason, shaking the very foundations of our belief in what is "natural" and "logical... -
![Bamboo & Lace by Lori Wick]()
Bamboo & Lace by Lori Wick
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBestselling author Lori Wick sails readers to an exotic island1/4and an intriguing romance.Lily Walsh has spent all of her 24 years as a missionary's daughter on the Asian island of Kashien. Isolated from the western world, she devours the letters she receives from her brother in Hawaii. When her father reluctantly allows Lily to visit Jeff, she is thrilled-until he is called away...Categorized as:
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![One, No One and One Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello]()
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe great Pirandello's (1867-1936) 1926 novel, previously published here in 1933 in another translation, synthesizes the themes and personalities that illuminate such dramas as Six Characters in Search of an Author... -
![If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino]()
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 66 ratingsItalo Calvino's masterpiece combines a love story and a detective story into an exhilarating allegory of reading, in which the reader of the book becomes the book's central character... -
![Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp, Book One by C.D. Payne]()
Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp, Book One by C.D. Payne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsSix months in the life of the world's most dangerous teenager.Youth in Revolt is the journals of Nick Twisp, California's most precocious diarist, whose ongoing struggles to make sense out of high school, deal with his divorced parents, and lose his virginity result in his transformation from an unassuming fourteen-year-old to a modern youth in open revolt...Categorized as:
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![Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch by Henry Miller]()
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch by Henry Miller
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the Big Sur, a section of California coast where he lived for fifteen years.Big Sur is the portrait of a place one of the most colorful in the U.S... -
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![A Confederate General from Big Sur by Richard Brautigan]()
A Confederate General from Big Sur by Richard Brautigan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBrautigan's excellent novel is definitely worth the quick read, then worth another to catch all his language play. Having grown up near Big Sur, this book was particularly funny as Lee Mellon is still in residence there. Brautigan's descriptions of drugs, drinks, frogs & the commas of Ecclesiastes are all done in a straightforward style... -
![Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake]()
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsTitus Groan is seven years old. Lord and heir to the crumbling castle Gormenghast. A gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, and death... -
![The Heartbreaker by Susan Howatch]()
The Heartbreaker by Susan Howatch
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDeftly combining the sacred and the profane—the unmistakable hallmark of her fiction over the past decade—Susan Howatch gives us a spellbinding, suspenseful and psychologically intense new novel. The financial heart of London—the City—is an adrenaline-charged square mile deep in recession in the 1990s, a place where sex is just another commodity to be bought and sold in the marketplace...Categorized as:
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![Sepharad: A Novel by Antonio Muñoz Molina]()
Sepharad: A Novel by Antonio Muñoz Molina
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn “amazing” novel about the diaspora of Sephardic Jews amid the tumult of twentieth century history (The Washington Post Book World).From one of Spain’s most celebrated writers, this extraordinary blend of fiction, history, and memoir tells the story of the Sephardic diaspora through seventeen interlinked chapters...Categorized as:
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![The Origin of the Brunists by Robert Coover]()
The Origin of the Brunists by Robert Coover
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOriginally published in 1966 and now back in print after over a decade, Robert Coover's first novel instantly established his mastery. A coal-mine explosion in a small mid-American town claims ninety-seven lives. The only survivor, a lapsed Catholic given to mysterious visions, is adopted as a doomsday prophet by a group of small-town mystics... -
![The Means That Make Us Strangers by Christine Kindberg]()
The Means That Make Us Strangers by Christine Kindberg
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHome is where your people are. But who are your people?Adelaide has lived her whole life in rural Ethiopia, where she and her family are the only white people she knows. Then her family moves to South Carolina, in 1964.Adelaide promises she'll return to Ethiopia and become part of the village for good...Categorized as:
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![A Song Begins by Mary Burchell]()
A Song Begins by Mary Burchell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn unknown benefactor had sufficient faith in Anthea Benton's singing voice to pay for her training under the celebrated operatic conductor, Oscar Warrender. She was ecstatic, but her joy was short-lived when she came face to face with the great man. Cold and forbidding, he proved to be a hard taskmaster. She felt her dreams can be coming true..Categorized as:
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![Enza by Kristy K. James]()
Enza by Kristy K. James
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI had a little bird, And its name was Enza.I opened the window,And in-flu-Enza. They have no idea what's coming... Patriotism is at its peak as the war to end all wars rages an ocean away. The Suffrage Movement gains momentum each day, and women across the the country harbor hope that they might finally win the right to vote... -
![House of Israel, Vol. 1: The Return by Robert Marcum]()
House of Israel, Vol. 1: The Return by Robert Marcum
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsElectrifying novel about one woman's desperate quest for...Categorized as:
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![Post Office by Charles Bukowski]()
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 40 ratings"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service... -
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![High Fidelity by Nick Hornby]()
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsNow a major motion picture from Touchstone Pictures.Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserable and relieved... -
![The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs]()
The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA good old-fashioned shoot-out in the American West of the frontier days serves as the springboard for this hyperkinetic adventure in which gunslingers, led by Kim Carson, fight for galactic freedom. The Place of Dead Roads is the second novel in the trilogy with Cities of the Red Night and The Western Lands... -
![The Sound of Language by Amulya Malladi]()
The Sound of Language by Amulya Malladi
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this luminous story of bravery, tradition, and the power of language, an Afghan woman and Danish widower form an unexpected alliance.Escaping the turmoil and heartbreak of war-torn Kabul, Raihana settles with distant relatives in the strange, cold, damp country of Denmark...Categorized as:
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![The Sweet Dove Died (Bello) by Barbara Pym]()
The Sweet Dove Died (Bello) by Barbara Pym
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBetween the amorous antique dealer Humphrey and his good-looking nephew James glides the magnificent Leonora, delicate as porcelain, cool as ice. Can she keep James in her thrall? Or will he be taken from her by a lover, like Phoebe . . -
![Geek Love by Katherine Dunn]()
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 53 ratingsGeek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out—with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes—to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There’s Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . -
![Morte D'Urban by J.F. Powers]()
Morte D'Urban by J.F. Powers
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWinner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction.The hero of J.F. Powers's comic masterpiece is Father Urban, a man of the cloth who is also a man of the world. Charming, with an expansive vision of the spiritual life and a high tolerance for moral ambiguity, Urban enjoys a national reputation as a speaker on the religious circuit and has big plans for the future...
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