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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...- $ 250.00
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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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Bog Queen
When a remarkably preserved body is unearthed from a peat bog in northwest England, American forensic anthropologist Agnes is called in to investigate. The remains date back over two thousand years, yet the corpse is eerily intact—sparking a storm of interest that reaches far...- $ 400.00
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Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
In the year 1806, England is at war with Napoleon—and magic, once a proud and practical tradition, has long been reduced to dusty scholarship and theoretical debates. That is, until a reclusive and book-obsessed gentleman named Mr. Norrell steps forward and proves that true...- $ 400.00
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The Wood at Midwinter
From the award-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell comes a luminous, illustrated tale rooted in quiet magic and deep woods. Merowdis Scot, a curious and solitary nineteen-year-old, is most alive when wandering beneath trees. Gifted with the uncanny ability to...- $ 330.00
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Confessions
New York City, late September 2001. The walls of the city are papered over with photos of the missing. Cora Brady’s father is there, the poster she made taped to columns and bridges. When a letter arrives from an aunt she didn’t know existed...- $ 600.00
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Wish You Were Here
Diana O’Toole has her life mapped out with precision: a stable relationship, a high-powered career in the art world and a perfectly timed path to marriage and motherhood. But just days before her 30th birthday—and what she believes will be a proposal trip to...- $ 350.00
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The Makioka Sisters
Tsuruko, the eldest sister of the once-wealthy Makioka family, clings obstinately to the prestige of her family name even as her husband prepares to move their household to Tokyo, where that name means nothing. Sachiko compromises valiantly to secure the future of her younger...- $ 450.00
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Isola
Heir to a fortune, Marguerite is destined for a life of prosperity and gentility. Then she is orphaned, and her guardian—an enigmatic and volatile man—spends her inheritance and insists she accompany him on an expedition to New France. Isolated and afraid, Marguerite befriends her...- $ 600.00
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All the Light We Cannot See
Marie-Laure, a young girl who goes blind at the age of six, lives with her father near the Museum of Natural History in Paris, where he works as the master of its locks. To help her navigate the world, her father builds a miniature...- $ 400.00
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We Do Not Part
One winter morning, Kyungha receives a desperate call from her friend Inseon, who has been hospitalized after an accident. Inseon pleads with her to return to Jeju Island and rescue her beloved pet—a mysterious white bird named Ama. As Kyungha arrives on the island,...- $ 570.00
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Gone with the Wind
Sweeping tale of love, loss, and survival set against the backdrop of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Margaret Mitchell's epic novel follows the indomitable Scarlett O'Hara as she navigates the tumultuous world of the Old South, fighting to preserve her way of life.- $ 550.00
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Long Island
Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony’s parents, a huge extended family. It...- $ 500.00
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The Magician
The Magician opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, where the boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative father, bound by propriety, and a Brazilian mother, alluring and unpredictable. Young Mann hides his artistic aspirations from his...- $ 500.00
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Gilead
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowan preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man...- $ 450.00
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The Dutch House
Powerful, richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go. At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to...- $ 400.00
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East of Eden: Centennial Edition
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined...- $ 500.00
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The Grapes of Wrath: Centennial Edition
First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of...- $ 450.00
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In Memoriam
It’s 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in their idyllic...- $ 350.00
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The Night Tiger
Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dancehall girl to help pay off her mother’s Mahjong debts. But when one of her dance partners accidentally leaves behind a gruesome souvenir, Ji Lin may finally get the adventure she...- $ 450.00
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A Tale of Two Cities
Set against the turmoil of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities follows the lives of Doctor Manette, recently freed after eighteen years in the Bastille, and his daughter Lucie, as they begin anew in London. Their quiet life soon entangles with two...- $ 250.00
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A Mercy
A Mercy unfolds in the 1680s, during the early days of the American slave trade—a time when borders are fluid, allegiances uncertain, and the idea of freedom is as fragile as life itself. Jacob Vaark, an Anglo-Dutch trader in the harsh northern colonies, reluctantly...- $ 550.00
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We Were the Lucky Ones
A gripping and deeply moving novel inspired by the true story of a Jewish family torn apart at the outbreak of World War II—and their extraordinary journey to survive and reunite. In the spring of 1939, the Kurc family gathers in their Polish hometown...- $ 400.00
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The Buddha in the Attic
In eight unforgettable sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the extraordinary lives of these women, from their arduous journeys by boat, to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; from their experiences raising children who would later...- $ 400.00
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Lapvona
Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, believes his mother died giving birth to him. One of Marek’s few consolations is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife, Ina, who suckled him when he was a baby. For some...- $ 350.00
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Remarkable Creatures
A stunning historical novel that follows the story of Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot, two extraordinary 19th century fossil hunters who changed the scientific world forever. On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary learns that she has a...- $ 400.00
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly-imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a...- $ 400.00
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The Books of Jacob
In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be...- $ 500.00
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The Empusium
In September 1913, Mieczysław, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in what is now western Poland. Every day, its residents gather in the dining room to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur, to obsess over money...- $ 450.00
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Alias Grace
In 1843, Grace Marks was convicted for her role in the brutal murders of her employer and his housekeeper, yet her involvement remains shrouded in mystery. Some believe Grace is innocent, while others think she is either evil or mad. Now serving a life...- $ 350.00
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People of the Book
Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity by an acclaimed and beloved author. Called “a tour de force” by the San Francisco Chronicle, this ambitious, electrifying work traces the harrowing journey...- $ 450.00
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The Women
Frank Lloyd Wright’s life was one long, howling struggle against the bonds of convention, whether aesthetic, social, moral, or romantic. He never did what was expected, and he never let anything get in the way of his larger-than-life appetites and visions. Wright’s triumphs and defeats...- $ 450.00
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Long Island
From the beloved, critically acclaimed, bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving novel featuring Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, Tóibín’s most popular work in twenty years. Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian...- $ 500.00
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The Good Lord Bird
From the bestselling author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, Deacon King Kong (an Oprah Book Club pick) and The Color of Water comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade—and who must pass as...- $ 450.00
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A Gentleman in Moscow
Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced in 1922 to lifelong house arrest—not in a prison, but within the elegant walls of the Hotel Metropol. Stripped of his former status and confined to a small attic room, the Count faces the sweep of Russian history not...- $ 300.00
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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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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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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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