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The American Roommate Experiment
Rosie Graham has a problem. A few, actually. She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. She hasn’t told her family and now has terrible writer’s block. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment...- $ 315.00
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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 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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Girl Meets Boy
Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances? Ali Smith's remix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled...- $ 320.00
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Ideal Husband
"An Ideal Husband is an 1895 stage play by Oscar Wilde that revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. The action is set in London, in the present, and takes place over the course of...- $ 320.00
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Under the Eye of the Big Bird
In the far future, humanity is nearly extinct. Scattered across the planet in small tribes, people live under the watchful care of mysterious "Mothers." Some children are born from laboratories using the cells of dolphins and rabbits; others draw sustenance from light and water...- $ 320.00
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The Comfort of Strangers
An English couple’s idyllic vacation takes a dark and unexpected turn in this haunting novel from Booker Prize winner and bestselling author Ian McEwan. While exploring a nameless, foreign city, Mary and Colin meet Robert, a magnetic and mysterious older man eager to share his...- $ 320.00
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Women Talking
One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming...- $ 320.00
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Graveyard Shift
From the bestselling author of If We Were Villains comes a haunting new tale about five strangers bound by the night shift—and the secrets buried in a college graveyard. Each evening in the campus’s ancient cemetery, their paths cross: a bartender, a rideshare driver,...- $ 320.00
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Euphoria
In 1933, three brilliant young anthropologists find their lives entangled deep in the jungles of New Guinea. Nell Stone—magnetic, trailblazing, and notorious for her provocative fieldwork—arrives with her fiercely ambitious husband, Fen. Their volatile partnership is upended when they cross paths with Andrew Bankson,...- $ 320.00
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Hello Stranger
Love may be blind… but what if what you see isn’t what you expect? For struggling artist Sadie Montgomery, everything seemed to be falling into place: she’s just been named a finalist in the national portrait competition of her dreams. That is, until a...- $ 320.00
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The Situation and the Story
The Art of Personal Narrative. All narrative writing transforms the raw material of life into a story that shapes experience and reveals meaning. In fiction, narrators may be unreliable—but in nonfiction, readers must believe the narrator is telling the truth. "The Situation and the...- $ 320.00
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The End of Mr. Y
If you knew a book was cursed, would you read it? When Ariel Manto uncovers a copy of The End of Mr. Y in a second-hand bookshop, she can’t believe her eyes. She knows enough about its author, the outlandish Victorian scientist Thomas Lumas,...- $ 330.00
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Island on the Edge of the World
For more than two thousand years the people of St Kilda remained remote from the world. Their society was viable, utopian even; but in the nineteenth century the islands were discovered by missionaries, do-gooders and tourists, who brought with them money, disease and despotism....- $ 330.00
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Evergreens)
Gilbert Markham is fascinated by Helen Graham, the beautiful and enigmatic woman who has recently moved into Wildfell Hall. He is swift to befriend her and steadfastly refutes the local gossip calling her character and behaviour into question, yet he soon has cause to...- $ 330.00
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in love with sweet-natured Lotte. Although he realizes that Lotte is to marry Albert, he is unable to subdue his passion for her, and his infatuation torments him to...- $ 330.00
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Euphoria
A woman's life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed a pastoral family idyll has become a trap, and she struggles between being the wife and mother she is bound to be and...- $ 330.00
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Idol, Burning
High-school student Akari has only one passion in her life: her oshi, her idol. His name is Masaki Ueno, best known as one-fifth of Japanese pop group Maza Maza. Akari’s dedication to her oshi consumes her days completely – until he disgraces himself and...- $ 330.00
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Last Letter from Your Lover
It is 1960. When Jennifer Stirling wakes up in the hospital, she can remember nothing-not the tragic car accident that put her there, not her husband, not even who she is. She feels like a stranger in her own life until she stumbles upon...- $ 330.00
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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 Looking Glass and Other Stories
It is New Year's Eve, and Nellie, the pretty daughter of a landowning general, is sitting in her room looking in the mirror. Although she is tired and her eyes are half closed, she is spellbound as the reflection in the looking glass dissolves...- $ 330.00
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Dead Men Tell No Tales and Other Stories
In contrast with the epic scope of the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola's short stories are concerned with the everyday aspects of human existence and the interests of ordinary people. From the cruel irony of 'Captain Burle' to the Rabelaisian exuberance of 'Coqueville on the Spree',...- $ 330.00
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The Etruscan Vase and Other Stories
When the young and sensitive Auguste Saint-Clair notices an Etruscan vase on the mantelpiece of his beloved Mathilde, he becomes gradually consumed by jealousy at the thought that it could be the gift of another man, and the situation escalates dramatically as he demands...- $ 330.00
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Stay Close
The bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix dramas Fool Me Once and The Stranger proves that the past never truly fades away in this shocking thriller. Megan is a suburban soccer mom who once upon a time walked on the wild side....- $ 330.00
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One for My Enemy
On one side of the conflict are the Antonova sisters, each one beautiful, cunning, and ruthless, and their mother, the elusive supplier of premium intoxicants known only as Baba Yaga. On the other side, the influential Fedorov brothers serve their father, the crime boss...- $ 330.00
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Women Who Love Too Much
The world-renowned bestseller for women addicted to unhealthy relationships, updated and with a new introduction. Robin Norwood, a therapist who’s worked with countless women in troubled relationships, explores why some women are drawn to partners who are emotionally unavailable, distant or even destructive. With...- $ 330.00
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Lucky
Lucky Armstrong is a sharp, street-smart grifter who’s just pulled off a million-dollar heist with her boyfriend, Cary. With new identities lined up and freedom within reach, she’s ready to disappear and start over—until everything falls apart. Left on her own for the first...- $ 330.00
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The Good Muslim
After years away from her family, Maya Haque is on the journey home to Dhaka. But what if, as Maya discovers, everything you once knew has changed beyond recognition? What if you must re-learn what it means to be a good daughter? And how...- $ 340.00
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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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To Calais, In Ordinary Time
England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a proctor sets out for a monastery in Avignon, and a young plowman in search of freedom is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to...- $ 340.00
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The Shadow King
Ethiopia, 1935. With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid. Her new employer, Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilize his strongest men before the Italians invade. Hirut...- $ 340.00
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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 Canterbury Tales
Assembling at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, twenty-nine pilgrims begin their journey to Canterbury Cathedral. To entertain themselves on their long road, their host suggests that they regale each other with stories, with the teller of the best tale set to earn a free...- $ 340.00
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The Idiot
The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by...- $ 340.00
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Ghachar Ghochar
When a struggling family in Bangalore suddenly strikes it rich thanks to a spice business founded by a shrewd uncle, their fortunes transform overnight. But with wealth comes a quiet unraveling. They leave behind their cramped, insect-ridden home for a spacious house across town—but...- $ 340.00
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The Abundance
Annie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. Whether observing a sublime lunar eclipse or a moth consumed in a candle flame, the trembling of lily pads on a pond...- $ 350.00
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Things That Are: Encounters with Plants, Stars and Animals
This is a book about the universe which begins with swimming salmon and ends with the starry sky. From the tiniest Earth dwellers to far-flung celestial bodies – considering everything from the similarity of gods to donkeys, to exploding stars and exploding sea cucumbers...- $ 350.00
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The Secret River
London, 1806. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly. His sentence:...- $ 350.00
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Birnam Wood
A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, an undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever...- $ 350.00
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Ethan Frome
Trapped in a loveless marriage and weighed down by poverty, Ethan Frome's days are enlivened by the presence of Mattie, his ailing wife Zeena's youthful and charming cousin, who provides help to the household. When Zeena realizes that her husband's feelings for Mattie go...- $ 350.00
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An Uncommon Story
Ivan Goncharov was once hailed as the true literary heir to Gogol, a towering figure of Russian letters in the 1850s. His early success with The Same Old Story positioned him at the center of Russia’s evolving literary scene. But the tide shifted in...- $ 350.00
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Red Queen
Antonia Scott―the daughter of a British diplomat and a Spanish mother―has a gifted forensic mind, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary. But after a personal trauma, she's refused to continue her work or even leave her apartment. Jon Gutierrez,...- $ 350.00
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Eugene Onegin
When the world-weary dandy Eugene Onegin moves from St Petersburg to take up residence in the country estate he has inherited, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with his neighbour, the poet Vladimir Lensky. Coldly rejecting the amorous advances of Tatyana and cynically courting...- $ 350.00
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Foundation and Empire
Foundation #4. Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation has survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empire - still the mightiest...- $ 350.00
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Foundation's Edge
Foundation #6. Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation has survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empire - still the mightiest...- $ 350.00
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Foundation and Earth
Foundation #7. Golan Trevize, former Councilman of the First Foundation, has chosen the future, and it is Gaia. A superorganism, Gaia is a holistic planet with a common consciousness so intensely united that every dewdrop, every pebble, every being, can speak for all—and feel...- $ 350.00
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Mansfield Park
Born into a poor family, Fanny Price is raised amid the daunting splendour of Mansfield Park by her rich uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram. Treated as an inferior by most of the family, Fanny forms a close attachment to her cousin Edmund, the only person...- $ 350.00
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Northanger Abbey
While enjoying a six weeks' stay in fashionable Bath, the young and callow Catherine Morland is introduced to the delights of high society. Thanks to a new literary diet of the sensational and the macabre, Catherine travels to Northanger Abbey fully expecting to become...- $ 350.00
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Persuasion
Persuasion narrates the emotional journey of its protagonist, Anne Elliot, who chances upon Captain Wentworth, a suitor she was persuaded to reject seven years earlier, and whose reappearance causes her to reflect on her past decisions and contemplate her marital future. Vividly depicting the...- $ 350.00
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Sense and Sensibility
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social...- $ 350.00
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