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Shipwrecks
In a coastal village in medieval Japan, a young boy called Isaku battles to keep his family alive against the odds. With his father gone, Isaku is forced to grow up well before his time. He must learn how to catch fish, how to...- $ 380.00
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Shrines of Gaiety
1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a...- $ 400.00
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Shrines of Gaiety
1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a...- $ 400.00
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Silence of Bones
I have a mouth, but must not speak;Ears, but must not hear;Eyes, but must not see. Joseon, 1800. Sixteen-year-old Seol—homesick, orphaned, and bound by servitude to the police bureau—has come to embody an old curse: May you live in interesting times. Ordered to aid...- $ 300.00
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Silk
The year is 1861. Hervé Joncour, a French silkworm merchant, scours the world for rare, gleaming eggs. When disease devastates Europe’s supply, he is driven beyond the known world to Japan—a land famed for its exquisite silk and fierce suspicion of outsiders. There, he...- $ 300.00
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Silver Sparrow
With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, "My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist," author Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man's deception, a family's complicity, and the two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta...- $ 400.00
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Son of Nobody
From the author of the international bestseller Life of Pi comes a brilliant retelling of the Trojan War, seen through the eyes of two very different outsiders: an ancient soldier and a modern scholar. The Psoad is an Ancient Greek epic in free verse...- $ 480.00
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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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Song of Solomon
The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story with this brilliantly imagined novel. Includes a new foreword by the author. Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest...- $ 350.00
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Stay with Me
Ilesa, Nigeria. Ever since they first met and fell in love at university, Yejide and Akin have agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage—after consulting fertility doctors and healers, and trying strange teas and unlikely cures—Yejide is still not...- $ 400.00
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Sula
Sula and Nel are born in the Bottom, a small town at the top of a hill. Sula is wild, and daring; she does what she wants, while Nel is well-mannered, a mamma's girl with a questioning heart. Growing up they forge a bond...- $ 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...- $ 400.00
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Sweet Days of Discipline
Set in a Swiss boarding school after the war, the novel begins simply: “At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.” But innocence quickly gives way to obsession. With chilling calm, the young narrator recounts her consuming fixation on Frédérique—the...- $ 300.00
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Tar Baby
A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner. Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black...- $ 350.00
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The Age of Innocence
The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society.Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingénue, when...- $ 300.00
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The All Souls Trilogy: Boxed Set
The Boxed Set by Deborah Harkness brings together the first three novels in her acclaimed series: A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night and The Book of Life. This beautifully designed collection immerses readers in a world where history, magic and romance intertwine. The trilogy follows...- $ 800.00
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The Annotated Great Gatsby
100th Anniversary Celebration: A richly illustrated deluxe edition of the American classic, with illuminating commentary by a preeminent Fitzgerald scholar. Drawn from the authoritative Library of America edition of Fitzgerald’s writings, this deluxe edition features: - A new introduction by Amor Towles, bestselling author...- $ 700.00
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The Armor of Light
The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work...- $ 450.00
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The Art of Dying
Edinburgh, 1850. Despite being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. But it is not just the deaths that dismay the esteemed Dr James Simpson - a whispering campaign seeks...- $ 500.00
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The Ballad of Black Tom
People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what...- $ 280.00
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The Baron In The Trees
Cosimo di Rondó, a young Italian nobleman of the eighteenth century, rebels against his parents by climbing into the trees and remaining there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an existence in the forest canopy—he hunts, sows crops, plays games...- $ 450.00
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The Beautiful and Damned
Anthony and Gloria Patch, would-be Jazz Age aristocrats, embody the corruption and excess of 1920s New York: beautiful, shallow, pleasure-seeking, and vain. As presumptive heirs to a vast fortune, they begin married life living far beyond their means, their days consumed with drinking, dancing,...- $ 300.00
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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 Blind Assassin
The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testamentsweaves together strands of gothic suspense, romance, and science fiction into one utterly spellbinding narrative, beginning with the mysterious death of a young woman named Laura Chase in 1945.Decades later, Laura’s sister Iris recounts her memories of...- $ 350.00
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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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The Bonesetter's Daughter
Ruth Young and her widowed mother, LuLing, have always had a tumultuous relationship. Now, before she succumbs to forgetfulness, LuLing gives Ruth some of her writings, which reveal a side of LuLing that Ruth has never known... In a remote mountain village where ghosts...- $ 270.00
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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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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 Bright Years
Newly married and deeply in love, Ryan and Lillian Bright seem poised for a joyful future with their baby daughter, Georgette. But beneath the surface of their fresh start lie two truths neither has shared: Lillian once gave up a son for adoption, and...- $ 520.00
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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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The Century Trilogy
The Century Trilogy #1-3. The boxed set includes all three volumes: Fall of Giants, Winter of the World, and Edge of Eternity. Ken Follett follows the fortunes of five international families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—as they make their way through the 20th century....- $ 1,200.00
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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 Committed
The sequel to The Sympathizer, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and went on to sell over a million copies worldwide, The Committed tells the story of “the man of two minds” as he comes as a refugee to France and turns...- $ 350.00
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The Count of Monte Cristo
In this sweeping tale of adventure, Alexandre Dumas weaves together suspense, intrigue, romance, revenge, and the ultimate triumph of justice—elements that have secured the novel’s enduring status as a literary classic. Set in post-Napoleonic France, the story follows Edmond Dantès, a promising young sailor...- $ 600.00
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The Crossing
The second volume of the award-winning Border Trilogy—From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road—fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a...- $ 350.00
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The Curator
It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed “the Fairest”, it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the municipality in half; its theaters and many museums; the Morgue Ship; and, like all cities, but maybe especially so,...- $ 500.00
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The Custom of the Country: Deluxe Edition
Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton’s second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of the exploits and follies of the modern upper class. As she unfolds the story of Undine Spragg, from New York to Europe, Wharton affords us...- $ 450.00
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The Director
While filming in France, the legendary filmmaker G. W. Pabst witnesses the collapse of the world he once knew and flees to Hollywood in search of safety. Yet in California, he finds himself stripped of relevance—an artist without influence, even as former collaborators like Greta Garbo...- $ 450.00
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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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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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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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The Enchanted April
Four women, with very different backgrounds and characters – the artless Lottie Wilkins, the pious Rose Arbuthnot, the cantankerous Mrs Fisher and the haughty Lady Caroline Dester – respond to an advertisement in The Times offering a medieval castle to rent in Italy that...- $ 300.00
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The English Patient
In the final days of the Second World War, an Italian villa-turned-hospital houses four unlikely companions, each scarred—physically or emotionally—by the trauma of conflict. At the heart of The English Patient lies a mystery: the identity and past of a man lying in an...- $ 300.00
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The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
Set in Iran in the decade following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, this moving, richly imagined novel is narrated by the ghost of Bahar, a thirteen-year-old girl, whose family is compelled to flee their home in Tehran for a new life in a small village,...- $ 400.00
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The Evening Hero
A moving and captivating novel following a Korean immigrant pursuing the American dream who must confront the secrets of the past or risk watching the world he’s worked so hard to build come crumbling down. Dr. Yungman Kwak is in the twilight of his...- $ 450.00
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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 Forsyte Saga
A cornerstone of modern literature from Nobel Prize–winning author John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga stands as a sweeping portrait of an upper-middle-class family struggling beneath the weight of its own wealth, pride, and propriety. At its heart lies the turbulent marriage of Soames Forsyte—unyielding,...- $ 1,000.00
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The Fox Wife
Manchuria, 1908.In the last years of the dying Qing Empire, a courtesan is found frozen in a doorway. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and handsome men. Bao, a detective...- $ 300.00
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The Fraud
It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper—and cousin by marriage—of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Andrew Bogle, meanwhile, grew up enslaved on the Hope Plantation, Jamaica. He knows every lump...- $ 450.00
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The Frozen River
Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in...- $ 500.00
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