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I Who Have Never Known Men
Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day...- $ 400.00
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Project Hail Mary
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how...- $ 350.00
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East of Eden: Centennial Edition
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined...- $ 400.00
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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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Piranesi
Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms...- $ 350.00
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Just Kids
It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert...- $ 400.00
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Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
It was a great love story, one for the ages. The speed of our beginning and the speed of our ending felt like matching bookends. They both came out of nowhere. He wanted it, he wanted me. And then he didn’t. In March 2020,...- $ 450.00
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The Secret History
A hypnotic descent into obsession, intellect, and the seductive pull of darkness. At an elite New England college, a tightly knit group of eccentric students falls under the spell of their enigmatic Greek professor—a man who teaches them to seek truth not through conventional...- $ 400.00
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Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to...- $ 350.00
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Heart the Lover
You always knew I’d write a book about you. Our narrator understands love stories—how they rise and crest, what they hide, what they reveal. But the greatest love story she lived refused to follow any script. In the fall of her senior year, she...- $ 500.00
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The Master and Margarita: 50th Anniversary Edition
Nothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. One spring afternoon, the Devil, trailing fire and chaos in his wake, weaves himself out of the shadows and into Moscow. Mikhail Bulgakov’s fantastical, funny, and devastating satire of Soviet life combines...- $ 400.00
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Never Let Me Go
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later,...- $ 300.00
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The Midnight Library
Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life...- $ 350.00
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The Memory Police
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses... Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those...- $ 300.00
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A Little Life
A little life follows the lives of four college friends—Jude, Willem, JB, and Malcolm—as they build their lives in New York City, chasing careers, connection, and meaning. Over the decades, their incredibly strong bond is tested by ambition, addiction, and personal demons, and at...- $ 300.00
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Yesteryear
Natalie appears to live an idyllic traditional life—complete with a rustic farmhouse, a handsome cowboy husband, and six charming children—while quietly building a massive online following. Behind the scenes, however, her carefully curated world is far from simple, and critics question the authenticity of...- $ 450.00
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Everything I Know About Love
The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up, growing older, and learning to navigate friendships, jobs, loss, and love along the ride When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming an adult, journalist and former Sunday Times columnist Dolly...- $ 350.00
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Breasts and Eggs
Paints a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan and recounts the intimate journeys of three women as they confront oppressive mores and their own uncertainties on the road to finding peace and futures they can truly call their own.It tells the story of three...- $ 350.00
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Babel
Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution. Orphaned in Canton, Robin Swift is taken to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell and trained in languages to attend Oxford’s Royal Institute of Translation—known as Babel. There, scholars use magical...- $ 350.00
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Normal People
At school, Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne's...- $ 300.00
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The Year of Magical Thinking
A luminous meditation on grief, memory, and the fragile threads of life. In The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion chronicles the year that followed the sudden death of her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, and the near loss of their only daughter, Quintana....- $ 300.00
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The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the "wicked and sentimental" Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons--the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and...- $ 400.00
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Tuesdays with Morrie: 25th Anniversary Edition
An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson. Maybe it was a grandparent, a teacher, or a colleague—someone older, patient, and wise who saw you for who you were when you were young and searching. Someone who helped you view the world...- $ 400.00
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The Virgin Suicides
First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters--beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys--commit suicide one by one over the course of a single...- $ 300.00
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The Great Gatsby
Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a...- $ 450.00
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