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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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Agnes Grey
Agnes Grey follows the story of a well-educated young woman from a poor clergyman’s family who, seeking independence and respect, becomes a governess. Idealistic about her role, Agnes quickly finds herself confronted with the harsh realities of her new life. Her first position with...- $ 350.00
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My Brilliant Friend
Neapolitan Novels #1.A modern masterpiece from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, "My Brilliant Friend" is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante's inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is...- $ 350.00
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The Atlas Six
The Atlas #1.The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. Those who earn a place among the Alexandrians will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond...- $ 350.00
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Dream Angus
Dream Angus comes to you at night and bestows dreams. Just the sight of him may be enough to make you lose your heart, for he is also the god of love, youth and beauty. In this mesmerising retelling of the Celtic myth, Alexander...- $ 350.00
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Pimp: The Story Of My Life
In this astonishing account, Iceberg Slim reveals the secret inner world of the pimp, and the smells, sounds, fears and petty triumphs of his world. A legendary figure of the Chicago underworld, this is his story: from defending his mother against the men in...- $ 350.00
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Guantánamo Diary
The first and only diary written by a Guantánamo detainee during his imprisonment, now with previous censored material restored. Mohamedou Ould Slahi was imprisoned in Guantánamo Bay in 2002. There he suffered the worst of what the prison had to offer, including months of...- $ 350.00
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The Lieutenant
In 1788 Daniel Rooke sets out on a journey that will change the course of his life. As a lieutenant in the First Fleet, he lands on the wild and unknown shores of New South Wales. There he sets up an observatory to chart...- $ 350.00
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The Heart of Things
Richard Holloway is one of our most beloved public thinkers. Throughout his life he has turned to poets and writers to help answer the big questions, and for solace and guidance in the face of life’s challenges. Now he shares those poems and words...- $ 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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Dreams From My Father
The son of a Black African father and a white American mother, Barack Obama recounts an emotional odyssey, retracing the migration of his mother’s family from Kansas to Hawai’i, then to his childhood home in Indonesia. Finally he travels to Kenya, where he confronts...- $ 350.00
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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....- $ 350.00
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A Confession and Other Religious Writings
Leo Tolstoy confronts life’s deepest questions with unflinching honesty. Wrestling with faith, mortality, and the meaning of existence, these powerful texts mark his spiritual awakening and critique of organized religion. Through works like ‘A Confession’ and ‘The Law of Love and the Law of Violence’,...- $ 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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Anna Karenina
Trapped in a loveless marriage and suffocated by the expectations of Russian high society, Anna Karenina risks everything for a passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky. But what begins as a pursuit of love soon unravels into scandal, jealousy, and isolation. As Anna...- $ 350.00
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In the Likely Event
When Izzy Astor gets on a plane to go home, she isn’t expecting much. It’s the usual holiday travel experience: busy, crowded, stressful.Then she spots her seatmate, who is anything but ordinary. Nate Phelan sports dark hair, blue eyes, and a deliciously rugged charm...- $ 350.00
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Full Measures
Flight and Glory #1.She knew. That's why Mom hadn't opened the door. She knew he was dead. Twenty years as an army brat and Ember Howard knew, too. The soldiers at the door meant her dad was never coming home. What she didn't know...- $ 350.00
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Beyond What is Given
Fight and Glory #3. Be careful what you wish for... Lt. Grayson Masters is focused on graduating the Apache helicopter course, and the last thing he needs is his gorgeous new roommate Samantha Fitzgerald distracting him. While her smart mouth and free spirit are...- $ 350.00
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Cannery Row
Published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, including longtime friend Ed Ricketts, Steinbeck interweaves the...- $ 350.00
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Ceremony
Decades after its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the most profound and moving works of Native American literature—a novel that is itself a ceremony of healing. Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. He is...- $ 350.00
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Detransition, Baby
Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn't hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing...- $ 350.00
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The Invisible Man
"It's very simple," said the voice. "I'm an invisible man."With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new guest at the Coach and Horses - is at first assumed to be...- $ 350.00
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A Collection of Essays
In this compelling collection of Essays, George Orwell—one of the twentieth century’s sharpest minds—wields his pen with unmatched clarity and conviction. From the dark corridors of British boarding schools to the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War, and from the quiet struggles of the...- $ 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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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
An extraordinary memoir--told entirely in near-death experiences--from one of Britain's best-selling novelists, for fans of Wild, When Breath Becomes Air, and The Year of Magical Thinking.We are never closer to life than when we brush up against the possibility of death.I Am, I Am,...- $ 350.00
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The Black Prince
Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is tormented by...- $ 350.00
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Phillips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. This definitive collection reveals the development of...- $ 350.00
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The Best American Short Stories 2023
“Without stories, we cannot live well,” shares guest editor Min Jin Lee, describing how storytelling affects and nurtures readers. The Best American Short Stories 2023 features twenty pieces of short fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope. A...- $ 350.00
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Breasts and Eggs
Paints a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan and recounts the intimate journeys of three women as they confront oppressive mores and their own uncertainties on the road to finding peace and futures they can truly call their own.It tells the story of three...- $ 350.00
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The Art of Memoir
Mary Karr synthesizes her expertise as professor and therapy patient, writer and spiritual seeker, recovered alcoholic and “black belt sinner,” providing a unique window into the mechanics and art of the form that is as irreverent, insightful, and entertaining as her own work in...- $ 350.00
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Japanese Ghost Stories
In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs, paintings come alive, deadly spectral brides haunt the living, and a samurai delivers the baby of a Shinto goddess with mystical help. Here are all the phantoms and...- $ 350.00
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Imperfect Women
When Nancy Hennessy is murdered, she leaves behind two best friends, an adoring husband and daughter, and a secret lover whose identity she took to the grave. Nancy was gorgeous, wealthy, and cherished by those who knew her—from the outside, her life was perfect....- $ 350.00
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In a Strange Room
In this newest novel from South African writer Damon Galgut, a young loner travels across eastern Africa, Europe, and India. Unsure what he's after, and reluctant to return home, he follows the paths of travelers he meets along the way. Treated as a lover,...- $ 350.00
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In the Woods
As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of...- $ 350.00
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The Great Gatsby
The only authorized edition of the twentieth-century classic, featuring F. Scott Fitzgerald 's final revisions, a foreword by his granddaughter, and a new introduction by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.The Great...- $ 350.00
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Middlemarch
The most ambitious narrative of nineteenth-century realism, Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832, a time when modern methods were starting to challenge old orthodoxies. Eliot's sophisticated and acute characterization gives rich...- $ 350.00
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On the Eve
On the eve of the Crimean War, the young, headstrong Yelena, the daughter of aristocratic Russian parents, falls in love with a revolutionary from Bulgaria named Insarov. Facing the wrath and disapproval of her family, Yelena abandons her home to follow Insarov to Bulgaria....- $ 350.00
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The Lost World
When the reporter Edward Malone is sent to interview the formidable Professor Challenger about his accounts of strange prehistoric beasts on a remote plateau in South America, he expects to be given short shrift by the researcher, notorious for man handling nosy enquirers. But...- $ 350.00
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Deep Down Dark
When the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. For Deep Down Dark, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Héctor Tobar received exclusive access to the miners...- $ 350.00
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Anna Karenina: New Translation
Trapped in a loveless marriage and suffocated by the expectations of Russian high society, Anna Karenina risks everything for a passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky. But what begins as a pursuit of love soon unravels into scandal, jealousy, and isolation. As Anna...- $ 350.00
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I Hold a Wolf by the Ears
These eleven stories confront misogyny, violence, and the impossible economics of America with van den Berg’s trademark spiky humor and surreal eye. In “Lizards,” a man mutes his wife’s anxieties by giving her a LaCroix-like seltzer laced with sedatives. In the title story, a...- $ 350.00
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Luster
Edie is just trying to survive. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office, is sleeping with all the wrong men, and has failed at the only thing that meant anything to her, painting. No one seems to care that...- $ 350.00
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The Ghost-Seer
The brooding, introverted Count von O- arrives in Venice during the carnival in order to escape from his duties and live incognito. But after encountering an enigmatic Armenian stranger who makes an uncanny pronouncement, a bizarre chain of events unfolds, involving a Jesuit secret...- $ 350.00
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Timecode of a Face
What did your face look like before your parents were born? Who are you? What is your true self? These are the questions in Ruth Ozeki's mind as she challenges herself to spend three hours gazing into her own reflection, recording every thought and...- $ 350.00
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Life Of Pi
One boy, one boat, one tiger… After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg),...- $ 350.00
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The Invisible Man (Alma)
The mysterious Griffin arrives at a picturesque English inn during a snowstorm, swaddled in bandages which cover his face and with his eyes hidden behind dark glasses. His odd get-up and irascible behavior intrigue the locals, who believe him to be the victim of...- $ 350.00
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The Mime Order
Bone Season #2 Paige Mahoney has escaped the brutal prison camp of Sheol I, but her problems have only just begun: many of the survivors are missing and she is the most wanted person in London . . . As Scion turns its all-seeing...- $ 350.00
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Piranesi
Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms...- $ 350.00
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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Yiyun Li offers a deeply moving debut collection that spans continents and generations, exploring the quiet complexities of Chinese and Chinese American lives. From Beijing to suburban America, her stories reveal the intimate struggles behind migration, family ties, lost love, and cultural dislocation. Whether...- $ 350.00
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Ayn Rand Box Set
Discover two of Ayn Rand’s most influential classics together for the first time in this powerful boxed set. Atlas Shrugged, Rand’s magnum opus, is a gripping philosophical thriller that explores the nature of creativity, freedom, and the forces that drive human achievement. When John...- $ 350.00
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