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Top 10 ATY 2020 - Place in the Title : Beartown, Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster, Winesburg, Ohio, A Summons to Memphis, The Canterville Ghost, Our Man in Havana, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, The Paris Architect, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street

Beartown
AuthorFredrik Backman
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove returns with a dazzling, profound novel about a small town with a big dream—and the price required to make it come true.

People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the...
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
AuthorAdam Higginbotham
ISBN1501134612
The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research.

April 25, 1986, in Chernobyl, was a turning point in world history. The disaster not only changed the world’s perception of nuclear power and the...
Winesburg, Ohio
AuthorSherwood Anderson
ISBN0192839772
zut, alors! i don't even know where to begin. i had such a complicated reaction to this book. am i the only person who didn't find this depressing?? this book is life - it is tender and gentle and melancholy and real. not everything works out according to plan here, but what ever does? that's not necessarily...
A Summons to Memphis
AuthorPeter Taylor
ISBN0375701176
One of the most celebrated novels of its time, the Pulitzer Prize winner A Summons to Memphis introduces the Carver family, natives of Nashville, residents, with the exception of Phillip, of Memphis, Tennessee.

During the twilight of a Sunday afternoon in March, New York book editor Phillip...
The Canterville Ghost
AuthorOscar Wilde
ISBN0744549515
The original Wilde Thing does it again...

Seriously...how does one not love on Oscar Wilde when he's throwing down the snarky...in this case, and in proper British fashion, against cocky, adolescent-cultured Americans and their starched-lip, tradition-trapped English cousins?

A...
Our Man in Havana
AuthorGraham Greene
ISBN0140184937
Graham Greene's classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction

First published in 1959, Our Man in Havana is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates to this day. Conceived as one of Graham Greene's 'entertainments,'...
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
AuthorDee Brown
ISBN0805066691
Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling history The New York Times called "Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down."

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account...
The Paris Architect
AuthorCharles Belfoure
ISBN1402284314
Like most gentiles in Nazi-occupied Paris, architect Lucien Bernard has little empathy for the Jews. So when a wealthy industrialist offers him a large sum of money to devise secret hiding places for Jews, Lucien struggles with the choice of risking his life for a cause he doesn’t really believe in....
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
AuthorBill Bryson
ISBN0307279464
The Appalachian Trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America—majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you’re going to take a hike, it’s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaining guide you’ll...
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
AuthorDr. Seuss
ISBN0007169922
Here, started it everything!


A DATE AT MULBERRY STREET FOR IMMORTALITY

That can’t be my story. That’s only a start.

I’ll say that a ZEBRA was pulling that cart.

This is the very first story by Dr. Seuss, here, started it all.

And since...
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
AuthorSvetlana Alexievich
ISBN0312425848
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to present personal accounts of the tragedy. Journalist Svetlana Alexievich...
Murder in Mesopotamia
AuthorAgatha Christie
ISBN0007113803
One of the best rereads I've ever chanced upon. Few books of Agatha Christie's reserves are so unputdownable. The cast of characters in the book are not to be taken lightly. They enhance the story in spicy terms. I loved the easygoing pace of the book.

The victim is so vibrant when pages away from...
The Lost Girls of Paris
AuthorPam Jenoff
ISBN0778330273
From the author of the runaway bestseller The Orphan’s Tale comes a remarkable story of friendship and courage centered around three women and a ring of female spies during World War II.

1946, Manhattan

Grace Healey is rebuilding her life after losing her husband during the war....
Meet Me in Monaco
AuthorHazel Gaynor
ISBN0062885375
Set in the 1950s against the backdrop of Grace Kelly’s whirlwind romance and glamourous wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco, New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb take the reader on an evocative sun-drenched journey along the Côte d’Azur in this page-turning novel...
Washington Black
AuthorEsi Edugyan
ISBN0525521429
Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born.

When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. But Christopher Wilde, or "Titch,"...
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
AuthorDavid Rutledge
ISBN0974199516
This beautifully designed hardcover book starts with a line of cars leaving the city ahead of Hurricane Katrina and ends in a mad Mardi Gras romp. The book winds through the streets of New Orleans toward a deeper understanding of just what this great, wounded city means to the United States. Many of the...
Baking Cakes in Kigali
AuthorGaile Parkin
ISBN0385343434
Once in a great while a debut novelist comes along who dazzles us with rare eloquence and humanity, who takes us to bold new places and into previously unimaginable lives. Gaile Parkin is just such a talent—and Baking Cakes in Kigali is just such a novel. This gloriously written tale—set in modern-day...
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
AuthorJohn Steinbeck
ISBN0142000701
A quest across America, from the northernmost tip of Maine to California’s Monterey Peninsula

To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover...
The Cricket in Times Square
AuthorGeorge Selden
ISBN0440228891
One night, the sounds of New York City--the rumbling of subway trains, thrumming of automobile tires, hooting of horns, howling of brakes, and the babbling of voices--is interrupted by a sound that even Tucker Mouse, a jaded inhabitant of Times Square, has never heard before. Mario, the son of Mama...
Galápagos
AuthorKurt Vonnegut
ISBN0385333870
Galápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally different human...
The Chronicles of Narnia
AuthorC.S. Lewis
ISBN0066238501
Journeys to the end of the world, fantastic creatures, and epic battles between good and evil—what more could any reader ask for in one book? The book that has it all is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, written in 1949 by Clive Staples Lewis. But Lewis did not stop there. Six more books followed, and...
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944
AuthorAranka Siegal
ISBN0374480796
The classic true story of one child's experiences during the holocaust.

Nine-year-old Piri describes the bewilderment of being a Jewish child during the 1939-1944 German occupation of her hometown (then in Hungary and now in the Ukraine) and relates the ordeal of trying to survive in the...
From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
AuthorVikram Seth
Vikram Seth took nearly 2 months from China to India hitchhiking all the way across and finally giving go to temptation only in Kathmandu when he took a flight to Delhi. He passed through rural China, Tibet and Nepal ..enjoying most of the time and even the frequent inconveniences caused by natural disasters...
The News from Paraguay
AuthorLily Tuck
ISBN0060934867
The year is l854. In Paris, Francisco Solano -- the future dictator of Paraguay -- begins his courtship of the young, beautiful Irish courtesan Ella Lynch with a poncho, a Paraguayan band, and a horse named Mathilde. Ella follows Franco to Asunción and reigns there as his mistress. Isolated and estranged...
The Fall of Gondolin
AuthorJ.R.R. Tolkien
ISBN1328613046
In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling over a vast military power from his fortress of Angband. Deeply opposed to Morgoth is Ulmo, second in might only to Manwë, chief of the Valar: he is called...
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