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The Most Fun We Ever Had
Wendy, widowed young, soothes herself with booze and younger men; Violet, a litigator turned stay-at-home-mom, battles anxiety and self-doubt; Liza, a neurotic and newly tenured professor, finds herself pregnant with a baby she's not sure she wants by a man she's not sure she...- $ 400.00
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The Namesake
Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world — conflicts that will haunt...- $ 400.00
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The Netanyahus
Corbin College, not quite upstate New York, winter 1959–1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian—but not an historian of the Jews—is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up...- $ 400.00
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The Nickel Boys
When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood's only salvation is his friendship with fellow "delinquent" Turner, which deepens...- $ 450.00
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The Night Watch
Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit partying, and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch tells the story of four Londoners—three women and a young man with a past—whose lives, and those of their...- $ 450.00
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The Night Watchman
Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new “emancipation” bill on...- $ 450.00
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The October Country
The October Country is Ray Bradbury’s own netherworld of the soul, inhabited by the horrors and demons that lurk within all of us. This classic collection features: The Emissary: The faithful dog was the sick boy’s only connection with the world outside—and beyond...The Small...- $ 350.00
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The Old Woman with the Knife
At sixty-five, Hornclaw is beginning to slow down. She lives modestly in a small apartment, with only her aging dog, a rescue named Deadweight, to keep her company. There are expectations for people her age—that she'll retire and live out the rest of her...- $ 450.00
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The Orphan Master's Son
Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother—a singer “stolen” to Pyongyang—and an influential father who runs a work camp for orphans. Superiors in the North Korean state soon recognize the boy’s loyalty and keen instincts. Considering himself “a humble citizen...- $ 400.00
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The Other Profile
Once an ambitious and promising student at an elite university in Paris, Maia is now 26, living in Milan, and stuck in a dead-end job at a cafe and a dysfunctional relationship with an older man. Until one day her life seems to change:...- $ 550.00
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The Overstory
Sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of―and paean to―the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum...- $ 400.00
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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the slice. To her horror, she finds that her cheerful mother tastes of...- $ 450.00
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The Passenger
The Passenger #1 1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their...- $ 550.00
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The Passion According to G.H.
Lispector’s most provocative and unforgettable novel. The Passion According to G.H. (1964) follows G.H., a privileged sculptress in Rio de Janeiro, whose ordinary life is upended in a single moment. When she enters her maid’s room, she encounters a cockroach crawling from a wardrobe....- $ 300.00
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The Penelopiad
Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband’s return. Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the...- $ 300.00
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The People in the Trees
A thrilling anthropological adventure story with a profound and tragic vision of what happens when cultures collide. It is 1950 when Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumored lost tribe. There he...- $ 400.00
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The critically acclaimed debut novel from Stephen Chbosky follows observant “wallflower” Charlie as he charts a course through the strange world between adolescence and adulthood. First dates, family drama, and new friends. Sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Devastating loss, young love,...- $ 350.00
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The Plague
The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation, and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease:...- $ 300.00
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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 Pole
Exacting yet unpredictable, pithy yet complex, Coetzee’s The Pole tells the story of Wittold Walccyzkiecz, a vigorous, extravagantly white-haired pianist and interpreter of Chopin who becomes infatuated with Beatriz, a stylish patron of the arts, after she helps organize his concert in Barcelona. Although...- $ 450.00
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The Predicament
From the internationally bestselling author comes a tense, globe-spanning thriller starring Gabriel Dax, a travel writer pressed into the shadowy world of espionage. 1963, Guatemala: a country on the brink. A presidential election threatens to elevate a charismatic, left-wing ex-priest and union leader—an outcome...- $ 550.00
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The Promise
On her deathbed, Rachel Swart makes a promise to Salome, the family’s Black maid. This promise will divide the family—especially her children: Anton, the golden boy; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest, Amor, whose life is shaped by feelings of guilt....- $ 450.00
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The Push
Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, supportive mother she never had to her new baby Violet. But in the thick of motherhood's exhausting early days, Blythe doesn't find the connection with her daughter she expected. She's convinced that something is...- $ 450.00
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The Remains of the Day
This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to...- $ 400.00
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The Restaurant of Lost Recipes
We all hold lost recipes in our hearts. A very special restaurant in Kyoto helps find them...Tucked away down a Kyoto backstreet lies the extraordinary Kamogawa Diner, run by Chef Nagare and his daughter, Koishi. The father-daughter duo have reinvented themselves as “food detectives,”...- $ 440.00
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The Rings of Saturn
German writer W. G. Sebald blends travel writing, memoir, history, and meditation into a quietly mesmerizing narrative. Accompanied by a curious archive of photographs, the book follows a solitary walking tour along the eastern coast of England. As the narrator travels through the landscape—both observing...- $ 380.00
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The Road
The searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son’s fight to survive. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the...- $ 350.00
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The Satanic Verses
One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound...- $ 500.00
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The Savage
Mysterious and utterly mesmerizing, this graphic-novel-within-a-novel pairs the extraordinary prose of David Almond with the visual genius of Dave McKean.Blue Baker is writing a story — not all that stuff about wizards and fairies and happily ever after — a real story, about blood...- $ 400.00
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The Screwtape Letters
A Masterpiece of Satire on Hell’s Latest Novelties and Heaven’s Unanswerable Answer In The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis offers a sharp, darkly humorous examination of human weakness through an unforgettable perspective: that of Screwtape, a senior devil advising his inexperienced nephew, Wormwood. Through a...- $ 350.00
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The Sea
In this luminous and deeply reflective novel, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who returns to the seaside town of his childhood in the wake of his wife’s death. Seeking solace, Max finds himself drawn back not just to the...- $ 300.00
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The Sea Lady
Ailsa and Humphrey met as children by a grey, northern sea in post-war Britain. She, freckled and furious; he, quietly studious; both fascinated by the other. Years later, their lives collide as adults and burst into an intense yet brief love affair. Now, after...- $ 300.00
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The Second Cut
Auctioneer Rilke has been trying to stay out of trouble, keeping his life more or less respectable. Business has been slow at Bowery Auctions, so when an old friend, Jojo, gives Rilke a tip-off for a house clearance, life seems to be looking up....- $ 340.00
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The Secret
1992. All across the United States respectable, upstanding citizens are showing up dead. These deaths could be accidents, and they don’t appear to be connected—until a fatal fall from a high-floor window attracts some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the secretary of defense. All...- $ 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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The Secret History
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 morality, but through beauty, transcendence, and ancient ideals. As the line between...- $ 500.00
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The Secret of Secrets
Robert Langdon, esteemed professor of symbology, travels to Prague to attend a groundbreaking lecture by Katherine Solomon—a prominent noetic scientist with whom he has recently begun a relationship. Katherine is on the verge of publishing an explosive book that contains startling discoveries about the...- $ 630.00
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The Sellout
Born in the “agrarian ghetto” of Dickens—on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles—the narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians: “I’d die in the same bedroom I’d grown up in, looking up at the cracks in the stucco ceiling...- $ 350.00
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The Sentence
A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of...- $ 450.00
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida―war photographer, gambler, and closet queen―has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. In a country where scores are...- $ 400.00
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The Silence of the Choir
A powerful and timely novel that explores themes of migration, identity, and belonging. Set in the small Italian town of Altino, the story follows a group of African migrants seeking asylum and a sense of purpose in an unfamiliar and often unwelcoming place. As...- $ 350.00
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The Sirens of Titan
The Sirens of Titan is Kurt Vonnegut at his most audacious—a wild, darkly comic voyage through space, time, and the absurdities of human ambition. Malachi Constant, the wealthiest and most self-indulgent man on Earth, is promised the adventure of a lifetime: a journey across...- $ 350.00
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The Sisters
Meet the Mikkola sisters: Ina, Evelyn, and Anastasia. Their mother sells Tunisian carpets; their father, a mysterious Swede, left them long ago. Ina is tall, disciplined, and obsessively organized. Evelyn is dreamy, magnetic, and effortlessly charming. Anastasia is moody, unpredictable, a shape-shifting force of...- $ 500.00
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The Son of Man
After years of absence, a man returns to reunite with his wife and young son, taking them to his remote childhood home in the forested mountains of rural France. At first, the wild landscape offers wonder and escape, especially for the young boy, who...- $ 400.00
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The South
When Jay’s grandfather dies, his family returns south to a once-thriving farm now withered by drought and time. As his father struggles with his own disappointments and his mother holds the fraying family together, Jay is sent to work the land—where he meets Chuan,...- $ 500.00
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The Spinoza Problem
A haunting portrait of Arthur Rosenberg, one of Nazism's chief architects, and his obsession with one of history's most influential Jewish thinkers. In The Spinoza Problem, Irvin Yalom spins fact and fiction into an unforgettable psycho-philosophical drama. Yalom tells the story of the seventeenth-century...- $ 450.00
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The Stone Diaries
One of the most successful and acclaimed novels of our time, this fictionalized autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett is a subtle but affecting portrait of an everywoman reflecting on an unconventional life. What transforms this seemingly ordinary tale is the richness of Daisy's vividly...- $ 400.00
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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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The Story of a New Name
Neapolitan Novels #2.In The Story of a New Name, Lila has recently married and made her entrée into the family business; Elena, meanwhile, continues her studies and her exploration of the world beyond the neighborhood that she so often finds stifling. Love, jealousy, family,...- $ 450.00
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The Stranger
With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger—Camus's masterpiece—gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. With an Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie; translated by Matthew Ward. Behind the subterfuge, Camus explores what he termed...- $ 350.00
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