City and town life
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Winesburg, Ohio
$8.99 Add to cartWinesburg, Ohio (1919) is a collection of interrelated short stories about small-town life in the American Midwest by author Sherwood Anderson. No doubt inspired by his own decision to leave Ohio for
- Series: Mint Editions (Literary Fiction)
- Author: Anderson, Sherwood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1513267833
- Language: English
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How to Knit a Murder
$15.95 Add to cartA mysterious woman arrives in picturesque Sea Harbor, Massachusetts, and the Seaside Knitters welcome her into their cozy world of intricate patterns and colorful skeins. Unfortunately, nothing frays … [more below]
- Series: Seaside Knitters Society #2
- Author: Goldenbaum, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1496711068
- Language: English
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Grimey Ways 2
$14.95 Add to cartCORREY and QUICK have revenge on their minds, but with the odds stacked against them, they must put together a plan to outsmart KILO and his squad of killas. With a solid connect and a team of hustlas
- Author: Vinci, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: July 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1958111333
- Language: English
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Second Time Sweeter
$17.99 Add to cartNAACP nominee and USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins continues her beloved Blessings series with a new heartwarming novel set in Henry Adams, Kansas.
Malachi “Mal” July has run into trouble i
- Series: Blessings #9
- Author: Jenkins, Beverly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062699261
- Language: English
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Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott
$20.00 Add to cartSinclair Lewis’s barbed portrait of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, shattered the myth of the American Middle West as God’s Country and became a symbol of the cultural narrow-mindedness and smug complacenc… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Sinclair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140189017
- Language: English
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Wonder Valley
$19.99 Add to cartNPR Best Book of 2017
Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Pick
Refinery29 Best Book of the Year
BOLO Books Top Read of 2017
“Destined to be a classic L.A. novel.”–Michael Connelly
When a teen runs away from hi
- Author: Pochoda, Ivy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0062656368
- Language: English
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The Onion Girl
$34.99 Add to cart2017 Aurora Awards Best of the Decade Finalist
In novel after novel, and story after story, Charles de Lint has brought an entire imaginary North American city to vivid life. Newford: where magic ligh- Series: Newford
- Author: de Lint, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 03 2002
- ISBN10: 0765303817
- Language: English
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The First Phone Call from Heaven
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the beloved author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven comes his most thrilling and magical novel yet–a page-turning mystery and a me
- Author: Albom, Mitch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0062305778
- Language: English
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Mysteries of Pittsburgh
$19.99 Add to cart“Chabon’s writing is deft and delicate — almost every page includes a delightful phrase or two. He mingles dialogue, the Pittsburgh cityscape, descriptions of the characters’ activity and Art’s thoug
- Author: Chabon, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0060790598
- Language: English
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Not Without Laughter
$25.00 Read moreA collectible hardcover edition of our greatest African American poet’s award-winning first novel about a black boy’s coming-of-age in a largely white Kansas town, featuring an introduction by Nationa… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Vitae
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0143134426
- Language: English
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Heart of Gold
$16.99 Add to cartNAACP nominee and bestselling author Beverly Jenkins returns to the charming town of Henry Adams, Kansas–a place that always feels like home–in this heartwarming story of family, friendship, and the
- Series: Blessings #5
- Author: Jenkins, Beverly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0062207970
- Language: English
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Hiss and Hers
$24.00 Add to cartIf only the bossy, beloved Agatha Raisin were as lucky at finding the right man as she is at catching killers in M. C. Beaton’s New York Times bestselling mystery series–now a hit show on Acorn TV an
- Series: Agatha Raisin #23
- Author: Beaton, M. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 02 2013
- ISBN10: 1250786665
- Language: English
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The Bus on Thursday
$21.99 Add to cartA horror novel about a breast cancer survivor told in the voice of your funniest but most anxious friend, The Bus on Thursday is an appealing mix of genres that is both fluffy and deeply affecting at
- Author: Barrett, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0374110441
- Language: English
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Citizens of Light
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2023 Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best Crime First Novel
“Sam Shelstad has a funny, lively, engaging, peculiar mind–charming and surprising.” –Sheila Heti, bestselling author of Mo
- Author: Shelstad, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1990071058
- Language: English
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Of Literature and Lattes
$18.99 Add to cartReturn to the cozy and delightful town of Winsome, where two people discover the grace of letting go and the joy found in unexpected change.
After fleeing her hometown three years earlier, Alyssa Harri
- Author: Reay, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0785222049
- Language: English
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The Doomed City: Volume 25
$21.99 Add to cartThe magnum opus of Russia’s greatest science fiction novelists translated into English for the first time
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely considered the greatest of Russian science fiction mast- Series: Rediscovered Classics
- Author: Strugatsky, Arkady
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1613749937
- Language: English
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A Cup of Silver Linings
$16.99 Add to cartDiscover the “sometimes whimsical, often insightful, always absorbing” (Shelf Awareness) Dove Pond series with this novel that explores the magic in the tea leaves–from New York Times bestselling aut… [more below]
- Series: Dove Pond #2
- Author: Hawkins, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1982105569
- Language: English
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War for the Oaks
$23.99 Add to cartAcclaimed by critics and readers on its first publication in 1987, winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel, Emma Bull’s War for the Oaks is one of the novels that has defined modern urban fanta
- Author: Bull, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 06 2001
- ISBN10: 0765300346
- Language: English
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Country Place
$17.99 Read more“Petry is the writer we have been waiting for; hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment, while also offering a page-turning good time. Ann Petry, the woman, had it
- Author: Petry, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0063260093
- Language: English
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A Hundred Crickets Singing
$15.99 Read moreIn wars eighty years apart, two young women living on the same Appalachian estate determine to aid soldiers dear to them and fight for justice, no matter the cost.
1944. When a violent storm rips throu… [more below]- Author: Gohlke, Cathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1496453492
- Language: English
