Kristin's Recommendations

Kristin has been a voracious reader ever since she was introduced to Ramona Quimby in first grade
Kristin has been a voracious reader ever since she was introduced to Ramona Quimby in first grade

Kristin has been a voracious reader ever since she was introduced to Ramona Quimby in first grade.  She has been with Riverstone since the store was founded in 2017.  As the book buyer for the store, Kristin loves to learn about all of the new books publishing each month, and she enjoys helping customers meet their newest favorite book.  Her reading tastes usually trend toward fiction, women's history, and humorous picture books.  

Recommendations: 

Heard It in a Love Song: A Novel By Tracey Garvis Graves Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250235688
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: St. Martin's Press - November 9th, 2021

From Tracey Garvis Graves, the bestselling author of The Girl He Used to Know comes a love song of a story about starting over and second chances in Heard It in a Love Song.

Love doesn’t always wait until you’re ready.


On Animals By Susan Orlean Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781982181536
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Published: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster - October 12th, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“Magnificent.” —The New York Times * “Beguiling, observant, and howlingly funny.” —San Francisco Chronicle * “Spectacular.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis) * “Full of astonishments.” —The Boston Globe

Susan Orlean—the belove


We Begin at the End By Chris Whitaker Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250759665
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Published: Henry Holt and Co. - March 2nd, 2021

Winner of the Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel from the Crime Writers’ Association (UK)
Winner for Best International Crime Fiction from Australian Crime Writers Association
An Instant New York Times Bestseller


Broken (in the best possible way) By Jenny Lawson Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250077035
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Published: Henry Holt and Co. - April 6th, 2021

An Instant New York Times Bestseller

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy and Let’s Pretend This Never Happened comes a deeply relatable book filled with humor and honesty about depression and anxiety.


Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir By Lacy Crawford Cover Image
$28.00
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ISBN: 9780316491556
Published: Little, Brown and Company - July 7th, 2020

A "powerful and scary and important and true" memoir of a young woman's struggle to regain her sense of self after trauma, and the efforts by a powerful New England boarding school to silence her—at any cost (Sally Mann, author of Hold Still).

Shortlisted for the 2022 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing

Now with a New


Premeditated Myrtle (Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery 1) By Elizabeth C. Bunce Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781616209186
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Published: Algonquin Young Readers - October 6th, 2020

A 2021 Edgar® Award Winner, Best Juvenile
A BookPage Best Book of 2020: Middle Grade
A Mighty Girl's 2020 Books of the Year

Introducing Myrtle Hardcastle, your favorite new amateur detective: a wickedly smart twelve-year-old with a keen interest in criminology and a nose for murder.

Twelve-year-old Myrtle Hardcastle


Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving By Mo Rocca Cover Image
$29.99
ISBN: 9781501197628
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Published: Simon & Schuster - November 5th, 2019

From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent and humorist Mo Rocca, an entertaining and rigorously researched book that celebrates the dead people who have long fascinated him.

Mo Rocca has always loved obituaries—reading about the remarkable lives of global leaders, Hollywood heavyweights, and innovators who changed the world.


Grown By Tiffany D. Jackson Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780062840356
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Published: Katherine Tegen Books - September 15th, 2020

An instant New York Times bestseller! “Grown exposes the underbelly of a tough conversation, providing a searing examination of misogynoir, rape culture, and the vulnerability of young black girls.


This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel By Jonathan Tropper Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780452296367
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Dutton - July 6th, 2010

A riotously funny, emotionally raw New York Times bestselling novel about love, marriage, divorce, family, and the ties that bind—whether we like it or not.


The Alice Network: A Reese's Book Club Pick By Kate Quinn Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062654199
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - June 6th, 2017

New York Times and USA Today Bestseller

An NPR's Best Book of the Year 

A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick!

The 2017 Girly Book Club Book of the Year!

A Summer Book Pick from Good Housekeeping, Parade, Library Journal, Goodreads, Liz and Lisa, and BookBub


Speak No Evil: A Novel By Uzodinma Iweala Cover Image
$15.99
ISBN: 9780061284939
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Published: Harper Perennial - March 5th, 2019

Winner of the Gold Nautilus Award for Fiction | A Lambda Literary Award Finalist | A Barbara Gittings Literature Award Finalist | One of Bustle’s and Paste’s Most Anticipated Fiction Books of the Year 


The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women By Kate Moore Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781492650959
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Sourcebooks - March 6th, 2018

A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts Bestseller!


Monday's Not Coming By Tiffany D. Jackson Cover Image
$12.99
ISBN: 9780062422682
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Published: Katherine Tegen Books - April 23rd, 2019

"Jackson’s characters and their heart-wrenching story linger long after the final page, urging readers to advocate for those who are disenfranchised and forgotten by society and the system." (Publishers Weekly, "An Anti-Racist Children's and YA Reading List")


The Great Alone: A Novel By Kristin Hannah Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9781250229533
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - September 24th, 2019

In Kristin Hannah’s The Great Alone, a desperate family seeks a new beginning in the near-isolated wilderness of Alaska only to find that their unpredictable environment is less threatening than the erratic behavior found in human nature.

#1 New York Times Instant Bestseller (February 2018)
A People “Book of the Week”


Where the Crawdads Sing By Delia Owens Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780735219090
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - August 14th, 2018

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING PHENOMENON—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!
More than 18 million copies sold worldwide
A Reese’s Book Club Pick
A Business Insider Defining Book of the Decade 

“I can't even express how much I love this book! I didn't want this story to end!”—Reese Witherspoon


Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth By Sarah Smarsh Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781501133107
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Scribner - September 3rd, 2019

*Finalist for the National Book Award*
*Finalist for the Kirkus Prize*
*Instant New York Times Bestseller*

*Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, New York Post, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness, Bustle, and Publishers Weekly*

An essential read for our times: an eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in America that


Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me By Adrienne Brodeur Cover Image
$27.00
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ISBN: 9781328519030
Published: Mariner Books - October 15th, 2019

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER.


Reputation: A Novel By Sara Shepard Cover Image
$16.00
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ISBN: 9781524742904
Published: Dutton - December 3rd, 2019

In this perfectly-paced new novel from Sara Shepard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Little Liars, the women of a tight-knit college town learn through gossip, scandal, betrayal, and even murder, who their neighbors and husbands really are.


Don't Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life By Peggy Orenstein Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780062688903
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Published: Harper Paperbacks - February 27th, 2018

The New York Times bestselling author of Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter delivers her first ever collection of essays—funny, poignant, deeply personal and sharply observed pieces, drawn from three decades of writing, which trace girls’ and women’s progress (or lack thereof) in what Orenstein once called a “half-changed wo


Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women's Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics By Marjorie J. Spruill Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781632863140
Availability: Out of Print
Published: Bloomsbury USA - February 28th, 2017

More than forty years ago, two women's movements drew a line in the sand between liberals and conservatives. The far-reaching legacy of that rift is still felt today.

One of Smithsonian Magazine's “Ten Best History Books of the Year”


The Importance of Being Little: What Young Children Really Need from Grownups By Erika Christakis Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780143129981
Availability: Backordered
Published: Penguin Books - February 7th, 2017

“Christakis . . . expertly weaves academic research, personal experience and anecdotal evidence into her book . . . a bracing and convincing case that early education has reached a point of crisis . . . her book is a rare thing: a serious work of research that also happens to be well-written and personal . . . engaging and important.”
 --Washington Post


Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage By Pauli Murray, Patricia Bell-Scott (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Pauli Murray, Patricia Bell-Scott (Introduction by)
$22.95
ISBN: 9781631494581
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Liveright - May 8th, 2018

THE STORY BEHIND THE DOCUMENTARY MY NAME IS PAULI MURRAY

A prophetic memoir by the activist who “articulated the intellectual foundations” (The New Yorker) of the civil rights and women’s rights movements.


Winter Street By Elin Hilderbrand Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780316376105
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Published: Back Bay Books - October 13th, 2015

In bestseller Elin Hilderbrand's first Christmas novel, a family gathers on Nantucket for a holiday filled with surprises.

Kelley Quinn is the owner of Nantucket's Winter Street Inn and the proud father of four, all of them grown and living in varying states of disarray. Patrick, the eldest, is a hedge fund manager with a guilty conscience.


Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things By Jenny Lawson Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781250077028
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Flatiron Books - February 7th, 2017

#1 New York Times Bestseller

In Furiously Happy, a humor memoir tinged with just enough tragedy and pathos to make it worthwhile, Jenny Lawson examines her own experience with severe depression and a host of other conditions, and explains how it has led her to live life to the fullest:


Truth & Beauty: A Friendship By Ann Patchett Cover Image
$15.99
ISBN: 9780060572150
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Harper Perennial - May 9th, 2023

"A loving testament to the work and reward of the best friendships, the kind where your arms can’t distinguish burden from embrace.” — People


Straight Man: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) By Richard Russo Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9780375701900
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage - June 9th, 1998

Hilarious and true-to-life, witty, compassionate, and impossible to put down, Straight Man follows Hank Devereaux through one very bad week in this novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls. • Now the AMC Original Series Lucky Hank.


Maine (Vintage Contemporaries) By J. Courtney Sullivan Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780307742216
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Published: Vintage - May 29th, 2012

This breakout New York Times bestseller from the celebrated author of Commencement and The Engagements, introduces four unforgettable women and the abiding, often irrational love that keeps them coming back, every summer, to Maine and to each other.
 


Heat and Light: A Novel By Jennifer Haigh Cover Image
$14.99
ISBN: 9780061763496
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Published: Ecco - February 28th, 2017

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NPR


Men We Reaped: A Memoir By Jesmyn Ward Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781608197651
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Published: Bloomsbury USA - September 16th, 2014

Named one of the Best Books of the Century by New York Magazine

Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones, Sing, Unburied, Sing) contends with the deaths of five young men dear to her, and the risk of being a black man in the rural South.


America's First Daughter: A Novel By Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie Cover Image
$15.99
ISBN: 9780062347268
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - March 1st, 2016

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER


NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE • The riveting history of how Pauli Murray—a brilliant writer-turned-activist—and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt forged an enduring friendship that helped to alter the course of race and racism in America.