A Land More Kind Than Home vs The dark river: Which Should You Read?

Cover of A Land More Kind Than Home A Land More Kind Than Home Wiley Cash · 2012 ★★★★☆ 4.0 342 pages · ≈ 6 h 20 m · Moderate

An adventurous and precocious boy, Jess Hall is very protective of his older brother, Christopher, a mute whom everyone calls Stump. Though their mother has warned them not to snoop on grown-ups, Stump can't help…

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Cover of The dark river The dark river John Twelve Hawks · 1998 ★★★★☆ 4.0 499 pages · ≈ 9 h 14 m · Moderate

The electric new thriller from the bestselling author of The Traveller..Fear stalks our lives. In the press. On the television. Over the airwaves. Across the internet. Everywhere we go, someone somewhere is always…

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A Land More Kind Than HomeThe dark river
Hardcover 3.8 (23) 3.6 (21)
Apple Books 4.0 (228) 4.5 (34)

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A Land More Kind Than HomeThe dark river
Ratings 228 34
Editions 18 14
Film adaptations — 1
Wikipedia attention — 133
Pages 342 499

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