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Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
by Jeannette Walls
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Lily Casey Smith is a woman who won't take no for an answer if there's any way around it. She embarks on journeys and has experiences that only someone with iron-willed character could survive: As a child, she gets her young siblings up a cottonwood tree... (read more)

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The Help
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
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Kathryn Stockett's characters aren't just memorable — they're the kind you start to miss the minute you turn the last page. Set in Mississippi in 1962, they speak from a world careening toward great and long-overdue change, in voices resonating with... (read more)

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The Help
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
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Kathryn Stockett's characters aren't just memorable — they're the kind you start to miss the minute you turn the last page. Set in Mississippi in 1962, they speak from a world careening toward great and long-overdue change, in voices resonating with... (read more)

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Work Song
Work Song
by Ivan Doig
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From the moment Morgan steps off the train and discovers that the trunk holding all his worldly possessions is missing — and that the stationmaster thinks it's just a ruse — this story, about a man who can't escape his past yet longs for a chance at... (read more)

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Above Portland
Above Portland
by Bruce Forster and Chet Orloff
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Finally, my fantasy of seeing Portland from the air is fulfilled! Not by riding in a traffic copter, as I'd imagined, but by turning the pages of this gorgeous book. Celebrated Oregon photographer Bruce Forster's low-level aerial photos (including a few... (read more)

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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
by Helen Simonson
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Absolutely delightful! Simonson's deftly drawn characters continue to surprise, even when you think you've got them pegged — and Major Pettigrew reminds us that thinking we've got someone pegged is only one of the failures of modern manners. Pettigrew... (read more)

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Bird Cloud: A Memoir
Bird Cloud: A Memoir
by Annie Proulx
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Annie Proulx's love of research transforms this tale of home-building into a chronicle of its Wyoming locale — the wildlife, weather, Native American history, and present-day ranchers. Seasoned with stories from Proulx's own French Canadian roots, Bird... (read more)

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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
by Tom Franklin
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In this story of race and youth, of tragedies that time alone cannot heal, and the ways we still need each other even when it seems too late, Franklin beautifully captures human relationships in both their simplicity and unutterable complexities.... (read more)

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The Bread of Angels: A Journey to Love and Faith
The Bread of Angels: A Journey to Love and Faith
by Stephanie Saldana
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I almost left this book on the shelf, thinking it was just a spinoff of Eat, Pray, Love. I'm so glad I didn't! The bones of the story are similar: woman travels to foreign country on the heels of an emotional breakup and finds true love (that last part... (read more)

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Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
by Jeannette Walls
Staff Pick
Lily Casey Smith is a woman who won't take no for an answer if there's any way around it. She embarks on journeys and has experiences that only someone with iron-willed character could survive: As a child, she gets her young siblings up a cottonwood tree... (read more)

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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
by Simon Winchester
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This biography of the Atlantic Ocean encompasses myth and geology, trade and war and discovery — proving once again that Winchester knows how to dig deep and sift out the story. An engrossing tale from a master storyteller.... (read more)

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Beatrice and Virgil
Beatrice and Virgil
by Yann Martel
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Make no mistake, this is a novel about the Holocaust. But it's unlike any other, tackling the tenderness and the horror of human nature by focusing on animals. Henry is changed by the story of Beatrice the donkey and Virgil the howler monkey, and you... (read more)

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Nobody Move
Nobody Move
by Denis Johnson
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Jimmy Luntz has a knack for survival, if not for much else. Despite the trouble his gambler's instincts keep getting him into, he's a character with heart — which keeps getting in the way when it's time to pull the trigger. A smokin' good story.... (read more)

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The Signal
The Signal
by Ron Carlson
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Ron Carlson's taut prose will keep you on the edge of your seat as Mack and his soon-to-be ex-wife journey one last time into the backcountry of the Wind River Range. But what his wife doesn't know is that he has a secret — one that puts them both in... (read more)

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The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters (P.S.)
The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters (P.S.)
by Chip Kidd
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How can you not enjoy a book whose narrator declares on the second page, "Majoring in Art at the state university appealed to me because I have always hated Art, and I had a hunch if any school would treat the subject with the proper disdain, it would be... (read more)

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A Hell of Mercy: A Meditation on Depression and the Dark Night of the Soul
A Hell of Mercy: A Meditation on Depression and the Dark Night of the Soul
by Tim Farrington
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This small book contains a condensation of wisdom and experience that is best savored slowly. Farrington does an admirable job of comparing and distinguishing the mood or clinical state of depression and the spiritual condition often referred to as the... (read more)

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Work Song
Work Song
by Ivan Doig
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From the moment Morgan steps off the train and discovers that the trunk holding all his worldly possessions is missing — and that the stationmaster thinks it's just a ruse — this story, about a man who can't escape his past yet longs for a chance at... (read more)

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In the Company of Angels
In the Company of Angels
by Thomas E Kennedy
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It's a rare book that can both haunt and inspire. The lead characters' efforts to recover from shattering events are traced with compassion, deep intelligence, and an almost miraculous hope. As if that weren't enough, the home life of the psychotherapist... (read more)

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Noah's Compass
Noah's Compass
by Anne Tyler
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Waking in a hospital with no memory of a burglar's attack, Liam takes steps to recover that memory and finds his life opening up in unexpected ways. Tyler's seemingly ordinary characters are crafted with such depth and compassion, you'll begin to see the... (read more)

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Ask Me about My Divorce: Women Open Up about Moving On
Ask Me about My Divorce: Women Open Up about Moving On
by Candace Walsh
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How refreshing! The women who tell these stories about their divorces, while not denying the inevitable grief and new challenges they must face, celebrate the selves they discover — or rediscover — as they embark on a new chapter of life. One of the... (read more)

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