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How to Stop Time
Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old history teacher, but he's been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to Jazz-Age Paris, from New York to the South Seas, Tom has seen it all. As long as he keeps...- $ 350.00
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Second Foundation
Foundation #5. The third novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series. The Foundation lies in ruins—destroyed by a mutant mind bent on humanity’s annihilation. But it’s rumored that there’s a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established...- $ 350.00
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Book Lovers
Nora Stephens' life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister...- $ 350.00
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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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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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The Body Keeps the Score
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der...- $ 350.00
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Silverview
Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian’s evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré...- $ 350.00
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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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A Christmas Carol
Ebenezer Scrooge is a bitter, cold-hearted old miser who scoffs at joy and dismisses Christmas as nothing more than “humbug.” But everything changes one fateful Christmas Eve when he’s visited by the ghost of his late business partner—and three spirits who take him on...- $ 350.00
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A Serendipitous Error and An Evil Malady
On a chilly winter night, Yegor Aduyev, the privileged son of a wealthy landowning family, quietly enters the home of Baron Neyleyn with a heart full of hope. He plans to propose to Yelena, the baron’s captivating eighteen-year-old daughter. But Yelena is elusive—a flirt...- $ 350.00
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Ninth House
Galaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact,...- $ 350.00
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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...- $ 350.00
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Once Upon a Broken Heart
For as long as she can remember, Evangeline Fox has believed in true love and happy endings... until she learns that the love of her life will marry another. Desperate to stop the wedding and to heal her wounded heart, Evangeline strikes a deal...- $ 350.00
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In Memoriam
It’s 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in their idyllic...- $ 350.00
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Of Mice and Men
Over seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbeck’s tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America’s most widely read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for their American...- $ 350.00
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Of Mice and Men: Centennial Edition
They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in...- $ 350.00
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The Trial
Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka's death, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must...- $ 350.00
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The Castle
Arriving in a village to take up the position of land surveyor for the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known as K. finds himself in a bitter and baffling struggle to contact his new employer and go about his duties. The Castle's...- $ 350.00
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The Sons
From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Trial: Three stories he published in his lifetime, including his best-known tale, “The Metamorphosis.”I have only one request," Kafka wrote to his publisher Kurt Wolff in 1913. "'The Stoker,' 'The...- $ 350.00
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To the Lighthouse
The enduring power of this iconic classic flows from the brilliance of its narrative technique and the impressionistic beauty of its prose. Though the novel turns on the death of its central figure, Mrs. Ramsay, her presence pervades every page in a poetic evocation...- $ 350.00
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The Sun Also Rises
One of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett...- $ 350.00
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Erasure
Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been "critically acclaimed." He seethes on the sidelines of the literary establishment as he watches the meteoric...- $ 350.00
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The Woman in the Window
It isn’t paranoia if it’s really happening... Anna Fox lives alone—a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine, watching old movies, recalling happier times... and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move into...- $ 350.00
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Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
The Pevensie siblings travel back to Narnia to help a prince denied his rightful throne as he gathers an army in a desperate attempt to rid his land of a false king. But in the end, it is a battle of honor between two...- $ 350.00
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Girl, Woman, Other
The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her Black lesbian identity; her old friend Shirley is a teacher, jaded after decades of work in London’s funding-deprived schools; Carole, one...- $ 350.00
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Satantango
The novel that inspired Béla Tarr’s classic film, is proof that the devil has all the good times. Set in an isolated hamlet, the novel unfolds over the course of a few rain-soaked days. Only a dozen inhabitants remain in the bleak village, rank...- $ 350.00
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The Argonauts
Genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which...- $ 350.00
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A Girl Returned
A powerful coming-of-age story about identity, loss, and resilience. When a 13-year-old girl is abruptly sent from the only family she’s ever known to live with her biological relatives—strangers to her in every way—she’s thrust into a world of confusion, emotional distance, and instability....- $ 350.00
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Barbara Isn’t Dying
Walter Schmidt has made it to old age without ever cracking an egg, folding a shirt, or questioning the roles that defined his life. His world runs like clockwork—thanks to Barbara, his steadfast and long-suffering wife. But when Barbara suddenly takes to bed and...- $ 350.00
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Strange Weather in Tokyo
Tsukiko, thirty-eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, "Sensei," in a local bar. Tsukiko had only ever called him "Sensei" ("Teacher"). He is thirty years her senior, retired, and presumably...- $ 350.00
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The Discomfort of Evening
Ten-year-old Jas lives with her strictly religious parents and her siblings on a dairy farm where waste and frivolity are akin to sin. Despite the dreary routine of their days, Jas has a unique way of experiencing her world. One icy morning, the disciplined...- $ 350.00
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Fates and Furies
Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives....- $ 350.00
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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 Death of Vivek Oji
One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son’s body, wrapped in colorful fabric, at her feet. What follows is the tumultuous, heart-wrenching story of one family’s struggle to understand a child whose spirit is...- $ 350.00
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Pet
There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and...- $ 350.00
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Wish You Were Here
Diana O’Toole has her life mapped out with precision: a stable relationship, a high-powered career in the art world and a perfectly timed path to marriage and motherhood. But just days before her 30th birthday—and what she believes will be a proposal trip to...- $ 350.00
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Hood Feminism
Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot. Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe...- $ 350.00
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X and Other Stories
A compelling collection of short fiction from one of Russia’s boldest and most visionary writers. These stories, written in the early 20th century, blend science fiction, satire and psychological tension to explore themes of individuality, conformity and the terrifying machinery of power. In the...- $ 350.00
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The Ghost Rider
An old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. The woman opens it to find her daughter, Doruntine, standing there alone in the darkness. She has been brought home from a distant land by a mysterious rider...- $ 350.00
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The Secret Keeper of Jaipur
It’s the spring of 1969, and Lakshmi, now married to Dr. Jay Kumar, directs the Healing Garden in Shimla. Malik has finished his private school education. At twenty, he has just met a young woman named Nimmi when he leaves to apprentice at the...- $ 350.00
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Goodbye to Berlin
First published in 1934, Goodbye to Berlin has been popularized on stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am a Camera and Liza Minelli in Cabaret. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and...- $ 350.00
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The Shining
Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the...- $ 350.00
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The Authenticity Project
Julian Jessop, an eccentric, lonely artist and septuagenarian believes that most people aren't really honest with one another. But what if they were? And so he writes—in a plain, green journal—the truth about his own life and leaves it in his local café. It's...- $ 350.00
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Me Before You
They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose... Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life. She takes a badly needed job working for ex–Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident....- $ 350.00
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A Man Called Ove
Meet Ove. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him “the bitter neighbor from hell.” But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn’t walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky...- $ 350.00
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The Poetics of Space
Since its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of Space has been a muse to philosophers, architects, writers, psychologists, critics, and readers alike. The rare work of irresistibly inviting philosophy, Bachelard’s seminal work brims with quiet revelations and stirring, mysterious imagery. This lyrical journey...- $ 350.00
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors...- $ 350.00
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A Flat Place
A Flat Place by Noreen Masud is a beautifully written blend of memoir, nature writing, and literary reflection that explores the emotional and psychological significance of flat landscapes. Often dismissed as dull or featureless, these terrains become sites of deep meaning as Masud, shaped...- $ 350.00
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The Wood at Midwinter
From the award-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell comes a luminous, illustrated tale rooted in quiet magic and deep woods. Merowdis Scot, a curious and solitary nineteen-year-old, is most alive when wandering beneath trees. Gifted with the uncanny ability to...- $ 350.00
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Sugar, Baby
Glamour has a price. Sometimes, it’s your soul. Agnes is a 21-year-old cleaner stuck in a dead-end routine, clubbing away her weekends to escape a stifling life at home. That is, until she meets Emily: model, London socialite, and sugar baby. Emily's world is...- $ 350.00
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