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My Brilliant Friend
Neapolitan Novels #1.A modern masterpiece from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, "My Brilliant Friend" is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante's inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is...- $ 350.00
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The Warmth of Other Suns
In this beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson presents a definitive and dramatic account of one of the great untold stories of American history: the Great Migration of six million Black citizens who fled the South for the North and West in...- $ 450.00
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Wolf Hall
A richly detailed, award-winning historical novel that reimagines the rise of Thomas Cromwell, the brilliant and ruthless advisor to King Henry VIII. Set in 16th-century England during a time of religious upheaval and political intrigue, the novel offers a fresh and intimate perspective on...- $ 300.00
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The Underground Railroad
Chronicles a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits....- $ 450.00
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants....- $ 650.00
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Outline
Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner. She...- $ 500.00
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
A young escape artist and budding magician named Joe Kavalier arrives on the doorstep of his cousin, Sammy Clay. While the long shadow of Hitler falls across Europe, America is happily in thrall to the Golden Age of comic books, and in a distant...- $ 450.00
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Say Nothing
In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict...- $ 880.00
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Based on three years of rigorous reporting, Behind the Beautiful Forevers brings to life the hopes and struggles of Annawadi, a makeshift settlement beside Mumbai’s luxury hotels. As India’s economy booms, the residents of Annawadi chase dreams of a better future amid grinding poverty...- $ 450.00
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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
A tough-minded housekeeper jettisons the habits of a lifetime because of a teenager’s practical joke. A college student visiting her brassy, unconventional aunt stumbles on an astonishing secret and its meaning in her own life. An incorrigible philanderer responds with unexpected grace to his...- $ 400.00
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Atonement
In the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis misinterprets a moment between her sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner, the servant's son. Fueled by imagination and wounded pride, Briony’s accusation sets off a chain of events that will shatter lives and haunt her for decades....- $ 650.00
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Americanah
From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun comes a powerful, sweeping novel about love, identity, and the complex realities of race in a globalized world. As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall deeply in love. Their Nigeria is ruled by...- $ 450.00
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White Teeth
A deeply human debut novel that spans generations, cultures and ideologies in the heart of contemporary London. Zadie Smith tells the story of two unlikely friends—Archie Jones, a bumbling Englishman with a quiet past, and Samad Iqbal, a fiercely proud Bengali Muslim—who meet as...- $ 450.00
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Between the World and Me
In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built...- $ 650.00
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The Years
The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present—even projections into the future—photos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of advertising, headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and writing notes from 6...- $ 400.00
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
Bennie Salazar is a jaded music executive with a punk rock past. Sasha is his impulsive, enigmatic assistant, grappling with her own tangled history. In this inventive and deeply human novel, Jennifer Egan moves back and forth in time to trace the lives of...- $ 450.00
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Small Things Like These
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which...- $ 400.00
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
On December 3, 1976, days before Jamaica’s general election and Bob Marley's Smile Jamaica concert, gunmen opened fire on the reggae icon’s home, nearly killing him, his wife, and his manager. Marley survived—and performed—but fled the country the next day. Spanning decades and continents,...- $ 400.00
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Postwar
Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on...- $ 500.00
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A Mercy
A Mercy unfolds in the 1680s, during the early days of the American slave trade—a time when borders are fluid, allegiances uncertain, and the idea of freedom is as fragile as life itself. Jacob Vaark, an Anglo-Dutch trader in the harsh northern colonies, reluctantly...- $ 550.00
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Persepolis
In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The...- $ 400.00
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The Vegetarian
Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband led an ordinary, orderly life. But when violent dreams filled with blood and brutality invade her sleep, Yeong-hye resolves to cleanse herself—first by refusing meat, then by rejecting the constraints of her existence altogether. What begins...- $ 300.00
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Trust
Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the brilliant daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of...- $ 350.00
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Runaway
Eight “sparkling [and] beautifully drawn” (Entertainment Weekly) stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro. The runaway of the title story is a young woman who is incapable of leaving her husband. In “Passion,” a country girl...- $ 400.00
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Tenth of December
Tenth of December is the most honest, moving, and critically acclaimed collection yet from George Saunders, one of the most important writers of his generation. These stories take on the big questions and explore the fault lines of our own morality, the characters vividly...- $ 400.00
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The Looming Tower
A gripping narrative that spans five decades, The Looming Tower explains in unprecedented detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks on the World Trade Center. Lawrence Wright re-creates firsthand the transformation of...- $ 450.00
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Stay True
Despite his first impressions, Hua and Ken become friends, a friendship built on late-night conversations over cigarettes, long drives along the California coast, and the successes and humiliations of everyday college life. And then violently, senselessly, Ken is gone, killed in a carjacking, not...- $ 400.00
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Demon Copperhead
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent...- $ 500.00
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Veronica
Set in the glittering, edgy world of 1980s New York, the story follows Alison, a former fashion model whose once-glamorous life has unraveled. Now middle-aged and living with the long-term effects of hepatitis C, Alison reflects on her past—especially her unlikely friendship with Veronica,...- $ 400.00
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The Great Believers
A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing...- $ 400.00
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The Plot Against America
In an astonishing feat of narrative invention, our most ambitious novelist imagines an alternate version of American history. In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected President. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates a cordial "understanding" with Adolf Hitler, while the new...- $ 500.00
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The Friend
The New York Times bestselling story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog. When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind....- $ 400.00
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Secondhand Time
A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing “a...- $ 550.00
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The Passage of Power
The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and most triumphant periods of his career—1958 to 1964. It is an unparalleled account of the machinations behind both John Kennedy’s 1960 presidential nomination and his decision to offer Johnson the vice...- $ 450.00
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Olive Kitteridge
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes...- $ 350.00
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Exit West
In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet—sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it...- $ 350.00
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The Story of a Lost Child
Neapolitan Novels #4.The Story of the Lost Child is the concluding volume in the dazzling saga of two women — the brilliant, bookish Elena, and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults, with husbands, lovers, aging parents, and children. Their friendship has been...- $ 450.00
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Detransition, Baby
Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn't hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing...- $ 350.00
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The Sympathizer
A Vietnam War novel unlike any other. The narrator, one of the most arresting of recent fiction, is a man of two minds and divided loyalties, a half-French half-Vietnamese communist sleeper agent living in America after the end of the war. A gripping spy...- $ 400.00
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The Days of Abandonment
Gripping story of an Italian woman’s experiences after being suddenly left by her husband after fifteen years of marriage. With two young children to care for, Olga finds it more and more difficult to do the things she used to: keep a spotless house,...- $ 400.00
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Station Eleven
An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. Kirsten...- $ 400.00
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On Beauty
Having hit bestseller lists from the New York Times to the San Francisco Chronicle, this wise, hilarious novel reminds us why Zadie Smith has rocketed to literary stardom. On Beauty is the story of an interracial family living in the university town of Wellington,...- $ 350.00
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Bring Up the Bodies
The sequel to Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Bring Up the Bodies delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn. Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry...- $ 300.00
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The Diaries of Franz Kafka
An essential new translation of Franz Kafka’s complete, uncensored diaries—a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century’s most important, influential, and visionary writers Dating from 1909 to 1923, Franz Kafka’s Diaries contains a broad array of writing, including...- $ 550.00
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The Blazing World
A brilliant, provocative novel about an artist who, after years of being ignored by the art world, conducts an experiment: she conceals her female identity behind three male fronts.Presented as a collection of texts, edited and introduced by a scholar years after the artist's...- $ 450.00
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Gone Girl
On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams...- $ 450.00
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Dept. of Speculation
In the beginning, it was easy to imagine their future. They were young and giddy, sure of themselves and of their love for each other. “Dept. of Speculation” was their code name for all the thrilling uncertainties that lay ahead. Then they got married,...- $ 350.00
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The Master
A fictionalized portrait of the renowned American-born writer Henry James, focusing on a pivotal period in his life during the late 19th century. The novel delves into James's experiences living in Europe, particularly in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London, among a circle of privileged...- $ 350.00
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Salvage the Bones
A hurricane is gathering strength in the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the small coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. Esch's father, a hard drinker and mostly absent, is suddenly anxious—but for once, it's not the bottle he reaches for. Esch and her three brothers...- $ 350.00
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The Vegetarian
Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband led an ordinary, orderly life. But when violent dreams filled with blood and brutality invade her sleep, Yeong-hye resolves to cleanse herself—first by refusing meat, then by rejecting the constraints of her existence altogether. What begins...- $ 450.00
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