Robert Boswell

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

Meanwhile, hanging around with the local basketball coach sends a strange charge darting through her chest - a casual affair, at first, that threatens to upset the balance of her carefully constructed life.

American Owned Love

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Stephanie Doyon

Minnesota

The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole

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Adriana Trigiani

Good condition from a smoke-free home. Top right corner slightly bent.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Ohio

A Novel

Town pharmacist and local spinster Ave Maria has been keeping the secrets of Stone Gap for a long time, but now a skeleton is about to tumble from her own family closet.

Big Stone Gap

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California

Jan Karon

In the seventh installment of the Mitford series, Father Tim Kavanagh and his wife, Cynthia, have settled back into their beloved town of Mitford after returning from Whitecap Island. As they navigate the familiar rhythms of small-town life, Father Tim faces personal challenges, including health issues and questions about his purpose in retirement. The novel explores themes of faith, community, and resilience, offering readers a heartfelt journey alongside cherished characters.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Georgia

Restless with his retirement, Father Tim, accompanied by Cynthia, gears up for a year-long ministry across the state line, but a series of events sends shock waves throughout the town of Mitford and through Father Tim's faith. 750,000 first printing.

In This Mountain

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Rick Bragg

Brand new. Pre-owned but unread. See photos. 

Michigan

A correspondent for "The New York Times" recounts growing up in the Alabama hills, the son of a violent veteran and a mother who tried to insulate her children from poverty and ignorance

All over but the Shoutin'

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T. R. Pearson

Oregon

Marvelously funny, bittersweet, and beautifully evocative, the original publication of A Short History of a Small Place announced the arrival of one of our great Southern voices. Although T. R. Pearson's Neely, North Carolina, doesn't appear on any map of the state, it has already earned a secure place on the literary landscape of the South. In this introduction to Neely, the young narrator, Louis Benfield, recounts the tragic last days of Miss Myra Angelique Pettigrew, a local spinster and former town belle who, after years of total seclusion, returns flamboyantly to public view-with her pet monkey, Mr. Britches. Here is a teeming human comedy inhabited by some of the most eccentric and endearing characters ever encountered in literature.

A Short History of a Small Place

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Richard Russo

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

After sixty years of living in the upstate New York town of Thomaston, Louis Charles and his wife of forty years, Sarah, prepare for a trip to Italy to visit Louis' childhood friend, an artist who had fled his hometown many years earlier.

Bridge of Sighs

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This National Bedtseller is rated a very respectable 3.9 out of 5 on Goodreads.
Book is in like new condition with the exception of the last 4 or 5 pages in having a crinkle along the top of the pages and therefore listed as an excellent condition 

Maryland

J. K. Rowling

First edition.
Goodreads Choice Award
HBO Miniseries 


J.K. Rowling’s first book since the Harry Potter series; her first apart from that series, and her first novel for adult readership. 

When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock.
Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war.
Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…Pagford is not what it first seems.
And the empty seat left by Barry on the town’s council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Casual Vacancy

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Larry McMurtry

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Wisconsin

• Highly acclaimed, iconic author: Larry McMurtry is renowned for his elegiac prose, sharp wit, and engaging plotlines. His Thalia, Texas, series is among his most famous and Duane is an icon as much as his creator. • The Thalia Finale: Readers have followed the life of Duane through The Last Picture Show, Texasville, Duane’s Depressed, and When the Light Goes . Rhino Ranch, the final episode in Duane’s saga, represents the end of an era and is the most unusual and compelling novel in the series. • Irony, romance, and cycle of life: Duane comes back from a near-fatal heart attack to discover that his new neighbor has recently opened a rhino preserve on her property. As he watches his world change around him, he reminisces on love affairs past and the missed opportunities he now regrets. Rhino Ranch is a bittersweet and fitting end to this iconic series, a tribute to all of the emotion, hilarity, whimsy, and poignancy that readers have followed across decades.

Rhino Ranch

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Smoke free home. There are no writings markings or highlights in this book. Pages have turned brown. Creasing on the cover spine and back cover. Brown smudging on the cover spine and back cover. Please see photos.

Massachusetts

Linda Greenlaw

Mild yellowing/discoloration on edges. See photos. Otherwise pristine. 

Life on a Very Small Island

Declared a triumph by the New York Times Book Review, Linda Greenlaw's first book, The Hungry Ocean, appeared on nearly every major bestseller list in the country. Now, taking a break from the swordfishing career that earned her a major role in The Perfect Storm, Greenlaw returns to Isle au Haut, a tiny Maine island with a population of 70 year-round residents, 30 of whom are Greenlaw's relatives.

With a Clancy-esque talent for fascinating technical detail and a Keillor-esque eye for the drama of small-town life, Greenlaw offers her take on everything from rediscovering home, love, and family to island characters and the best way to cook and serve a lobster. But Greenlaw also explores the islands darker side, including a tragic boating accident and a century-old conflict with a neighboring community. Throughout, Greenlaw maintains the straight-shooting, funny, and slightly scrappy style that has won her so many fans, and proves once again that fishermen are still the best storytellers around.

The Lobster Chronicles

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Florida

Washington

Alabama

Louise Miller

New Mexico

The Late Bloomers' Club

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Philip Gulley

Virginia

Welcome to Harmony ... In this acclaimed inaugural volume in the Harmony series, master American storyteller Philip Gulley draws us into the charming world of minister Sam Gardner in his first year back in his hometown, capturing the essence of small-town life with humor and wisdom.

Home to Harmony

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Kansas

Louisiana

Colorado

Annie Proulx

New Jersey

Before she wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx was already producing some of the finest short fiction in the country. Here are her collected stories, including two new works never before anthologized. These stories reverberate with rural tradition, the rites of nature, and the rituals of small-town life. The country is blue-collar New England; the characters are native families and the dispossessed working class, whose heritage is challenged by the neorural bourgeoisie from the city; and the themes are as elemental as the landscape: revenge, malice, greed, passion. Told with skill and profundity and crafted by a master storyteller, these are lean, tough tales of an extraordinary place and its people.

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