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The Court Dancer
When a novice French diplomat arrives for an audience with the Emperor, he is enraptured by the Joseon Dynasty’s magnificent culture, then at its zenith. But all fades away when he sees Yi Jin perform the delicate traditional Dance of the Spring Oriole. Though...- $ 650.00
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The Crane Husband
A fifteen-year-old teenager is the backbone of her small Midwestern family, budgeting the household finances and raising her younger brother while her mom, a talented artist, weaves beautiful tapestries. For six years, it’s been just the three of them—her mom has brought home guests...- $ 300.00
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The Creative Act: A Way of Being
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us. Many famed music producers are known for...- $ 600.00
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The Crucible
One of the true masterpieces of twentieth-century American theater, The Crucible brilliantly explores the threshold between individual guilt and mass hysteria, personal spite and collective evil. It is a play that is not only relentlessly suspenseful and vastly moving, but that compels readers to...- $ 330.00
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The Cruel Prince
Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many...- $ 300.00
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The Curator
It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed “the Fairest”, it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the municipality in half; its theaters and many museums; the Morgue Ship; and, like all cities, but maybe especially so,...- $ 500.00
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Christopher John Francis Boone knows every country and capital in the world and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates better to animals than people, dislikes being touched, and sees the world through the lens of logic and order. Christopher is autistic, and...- $ 500.00
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The Custom of the Country: Deluxe Edition
Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton’s second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of the exploits and follies of the modern upper class. As she unfolds the story of Undine Spragg, from New York to Europe, Wharton affords us...- $ 450.00
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The Cutting Edge
The Beatles' hair changed the world. As their increasingly wild, untamed manes grew, to the horror of parents everywhere, they set off a cultural revolution as the most tangible symbol of the Sixties' psychedelic dream of peace, love and playful rebellion. In the midst...- $ 340.00
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The Cutting Room
When Rilke, a dissolute auctioneer, comes upon a hidden collection of violent and highly disturbing photographs, he feels compelled to discover more about the deceased owner who coveted them. Soon he finds himself sucked into an underworld of crime, depravity and secret desire, fighting...- $ 320.00
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The Da Vinci Code
While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols. As Langdon and gifted French cryptologist Sophie...- $ 350.00
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The Dark Forest
The Dark Forest is the second novel in the groundbreaking, Hugo Award-winning series from China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu. In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion-in just four centuries' time. The aliens' human...- $ 400.00
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The Dark Mirror
In the fifth installment of The Bone Season series, Paige Mahoney awakens in the free world—beyond Scion’s grasp for the first time in over a decade. But half a year of her life is missing, and the path that brought her here is shrouded...- $ 620.00
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The Dark Remains
In this scorching crime hook-up, number one bestseller Ian Rankin and Scottish crime-writing legend William McIlvanney join forces for the first ever case of DI Laidlaw, Glasgow’s original gritty detective. Lawyer Bobby Carter did a lot of work for the wrong type of people....- $ 500.00
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The Day of the Triffids
What if a meteor shower left most of the world blind—and humanity at the mercy of mysterious carnivorous plants? Bill Masen undergoes eye surgery and awakes the next morning in his hospital bed to find civilization collapsing. Wandering the city, he quickly realizes that...- $ 300.00
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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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The Dead Fathers Club
Eleven-year-old Philip Noble is at his father's funeral when who should appear but his father's ghost, who wastes no time in telling Philip that his Uncle Alan, an auto mechanic, tampered with his car, causing the accident that killed him. He warns Philip that...- $ 450.00
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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...- $ 380.00
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The Death Of Bunny Munro
The world is a hard place to be good in… Struggling to keep a grip on reality after his wife’s death, Bunny Munro does the only thing he can think of: with his young son in tow, he hits the road. An epic chronicle...- $ 360.00
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
One of the most exquisitely constructed novellas by Tolstoy is presented alongside The Devil, a further work exploring the powerful and destructive nature of obsession. The judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin has spent his life in the pursuit of wealth and status, devoting himself obsessively to...- $ 350.00
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
These seven powerful stories reflect Tolstoy’s profound meditation on mortality and the human condition, each examining the inevitability of death from unique perspectives. In The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Tolstoy delivers a heartrending exploration of a man confronting his approaching death and grappling with...- $ 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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The Decay of the Angel
The Sea of Fertility #4. As the dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility, 'The Decay of the Angel' brings together the dominant themes of the three previous novels- the meaning and decay of Japan's courtly tradition and samurai ideal; the essence and value...- $ 350.00
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The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish
It’s 16-year-old Edie who finds their mother Marianne dangling in the living room from an old jump rope, barely alive. Upstairs, 14-year-old Mae had fallen into one of her trances, often a result of feeling too closely attuned to her mother’s dark moods. After...- $ 350.00
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The Defining Decade
Contemporary culture tells us the twenty-something years don’t matter. Clinical psychologist Dr Meg Jay argues that this could not be further from the truth. The Defining Decade weaves the latest science of the twenty-something years with real-life stories to show us how work, relationships,...- $ 530.00
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The Demon of Unrest
Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincoln’s election and the Confederacy’s shelling of Sumter—a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals. Lincoln himself wrote that the trials of...- $ 550.00
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The Details of Modern Architecture, Volume 1
How did the great architects of this century reconcile their vision of architecture with the realities of building? This is a crucial question that every student of architecture must confront. The Details of Modern Architecture, the first comprehensive analysis of both the technical and...- $ 900.00
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The Devil's Elixirs
The charismatic monk Medardus becomes implicated in a deadly mystery against his will. As he travels towards Rome he wrestles with the enigma of his own identity while pursued by his murderous doppelganger. The monk's only hope for salvation lies with the beautiful Aurelie;...- $ 300.00
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The Devil’s Dictionary
If we could only put aside our civil pose and say what we really thought, the world would be a lot like the one alluded to in The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. There, a bore is "a person who talks when you wish him to...- $ 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 Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Novellas
Driven to his deathbed by an incurable disease, the thirty-year-old impoverished gentleman Chulkaturin decides to write a diary looking back on his short life. After describing his youthful disillusionment and his family's fall from grace and loss of status, the narrative focuses on his...- $ 300.00
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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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The Discovery Of Slowness
Nadolny's masterpiece, The Discovery of Slowness tells the incredible story of Sir John Franklin, a sailor and explorer who battled the frozen Arctic wastes and paved the way for the discovery of the Northwest Passage. Ridiculed for his slowness in his youth, Franklin's quiet...- $ 350.00
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The Distance Between Us
Gripping, insightful, and deft, The Distance Between Us by Maggie O'Farrell is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives, from the award-winning author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait. On a cold February afternoon, Stella catches sight of a man...- $ 350.00
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The Divine Comedy: Anniversary Edition
Dante's dramatic journey down the circles of Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory and through the spheres of Heaven in search of redemption – and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of sinners and saints – is one of the cornerstones of...- $ 470.00
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
A stunning 3-in-1 edition of one of the great works of Western literature. An epic masterpiece and a foundational work of the Western canon, The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as his guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and reunion...- $ 550.00
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The Door
The Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-off-again relationship to Hungary’s Communist authorities. Emerence is a peasant, illiterate, impassive, abrupt, seemingly ageless. She lives alone...- $ 350.00
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The Doorman
A gripping and timely thriller that delves into the complexities of class, privilege and the undercurrents of societal unrest. Set against the backdrop of a city on the brink of chaos, the novel follows Chicky Diaz, a doorman at the Bohemia, New York's most...- $ 550.00
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The Double and The Gambler
The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have given us the definitive version of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s strikingly original short novels, The Double and The Gambler. The Double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare–foreshadowing Kafka and Sartre–in which a minor official named Goliadkin becomes...- $ 350.00
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The Dream Hotel
Just after landing at LAX following an overseas conference, Sara is stopped by agents from the Risk Assessment Administration and given shocking news: according to an algorithm that analyzes dreams, she is on the verge of committing a violent crime—against her own husband. For...- $ 550.00
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The Dun Cow Rib
John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the British landscape and its wildlife. Lister-Kaye’s joyous childhood holidays - spent scrambling through hedges and ditches after birds and small beasts, keeping pigeons in the loft and tracking foxes around the edge of...- $ 450.00
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The Dunwich Horror
A classic tale of terror and grotesquerie by the original master of horror. H. P. Lovecraft proclaimed his Dunwich Horror "so fiendish" that his editor at Weird Tales "may not dare to print it." The editor, fortunately, knew a good thing when he saw...- $ 250.00
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The Dutch House
Powerful, richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go. At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to...- $ 400.00
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The Early Ayn Rand
This remarkable, newly revised collection of Ayn Rand's early fiction—including her previously unpublished short story The Night King—ranges from beginner's exercises to excerpts from early versions of We the Living and The Fountainhead.- $ 650.00
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The Earth Transformed
Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and understand. But climate change and its effects on us are not new. In...- $ 550.00
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The Edge of the Plain
Today, there are more borders in the world than ever before in human history. Beginning with the earliest known example, Crawford travels to many borders old and new: from a melting glacial landscape to the conflict-torn West Bank and the fault-lines of the US/Mexico...- $ 600.00
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The Edge of the Sea
Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, writes this book focusing on the plants and invertebrates surviving in the Atlantic zones between the lowest and the highest tides, between Newfoundland and the Florida keys. It's Appendix and Index make it a great reference tool for...- $ 320.00
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The Emperor of Gladness
Set in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, the story follows 19-year-old Hai, a troubled youth on the brink of suicide, who instead finds an unexpected bond with Grazina, an elderly woman suffering from dementia. Their unconventional relationship forms the emotional core of...- $ 450.00
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The Empusium
In September 1913, Mieczysław, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in what is now western Poland. Every day, its residents gather in the dining room to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur, to obsess over money...- $ 450.00
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The Enchanted April
The story centres on four very different ladies who reply to an advertisement in The Times for a stunning mediaeval castle that is available to rent for a month on the Italian Riviera. They travel to the serene Mediterranean coasts full of hope for...- $ 300.00
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