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Set in rural New York state at the turn of the twentieth century, superb new talent James Scott makes his literary debut with The Kept?a propulsive novel reminiscent of the works of Michael Ondaatje, Cormac McCarthy, and Bonnie Jo Campbell, in which a mother and her young son embark on a quest to ...

Read 67 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. In the winter of 1803, one woman stands between Napoleon and the fall of Great Britain The…

Walking to Gatlinburg by Howard Frank Mosher on BookBub. “A Civil War odyssey in the tradition of Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain and Robert Olmstead’s Coal Black Horse, Mosher’s latest, about a Vermont teenager’s harrowing journey south to find his missing-in-action brother, is...

A literary mystery and a family curse add up to create a pageturning summer novel. From Entertainment Weekly: "Swyler's wonderful descriptions keep the pages swimming along." One of BuzzFeed's 24 best fiction books of 2015.

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A novel about the magical lure of books and summoning the courage to rewrite our stories by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Keeper of

Read 14.8k reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. The unforgettable love story of a mother blinded by loss and her husband who insists on …

Memoir books offer readers a rare glimpse into the lives of some of the world's most interesting minds. Whether you're looking for an educational or inspirational experience, this list of the best memoir books includes something for everyone. Including memoirs from Joan Didion, Mindy Kaling, Stephen King, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and more.

The true story of a woman hanged in colonial Portsmouth for burying her stillborn out-of-wedlock baby. On a cold December morning in 1768, thirty-one-year-old Ruth Blay approached the gallows for her execution. Standing on the high ground in the northwest corner of what is now Portsmouth’s old South Cemetery, she would have had a clear view across the pasture to the harbor and open sea. The eighteenth-century hanging of a schoolteacher for concealing the birth of a child out of wedlock…