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The Garden
The discovery of a secret garden with unknown powers fuels this page-turning and psychologically thrilling tale of women desperate to become mothers and the ways the female body has always been policed and manipulated, from the award-winning author of The Illness Lesson. In 1948,...- $ 500.00
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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 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 Ghost Rider
An old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. The woman opens it to find her daughter, Doruntine, standing there alone in the darkness. She has been brought home from a distant land by a mysterious rider...- $ 350.00
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The Gift of Rain
Set on the richly atmospheric island of Penang during the onset of World War II, this evocative historical tale follows sixteen-year-old Philip Hutton—half-Chinese, half-English, and feeling like he belongs to neither world. Estranged from both sides of his heritage, Philip finds an unexpected bond...- $ 400.00
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The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness
Homesick and alone, a teen-aged girl has just arrived in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside, is too impoverished to keep sending her to school, so she works long, sun-less days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night...- $ 600.00
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The Glassmaker
From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glassmakers from the height of Renaissance-era Italy to the present day. It is 1486 and Venice is a wealthy, opulent center for trade. Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in...- $ 650.00
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The Good Muslim
After years away from her family, Maya Haque is on the journey home to Dhaka. But what if, as Maya discovers, everything you once knew has changed beyond recognition? What if you must re-learn what it means to be a good daughter? And how...- $ 340.00
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The Great Alone
Alaska, 1974. After returning from the Vietnam War, Ernt Allbright is volatile and unmoored. When he loses another job, he moves his wife, Cora, and thirteen-year-old daughter, Leni, to remote Alaska in search of a fresh start off the grid. In a rugged frontier...- $ 350.00
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The Henna Artist
Escaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant 1950s pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the most highly requested henna artist—and confidante—to the wealthy women of the upper class. But trusted with the secrets of the wealthy,...- $ 400.00
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The Hounding
Long before the rumors about the Mansfield sisters begin to swirl, the village of Little Nettlebed has always been a place touched by the uncanny—where strange creatures wash up along the riverbank, and flocks of ravens gather ominously on rooftops just before death strikes....- $ 500.00
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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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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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The House of Mirth
A bestseller when it was published nearly a century ago, this literary classic established Edith Wharton as one of the most important American writers in the twentieth century—now with a new introduction from Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jennifer Egan.Wharton’s first literary success—a devastatingly accurate portrait...- $ 470.00
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The Hunger Angel
On a freezing January morning in 1945, seventeen-year-old Leo Auberg is deported to a Soviet labor camp, where he spends five grueling years shoveling coal, mixing mortar, and eking out survival—one shovel of coal equaling a gram of bread. In "The Hunger Angel", Nobel...- $ 450.00
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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 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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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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The Land of Green Plums
Set in Romania under Ceaușescu’s brutal dictatorship, the story follows a group of young people who leave their impoverished village for the city in search of opportunity and solidarity—only to find a society equally poisoned by fear and surveillance. As the narrator’s friends—students and teachers...- $ 500.00
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The Lieutenant
In 1788 Daniel Rooke sets out on a journey that will change the course of his life. As a lieutenant in the First Fleet, he lands on the wild and unknown shores of New South Wales. There he sets up an observatory to chart...- $ 350.00
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The Lincoln Highway
In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by...- $ 450.00
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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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The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
Presidents have come and gone, but Marjorie Merriweather Post has hosted them all. Growing up in the modest farmlands of Battle Creek, Michigan, and later the heiress to the General Foods fortune, Marjorie was inspired by a few simple rules: always think for yourself,...- $ 350.00
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The Man Who Saw Everything
It is 1988, and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to conduct research. In return, he must write a flattering essay about the German Democratic Republic. As a gift for his translator’s sister, Saul’s girlfriend plans to...- $ 400.00
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The Marriage Portrait
Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on...- $ 450.00
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The Master
A fictionalized portrait of the renowned American-born writer Henry James, focusing on a pivotal period in his life during the late 19th century. The novel delves into James's experiences living in Europe, particularly in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London, among a circle of privileged...- $ 350.00
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The Medici Murders
Venice is a city full of secrets. For hundreds of years it has been the scene of scandal, intrigue and murderous rivalries. And it remains so today. 1548, Lorenzino de Medici, himself a murderer and a man few will miss, is assassinated by two...- $ 360.00
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The Mirror & the Light
With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs...- $ 300.00
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The Name of the Rose
Now available in a deluxe 40th-anniversary paperback edition, this celebrated historical mystery returns with exclusive illustrations by its author. Set in 1347, it follows Brother William of Baskerville, a brilliant monk investigating heresy at a wealthy Italian abbey—until a series of mysterious deaths shifts...- $ 450.00
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The Names
The extraordinary novel that asks: Can a name change the course of a life? After a devastating storm, Cora sets out with her nine-year-old daughter, Maia, to register the birth of her newborn son. Her husband, Gordon—a respected doctor in their small community and...- $ 400.00
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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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The Nightingale
A #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation. With courage, grace, and powerful insight,...- $ 350.00
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The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran
1979: Young revolutionary Behsad fights for change after the Shah’s fall, finding both purpose and love with Nahid. 1989: Now in West Germany, Nahid and Behsad anxiously follow news of friends who went into hiding after the new regime took power. 1999: Their daughter...- $ 450.00
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The Old Garden
Political prisoner Hyun Woo is freed after eighteen years to find no trace of the world he knew. The friends with whom he shared utopianist dreams are gone. His Seoul is unrecognizably transformed and aggressively modernized. Yoon Hee, the woman he loved, died three...- $ 700.00
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The Original Daughter
Before Arin, Genevieve Yang was an only child. Living with her parents and grandmother in a single-room flat in working-class Bedok, Genevieve is saddled with an unexpected sibling when Arin appears, the shameful legacy of a grandfather long believed to be dead. As the...- $ 550.00
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The Paris Express
Based on an 1895 disaster that went down in history when it was captured in a series of surreal, extraordinary photographs, The Paris Express is a propulsive novel set on a train packed with a fascinating cast of characters who hail from as close...- $ 550.00
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The Paris Novel
When her estranged mother dies, Stella is left with an unusual inheritance: a one-way plane ticket and a note reading "Go to Paris." But Stella is hardly cut out for adventure; a childhood trauma, and her mother's negligent parenting style, have kept her strictly...- $ 650.00
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The People's Act Of Love
1919, Siberia. Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian railway. One night a stranger, Samarin, appears from the woods with a tale of escape from an Arctic prison, insisting a cannibal...- $ 300.00
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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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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 Prague Cemetery
Nineteenth-century Europe—stretching from Turin to Prague to Paris—is a landscape of intrigue, violence, and shadowy secrets. Rival factions clash as political upheaval and paranoia give rise to plots, forgeries, and hidden agendas across the continent. Amid events like the Unification of Italy, the Paris...- $ 350.00
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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...- $ 400.00
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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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The Red Palace
To step inside the palace is to enter a world paved with secrets—and stained with blood. Joseon Korea, 1758. Opportunities for an illegitimate daughter are scarce, yet eighteen-year-old Hyeon has carved out a quiet place for herself as a palace nurse. She wants nothing...- $ 300.00
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The Red Queen
A young girl is plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea. In her diaries, she chronicles the intrigues of courtly life and her own extraordinary existence.Two hundred years later, the Red Queen’s ghost haunts Dr Babs Halliwell, an Oxford academic obsessed...- $ 500.00
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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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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...- $ 550.00
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The Scent of Lemon Leaves
Having left her job and boyfriend, thirty-year-old Sandra decides to stay in a village on the Costa Brava in order to take stock of her life and find a new direction. She befriends Karin and Fredrik, an elderly Norwegian couple, who provide her with...- $ 270.00
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The Secret Chord
With more than two million copies of her novels sold, New York Times bestselling author Geraldine Brooks has achieved both popular and critical acclaim. Now, Brooks takes on one of literature’s richest and most enigmatic figures: a man who shimmers between history and legend....- $ 450.00
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