The Bartender's Tale
10 best books like The Bartender's Tale (Ivan Doig): Where the Crawdads Sing, Clock Dance, Chances Are..., This Tender Land, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, The Women of the Copper Country, Virgil Wander, A Better Man, The Bitterroots, The Lager Queen of Minnesota
| Author | Delia Owens |
| ISBN | 0735219117 |
For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has...
| Author | Anne Tyler |
| ISBN | 1784742449 |
Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life: when she was eleven and her mother disappeared, being proposed to at twenty-one, the accident that would make her a widow at forty-one. At each of these moments, Willa ended up on a path laid out for her by others.
So when she receives...
| Author | Richard Russo |
| ISBN | 1101947748 |
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship
One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year-old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever...
| Author | William Kent Krueger |
| ISBN | 1476749299 |
For fans of Before We Were Yours and Where the Crawdads Sing, a magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression, from the New York Times bestselling author of Ordinary Grace.
1932, Minnesota—the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds...
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
| Author | Kim Michele Richardson |
| ISBN | 1492671525 |
In 1936, tucked deep into the woods of Troublesome Creek, KY, lives blue-skinned 19-year-old Cussy Carter, the last living female of the rare Blue People ancestry. The lonely young Appalachian woman joins the historical Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a librarian, riding across...
The Women of the Copper Country
| Author | Mary Doria Russell |
| ISBN | 1982109580 |
In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She’s spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries—and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their...
| Author | Leif Enger |
| ISBN | 0802128785 |
The first novel in ten years from award-winning, million-copy bestselling author Leif Enger, Virgil Wander is an enchanting and timeless all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart.
Midwestern movie house owner...
| Author | Louise Penny |
| ISBN | 1250066212 |
Catastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media, and a mysterious disappearance greet Chief Inspector Armand Gamache as he returns to the Surete du Quebec in the latest novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny.
It's Gamache's first day back as head of the homicide...
| Author | C.J. Box |
| ISBN | 1250051053 |
A riveting new novel from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar-Award winning author.
Former police officer Cassie Dewell is trying to start over with her own private investigation firm. Guilty about not seeing her son and exhausted by the nights on stakeout, Cassie is nontheless managing...until...
The Lager Queen of Minnesota
| Author | J. Ryan Stradal |
| ISBN | 0399563059 |
A novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate and the secrets of making a world-class beer.
Two sisters, one farm. A family is split when their father leaves their shared inheritance entirely to Helen, his younger daughter. Despite baking award-winning pies at the local nursing home,...
| Author | Mildred Walker |
| ISBN | 0803297416 |
For this Bison Books edition, James Welch, the acclaimed author of Winter in the Blood (1986) and other novels, introduces Mildred Walker's vivid heroine, Ellen Webb, who lives in the dryland wheat country of central Montana during the early 1940s. He writes, "It is a story about growing up, becoming...
| Author | Heather Newton |
| ISBN | 0062001345 |
Newton delivers a stirring debut novel told from the perspectives of four central characters embroiled in a family drama that spans generations and is riddled with defensive secrecy and emotional penury in equal measure.
After the disappearance of Leon Owenby, his younger brother and central...
| Author | Bill Pronzini |
| ISBN | 0802732682 |
1995, Jim Messenger, CPA, San Francisco, and Beulah, NV; amateur sleuth as PI. Mild-mannered number cruncher gets a life, as he tracks down the history of an elusive acquaintance. His search leads him to a small town with loads of secrets, lots of men with muscles and bad tempers, and A Strong Woman.
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