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The Sound of the Mountain
By day Ogata Shingo, an elderly Tokyo businessman, is troubled by small failures of memory. At night he associates the distant rumble he hears from the nearby mountain with the sounds of death. In between are the complex relationships that were once the foundations...- $ 450.00
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The Rainbow
With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters—born to the same father but different mothers—struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. Asako, the...- $ 450.00
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Arrow of God
A powerful clash between tradition, power, and colonial rule. In this gripping follow-up to Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe turns to Ezeulu, the proud and unyielding chief priest of the god Ulu. As British colonial forces tighten their grip on Nigeria, Ezeulu battles not...- $ 450.00
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Clean
A young girl has died and the family’s maid is being interrogated. She must tell the whole story before arriving at the girl’s death. Estela came from the countryside, leaving her mother behind, to work for the señor and señora when their only child...- $ 450.00
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Marigold Mind Laundry
Born with mysterious powers she does not know how to control, young Jieun accidentally causes her family to vanish. She vows to live a million lives in search of them. Finally, one night, she brings the Marigold Mind Laundry into existence. Its service: to...- $ 450.00
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Masters of Death
Viola Marek is a struggling real estate agent, and a vampire. But her biggest problem currently is that the house she needs to sell is haunted. The ghost haunting the mansion has been murdered, and until he can solve the mystery of how he...- $ 450.00
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Living Planet: The Web of Life on Earth
Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt to make the most of ice cap and tundra, forest and plain, desert,...- $ 450.00
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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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Disgrace
At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. When an affair with a student leaves him jobless, shunned by friends, and ridiculed by his ex-wife, he retreats to his daughter Lucy's smallholding. David's visit becomes an extended stay...- $ 450.00
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Delta of Venus
From influential feminist artist and essayist Anais Nin, Delta of Venus is one of the most important works of modern female erotica and "a joyous display of the erotic imagination" (The New York Times Book Review). In this story collection, Anais Nin pens a...- $ 450.00
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Little Birds
These thirteen erotic short stories by the acclaimed author of Henry and June explore the nature of desire, taboo, and female sensuality. From the beach towns of Normandy to the streets of New Orleans, these thirteen vignettes introduce us to a covetous French painter,...- $ 450.00
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Invisible Cities
“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor...- $ 450.00
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Winter in Paradise
When Irene Steele receives the shocking news that her beloved husband has died in a helicopter crash in the Virgin Islands, her world shatters. But the real shock comes when she travels to the island of St. John and discovers he was living a...- $ 450.00
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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 Baron In The Trees
Cosimo di Rondó, a young Italian nobleman of the eighteenth century, rebels against his parents by climbing into the trees and remaining there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an existence in the forest canopy—he hunts, sows crops, plays games...- $ 450.00
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Difficult Loves
In Difficult Loves, Italy’s master storyteller weaves tales in which cherished deceptions and illusions of love—including self-love—are swept away in magical instants of recognition. A soldier is reduced to quivering fear by the presence of a full-figured woman in his train compartment; a young...- $ 450.00
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Tropic of Cancer
Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new...- $ 450.00
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Tropic of Capricorn
Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller’s Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn’s ethnic neighborhoods and Miller’s outrageous sexual...- $ 450.00
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The Gathering
Moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family and a shot of fresh blood into the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new. The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering in Dublin for...- $ 450.00
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The Wren, the Wren
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of women. Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the famed Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless, full of verve and wit,...- $ 450.00
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Saha
In a country called Town, a doctor named Su is found dead in an abandoned car. There is only one place the police intend to look for her suspected killer: the Saha Estates. Controlled by a secretive organization of ministers, Town is the safest,...- $ 450.00
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Time Shelter
In an apricot-colored building in Zurich, surrounded by curiously planted forget-me-nots, Gaustine has opened the first “clinic for the past,” an institution that offers an inspired treatment for Alzheimer’s sufferers: each floor reproduces a past decade in minute detail, allowing patients to transport themselves...- $ 450.00
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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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Before We Say Goodbye
At Café Funiculi Funicula, time travel comes with a catch—but that hasn’t stopped people from returning, hoping for one last chance to reconnect. Within its quiet walls, where coffee is served with care and a single seat grants a journey to the past, lives...- $ 450.00
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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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Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition
This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller’s masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more. Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the...- $ 450.00
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The Evening Hero
A moving and captivating novel following a Korean immigrant pursuing the American dream who must confront the secrets of the past or risk watching the world he’s worked so hard to build come crumbling down. Dr. Yungman Kwak is in the twilight of his...- $ 450.00
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How to Speak Whale
How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals On September 12, 2015, Tom Mustill was paddling in a two-person kayak with a friend just off the coast of California. It was cold, but idyllic—until a humpback whale breached, landing on...- $ 450.00
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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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Mad Honey
Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising their beautiful son, Asher—was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined that she would end up back in...- $ 450.00
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The Capital of Dreams
Sofia Bottom lives in Elysia, a small country forgotten by Europe. But inside its borders, the old myths of trees that come alive and faeries who live among their roots have given way to an explosion of the arts and the consolations of philosophy....- $ 450.00
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Fear and Trembling
According to ancient Japanese protocol, foreigners deigning to approach the emperor did so only with fear and trembling. Terror and self-abasement conveyed respect. Amélie, our well-intentioned and eager young Western heroine, goes to Japan to spend a year working at the Yumimoto Corporation. Returning...- $ 450.00
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The Geography of Bliss
Part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens...- $ 450.00
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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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The Twisted Ones
When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods in this chilling novel that reads like The Blair Witch Project meets The Andy Griffith Show. Grandma...- $ 450.00
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Opium and Other Stories
A rediscovered classic of Hungarian literature, this spellbinding collection vividly depicts the darkest impulses of the human psyche against the backdrop of Europe’s moral and social decline on the eve of World War I. Géza Csáth (pen name of Joszef Brenner) was a writer,...- $ 450.00
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Dying is Easier than Loving
The novel centers on the story of Nizam’s tormented love affair with a Russian pianist, Anya, and is told against the backdrop of the Ottoman Empire’s tumultuous history in the years leading up to WWI. Underlying the novel’s tale of war and love and Altan’s...- $ 450.00
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We Love You, Charlie Freeman
In this daring debut novel, Kaitlyn Greenidge tells the story of the Freeman family, who move to a research institute in rural Massachusetts to participate in a mysterious experiment—raising a chimpanzee, Charlie, as part of an effort to teach him human sign language. But...- $ 450.00
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The Sacred Well Murders
A simple job turns deadly when Mary Wandwalker, novice detective, is hired to chaperone a young American, Rhiannon, to the Oxford University Summer School on the ancient Celts. Worried by a rhetoric of blood sacrifice, Mary and her operatives, Caroline, and Anna, attend a...- $ 450.00
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No Lease on Life
The East Village streets are overrun with crooked cops, drug addicts, pimps, and prostitutes. Garbage piles up along the sidewalks amid the blaring soundtrack of car stereos. Confrontations are supercharged by the summer heat wave. This merciless noise has left Elizabeth Hall an insomniac....- $ 450.00
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If It Bleeds
Readers adore Stephen King’s novels, and his novellas are their own dark treat, briefer but just as impactful and enduring as his longer fiction. Many of his novellas have been made into iconic films, including “The Body” (Stand by Me) and “Rita Hayworth and...- $ 450.00
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The Axeman's Carnival
Tama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Marnie, and this is where his story might have ended. Tama can speak, and his fame is growing. Outside, in the pines, his father warns him of the wickedness wrought by humans. Indoors,...- $ 450.00
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Mr. Wilder and Me
A naive young woman called Calista finds herself working for the famed Hollywood director Billy Wilder, about whom she knows almost nothing. While Calista is thrilled with her new adventure, Wilder himself is living with the realization that his star may be on the...- $ 450.00
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A Rebel in Gaza: A Daughter of Rafah Speaks
A Rebel in Gaza is the powerful memoir of Asmaa al-Ghoul, a fearless Palestinian journalist and activist born in Rafah and raised in the Gaza Strip. From a young age, she defied the restrictive norms around her—refusing to cover her hair, questioning political dogma,...- $ 450.00
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Murder in the Dressing Room
A poisoned chocolate. A stolen dress. An elusive catburglar. Drag’s not just dramatic, it’s deadly.By day, Joe is a hotel accountant, invisibly sitting behind their desk and playing by the rules. By night, donned in sequins, they take to the stage as Misty Divine,...- $ 450.00
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A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
Raw and fearless plunge into the mind of a young woman shaped by trauma, family illness, and buried violence. Told in fragmented, urgent prose, the novel captures the inner life of its narrator as she navigates her brother’s brain tumor, a chaotic home, and...- $ 450.00
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Great Big Beautiful Life
Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen...- $ 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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Three Days in June
Gail Baines is long divorced from her husband, Max, and not especially close to her grown daughter, Debbie. Today is the day before Debbie's wedding. To start, Gail loses her job—or quits, depending who you ask. Then, Max arrives unannounced on Gail's doorstep, carrying...- $ 450.00
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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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