Historical Fiction
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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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Beyond the Blossoming Fields
As a young girl from a wealthy family, Ginko Ogino seems set for a conventional life in the male-dominated society of nineteenth-century Japan. But when she contracts gonorrhoea from her husband, she suffers the ignominy of divorce. Forced to bear the humiliation of being...- $ 300.00
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
After an accident, Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of impoverished peasants, decides to call on the aristocratic d'Urbervilles, as she believes that she is also descended from their ancient Norman lineage and that they can rescue her family from indigence. Unfortunately she is taken under...- $ 300.00
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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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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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One Good Thing
Italy, 1940. Lili and Esti have been inseparable since their university days. When Esti’s son, Theo, is born, their friendship deepens into something like sisterhood. Even as war rages across Europe, they manage to carve out moments of ordinary life—until Germany invades Italy and...- $ 300.00
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The Wilderness
A defining novel about friendship, growth, and the dizzying, unpredictable terrain of adulthood—The Wilderness follows five Black women over the course of twenty years, as they navigate love, ambition, family, and the complex demands of modern life. Desiree, Danielle, January, Monique, and Nakia are...- $ 550.00
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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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These Violent Delights
These Violent Delights Duet #1 This paperback edition of These Violent Delights contains never-before-seen letters from Roma to Juliette! Shanghai, 1926—glittering, lawless, and pulsing with decadence. A generations-long blood feud between two criminal empires has plunged the city into violence, with the Scarlet Gang...- $ 300.00
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The Rarest Fruit
Inspired by true events, The Rarest Fruit tells the remarkable story of resilience, curiosity, and the hidden origins of a flavor cherished around the world. Born enslaved, orphaned young, and raised by a devoted botanist on Réunion Island, Edmond Albius grows up with an...- $ 450.00
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My Brilliant Friend Deluxe Edition: The Four Volumes
A deluxe cloth hardcover with sprayed edges and colored end papers illustrating the Bay of Naples. When Elena Ferrante set out to write the story of Elena and Lila, she conceived it as one single work of fiction, one expansive novel that would capture...- $ 1,100.00
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Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
The story follows Professor Emily Wilde, a brilliant but introverted scholar of faerie lore, as she travels to the fae realm of Silva Lupi with her fiancé, the charming and mysterious fae prince Wendell Bambleby. Wendell has returned home to claim his rightful throne, but...- $ 250.00
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The Idiot
Prince Myshkin, just twenty-six, returns to Russia after several years in a Swiss sanatorium, hoping to claim an inheritance and simply “live among people.” Before he even arrives, he encounters the brooding Rogozhin, the wealthy merchant’s son whose fixation on the captivating Nastasya Filippovna...- $ 400.00
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The Beautiful Ones
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a sweeping romance with a dash of magic. Nina has always lived on the edges of Loisail’s glittering society—partly because she’s new to the city, mostly because her telekinesis tends to burst out...- $ 350.00
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The Trees
A sharp, unsettling thriller that confronts the enduring legacy of lynching in America. The story begins in Money, Mississippi, where a string of brutal murders shocks the town. When two investigators from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they’re met with hostility from local officials...- $ 350.00
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Half an Inch of Water
In Half an Inch of Water, Percival Everett returns with a haunting collection of stories set across the modern American West. Each piece follows people living at the edge of vast landscapes—fathers, daughters, sheriffs, ranchers—whose ordinary days suddenly tilt into the strange. A deaf...- $ 350.00
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Anita de Monte Laughs Last
In 1985, Anita de Monte, a brilliant young artist poised for greatness, is found dead in New York City. Her name burns brightly—for a moment—before fading into the noise of a city quick to forget women like her. By 1998, her legacy is little...- $ 350.00
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Alchemy of Secrets
DELUXE LIMITED EDITION printing featuring unique case stamp and black sprayed edges It begins with a class in a crumbling old movie theater—Folklore 517: Local Legends and Urban Myths, taught by the enigmatic Professor whose tales blur the line between truth and myth. Most...- $ 550.00
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The Nightingale Deluxe Edition
stunning 10th Anniversary limited edition hardcover jacket with foil and embossing, gorgeous designed edges, a ribbon bookmark, exclusive four color endpapers, and a decorative, gold foil stamp on the front case. With lyrical force and emotional precision, Kristin Hannah reimagines World War II through...- $ 650.00
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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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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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The Predicament
From the internationally bestselling author comes a tense, globe-spanning thriller starring Gabriel Dax, a travel writer pressed into the shadowy world of espionage. 1963, Guatemala: a country on the brink. A presidential election threatens to elevate a charismatic, left-wing ex-priest and union leader—an outcome...- $ 550.00
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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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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 Land in Winter
December 1962. In a quiet corner of England’s West Country, as snow begins to fall, two neighboring couples wake to the stillness of a world on the edge of change. Dr. Eric Parry heads out on his rounds, carrying the weight of secrets he...- $ 500.00
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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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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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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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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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