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River East, River West
Set against the backdrop of developing modern China, this mesmerizing literary debut is part coming-of-age tale, part family and social drama, as it follows two generations searching for belonging and opportunity in a rapidly changing world—perfect for readers of Behold the Dreamers, White Ivy,...- $ 550.00
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The Personal Librarian
In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society and one of the most...- $ 400.00
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The Postcard
Anne Berest’s The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of...- $ 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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Long Island Compromise
In 1982, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in the nicest part of Long Island, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and sons a week later, only slightly the worse for wear, and the...- $ 500.00
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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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Real Americans
Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster and, most notably, heir...- $ 550.00
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Finding Margaret Fuller
Massachusetts, 1836. Young, brazen, beautiful, and unapologetically brilliant, Margaret Fuller accepts an invitation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, the celebrated “Sage of Concord,” to meet his coterie of enlightened friends shaping a nation in the throes of its own self-discovery. By the end of her...- $ 430.00
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The World and All That It Holds
As the Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914, Rafael Pinto is busy crushing herbs and grinding tablets behind the counter at the pharmacy he inherited from his estimable father. It's not quite the life he had expected during his...- $ 500.00
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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 Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers
Three Rock & Roll icons. Two explosive tell-all memoirs. One ghostwriter caught in the middle. Mari Hawthorn has just landed the biggest job of her ghostwriting career. Anke Berben, the legendary model and style icon, needs someone for her hotly anticipated memoir. In the...- $ 400.00
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Wolf Hall
A richly detailed, award-winning historical novel that reimagines the rise of Thomas Cromwell, the brilliant and ruthless advisor to King Henry VIII. Set in 16th-century England during a time of religious upheaval and political intrigue, the novel offers a fresh and intimate perspective on...- $ 300.00
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A Tale for the Time Being
After the 2011 tsunami, a Hello Kitty lunchbox washes up on the shore of a remote Canadian island. Inside, novelist Ruth discovers a diary written by Nao, a sixteen-year-old girl in Tokyo grappling with deep loneliness, bullying, and thoughts of ending her life. Before...- $ 400.00
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On Murder: Considered as One of the Fine Arts
In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey's innovative, idio-syncratic artistic vision found space for gruesome reportage, satire, aesthetic and literary criticism, in a work strewn with examples ranging from antiquity to his own time, including the urban serial-killer John Williams....- $ 250.00
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North and South
Having grown up in London and rural southern England, Margaret Hale moves with her father to the northern industrial city of Milton. She is shocked by the poverty she encounters and dismayed by the unsympathetic attitude of the textile-mill owner John Thornton, whose factory...- $ 300.00
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Middlesex
"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name...- $ 350.00
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Helena
Helena is the intelligent, horse-mad daughter of a British chieftain who is thrown into marriage with the man who will one day become the Roman emperor Constantius. Leaving home for lands unknown, she spends her adulthood seeking truth in the religions, mythologies, and philosophies...- $ 450.00
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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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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 and the...- $ 340.00
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Restless Dolly Maunder
Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for determined women. Growing up in a poor farming family in rural New South Wales, Dolly spends her life doggedly pushing at those...- $ 450.00
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The Garden of Evening Mists
Teoh Yun Ling was just seventeen when she first heard whispers of a mysterious Japanese gardener named Aritomo. But it is not until years later—after the Japanese occupation of Malaya and the devastating loss of her sister in a brutal war camp—that she seeks...- $ 450.00
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The House of Doors
Willie Somerset Maugham is one of the greatest writers of the early twentieth century. But in 1921 he is beleaguered by an unhappy marriage, ill-health and business interests that have gone badly awry. He is also struggling to write. His friend Robert Hamlyn offers...- $ 400.00
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Little Women
Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy,...- $ 250.00
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Good Wives
Three years have passed since the events narrated in Little Women, and the four March sisters are approaching adulthood, with all its accompanying challenges and expectations. Meg is preparing for her wedding, Beth continues to struggle with her health, Jo is more than ever...- $ 230.00
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The House of Mirth
An impoverished member of the privileged high society of old New York, Lily Bart is beautiful and socially agreeable, but she is almost thirty and still unmarried. Now she is keen to secure a wealthy husband to confirm her status, but the debts she...- $ 280.00
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There Are Rivers in the Sky
In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign. From its ruins, however, emerged a poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh,...- $ 600.00
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The Lion Women of Tehran
In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives a life of privilege—until her father’s sudden death forces her and her mother into a cramped home downtown. Isolated and bearing the weight of her mother’s discontent, Ellie longs for a friend. She finds one in Homa, a...- $ 540.00
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The Romantic
Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross lives a life as vast and unpredictable as the century itself. From the green fields of County Cork to the battlefields of Waterloo, from the quiet farms of Massachusetts to the teeming ports of Zanzibar, his journey spans continents...- $ 500.00
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Love Is Blind
When Brodie Moncur, a gifted young piano tuner, is offered the chance to work for a renowned pianist, he steps into a world far removed from his modest Scottish roots—a life of travel, refinement, and artistic brilliance. As he follows his employer on an...- $ 350.00
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Any Human Heart
A sweeping, fictional autobiography that follows the life of Logan Mountstuart, a British writer, through the 20th century. Told through a series of intimate journal entries, the novel traces Logan’s journey from his privileged schooldays in 1920s England through a tumultuous life marked by personal...- $ 350.00
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Sunburn
In the early 1990s, in the quiet Irish town of Crossmore, Lucy knows exactly what’s expected of her: fall in love with the boy next door, settle into marriage, raise a family—and never, ever speak the truth aloud. The truth that she doesn't want...- $ 380.00
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The Unmaking of June Farrow
For the past year, June has been seeing things that shouldn’t exist—ghostly wind chimes, a voice calling her name, and a mysterious door that appears and vanishes without warning. She’s always feared this day would come, but now that it’s here, June is determined...- $ 300.00
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Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller breathes new life into the myth of Achilles with a retelling that blends epic battles with the intimacy of love and loss. Through the eyes of Patroclus, we follow the boy who becomes Achilles’ companion, confidant, and, ultimately, the keeper of his...- $ 300.00
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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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The Little Stranger
One sweltering postwar summer in rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday—a country physician and son of a maid—answers a call to the crumbling Hundreds Hall. Once a grand Georgian estate, the house now wears its decay openly: stonework splitting, gardens strangled by weeds, the stable-yard clock...- $ 350.00
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The Book Thief
When Death has a story to tell, you listen. Germany, 1939. The world holds its breath as war spreads, and Death—already busy—finds himself working overtime. Amid this shadow, Liesel Meminger arrives in a small town outside Munich, a foster girl clutching nothing but loss....- $ 280.00
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Everything I Never Told You
Lydia is dead. But no one knows it yet. So begins this haunting novel of a Chinese American family in 1970s Ohio, where quiet tensions run beneath the surface of their seemingly ordinary lives. Lydia is Marilyn and James Lee’s beloved middle child—the one...- $ 300.00
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Salvage the Bones
A hurricane is gathering strength in the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the small coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. Esch's father, a hard drinker and mostly absent, is suddenly anxious—but for once, it's not the bottle he reaches for. Esch and her three brothers...- $ 350.00
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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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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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Theft
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, three young lives intersect in a quiet town in Tanzania. Karim returns from university brimming with confidence and ambition, eager to make his mark. Fauzia sees in him a possible escape from the constraints of her stifling...- $ 400.00
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Ripeness
In the 1960s, young Edith is sent from England to a remote village in Italy with a solemn task: care for her pregnant sister, Lydia, whose career as a ballet dancer has been upended by scandal. Edith is to witness the birth, make a...- $ 550.00
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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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Homegoing
In 18th-century Ghana, two half-sisters are born in separate villages, unaware of each other's existence. One is married off to a British colonizer and lives in luxury within the Cape Coast Castle. The other is seized during a raid, imprisoned in that same fortress,...- $ 250.00
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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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Against the Loveless World
Locked in solitary confinement, Nahr spends her days tracing the winding path that brought her to a prison cell in a land she barely knows. Born in 1970s Kuwait to Palestinian refugee parents, she once dreamed of love, family, and opening her own beauty...- $ 450.00
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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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Fugitive Pieces
A poetic and profoundly moving exploration of loss, memory and the enduring echoes of trauma. Jakob Beer is a Polish Jewish boy who survives the Holocaust after witnessing the murder of his family. Hidden in the forests of Poland, Jakob is rescued by Athos, a...- $ 500.00
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An Imaginary Life
In the first century A.D., Publius Ovidius Naso—Ovid—the witty and worldly poet of imperial Rome, is exiled to a desolate outpost on the edge of the Black Sea. From this fragment of historical fact, David Malouf weaves a bold and deeply affecting novel of...- $ 350.00
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James
An urgent, unflinching reimagining of an American classic—told from the heart that was always there, but never heard. When Jim, an enslaved man in antebellum Missouri, learns he’s about to be sold and torn from his wife and daughter, he escapes to Jackson Island,...- $ 550.00
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