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Atmosphere
Joan Goodwin has always found comfort in the stars, living a quiet life as a physics professor and devoted aunt. But everything changes in 1980, when she answers a groundbreaking NASA call for women scientists to join the Space Shuttle program. Thrust into the...- $ 400.00
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Human Acts
In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed. The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the echoing...- $ 300.00
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The Book of Goose
A magnificent, beguiling tale winding from the postwar rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school to the quiet Pennsylvania home where a woman can live without her past. Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far...- $ 450.00
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Hamnet
England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on.A young Latin tutor—penniless and bullied by a violent father—falls in...- $ 450.00
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Dream Count
Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until — betrayed...- $ 500.00
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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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Trust
Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the brilliant daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of...- $ 350.00
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Daisy Jones & The Six
Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. Her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind...- $ 450.00
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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
In the summer of 1970, fifteen-year-old Fern is sent to Wellwood House—a secluded home for unwed pregnant girls—where silence, shame, and strict rules define daily life. Stripped of their names and autonomy, the girls are expected to give birth and disappear quietly. But when...- $ 360.00
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James
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from...- $ 550.00
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A Song to Drown Rivers
Her beauty is a weapon. Her heart is the battleground. In the kingdom of Yue, Xishi is praised for a face that could topple dynasties—a blessing, they say, in a girl’s quest to marry well. But when her beloved sister is brutally murdered by...- $ 400.00
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The Safekeep
It is 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the war is truly over. Living alone in her late mother’s country home, Isabel knows her life is as it should be—led by routine...- $ 600.00
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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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Brooklyn
Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tóibín's sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself.Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the years following...- $ 400.00
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Beloved
Haunted by trauma and memory, Sethe is a woman who escaped slavery but cannot escape its scars. Living in a house shadowed by a restless spirit—the ghost of her baby, whose tombstone bears only the word Beloved—Sethe tries to forge a life of peace...- $ 700.00
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The Sympathizer
A Vietnam War novel unlike any other. The narrator, one of the most arresting of recent fiction, is a man of two minds and divided loyalties, a half-French half-Vietnamese communist sleeper agent living in America after the end of the war. A gripping spy...- $ 400.00
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The Color Purple
A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early-twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence. Through...- $ 300.00
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The Island of Missing Trees
Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other....- $ 350.00
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Foster
It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas' house, she finds an affection and warmth she...- $ 400.00
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The Pretender
The Pretender tells the story of Lambert Simnel, who was raised in obscurity as a peasant boy to protect his safety, believed to be the heir to the throne occupied by Richard III, and briefly crowned, at the age of ten, as King Edward...- $ 500.00
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The Persians
Meet the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they’re nobodies. First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch who stayed in Tehran during the revolution. She lives in a shabby apartment, paranoid and alone. Except when she is visited by Niaz, her...- $ 600.00
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By Any Other Name
Young playwright Melina Green has just written a new work inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano. But seeing it performed is unlikely, in a theater world where the playing field isn’t level for women. As Melina wonders if she dares...- $ 450.00
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Lessons in Chemistry
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a...- $ 500.00
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Outlawed
In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year...- $ 300.00
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Wandering Stars
Colorado, 1864. After surviving the horrific Sand Creek Massacre, young Star is taken to Fort Marion Prison Castle. There, he is stripped of his language and culture by evangelical prison guard Richard Henry Pratt—who would later found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, a place...- $ 450.00
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The Women
An intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided. Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of...- $ 480.00
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The Familiar
Set during the Spanish Golden Age In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the...- $ 400.00
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The Four Winds
Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage...- $ 350.00
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Carrie Soto Is Back
By the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Slam titles. And if you ask her, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become...- $ 400.00
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The Bluest Eye
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow...- $ 300.00
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Dracul
The prequel to Dracula, Dracul draws on notes and texts left behind by Bram Stoker to uncover not only the true origins of Dracula, but the dark forces that shaped Stoker himself—and the mysterious woman who binds their fates. It is 1868, and a...- $ 350.00
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Madonna in a Fur Coat
A reserved young man leaves his quiet village in rural Turkey to learn a trade and experience life in 1920s Berlin. Amid the city’s vibrant streets, grand museums, fervent politics, and notorious cabarets, a chance encounter with a captivating half-Jewish artist changes him forever....- $ 400.00
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Mona's Eyes
At ten years old, Mona is running out of time. Diagnosed with a mysterious condition that may soon leave her blind, she and her grandfather, Henry, make a quiet pact: for the next fifty-two Wednesdays, they will visit fifty-two works of art—one each week—to...- $ 560.00
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Flashlight
One night, ten-year-old Louisa walks the beach with her father. He carries a flashlight. He cannot swim. By morning, Louisa is found barely alive on the shore. Her father is gone. In Flashlight, Susan Choi traces the ripples of that night through a fractured...- $ 600.00
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A Game of Chess and Other Stories
When it’s discovered that world chess champion Mirko Czentovic is aboard a cruise ship bound for Buenos Aires, a fellow passenger can’t resist challenging him to a game. Czentovic wins effortlessly—until a rematch is interrupted by a mysterious Austrian, Dr. B., who unexpectedly guides...- $ 250.00
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Twist
A short story that explores themes of memory, trauma, and the lingering effects of historical atrocity. The narrative centers around a Holocaust survivor, Mendel, who works as a janitor in a dance studio in New York City. Though quiet and reserved, Mendel becomes captivated by...- $ 380.00
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Atmosphere
Joan Goodwin has always found comfort in the stars, living a quiet life as a physics professor and devoted aunt. But everything changes in 1980, when she answers a groundbreaking NASA call for women scientists to join the Space Shuttle program. Thrust into the...- $ 560.00
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Little Women
A beloved classic of sisterhood, resilience, and coming of age. Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, Little Women follows the lives of the four March sisters—practical Meg, spirited Jo, gentle Beth, and headstrong Amy—as they navigate the trials of adolescence, family...- $ 250.00
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Broken Country
Beth and her gentle husband, Frank, live a quiet, contented life in the English countryside—built carefully on love, routine, and the unspoken understanding that some memories are best left untouched. But everything changes with a single gunshot: when Frank’s brother kills a dog harassing...- $ 550.00
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The House of Doors
It’s 1921, and Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert—a respected lawyer and war veteran—are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. Their quiet, cultivated life is disrupted by the arrival of Robert’s old friend, the celebrated writer W. Somerset Maugham, accompanied...- $ 400.00
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Do Not Say We Have Nothing
The narrative unfolds through the perspectives of Marie, a young woman in Vancouver, and Ai-Ming, a Chinese émigré, as they delve into the lives of their families and the profound impact of China's tumultuous 20th-century history on their identities and destinies. Marie’s father, Kai,...- $ 350.00
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Poor Things
Alasdair Gray’s wildly inventive reimagining of Frankenstein, set in Victorian Scotland. Blending dark humor, political satire and surreal storytelling, this modern classic is both a biting social commentary and a deeply human story of reinvention. The novel centers on Bella Baxter, a woman brought...- $ 350.00
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Hello Beautiful
William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. So it’s a relief when his skill on the basketball court earns him a scholarship to college, far away from...- $ 500.00
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My Friends
As a boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled is transfixed one evening by a strange short story broadcast on the radio—a tale about a man being devoured by a cat. Its unsettling power, and the mystery of its author, Hosam Zowa, leave an indelible...- $ 400.00
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Enter Ghost
After years away from her family's homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit her older sister Haneen. This is her first trip back since the second intifada and the deaths of their grandparents: while Haneen...- $ 400.00
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
What if no one remembered you... but one person did? In 1714, in a quiet corner of France, a desperate young woman strikes a bargain with a dark god: she will live forever—but be remembered by no one. Not a friend. Not a lover....- $ 380.00
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Divine Rivals
Two rival journalists. One enchanted connection. And a love powerful enough to survive a war among gods. When ancient gods awaken and ignite a brutal war, eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow wants nothing more than to keep her fractured family together. With her brother missing at...- $ 400.00
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A Crane Among Wolves
In a kingdom ruled by fear, hope is rebellion—and love could be the deadliest weapon of all. Joseon, 1506. Under the bloodstained reign of King Yeonsan, the people are silenced. Books are burned. Girls are stolen. And no one dares defy the crown—until seventeen-year-old...- $ 350.00
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Obasan
A powerful novel that explores the internment and persecution of Japanese Canadians during and after World War II. Told through the eyes of Naomi Nakane, a quiet and introspective schoolteacher, the story weaves together memory, history and personal trauma. After the death of her beloved...- $ 400.00
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Between Two Fires
Between Two Fires is a haunting tale set in 1348, when the Black Death sweeps through Europe and the world teeters on the edge of ruin. Thomas, a fallen knight haunted by his past, stumbles upon a strange young girl in a village emptied...- $ 500.00
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